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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy 4th of July! Glorious red, white, and blue

  

  strangely similar to those for pasta. Bacilli with tomato sauce, anyone? Ok ... doesn't look like this: Well I may not go to see the fireworks today ... bacteria this morning (for the MCATs, of course), and I noticed that the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dewey Love Libraries? Yes we dew!

  

  for the Dewey furniture survey. (Clearly, I don't have enough work to do ... Yes we dew. I am not very shy about my love and affection for the MIT library system. (See here and here for evidence.) On Saturday afternoons, I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How MIT students are trying to change education by biking across America.

  

  Francisco for the summer. After talking to a number of groups working on ed ... will also be difficult, as it is for any teacher, to keep the whole class ... week (more on that soon) and am here to spotlight an incredible project a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  plans for how she'd apply her programming skills to her physics studies. I ... who was studying computer science for its applications to another field ... . I somehow found myself somehow talking to her in Lobby 7 for nearly an

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  begging for mercy. When I decided to take a break from tiramisu, I was in ... time to do stupid things at the canonical school of smart people with ... weekend of absolute tomfoolery. With that said, I proudly present to you

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  To give you a flavor (well, many flavors) for what MIT students do ... Environmentally friendly! Sounds good to me. Any non-work-related goals for the ... . Since we're related, I know the answer to this, but for the other readers

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  My introduction to most of the MIT Admissions staff - aside from my ... comments to a post in some older blog y'all don't know about, when I was so ... torn apart my house trying to find a crowbar so I could break into my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what we’ve been up to recently a short list about winter break

  

  particular order, of things we’ve been up to recently:  Studying for the GRE ... We haven’t been blogging as much as we’d like to. Senior fall and ... .  We don’t have time right now to write something too substantial, so in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things That Have Happened To Me Recently in no particular order

  

  The other day I tried to hard-boil eggs for the first time. The first ... next batch came out fine. But then I ruined them by trying to turn them ... can't seem to find a place that makes good ones in the area). I had

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  computer. For instance, here are some questions you might be able to solve ... graph  Line graphs show up everywhere, for instance to emphasize points ... slope. It is a testament to the human visual system that for computers

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  different projects, but because drawing is way faster for me, I like to sketch ... happened, but they’re good enough to be helpful for psets and test review ... . Scribbling stuff down is a part of how I process, and really useful to me for

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  the only way i can convince myself to write anything for the past two ... time i finish homework for one class, i move it down and change it to the ... signed up to do so many things for cp*. and i’m honest, i really am, when i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  . It was very easy for me to just stick with people I knew from MIT or ... My employer recently sent me to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women ... .  It was a great opportunity to see some wonderful speakers, connect with

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Settled It's good to be back!

  

  Tina Fey and have wanted to see Date Night for such a long time. Tonight ... who don't believe me when I say I'm 19 and instead ask to see parent-signed papers saying that I'm allowed to travel alone, I am finally back at MIT

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  very lucky to find out that my high school sponsors college trips for ... 11PM, so just for fun we went back to MIT! At the Student Center we ... I realize that some of my readers may not have had the opportunity to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  next to the shattered fragments. We also took a few mementos. (For these ... time for it. I'm going to practice over the summer and audition next fall ... time for it and commit to it. By the end of the concert (sponsored by the

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  looking all over for you, kid!" booms Satan. "Let's get you back to hell ... , smiling very uncomfortably and waiting for the scene to play out. The man ... choosing to make Khan Academy non-profit: "What's a home run in the for

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  ago to the advisor for the writing department, and she got back to me ... for it being late. Also, I thought it was hilarious that I had to write ... tardiness? I honestly did not think it was possible for me to get a second

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  saltines for a meal, hoping to recreate Chicken in a Biskit to slowly ... room for the things that are important to you. Pay attention to the ... substitute for nutrition more often than not. So how do we remember to step

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  and brought them to the point that made MIT the right college for them ... them to campus for CPW that April. I saw their nerves when they first ... Class of 2012…thanks for letting me be an observer to your lives for the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012