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• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  fields of crunchy-green grass. A place where the laughter of children ... alarm clock. A place where kites adorned the sky, glistening in the sunshine. And where hot street-side pakoras were perfect for a rainy day. A

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  cherish the memory for the rest of their lives. Senior Ming-fai Fong, a ... , the researchers in the Seung Lab designed a robot that learns how to ... mechanical robot with a controller that uses a learning program, the robot can

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  , dragging pajamas on in a hurry before jumping into the softest bed for a nap ... I may be tempted to position myself in the lounge for a while, to talk ... takers, and, mostly (or so I hope), study for the next exam. It’s all kind

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  -up instinct, and then I jaunt around for the morning, and crash for a nap in the ... , I attended a few Zoom sessions in the morning for [annotation note ... away from the capital. Russia doesn’t actually require a quarantine for

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  Here's the story: Long ago, in a land far far away (far from Hawaii ... referred to as "W1") into a "New" magical dorm (NW35 or the "New" Ashdown ... undergraduate dorms, a group of founders is formed to help with the final

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  others' mouths, the last time I was in this classroom it was for a class I ... 's campus. The passage of time was a frequent topic of discussion: how could ... , like a newborn baby does, that the world doesn't end when you do. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Ode to the Institute Better late than never.

  

  In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I decided to write MIT a poem. It ... . You provide us with a home-- an often-decorated dome (by the work of ... than ourselves. *hackers--my apologies for the horrid made-up name

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  like a dividing point, to make the space seem smaller, and for people to ... for the month of February, was created and curated by her (with some art ... people comment on the name at all? Holly: A couple people sent me photos

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  be in a sorority for all of the serious reasons, but it’s not all ... Times are a changin’ around the Institvte. This year, sorority ... school year. This is a major change because most of the MIT sorority women

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  ="REX stands for Residence Exploration, which is a 5-ish-days period where the ... to bear the weight of a tough situation, even on only one leg. Ask for ... try to stand, but the second I bend my left leg a horrible pain shoots

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  theater district, he called. I had to balance the cup on a concrete post for ... meeting with various faculty to shape the perfect path for the future, I ... 're eagerly awaiting your decisions -- now, for the first time ever, *online

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  the excuse to see a class that I am rather fond of, especially those who ... however I’ve reached the maximum time that I will have to ever get to know a ... and brought them to the point that made MIT the right college for them

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  for a life of doing what I love. I won't forget that #50 on the list ... the ear buds. Dimmed cabin lights are perfect for introspection. My ... this soon. In the meantime, here’s a puppy. :)“ This semester, I found

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  seen, although I suppose you could think of the chain as a metaphor for ... to light for a deeper kind of sight, in my favorite passage of the book ... : That's a photograph of our little blue "pendant world," close by the moon

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  eyes of a potential civil engineering student. Though the seminar ends in ... getting to know each other through some applied meeting of the minds, in a ... approach to introductory chemistry for those who aren't planning to go into a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  . Below is a list of ten of the best spaces for both of these activities ... and disturbing the peace--the perfect place for a pset and a nap.   ... located--right off the infinite. It’s not as nice for napping if you are a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  model and made a PR for sending [annotation note="the name of a project ... what kubernetes is for a moment to walk to the desk of [annotation note="a ... at the lake for a bit. lake washington is choppy today, and i don't see

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our homework is to go camping on a school night...!

  

  weeks ago - …the assignment was to construct a bamboo-and-canvas shelter ... structure has to provide sleeping area for the 10 people in our class and ... . And for good reason, because who knew that the night before we were

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  then entered into the computer system, one at a time, by the great ... for Secondary School Reports. The day after the document is entered into ... ,000+ applications in a small space, so the filing can get a little crowded! When your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  hard despite having little in the way of required classes. A classmate ... Thelonious Monk song for a recent 21M.340 assignment. Hopefully, we are not ... -- sometimes, they're actually based on a bunch of fresh research the professor

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011