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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  few days in contrast to how much free time I had over IAP. I feel like I ... ’s hard to put in the effort to keep them. And sometimes, I think about what it would be like if I didn’t go to MIT, if I went to college back in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  walkability of a city is, in fact, important to me. And although I do like ... experience the wonder of exploring them. I don't want to be stuck in Boston ... memes. Or maybe it's because architecting solutions to software problems

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  week that I didn’t find the time (or the energy) to step away from it all to write things down. Fully immersing myself in every single moment ... lifetime experiences. In between visiting sangomas (traditional healers) to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  mathematician can have, or necessary for success. It’s important to celebrate ... point: I considered studying CS or physics in college, but liked math more ... classes in subjects that aren’t math, but involve math to a reasonably high

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  've Learned", is quickly rising up in views to join its brothers with over 2,000 views in four days. It's funny, I had thought that to garner views, my ... soon since I convinced my brothers to apply for Spark in March. Once I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  class in space systems engineering) have led to real systems for ... -pitch quadcopters flipping upside-down (developed in the MIT Aerospace Controls Lab), or vertical-landing rockets (hey spacex, hey blue origin). control

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  One Giant Leap For beaver kind

  

  , just because the dome is so visible and I'm more likely to see a hack in the morning than in the afternoon or evening. So, step 1, check dome ... route and headed over to Killian. Now, I don't have some fancy SLR or

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  projects seemed interesting or relevant to me and then engage in an ... behavior in response to visual stimuli to neuroscience experiments to tease ... been working on (which could potentially be exploratory or in

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  to or what to ask for. I started by asking one person… and they knew ... route to transferring to MIT in September 2024, I attended a small liberal ... makerspaces or waiting in line at Bosworth’s for a warm drink (Bosworth’s exists

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  Unni, how are you supposed to put the lock in the holder?" "You slide it ... 're probably trying to jam it in. Slide it in." "I AM sliding it!" "Do you see ... longer drive in college), and you parked your car, and all you had to do

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  'm in some kitchen or lounge listening to a conversation about critical ... ? AB --> BC Calculus in high school is designed to take about a year ... semester's worth of work in a day or two. The definition of "day" becomes

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  the market or anywhere else I found myself at some point in the ... continue to be definitely did not come to me very easily in the beginning but ... closing in on me as they laughed and pointed. My initial instinct was to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  sweat glands. The duck-billed platypus has no nipples. Thus, in order to ... . In case you just tuned in, my job is to turn turkey carcasses into oil ... -grade oils. Anyway, the problem is that in addition to getting oil from the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  of my recent entries, but I am unable to find it. Well, I'm not in Rome ... prefer Mapquest. 2. In my last entry, I promised to hold Anthony personally ... in 20 minutes late, but Amtrak was nice enough to hold the following

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  INTRO First things first, I have to post this, as promised in an ... little knowledge about anything they were about to teach me. In fact ... MIT seemed to take all of the things I used in my application to get

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  . It has virtually no application to me or my life, and I will probably ... hemisphere that spends 90% of its life in the air. An Albatross can go up to 6 ... sleep in the air, meaning they can spend years without having to go to dry

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Semester of poetry

  

  questions, or creating images, and then trying to demuddle them. I started ... Sciences). I wanted to talk a bit about why I like poetry. I feel like in a ... a different kind of rigor here to make things stand together in an (i

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  apartment that she was to live in for the next three months. It’s nothing like ... down Newbury Street or Boylston is always in the cards, and even ... in my UROP lab around 7:30pm. My worst day was an 8:30am to 8:30pm

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  Track teams here at the ‘tute, in which I get to hang out with some of the ... selected for GEL learn how to best tackle working in a group and take leadership roles in engineering projects. GEL speaks to the variety of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Greetings from MIT Labs! Introducing MIT: The Game

  

  Game, you will be able to participate in all the most important aspects ... internet connection, it may take a few moments, or minutes, to download for ... working on a fix.If you have another, different bug to report, or if you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 1, 2011