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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  by the waves; In a lonely field the rain Lashes an abandoned train ... matrix for playing Flappy Bird. My team built Jukelele, an electric guitar ... visual program on the projector in the back. Courtesy MakeMIT/TechX For

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  ? He wrote music while working as an actuarial clerk for $5 an hour and ... shaped to remind the consumer of a child's arms folded in prayer. 6 days. I haven't written a blog entry in 6 days. God created the Earth in six

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  a 6.0001 exam Monday night, an 8-page essay for STS.010 (Neuroscience ... the form of an overnight shift for the MIT ambulance from 11pm to 8am ... slippery slope and damaged windshields in an effort to describe my situation

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  necessary for girls wanting to stay in all-girls dorms to ask for orientation ... . "Kith, I disagree. If you get in, you can handle staying in, for the most ... catalog?" No clue. But there's an online course catalog for you to check

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  individual will be socially shamed for using an object in a way others find ... scale. Especially in an age of social and political divide, questions like ... be theoretically needed from each individual in order for government

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  an A or B in a grad level class for it to count towards an MEng degree ... . Instead of begging for a late drop, I begged for an extension. More accurately, I begged for an OX. An OX is essentially an incomplete grade

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: Sign up for SAT Subject Tests SAT Subject Test registration deadline is April 28.

  

  A message for juniors out there: with the deadline for the June testing date approaching, I highly recommend signing up for SAT Subject ... advice to the underclassmen! The SAT Subject Tests will be administered for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  the ice and prepare for an hour of sounding silly in front of one ... riding a bike. October 09-10 (H-Town) I was in Houston for a conference ... who is in the second video above, taught us how to make an echo sound

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  class ended, I took a mini-break – only to return just in time for the ... like an Initiation for me: the skilled and unwavering competitors from ... line for McDonald’s at 7 AM somewhere in the middle of New York state; I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  " –Shariann Lewitt, in 21W.755 "writing code for the greatest processor ever ... conversation, not word-for-word, because the reader can intuit and fill in the ... struggling with bouts of illness for the past month or so. I'm not sure what

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  recognition for their work. This proposal is doubtless ambitious, and it's an ... family members to vote. If you want to play an even more active role in ... As I mentioned in my last entry, Change.org is running a competition

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2017 FAQ You've got questions, I've got answers

  

  This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... , activities, awards) - we will use your QuestBridge application for that. In the ... am taking my tests in November or December. Am I still eligible for the

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  is loosely stated as such: “For every student sitting in a library ... --seldom is a space used for only one.   Barker Library In my experience ... feel an appropriate amount of shame for dropping your pen onto the table

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taste ai has no taste.

  

  If you follow me on Instagram, Twitter, or (god forbid) LinkedIn, you might’ve seen me mention that I spoke to The Washington Post for an ... revolutionary for the era. And in this late-stage-capitalism society, it feels

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  recording Eric Lander's biology lectures for an MITx Biology course. The ... . There were 13 display screens set up in Lobby 10, one for each of our ... This summer, I was enrolled in one of the five summer@future classes

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  was so much fun. Watching a kid’s movie always puts us in an “everything ... The precipice of change is an unsettling place to be. We were there four years ago when we were seniors in high school, and we're sure many

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Senior Week On The Blogs!!! oh no, we’re all so old

  

  that for a few of your friendly neighborhood bloggers, it’s also our last ... all has been a true honor. But alas, all good things must come to an end ... one last hurrah. So in spirit of the normal, sky-diving filled senior

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Meditation Mondays Achieving inner peace, just in time for my 14.05 pset

  

  ). Join us for an hour of relaxation, self-reflection, and personal growth ... Meditation Monday: Tonight, 10/16 @5:30 pm in 50-005 Meditation ... meditation and an experience of guided visualization, a simple, nonsectarian

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear Mom, Vol. 1 If I told you my life was a circus, would you believe me?

  

  answer, so I resorted to sending her an email. I decided that I would ... would write back in the days of old at WJ Bryan. To: [email protected] From ... brought the big elephants. I took some pictures for you. Here are my

  • by Bryan
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  current lab for the past two semesters. In the fall, I fabricated magnetic ... shouldn’t be too hard for an MIT student like you.” Sometimes, I feel like ... preparing us for research in microelectronics, it’s one of the very few

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023