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  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  . One of Larry’s hobbies, aside from cutting edge technology research and ... , debugging a server at my desk outside the office of the graduate student I was ... one of many lessons the Media Lab taught me this summer: Lesson #1

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  unremarkable Monday morning. I had just come off a pair of flights totalling ... felt on my first night in Baker; if I recall correctly, neither of my ... . Now, I shudder to think of life before MIT, condemned to four years of

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  will be part of the first graduating class of 6–14's. (Computer Science ... isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew with together (bet you guessed that). One of the primary reasons I chose

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  I wrote this on my first day of classes this past Tuesday, and ... lol) as a real-time reflection of four years at MIT.  Today is hectic ... lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  . I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters. MIT has taught me a lot of things about community. I was in a small high ... astounded by all these people with whom I had a lot of shared technical

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  questions of life and the universe). One of the great things about this ... to nothing and would have LOVED a blog about that sort of thing when I ... community.   What IS Cru? Cru is a caring community of individuals

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  being intense, silly, and a lot of fun. This blog is my story of ... popular of my ideas was an adjustable platform boot that could lift a person ... -to-last round, and the first of four major milestones in the class. For this

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  when I first moved here, the density of people and place was new and ... , however, and one of those can be access to nutritious, affordable food. For ... , and affordable groceries within a reasonable distance of their home

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  was a spark, an extra degree of freedom, a young, harmonious vitality ... brink of an epic hurricane, a Presidential election, and either the most ... . Toward the end of September I became noticeably stressed out. I stopped

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  the president of the United States and pulled an all nighter chilling with my new best friends and a bunch of current and future nobel ... , which is sad because there are a lot of really cool people who apply to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  In the world of design, there's this idea of parametric design: designing based on a set of parameters and functions, rather than by just modeling. Now, I know that sounds confusing, but think of a cube. What is the best

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  of sporting events, some of which I had never seen before. I saw ... intramural pistol team and came to appreciate the huge variety of sporting opportunities available at MIT for students at many levels of mastery. But given

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  tale from last April.  Longtime readers of the blogs may know that I've come to understand the challenge of MIT through the lens of physical ... challenges of balancing growth and recovery, and the isomorphic relationship

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  of mind to talk about why I was interested in Foobar University. Oh ... " was code for "depressingly early sunset." After a lot of writing and ... hypnophobia—fear of sleep. In particularly bad bouts, I'd freak myself out about

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  pleasure of spending a Monday night or Thursday night in the newspaper's office in the Student Center. Last night was one of those nights; let me ... -weekly offering of free food; even though the food (wings!) has been in the office

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  , before my phone rang and jerked me out of my stupor. A friend was in the ... ..." A solid minute of silence, broken only by more interjections of my own ... something of an occupational hazard, like being bleary-eyed, or having a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  -MIT Health Sciences and Technology (HST, or one of the best MD-PhD programs ... I'll give you snippets of three actual conversations first. I. I was chatting with this guy at one of my med school interviews - HIM

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  University in Toronto ("The social life of donuts: Commodity and community in ... In 1965, the U.S. government awarded George (MIT Class of ~1923) and ... birth of a child by centrifugal force." You are familiar with the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  for my undergraduate degree. It's a quirk of my schedule that my 24 ... On the second last day of classes my freshman spring, I wrote a blog ... day when I was the free-est to blog was also the second last day of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  least if, like me, you're a fan of both productivity hacks and science-technology ... 9:30AM-5:30PM: [redacted] 5:30PM: walk home in a daze of decisions ... 'd give you a window into a day in the life of reading applications. We

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014