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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  how to code in three weeks. The lab assistants, TAs, and lecturers were ... IAP--Independent Activities Period--is soon coming to a close! Spring ... preparing for all IAP--6.01, Intro to Electrical Engineering and Computer

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  ’m Elizabeth ‘14, one of Anna’s many friends). I’m here to talk about teaching at ... things to love about the MIT student community, and one of them is that we ... the many other (see #17) ways to teach,* you are most definitely coming

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  Agent: So you teach people how to swim? Me: Oh, no. You get to teach ... you could teach people to swim if you wanted to. TSA Agent: Oh. Huh. and ... : Yep! TSA Agent: Wow, physics. Great time to be a physicist, with all the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: A Guide for the Hopeless and Drenched thoughts from mark '15

  

  a writing class and wanted to share his experiences and insights with ... to do for the rest of your life. For some, this moment appears ... experience it more synthetically, be it the pressure to earn a living, or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 29, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  sense to anybody at MIT right now, but potentially not to people at home, so let me do my best to help you understand. When I got to campus we got to work right away planning and organizing orientation events for

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  people who enjoys puzzles, and figuring out how to improve renewable energy ... during a class barbecue to celebrate the success of their woodworking venture, which he helped direct. Zinser likes to work in the wood shop, lift

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  manner, by which I mean that I had probably forgotten how to add properly ... doing laundry. (The “Did You Know?” opener is a throwback to the olden ... to start my entries with some useless metaphor instead.) A few weeks

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  how long you'd have to own a hybrid car for the extra initial cost to ... first semester senior who just decided to change her major around, this ... ...well, now you have. I chose to do my concentration in Theater Arts. This will

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  here it is with a visitor. I'm at a loss for how to caption this one, but ... , also works there and yesterday she offered me a ride back to Boston. "Sure! I'll take a ride back, why do you have to go to Boston?" Turns out

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  What can I say, it grew on me . . . (Guest Entry) Now I'm a beaver believer!

  

  Office: My friend Feldman '11 walked me to The East Campus, where I was ... us banded together and decided on our goals: to have as much fun as physically possible, and to visit all of the dorms. And so, we began our

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  room Figuring out how to get my computer to print to our dorm’s printer ... for what’s to come. Then, before you know it, blasted in the face by the ... . Hello, my name is Snively, and I’m about to get hit in the face with a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 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…

  

  -absorbed individuals that are too busy plotting their next breakthrough to pay any attention to their undergraduate students. While I have never encountered such ... with him today and asked him what it was like to receive such a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  , take Special Relativity (8.20) to find out how to travel into the future ... from the three separate GEM foils that are stacked to make the final ... sheet can be used to detect particles by amplifying ionization patterns by

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  , de poésie, de vertu, à votre guise. How is it that I get to live every ... and choose to walk it through day after day? how is that I get to ... inference problems: learning how to take problems and kind of guess their

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)

  

  world and how I love to engage and support students. Just as your time ... Hi everyone! I am excited to be back celebrating this milestone with ... college counselor to give the same advice I loved to give on the blogs. Each

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  have languages, we want to think about how, given a string, we would ... constructing the rationals and their properties and how they relate to the reals ... numbers, is an open set because if I take any point x no matter how close to

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  to figure out how to get to the club room. Walker wasn’t the most ... semester, and i know roughly how to kinda use the station maybe, and i have ... . KN6OQK” how I got here I picked up ham radio as a hobby during

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo is not a Hivemind Haha... just kidding... unless?

  

  soon), but right now I’m coming to you LIVE from from Tetazoo’s freshman ... ’m inclined to participate in a three-hour challenge that the upperclassmen set up for the freshmen and other hall newcomers. We have tasks to complete

  • by Powers '23
  • November 24, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  before the show was starting! That’s exactly how much earlier we came to ... booth person how much were regular priced tickets, just to seem like we ... haven't read the part that was posted before this, scroll down to the line

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  Michael & me (PC to Michael, can't you tell by how nice the camera is ... world, who they want to become, and how to get from the former to the ... applications to read in the summer, we must not have much to do. It's probably

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016