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• Blog / Personal Travel

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  that there's no bridge. There isn't a bridge from the mainland to the ... high and I'm an idiot. Eventually I get a call from my friend, Sydney ... because I had to, not because I wanted to. Eventually I get a call from my

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  my friend's room at Random Hall reading that fateful email from Ben Jones informing me that I was selected to be a blogger...BUT every once in ... 've been satisfying that urge by writing a couple of marginally helpful posts

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  think back to the call I received from Steve Jobs on a Sunday morning in ... I remember the first time I ever saw a computer. I was four, and my family's basement, which contained my father's office, flooded during a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  withdraw from MIT entirely and become a hermit in the woods -- surely I can ... and would not hugely benefit from spending a lot of time going through ... asleep mid-exam; and, as a result, because I left most of it blank. cue

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  [annotation note="i've never hosted anything from a local server before, so ... free time as you might expect with a 9-6 job schedule since i was always ... [annotation note="a game that i'm independently developing in Unity

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  relations in a world that is just a step away from our own. Her: Ex Machina ... elusive skill of patience – waiting for the bus, waiting on a friend at a ... spans now from our phones and need constant stimulation. Which perhaps is

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  . The Videri String Quartet, a local group, played music from the games ... being totally in control of that process. All great games come from a ... . (But actually it was awesome, and much like a baby-PAX – a video game

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  How not to do it. (A dinner from last summer) This is probably the one ... from Shaws and make it a daily habit! Step 3: Stay Hydrated This follows ... I was having a chat with my friend Matt O. '15 when we both agreed on

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  from an anonymous gmail account, sometimes it'll just be a time and a ... from the dome." BUT it is not any of these things. No, MIT hasn ... see, for the first time since 2006, there is FINALLY a hack on the Great

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Daniel Guillen Our football coach gets a surprise in Daniel Guillen '10.

  

  best a student-athlete could ever hope to receive. Guillen, a four ... well. "I feel this is a great opportunity and not just because of the academics," said Guillen, who is scheduled to graduate from St. Joseph next

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  absolutely love the fact that I came home from lab and baked a pie. It's so ... my postdoc that I should do a handful of further experiments, then ... . It was kind of a given that there would be a paper, and that I'd get to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  CERN, the world's largest particle accelerator. A triple-GEM consists of ... sheets of copper, making a grand total of three layers (the "triple" comes from the three separate GEM foils that are stacked to make the final

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  . Parents a little frantic, but driving in from all over the place, dead set ... waves from space. The bane of a radio astronomer's existence is "noise ... classes from Stanford students. Yale, Columbia, Duke, Rice, Boston College

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  to the docks to Reffen, a market with food stalls from all corners of ... by a graphic designer from India who talked about order and chaos in ... people around me. I met a woman from New Mexico — her face lit up when she

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  if you've read any of my blogs, you know that i'm a former resident of Burton Conner, a dorm that is currently under renovation and will be ... "]REX[/annotation] as a representative of my Burton Conner community, the Burton Third

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  This last month, I was a micro-intern on the Semantic Machines team ... see it at first. We scheduled a technical interview over Zoom, and there were two questions, which tested concepts I'd already learned from

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  Today is a Super Important Day This is kind of a big deal.

  

  Today is an important day. The end of an era, the beginning of a new ... almost a year. Today marks the beginning of a change we can believe in ... ’s not really a national holiday or anything, though, I mean, it probably

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  ago. I come from a family full of academics, so I grew up around scientists and researchers. I was taught to appreciate science from a young age ... love science because I come from a family of scientists? Yes, but it

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  really refreshing break from MIT, and I think this is a really cool way to ... ¡Buenos días! from Spain! While these festivities are going on at ... how many students from Spain apply to MIT each year, but just in case

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  hadn't been grocery shopping for weeks, and after making a meal out of ... have to order out. Thank God for credit cards and the internet. Within a few minutes I had placed an order for Hawaiian pizza and a side of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008