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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  culminates in a hardware hackathon. 1. The Time-to-Pee Schedule Metric When I ... --swell to life in the imagination. I've been posting my favorite poems from ... -and-observer, and I expressed a wish to one day participate in one myself. That day

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  littered with sonic screwdrivers and Tardis t-shirts. I managed to slip in a ... took a big step back to 1923 (when Hubble discovered that there are in ... (ooooooooooh) HOW TO DO PARKOUR Music History Different dog breeds in New

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Endless rain into a paper cup ...also, restless wind inside a letterbox.

  

  the above information was available to me with a simple push of F12. In ... be attempting to run in the Boston Marathon. If you can brave the rain ... , but you kids were so awesome that I just couldn't manage to stay in my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Relativity Special (and vice versa) I took a test today that relied on practically everything I have ever learned from…

  

  my Special Relativity test required me to add (and subtract!) numbers with 5 significant figures, and the professor did not manage to include a ... SAT II's, which was like 29483 years ago. Unable to bear it any longer

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  , visiting family in Delaware and New York, and traveling to Cape Cod with some ... capturing memories in creative ways and am learning to better understand ... understand what I want to study in the future. I'm also taking 17.307: Public

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  following conversations can literally happen nowhere else in the world. So a few weeks ago, I was heading over to my sorority house to study one ... going? me: Back to the house… to study…. Them: False. You’re coming with

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  like in January '04: If you are an incoming frosh or prospective ... th East alum who just moved to California and was back in town for the ... Yesterday evening I came back from work to discover my friend Kim, a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Woot! My t-shirt is funnier than your t-shirt.

  

  parents, birthday wishes from my sisters and grandmother, or even things I ... of getting mail. Well, for one, I wanted something to take my mind off ... more importantly, and more to the point of this entry, some shirts I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  tool to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday ... It seems like every six months or so I discover an MIT video that leaves me in awe. This time, it is the I/O Brush: [I just realized that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  understood that I learned how to answer them at some point in the past but my ... wanted to sleep. The only other time I remember feeling this tired was in ... extended essay in order to get the IB diploma. I remember thinking (as many

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  coolest. thing. ever. A whole month or more to just do whatever you want ... exists in and around MIT knows that there’s always so much pressure to be ... expectation that seems like it’s almost designed to breed guilt in students who

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  put words to it in a very belated blog post"]second time ... Gander, Canada comes together to take in the hundreds of passengers from planes that had to be detoured to their city's airport in the days

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  to rest and relax. In addition, I attended one of the Quest ... Questbridge College Admissions Conference at Yale. The idea in a nutshell is to ... weekend started to kick in. It was genuinely fun to meet the other Quest

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Renewable Energy in Spain

  

  minor in Energy Studies MIT-Spain Program 2011 My project was aimed ... detection of inefficiencies, which is important in the manufacturing process ... system into a photoluminescence imaging system to analyze the benefits of

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  reminiscing about MIT, sitting across from each other in Unified Engineering or working in each others' labs or writing their theses. Here was this elite ... , unbelievably, half-over, zooming by in a way that it didn't seem to do last year

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  referred to as an octopus: lots of arms, not always working in sync or clear ... it's easy to let our dear old friend imposter syndrome kick in ... . Now, in fall of my senior year (gah that's still scary to write down

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Food, Folks, and Fun…..but definitely not mcdonald’s Quinton makes friends at the Muslim Student Association

  

  , and staff as humanly possible in order to get a full taste of the true ... enough in itself to entice me to explore new opportunities, this invitation ... in the MSA. He quickly helped me locate my nametag, invited me to help

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Build awesome What to do if you like to build stuff.

  

  "I like to build things. What can I do to show my stuff?" I get this question from time to time. Many students know that math students can do ... stuff, if you're a budding engineer or inventor, what can you do? It's a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Up With The Mail?!? Honestly, I'm not entirely sure. But I'll tell you everything I know.

  

  while people in Cambridge have not. I can't explain this, other than to ... Services, just checked in via a comment and I thought it would be best to ... frustrating. For this I wholeheartedly apologize. Please hang in there for us

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  Is it already the seventh week of the semester? To be honest, I ... 't noticed the time go by, which isn't entirely true: I guess what I mean to say is that I've never really been able to take a break yet this

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017