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• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  viral marketing, which is to say that I believe promotions can be as fun ... potential of these social sites is for y'all to guide us around their pitfalls ... cap and gown and preparing to walk at my high school graduation. Pomp

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  lists is ec-discuss, the talk list of East Campus, which consists of ... discussion on ec-discuss is, of course, always of the highest quality, Andrew ... fraction of e is trivial to remember. 3. the formulas for e are easier less

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  signal. PWM is a way of varying a signal from completely on to completely ... preview of the finished project, or at least the project as it is now. We ... 's a protocol with 2 wires, and the signal is either a 1 or a 0 based on

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Room (formerly, THE Sal Khan’s Room) is Being Converted into WiFi! we made this post just for the title

  

  , making this blog post about how, indeed, our double is one of two on the ... semester, we were loosing a lot of motivation to work on our final projects ... of a really rough semester. and this is our door, which slowly became

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 29, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  of advice:  smile :) I wrote this entry a few weeks ago, but wanted to ... not to take life too seriously. As a senior, I’ve been on the prowl ... plant. Can I just point out that a sense of humor is “essential” for

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  using computer vision techniques, all of which we tackled on our psets for ... to work on something that would tie into our research, which, unlike a ... -based image, it is of little use. If we can begin to analyze the data contained

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  unluckily for me, everyone seemed to be holding a copy of The Tech on Tuesday ... ridiculous amounts of food for a few hours (I woke up to my friends making a ... sleep. Oh, and we worked on problem sets (after which we ate more food

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Holidays with the Huangs a nondenominational celebration of capitalism and duck

  

  blacker the better. Trace your lens cap out on the paper loosely. Cut out ... goodness of Barbeque Lay's (okay, so maybe to mediocre health). And I can't tell you how luxurious it is to wonder what I should be doing right now

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 26, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  . There can be restrictions on what you can carry so it is best to plan ... 's climate in terms of how hot or windy or humid it is and pack accordingly ...   Make sure to convert some money into USD and keep it on you. The airports

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  of ways, MIT is my adventure. I hope to share it with you :)   ... comes to writing I like to believe that it is reflective of how my mind ... nevertheless always trying to find some sort of point, answer, or solution in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  is belongs to a class of acronymically redudant phrases (or ARP phrases ... . As I walked her around the myriad of different labs that serve host to ... (which I've traded a few sleeping hours for at market price) surrounded by

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  i like to call 'standard' which is more or less the grammatical way to ... necessary, i end my sentences with a period. This is how I usually write on ... backspace quite frequently in search of better grammatical phrasing. I do

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  must pay $1.10 a gallon to get rid of this oil, which is used to deep ... of fresh water is waning. There are several natural reactions to these ... . Their plan is to convert used vegetable oil from MIT dining halls into

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  off of my bike for this part, so it’s easy to just not get back on ... , but I love the ocean no matter which side of the road it’s on.  It’s a ... ’s final projects hell month, my stack of moving boxes are begging me to fill

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  , you're the one I would expect to know how." This is one of the highest ... my first trip to the farmer's market in Boston, on a lovely Saturday ... lot on my first trip! Although I've been to farmer's markets before in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  ascent to 10,000 meters or so of altitude. The night before, I had primly ... to support my thesis of inherent DDR-incompetence by jumping on ... way to the wastelands of bygone travels. I landed in St. Louis on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  have started gradually converting the rest of 4W to the cult of poetry ... writing thesis.  Alan: Every Sunday, Fatima brings a poem which is ... , but in a different order. The poem ends with a tercet which has two of

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  replacement cap or even a replacement bottle of the exact model so that I could ... stickers on this one that I refuse to throw out. Apparently H2GO is a brand ... bottle cap AGAIN in the exact same place last week. It was on the ledge of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Think Happy Thoughts D-Lab Memories >> Graphing With Matlab

  

  attack by swiping down. So a bull market is one in which the market is moving up and a bear market is one in which it's moving down! But back to ... so he brings back some amazing memories of the trip I got to take last

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  best options for your trace, or click on the triangle to the right of the ... instead of trying to find time to meet irl. Illustrator is basically MS Paint but better- I mainly use it to make diagrams of my projects, label

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019