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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  of genius at age three or four. After returning from visits to the ... dream of becoming a rocket scientist. "That is my dream -- to become a ... Heroes," based on local, hometown news articles about students goign off to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  beard trimmer (to reap the benefits of free super saver shipping) or to ... Wikipedia. I couldn't think of anything to blog about in recent memory, but I ... look at them. Sorry, what was I supposed to do? Pull out of my webspace

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick EA Update A few words about the storm, application tracking, MyMIT, and more.

  

  to be scanned in and then submitted; there is no electronic version of ... ***UPDATE*** If you're taking the SAT on the makeup date of 11 ... materials to show up on the tracking system (even for electronic documents). I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun with Legos A photo journal of THE coolest room I've ever seen.

  

  advisor, which is an upperclassman who acts as a something of a mentor to ... sometimes takes place in the form of an advising seminar, where 7 or 8 ... doors. Here is the first glimpse you get of the Lego Learning Lab: And

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  huge fan of joy's work ever since i read her blog post on inclusive ... called the Perpetual Line-Up, which talks about unregulated use of facial ... of color ... so it's not just me, having one bad incident! This is

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool UROP position UROP opportunity: helping people fight obesity using robots

  

  up to one year. After the integration of the system is complete, we ... -- Hardware The Robotic Life group in the Media Lab is looking for a UROP to help with a project applying sociable robots to the real-world problem of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  was back on a plane to Massachusetts for the beginning of IAP. People were always shocked I had to head back so early for what they presume is ... that go on over IAP, but there's just far too many. I tried to write down

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  weekends guarantee an endless amount of free-time to catch up on problem sets ... adventures on this map of Cambridge/Boston...hoping to find a sense of ... from Charlestown, which is home to the Bunker Hill Memorial and USS

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  New Server As of this afternoon, mitadmissions.org is living on a new (and much faster) server.

  

  Hi folks, As of this afternoon, mitadmissions.org is living on a new (and much faster) server. You'll probably notice better performance in page rendering right away; commenting is still slower than I'd like, but

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  the MIT populace as a whole, but I have some amount of work to do - or to get a head-start on - in four of my five classes (the only class ... feels like home. But on one level, I've come to realize South Bend is only

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  shock, even for someone from New Jersey, which is pretty humid as well. It ... a whole segment of my vocabulary that had lain on a shelf this summer. Well, most of my vocabulary (the English vocabulary, that is) did that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-January Updates The latest from Cambridge.

  

  financial aid deadline is quickly approaching. Be sure to have all of your ... application and receiving your decision is a good time to focus on family ... . Lots of reading to be done! If you are a regular action applicant, please

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nerdin’ Out algorithms are too cool

  

  class is so incredibly relevant to daily life. (warning: i'm about to nerd out hard core, so feel free to go back to homepage and click on a ... bunch of activities you need to take care of, and you want to minimize the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW! The greatest shopping list ever.

  

  for details. ;-) I was really hungry. Such is a day in the life of a ... . You just can't top the experience of spending that much money on ice ... say hi to Team 97! They're sad at missing out on CPW, so they

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Explanation I always end up writing about underwear!

  

  reading it is." Soooooooo . . . . for all of you prefrosh that came to CPW ... sexual deviants hitting on you. This is just because we want to know your ... study schedule to make sure that the portion of summer residents who watch

  • by Snively '11
  • April 30, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  what home is to me in such a short amount of time. When I think of home ... breaking down in the middle of the loopty loop or like my legs just seized up ... . Perhaps it's a bit of an overexaggeration, but it seems that this is a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  was last night, which is always a lot of fun. I was in class until 9 PM ... were still able to actually complete the Hunt, which is a rather ... . Of course, not everyone is as insane as I am. Plenty of them went to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dewey Love Libraries? Yes we dew!

  

  library system. (See here and here for evidence.) On Saturday afternoons, I oftentimes embark on library crawls, during which I visit up to 3 libraries in 2 hours. You really should try one. (That is me.) Dewey is the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  on the top of the memory mushroom when Anastassia gave it to us! 2 ... /programs of shows we’ve seen on campus (all of which were phenomenal!): • Jekyll ... -every-birthday-card-in-a-cute-box-sentimental type. More like borderline-hoarders-that-have-to-assess-the-potential-value-of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  once. I still haven't even read all of them. Which is my loss, really ... , is that you'll also find a bunch of related blog entries hanging out on ... means to them. All the entries on these blogs are good. But time is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008