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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  with its performance? What about designing your own heat sink? Or maybe figuring out the optimal scoop-ability of your favorite [annotation note="or sherbert, if you’re me"]ice cream[/annotation]? What about the power of nerf

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tim’s wardrobe legend has it, TIM changes clothes annually

  

  . Some weeks, there is a lot of work to do and at times, people (students ... to satisfy everyone in a class of over 1000 students o__o. Despite the ... of email, but we wanted it to have a little bit more charm. A little

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  that MIT has to offer? He's the kind of person will read Marcus Aurelius ... he asked me one of those deep questions that help gage what kind of a mindset you have. It was something really general, along the lines of "what

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  choice I get the feeling that a lot of people find MIT's dorm choice ... . Late May/early June -- receive a booklet with descriptions of each dorm ... usually due around the third week of June. Late July -- Housing lottery

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  AgeLab I've seen troubles...

  

  Reading applications from students born after the fall of the Berlin ... . One of AgeLab's key inventions has been AGNES, or "Age Gain Now Empathy System": AGNES is a suit worn by students, product developers, designers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A Round Two Answers to some questions

  

  knowing absolutely no computer programming besides the rudiments of html ... you'll want to design efficient algorithms, etc. If you were in another ... what are some of the classes/teachers you've particularly enjoyed? I didn

  • by Bryan
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  offers a bunch of other training features that people are playing on. And I ... the age of 3, and I thought the goal was to stack up the tallest tower. Ever since then, I have been obsessed. In high school, it was my go

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  part 1: impact One of my strongest core beliefs is that the answer to the question "what is the meaning of life?" is not "to change the world ... 's admirable, in a way, to declare this the meaning of life. The world faces many

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  number which is also placed on a map by the degrees of longitude and ... language. And it’s the only language that all of us in the world understand. it’s key elements are one of my favorite things–numbers. Having that

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  disheartening than others. A friend of mine offers this: once the cycle of tests ... potentials inside charged cubes. Erons is the type of person who carries all ... . Incidentally, the set of such people that I know contains one member: namely

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  design I'm going to write up). Or either of the psets in my other two ... There are lots of things I should have been doing this weekend. There ... to program a Turing machine - it's due Thursday. Or the revision of my

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  learning about the craft of writing, I certainly understand the frustration ... of ChatGPT would mean that all my efforts had been wasted. But AI ... work, I wouldn’t mind—I’d be amused, more than anything else. Of course

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  of time and blog. I promise I have a good reason though! Most people at MIT have these "Hell weeks" where there are lots of tests and projects ... 'm Still Alive. Although I didn't actually type out many of my ideas, I was

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  Juniors in physics tend to complain a lot. The more of them there are ... of foreign affairs, the overpopulation problem in the world. Mostly ... junior physics lab with a bit of preparation. By the end of the first 2

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  tired by the end of the day! But I am really happy though since I am doing ... it’s just a lot of exciting things going on!!! First up, my work this ... of the MIT iGEM team. What is iGEM, you may wonder: “The International

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  to offer. And, of course, there's always Mystery Hunt to look forward ... Over Winter Break, whenever any of my friends or relatives asked me ... Cambridge anymore, Toto, when I - realizing that none of my relatives know

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  very good—some of it comes from a lack of experience, but I also suspect ... ’s Sour album and realizing how wonderfully she captured the pains of first love ... album[/caption] Her music reminded me of what I’ve tried to do for a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  to grad school. You are not the same person you'll be at the end of ... know you could do research in high school. 2005: Three years of ... undergrad, as long as you go somewhere spectacular for grad school. I have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  senior year of high school. I’d tell myself not to worry about college admissions. I was a staunch planner back in high school, one of those people ... how you perceive your acceptance into the three “tiers” of schools

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  What do you want? the story of college fit and how i stole from jeremy

  

  they believe schools are looking for instead of focusing what they care ... sessions[/annotation] by saying some form of “I believe in my heart that MIT is a great place to go to school, but I also recognize that it’s not a

  • by kellen manning
  • August 19, 2021