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• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  of my friends live!"]Next[/annotation] to hang out for a while. Around 10, I left to pack for my flight home, but instead ended up walking out into the big field in front of dorm row. I played some Christmas music

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  , had a picnic, and played “Red Flags”, a card game where players attach ... appreciated the grading scheme for the class—fixed grade cutoffs with 20 “extra ... extra credit project for this class, I attended a panel where I got to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  animation program) when I had free time back in high school. For me it was a way for me to take the world that I know, and modify it in a way that made the world truly mine. However, despite my love for writing and 3D

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  who've played W101, I have probably like over 2000 hours in the game ... For those who know me well, you'll know that I'm an absolute sucker for personality tests. I've done practically every personality test

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  and I have been working on it for hours upon hours. Basically that means we worked hard on problem one for 15 minutes, and then spent hours and ... needs to be. For example, one problem describes the motion of a curveball

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  USA Wins 2nd in International Math Olympiad Three MIT '09s won Gold Medals.

  

  Winter Olympics. But these athletic games are not the only highly ... international math & science olympiads. Competitions are held for such ... them look deceptively simple. Take, for example, one of this year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  enjoyed making things; that hasn't changed at all. This summer, for example ... I wanted to have a bike for when I came to campus in the fall. I didn ... and a metal post for a seat (ouch). I wanted something nice, something

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert This year's concert: Jason Derülo and Janelle Monáe.

  

  Janelle Monae. Over the years, many awesome bands have played MIT's Spring ... : Nirvana Played MIT. Perhaps MIT's most (in)famous party is Steer Roast. Each spring for nearly half a century, the residents of MIT's Senior Haus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  we were playing some kind of game and needed to add up a bunch of ... back from my Easter visit home just in time for my training session at ... Bryan's blog soon! Read on for responses to comments. Lots of responses

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  across the street to the media lab, where the DATA FOR BLACK LIVES ... policing and criminal risk assessment. there's a critical need for ethics and accountability in data science, and a "bill of rights for data" so that everyday

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  : (1) bacon (2) an Eric Lander lecture (3) large amounts of money ... -100 for the first lecture of my MIT career. Eric Lander needs no ... I hope is not true for you. This diagram is power. Fun fact: Eric

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  rights on eBay for $36 and used the money to build stadium seating in the ... :     Chad ’13, in the green shirt, stopped by the kitchen for ... working on his term project for 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes). In

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  ”. The Little Hunger is the desire for the material, basic needs and beyond, where the Great Hunger is a deeper search for meaning and understanding in ... you unsettled when you finish it, and yet (for me at least) unable to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  September and I’m not at MIT registering for classes and trying to squeeze in ... science in K-12, but for a number of reasons (including the architecture department’s minimalist but colorful website), I decided to apply. And for a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  8 months ago, an email from MIT asking me for money read something ... 50 cents a day. Today, an email from MIT asking me for money reads ... secure links below, and arrange payment for any charges shown. Statements

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  GTL the secret to a successful summer

  

  ://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=GTL) -- and no, not gaming, table tennis, and library. But if you asked me for a recipe for my amazing summer, I could only tell you what I ... Daiso Japan in Berkeley sells these for 1.50. I imagine they work

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  I've been promising for a while that I would post some pictures from ... Center for Neuroscience & Technology. I consider this MIT-relevant because, even though I found and applied for the internship myself, the fact

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  stared at the screen for another minute. “Good grief,” said the first, “and I wanted to run for president someday. What’ll happen to us if all our ... all of that is actually true, except for the mysterious power outage and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What kind of things can I do during IAP?

  If you think MIT is all work and no play, let us take you for a spin in the big, wacky, comfortable chair called IAP. Sandwiched between the ... four-week term at MIT that fills the month of January. For more than 50
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  games to cheer for this week (one was tonight). I went straight from the ... Sometimes I secretly wish for exciting things to happen to me so that ... my classes for the long haul. (Truth be told, I've never dropped a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005