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• Blog / MIT Life

  Caine’s Arcade on making your dreams

  

  auto parts store. It doesn't get much foot traffic anymore - what ... warning: wherever you happen to be, it will get real dusty real quick once ... does a disservice to the small miracle of beauty that is this movie and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 11, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The kindest cut Blog and night and red all over.

  

  . Does anybody want a "before" picture? Tomorrow we are painting the suite ... unsettling interest (just kidding, I love it!) in seeing my spilt blood, here you go. If it's something that can be stopped, just try to stop it.

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  11,231 Applications

  

  factual errors, it does also correctly state that we have seen a rise in ... applications this year, both record highs. It is shaping up to be an extremely ... to find room for all of the many, many terrific applicants. But it also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Overture to the Commencement of a Very Rigid Journey Sam's Mom dubs me Sami-stop-spleening-me!, because I am always spleening her.

  

  . I think the trailer's actually a little encouraging... it ... , otherwise it'd be pretty much impossible to adapt to film. Stylistically, it ... sunflowers, and the poster is pretty bad. Does anybody out there know what I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  Papallardo, with its long rows of lathes and milling machines and other useful ... up for the class- but do it early, because there's a pretty long wait ... CLEAN!!!! How do you keep it like that?? ... It is true that you can keep

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  ’s complex relationship with the land...In this era of impending climate catastrophe, it is ... Old City of Jerusalem and some of its holy sites. I was amazed with the ... stunning sunset, the perfect culmination of a long day's worth of travels and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  you working on? What does your startup do?" "We uh... .... we're a ... our in house developers can fathom and applying it to the gorgeous ... -- it's gorgeous!) over the past week. Because we're a small team working

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  So much has happened since my last entry, it seems impossible to ... I can’t imagine what it must be like to face such a tragedy, I think I ... 40. No woman had won the medal in its 60-year history.” Two years ago

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  believe me, this time I'm really gonna move it!). My pictures aren't quite ... proud beaver preserved through the miracle of taxidermy (or maybe it's just a fake model; I'm not too sure really). Of course, I had to take its

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  with him today and asked him what it was like to receive such a ... other. He says that MIT was the only school he applied to, and for him it ... . He chose to study Computer Science because it was an interesting, broad

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  the recommendation is much more important than how famous the ... (say, Senator Foo or Congressman Bar). It's rare for these letters to say ... singing, because I couldn't get a CD, does anyone have an old

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  semester dreaming of how the camera would look like--promising myself to ... the Hobby Shop. If you have an idea, you can build it, and someone will ... stuck and have no clue how to begin (like me). I’m constantly

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  meaningless sacrifice. Anyway, Sam's Mom just figured out how her brand-new DVR ... the basis that "It won the PULITZER PRIZE." I really hope that I am in ... 's seriously a genius. Long long ago, in one of my favorite MITblogs entries of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  gender, so long as you can convince the RAC to let you do it. (This is ... , since it wasn't a very full flight and I had a whole row to myself. 7 ... airport, leading us on a long detour through the city. Morning traffic sucks

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  people to use our app, no matter how well it was designed. So we decided to ... graduating with a CS degree. It was hard to go a day at the Institute without ... decisions. I participated in several hackathons at MIT. It really started off

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field D-Lab students Chelsie, Miho and Nina report from Honduras

  

  the communities face and how we can better help them. Miramontes has a ... milano), however their methodology is outdated and tiring causing it to ... 4 years, not to mention the fact that it was unsafe in its functional

  • by OEL
  • January 18, 2012
• 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.

  

  these genes. Sarah: as long as you bring ligase… its getting hot in here ... Sometimes, I forget how much I love MIT, and then I realize that the ... like this. It was a bad week.) Needless to say, I am not about to walk

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

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  . Then it led to going across the oceans. And, then it was "OK, let's go ... . To me it, it just seems natural that we've looked around here and we ... out there -- what else can we learn, and how can we go there. Maybe we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  exactly where I want it to be. I peek at Deelia's sketchbook and notice how ... planes and contours. It's fun to choose which ones to emphasize with such a limited set of lines. Learning how to distill the complicated human form

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  different tasks within 45 minutes. It demonstrates how integrated computing ... computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more ... . One thing I like about Bebras USA is that it has really has taken root

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015