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  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  , I looked at my computer screen from a bunch of different angles, and noticed ... : light from a source (the sun, or the lamp in your room) travels through ... to your eye. Here's a visual example from this website (which I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  'm coming back from a long day, I wish I could move faster than my legs could carry me. But sometimes, the Tech Shuttle is so far from the nearest stop that just walking to Next is the faster option. I have a skateboard, but

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  possible way, or 5+ people congesting the hallway like a sinus infection ... don’t need to have a “We’re off to see the wizard” moment in the middle ... this happens. "Typically a bus will be out of service going to the start

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  remember feeling like a failure when I switched from 18.01A to 18.01. I remember feeling like a failure a lot. I remember being in a state of shock ... remember, every moment, being desperate to come back. I remember a post

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  mentioned from my last blog, I took 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes) this ... in lab during the last month than I did in my own room... which is a ... this amazing makeover on our product in 20 short days. We went from the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2016 Ring Delivery! MY RING IS SO PRETTY!

  

  RING! It feels so good! I have many pictures from and of the event ... friends in my class that I was really excited to see! We had a great time, and afterwards a bunch of us went to Bova's Bakery to get Cannoli

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  just taken a leave of absence. Taking a break from the Institute is not ... all: What are you going to study? Would a degree from MIT really be ... I know I haven't written anything lately. Portraying MIT feels a bit

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  is a view of the Pru and the Charles from Senior House: And this is a ... has been one and only one answer to every question. The reason to do a ... , the answer doesn't matter very much anyway. I got a 39 on my first math

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Pictures that don’t belong anywhere else – Part I because i'm a slackslackslackball.

  

  each dorm room. I hear it's quite a pain to live in. I took these from ... This entry is a lot of things. Read! First here are some pictures from freshman year. This is the dorm room which I shared with Kelly '09

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Cancer Research The history and future of cancer research at MIT.

  

  The MIT homepage has a great spotlight today about the Institute's contributions to cancer research. I'll reprint it below: Even without a medical ... research, from the isolation of the first human cancer genes to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken with my head cut off What I've been up to since last Friday. In case you want the Cliff's Notes…

  

  flew in from Texas, we now have the beginnings of a competition routine ... ), and a book for 21A.100 (Intro to Anthropology)... also material from the ... bodies. One of our flyers, Ami '06, looks like a leopard because she has so

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Can You Become Back at MIT, with excitement and pictures

  

  ... a new version of you? (Did anyone watch Felicity? These lyrics are from the theme song , which JJ Abrams, the creator of the show ... Keri Russell stars. It's something with those ladies from the WB, isn

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5n, n=1

  

  's Shawn Estes having a nice pitchers duel in the early innings and a come-from-behind win by the home team thanks to a Troy Glaus three-run home run. Yet I ... events from my forthcoming reunion include a Class of 2000 Boston Harbor

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 11, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  admitted from the waitlist? First: there is a link to the waitlist ... admission from another college before May 1, even if it means making a deposit ... admitted from the waitlist, we'll have a financial aid package ready to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  a way that distracts from the fact that they're Asian." Indeed, Devi ... culture, but with a [annotation note="lol my family is from that one Indian ... stemmed (surprise surprise) from more than just being a weeb, but from a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  Jordan’s Furniture. I recently found out about this place from a couple of ... .  As you can see from my bio, I am not from Massachusetts. In fact, this is the furthest north I have ever lived. Here is a list of almost ten

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT EECS students travel the world

  

  graduation from MIT, I would like to apply my skills abroad and have a global ... work there for at least a couple years after graduating from MIT.    ... 2011, we sent more students abroad from Electrical Engineering and

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  other kids from my school had gotten in (to have one would have been crazy ... peace with wherever I'd end up, and then opened a rather unexpected letter from Stu Schmill. And here I am. The point is, we've been there - we all

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  .Information from the UAAP.Information about housing and the housing lottery.A to ... as the "A60" for historical reasons we can no longer remember, the NBM represents the transition of the newly admitted class from the Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  's Army orders called. His father is retired from the Army and working as a ... a dorm and share a room with a student from Chicago. All Isaac knows ... Class of 2010, here's one more... Central grad's MIT future a family

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006