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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  of skeleton code for me to fill in, all while I went to lots of office ... time I’d ever touched code, and man, were there a lot of TypeError: 'list ... syntax because I really didn’t know what I was doing. Yet, by the end of 6

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  job site in Needham, where I catch one of three trains between the hours ... like your job (as I do), it can feel like an inconvenient stretch of time ... This summer, I'm working part-time at the Division of Student Life

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  here i go again i have watched Mamma Mia! seven times this year

  

  , Nicole and I started a tradition of turning off all the lights in the ... between. IV: My, My, How Can I Resist You? Of course, by the time Paolo and ... the midst of. You can find people to make music with in acapella groups

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  July 4th in Boston MIT has the best seat for Boston's July 4th celebrations.

  

  much with Photoshop, but you can see the barge is right in front of MIT ... buildings along the river in East Cambridge. I think the Back Bay area of ... Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  hallucinogens out of the US, or that I have a small plant in my pocket that needs ... realsies! In the meanwhile, I'd love to answer any of your questions about ... through Seoul, and I'm holding it. This is not because of lack of access - I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  crowdsourced online map where members of the community can add pins for different ... MIT dorms"]dormspam.[/annotation] What were some of your motivations in ... and better understand where each of these spaces physically exists, I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  's. Back in the Fall of 2002, I set out on a journey that is still ongoing. I ... or anything of the sort, but I did know that sometime in the spring, I ... those of you who did not get in, it's not the end of the world, I promise

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  surprisingly, I actually had possessed a large amount of this knowledge in high ... math problem that I was capable of doing in the tenth grade. These were ... large list of things that I can recall having learned from those classes

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  This is the first in a series of a couple of posts I wanted to do on ... ' poster of him, and bringing in a hubcap with a heart on it, a teddy bear (I ... . All three of these dorms have spectacular murals, but I wanted to talk

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Dark Side of the Moon And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the…

  

  in the middle of writing a HASS paper on the Hippocratic Oath, so I ... So in case you didn't know, there's a eclipse going on. A total eclipse of the moon, in fact. The last one until 2010. You should go watch

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  'm caught up in the middle of the problem do i see its magnitude. if i didn ... choice but to let go of the plot myself. i'll make meaning in my life ... having these problems, yet i'm screaming in front of the whole world about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  -and-check? Can’t you just plug in all the permutations of the variables and get the ... difficulty of the class. Since I have limited experience in anything except ... common unit of homework assigned here at MIT. Excellent, in-depth high

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  I can't sleep in. I don't have any early-morning obligations – I just ... like I'm the only person awake. In reality, around 10% of MIT wakes up ... 'll crash hard in the afternoon."][/annotation]. Last year, I wouldn't ever

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  . Which is also just about the best thing in the world, now that I think of ... , which is the only, and I mean THE ONLY thing standing in the way of my ... while. I'm real sorry; I'm just not exactly on top of my life right now

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  The other day my roommate and I decided that there was a flaw in the English language. I'd point out flaws in other langauges, but my mastery of ... , you can apply it to the magnitude of abstraction you take in a subject

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  being a woman in engineering here. I had female friends in all of the ... Last entry, I covered most of the questions that had been asked, but ... of Women Engineers (SWE), only 19.7% of undergraduates in engineering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mastering Physics Has No Soul I love online assignments. har. har.

  

  's somewhere else, then it's good as well. However, I do hope to do what I can in ... I don't usually like to post these kind of "on-the-whim" entries (I ... important part of MIT Student Life. @@ Say that I'm irresponsible for not

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  class of the week, and in so doing I would catch up on all of the sleep debt that I've accumulated over the course of my entire life ... -type-thing in the middle of the dorm. (As you can see, BC is basically a string of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  . Which means, all I can do is trust myself and do what I can to the best of ... Wait. Why am I here?  For those of you who don’t know, I actually don ... in the first reason. I’m less than three days away from my starting my

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  year (or next year, or in five years... whatever, I don't discriminate ... (partially so I can make everyone call me Dr. Mollie), and I just spent a great ... factoring polynomials and calculating the area of circles? I'm trying to get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005