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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  yourself to explore your options. Nine months ago, I was in the middle of a ... realized that maybe it was time to try sometime new. So when I saw a UROP ... [international UROP] along with a Kelly-Douglas Traveling Fellows Grant and to my

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  , but we still call it Dead Week, and I'd say we manage to cram about a ... need to chill out more.) A cappella meetings: All the campus a cappella ... annoying because I have to get out of bed for a morning meeting >< The

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  my resume to half the booths I walked past because I may have gone a ... enthralled. Then, as I was about to head back to my dorm and call it a day, I ... and started walking towards them. I took a flier to be polite, then

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  actual conversations i definitely had last night happy new year i guess

  

  work A: yeah and i bet they're saying to themselves A: look at these ... A: well i wanted to say, oh shoot, it's another person, act normal B ... "we're all trying to act normal" isn't weird A: we're driving in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  to alignment, so even a tiny misalignment (e.g., from breathing too ... a video of a monkey reacting to a magic trick, that's exactly how I ... need to do per computation. Single-Photon Interference This effect is a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July A video experiment just for the heck of it

  

  creates an annual video series called "Letters to July," sort of like a ... current feelings to a personified July. Because of my summer class (to be ... in my 30 day trial period to tinker around and make a couple videos for

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 30, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  finding a MIT alum in Tokyo (!), I realized that I forgot to ask for his ... Sooo, I'm back in Boston. And, to be really honest, I miss Japan a ... cause big traffic delays to the train line in question. When a major

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Adventures Part One the first of several "a day in the life of Cyd" posts

  

  decided to chronicle my weekend! This will be the first of several "a day in ... another friend 2 while friend 1 was in a meeting 7:15 pm – took the bus to ... activity 9:54 pm – went to a Salsa Night at Ryles Jazz Club in Cambridge

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Ich Spreche Kein Deutsch. Apparently that's how you say "I don't speak German"...not that I would know.

  

  In general, it would be considered a good idea to know more than just ... curriculums we designed earlier this year. In just over a week, I'll be able to ... girls and I hope to do quite a bit of sight-seeing. We especially have our

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 3, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Message From Ben And Matt ...regarding the recent news of Marilee's resignation.

  

  wanted to write to you as soon as possible. It's a very sad day for MIT ... 're really in a state of shock at the loss of our leader. To make a long story ... the coming days. In the meantime, there are a few things we wanted to

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  no more than an inch or two of snow at a time, figuring out how to stay ... that were born in a six-foot pile of snow, feel free to share your own ... gloves afeefah? Because it’s surprisingly easy to lose them) I have a few

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  A “World Record Attempt” We can do it!

  

  to campus as a freshman, for almost more reasons than I can count. My ... . This entry is a shameless plug for an event that Keri inspired me to ... way to get more mattresses than that. I beg to differ. In a few days

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  . At a high level, it allows him to lift, rotate, and fuse objects ... from my laptop. Looking up, I saw that Fatema had replied with a link to ... this discrepancy, we need to talk a bit about linear algebra. A common

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• 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 ... time-to-pee. What is time-to-pee? It's a metric I made up for gauging ... the number of classes is your time-to-pee. A time-to-pee close to 1

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Exponential Decay This entry probably isn't about what you think it is.

  

  translates to a lot of verbiage. And while there's nothing wrong with new posts ... Amazingly, I've been an admissions blogger for a bit over twelve ... most individual entries have a relatively short half-life - that is, the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Energy Forum Come drink from the solar-paneled firehose. ("Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren…

  

  global needs and produce a plan for a cohesive initiative to tackle the ... addition to today's forum presentations, though, there are a whole bunch of ... pitch of their clean energy business to a panel of investors and other

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 3, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  'd struggled to find for several years. These are exciting because they have a ... In July 2018, in my application to be a blogger, I left a note at the ... got off to a great start because after I mentioned my Oreo quest to my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  . I want to be a fighter pilot - that is why I joined AFROTC, for the ... simply as an avenue to become a pilot and to pay for school. I wasn't expecting to gain much in the program other than a commission. Now I am a year

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  *Oink Oink* Nobody panic!

  

  of influenza that was tested to be neither A or B. Flu season hasn ... him a blue mask, had him spend the night, and sent him back to live with ... to MIT Medical, and returned with a blue mask. Soon a girl in my suite

  • by Snively '11
  • September 23, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  figured a simulator is a good place to do it.  Until I saw a shiny, shiny ... was my turn. I handed my phone (man, why didn't I think to bring a real ... the Cessnas I was used to. A stick instead of a yoke, and my steering

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011