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• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  —drafts that never made it past the first sentence and exist in a folder on his ... initial goal was a tad ambitious if not dramatic. With this revelation in ... time is now,” they whispered. And, with a single deep breath, the hero

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file? Well, now you can--thanks to a HackMIT project.

  

  . '17, is a Chrome extension whose birth I witnessed (and blogged about ... result is a seamless and intuitive experience, where you can highlight as ... text from the image entirely, or replace it with its translation in a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  think through them is like trying to find a needle in a…um…place with lots ... outside, a cup held to his chest. In response to my jumping in fright and ... this is likely the last night my roommate and I will share a room. He

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  instance, younger you is a part of you in the same way your arm is). Hence ... and did/didn't get in/got deferred, is a part of who you are now. It ... Song: Ramblings of a Lunatic by Bears In Trees Two months ago, I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The sky is falling! Either a huge cottonball just exploded or it's snowing.

  

  And so it begins. The first snow of the term has arrived. Kresge in the snow! Later that cold October evening, the snow turned into rain.

  • by Bryan
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  . -A wave on a rope is a wave. -A wave in a pipe is a wave. -A wave on a transmission line is a wave. -A wave in vacuum is a wave. -A wave is also called ... in contact with the ground. ² Since a is roughly 20,000 g, the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  A few weeks ago, in a true callback to our high school days, Paolo ... bowlers in high school, Protobowl is the website that trivia nerds use to ... on this website apropos of nothing, we were in fact practicing for a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fraternities @ MIT They're quite a Rush.

  

  freshman was choosing to join a fraternity. It was, in retrospect, also one ... other Greek men, I have a great deal of pride in not only my own fraternity, but also in the Greek system as a whole. We are, in many ways, not

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  , and I think a lot of it is from the skills that I gained in my first ... know what the Damkohler number is. Punchline: I learned a lot in my classes. While that in itself is a tremendous feat, there is much more that

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  I've been in. Probably a third of it is grad students, and while 9 is ... well or struggle. The last time I was in a really polarizing class (18 ... in it with me, which is nice since it means I'll always have someone to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words Therefore, this is a REALLY long entry.

  

  Who: Chris M and Snively What: A picture Where: My room When: Last year at the end of CPW Why: We needed a picture together How: How did we end up looking like this? 4 hours of sleep-ish each over about 4 days.

  • by Snively '11
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  This semester, I'm taking a graduate class in General Relativity that ... creativity and free-thinking, is the venerated observance of Lunchtime in the ... tag). Never, in a dozen years of pre-college schooling, was the sin of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  , sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion ... aspect of life fuse in a common stream in which the unity of this life can ... contemplation. The specialization of images of the world is completed in the world

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  to make sure I get at least a 60% in the class. This is truly PNR in ... hellhole that is Massachusetts. In this time, I've been trying to keep ... shred me into pieces. I am a fool who doesn't understand physics. It is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  think!) • Which is a more favorable condition to find yourself in: a bad ... a “real-time” look at where a student is in his/her development as a ... athletics and UROPs, are in full swing, and the GEL Program is no exception

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  pathways to chemistry that is actually occuring in a particular process (eg ... at MIT is assigned a unique identifier. Most commonly, this is a number ... assigned to each department is a matter of historical contingency, and doesn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  ). Here is a photo of Arlene S’20 making necklines in her glass. (sorry its ... ) One cool design in ornaments is a Witch Ball. A Witch Ball includes ... MIT is really cool. MIT has a glassblowing class. I took the

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  can I fit in?" It's a question that's been on the forefront of my mind lately, and it's got me thinking about incredible people and what it is in ... to is: No one has become great by wanting to be great, greatness is a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  garage is worth a read. Spoilers: he didn’t get in, but a bunch of other ... Hello Internet! I had a very writing major day, which is to say that ... preservation.)   The protagonist of ThesisNovel is a high school senior

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  it is like to live in a rural area or a small town (even though I do ... fair is a stack of brochures in the counselor’s office. Perhaps the ... is practically a holiday and every face in the bleachers is familiar

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025