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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  the face of a massive power outage, keeping that one light on, is the ... .  My research group is working on a siRNA-based treatment of liver cancer ... you may know, legend says there is always a light on in the Green

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  not impair or degrade lawful Internet traffic on the basis of content ... , network neutrality is a matter of ensuring basic democratic equality (or at ... neutrality) is necessarily conditioned on the technological affordances of the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  you that a vector is the Shroud of Turin or something. 2.Graduate ... 're really gentle. (This is literally the extent to which we covered topology ... , is brunch. Speaking of brunch, I had it, non-metaphorically. On a cold

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  . Also good is 99 Ways to Tell a Story. Some of us were travelling together ... on a quest to become a hero" story. The art is vibrant and imaginative ... literature, on the need to lose. Quick context: MTG is a card game, mana screws

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  armrest of my chair, with which I hoped to compute the difference between ... free copy of Matlab on the formula sheet. No kidding. I opened the test ... SAT II's, which was like 29483 years ago. Unable to bear it any longer

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

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  moved off campus. More on that another time. We went up to one of the ... ) get around on crutches. I was able to go to work and some classes, which ... able to catch up on work and stay on top of things. Being injured sucks

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

  ="87585" /] Animating (A note on OpenToonz) Isbla: We used OpenToonz, which is the free ... ahead animation. Pose to pose is when you define the key frames of your ... lines to denote regions of shadows, highlights, or different colors (I don

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 12, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Scholar

  

  lifetime is about to come true for one of America's best and brightest high ... ABC has a new reality television show called The Scholar, which is a ... choice. Filmed on location at the University of Southern California, The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  It's hard to remember a time during my senior year of high school ... . This is a bad attitude to have in all regards, because while it's great ... with ten or so others the minute they get wet, and think it's okay to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  sadly I missed most of it! Determined to not completely miss out on IAP ... suitemate at the dinnerware class (i.e. which fork to use, is my bread plate to my left or right, etc.). In the photo, Mitra is showing off the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m so ill. like, in the bad way

  

  liters of water -- for the entirety of finals week. S^3, which is really ... obvious drawbacks of being sick, it's impossible to catch up during the ... year, I somehow managed to come down with a strain of the flu that left

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2015! TAKE THE PLUNGE

  

  mission of the blogs is to allow our bloggers to express to the world what ... . The day-to-day experience of your life at MIT is a perspective only you ... basically variations of "where to buy industrial sized vats of SPF 50

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 14, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  One of the many things I love about MIT's dining halls is that they ... a rush, I find it helpful to do a quick scan of the entire dining hall ... committing to the grill or [annotation note="The station with 'regular' hot

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  throughout the day in case one of you goes to sleep early or something like ... other was when I went to play with foam swords on the rooftop of Random ... other students are up to, the Closing is a lot of fun. And both events do

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  finish or post any of them :( (Interruption: Ahmed '12 is sitting next to ... ? At some point or another, each of these numbers has felt to me like a ... corresponded to a B. Which just goes to show you that much of what you know

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  interdisciplinary, which is one reason it appeals to me). I think that at another ... , which, believe me, has a long-term impact on your life. It is much more ... moving to another room on your hall/entry or within your building... or

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  the morning and headed over to check-in. This is a three-hour shift of ... . The emphasis in Splash is on what you’re teaching, or how many classes ... presentation of the material. I did need to lecture for some of the time, which

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  Reflecting on the lessons of last semester, I knew I was going to ... through all of my other commitments, I studied from 10pm to 2:30am. Then on ... maximizes the time you spend on problems, which is, surprise, what the exams

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  year. But, regardless of how vague the role is, or how any person chooses to occupy it, one thing is constant: email. During my two years on ... reasons, and I was responding to an email on my phone at the end of a busy

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too busy ... simultaneously commented "ew." So if you choose to keep the live hawk-cam open on ... addresses, judging by the number of friend requests I've been getting on

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006