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

  

  [/caption] Historically, I’ve only ever finished three notebooks out of the dozens I’ve had ... on everything from my interest in the subject, the pace of the lecture ... ="116766" /] Scratch paper These are the messiest parts of my notebook. The main way I

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Think YOUR research is crazy? Why doesn't spaghetti break in half? There is an answer, because someone has dedicated their…

  

  of the 20 Craziest Scientific Researches. Some of the Craziest ... Organization) It calculated the number of photographs you must take to (almost ... University of Denmark). Investigates the significance of wet underwear and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger selection 2008 results We have completed the selection of this year's bloggers!

  

  is the most senior of the current student bloggers? [answer at the end of the entry] You may recall that last month we put out a call for new ... reveal this year's new bloggers, I'd like to share with you some of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  The last couple weeks of my fall semester were almost entirely ... ! For those of you who aren’t familiar, Computer Vision is the study of developing algorithms resulting in the high-level understanding of images by a

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

  The State of the Mail: Opened & Processed It's time to check MyMIT to make sure we have all the pieces of your…

  

  Our fabulous Records Office team has processed all of the mail we ... another copy of the evaluation form, you can get a PDF from the tracking ... the testing agency send us, then you may fax us a copy of an official

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  , but that’s beside the point) I found myself sitting in front of my desk, the room empty, and my roommates still gone. The glare of my laptop ... bottle. The water tasted strangely of swimming pool. Weird. All that was

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  's one i had the misfortune and privilege of taking three classes with ... of the projects were interesting and enjoyable to work on   i. harmony and counterpoint i (21m.301) 21m.301 is one of the early music

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  Recap: I survived the last week of February with hit points to spare ... page 2 of my test booklet, and continued to the next round of combat. Faced with a barrage of Conceptual Quantitative Questions as I neared the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  the Class of 1954. Tech Reunions are exactly what they sound like ... coffeehouse, back in the day when this space on the 3rd floor of the student ... of the coffeehouse at one point, but his successor wanted to rename the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  Since coming here, I've had two items at the top of my bucket list ... 2017, where students cover the walls of one of the campus tunnels with murals. Some of these are also animated! If you use the Artivive app and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  stack of applications before me. To my right, out the window, I see big, fluffy flakes of snow falling from the sky. I start to think that I could go for a hot cup of cocoa, but I realize we don't have any in the house

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Profiles in Courage My neighbor could kill you or save your life with her bare hands.

  

  engaged in some sort of war. Hey all, sorry about the relative dearth of ... preventing the theft of my laptop, and to all of the lovely prefrosh I had a ... my couch in the midst of 10.32, performing some blog-related duty, or

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

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  : the second is to stand in front of the cart and pull it such that it ... pushing allows you to keep an eye on both the cart and the direction of travel. most of the time, pushing is the correct choice the fundamental

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  First read

  

  of Chicago. This is a school serious about its academics. Check out the ... Welcome those of you who have just joined us! I encourage you to read all the posts from the beginning, and also check out the student blogs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2004
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  outside just last week!) You forget, most of the time, that you're a student at one of the top engineering schools in the country, or that the guy on the other side of the wall is developing an indoor autonomous quad

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  for the fall semester. i decided to do this for a lot of different ... mind for a lot of reasons, one being that because of the study abroad, i ... won't be able to have that with some of my friends anymore. for the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / Events

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

  

  month. Let's go back a few weeks. At the time of writing, it is Halloween ... chemical engineering companies. I went to some of the conference events--skipped some, too. This is what I wrote on the night of October 10: What a

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

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  next day. I'm pretty proud of the number of games I've spent time on ... slowly over the course of my life"]"using that time productively ... (mildly) comprehensive reviews on the games that I've played/sort of played

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  the raw scale of man fill my view only when I choose to see it. Seeing ... leaf in a stormy void. It floats against the shape of the world, makes ... life down in the sunlight of a suburb. I chose to do this exchange

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Boston, through the lens of my children Visiting Boston at 37 years of age was ...

  

  hours of driving, four nights in hotels (the cost of hotels in Cambridge ... the end of the weekend I had created this masterpiece. In 2023 I was ... independent individual who experienced all of the things such an individual

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025