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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  Questions 1. Sevi asked, here is a question for you about Mac ... /meters, approximately (or, exactly sizes, if known)? Is it possible to find in Internet ... eight or nine feet high. MacGregor does have wireless coverage -- all the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  computers already big programmable circuits? And computers these days are ... (which earned the class the nickname “digital death lab”). These days, we ... ; these days, you can probably build that in just a few hours because the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  only 1 mm in length as an adult - so NO, these are not earthworms! i can ... while waiting for gels to run or blots to transfer :P) But yeah. I want ... hour. Now, I pipet easily hundreds of times every day without even

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  horse or something? Well it turns out that the Spanish expression for this is "la gota que colma el vaso," or "the drop that overflows the glass ... some other, non-linguistic observations about Spain: 1. Man, people in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Come to AXO Lip Sync! Come to AXO Lip Sync tonight to see some of your friends... "remember when????"

  

  entertained? If you answered yes to any or all of the questions above, buy a ticket to AXO Lip Sync! WHEN: Saturday April 29th, 8PM (Doors open at 7:30) WHERE: Johnson COST: $6 in advance, $7 at door WHY: To support the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  . 7:30PM; Program Begins And how else would the presentation kick off ... instructor David Wallace welcomed everyone, adding that his mom was watching ... more constantly accessible. They can be around 24-7. But—there’s always a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Psycho kitten, que’st-ce que c’est? Settling a long-standing question in the midst of finals week.

  

  While everybody else pores over equation sheets for 6.041 or 10.302 or 17.40 or whatever, Ruth '07, urban planneress extraordinaire, is joyfully reminding us that although she had only one final in 7

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  graph of 1/x in quadrant 1. For no good reason, either--I was doing fine ... , throwing out old wrappers that had accumulated over the past few days. I ... ." "Don't be sorry. No one here sleeps," Nghiem said. "Yeah, it was mid-day

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  — Forget that. There'll be time for that later. It's the first day after the ... ? Well, of course, you leave MIT! part 1: acquiring sustenance [caption id ... table. After all, it's too nice out to be "in the classroom," literally or

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventure Time at MIT We went on a hiking and camping adventure!

  

  different agendas: Car 1, led by Kayla E. '15 would go climbing Monday and Tuesday all day Car 2, led by Becca G. '14, would go climbing on Monday ... you stepped off the path or slid outside of that area you found yourself

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 22, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  surprised to find that most of that weird feeling lasted about 12 hours or ... ways: what if the thing I was doing was wrong for me or for my future (item #1)? what if other people were doing something more fun, and I didn

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  . Unlike the murals, their contents change with the scale of days instead of ... room, above the couch. We spent about two days teasing her about it ... free, or confirm that someone is likely to be around at a certain time

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  , I know how frustrating that can be. (Funny story- NJ has about 5 or 6 ... later rejected from the waitlist, and then called at home three days after ... depite their disappointments. Be inspired by them- getting into MIT (or not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  , or asking others, all of which naturally gave me different ideas of ... my earliest class of the day, the professor makes the in ... , whether it be from my dorm floor or advising seminar or other clubs, have

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  actually follow the form or modify the form to our liking.  1. i did not ... rest of the day off,  because I have a bad stomach ache, or so i say “i ... still list physical attributes or body parts, but in a way that either

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  Spanish art. Also, over the past year or so, I've discovered a group on ... piece of art or if free will can coexist with quantum mechanics. (I fear I ... occur about once or twice a month, but I always have a great time. The

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  Spanish department. You spend 3-4 weeks taking an MIT Spanish language or ... ? The conversation class met four times a week for three hours per day, from 10:00-1:00 in the afternoon. In the span of less than four weeks, we

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  were just getting started on our campus in those days. Now the option for ... undergradates at her daughter’s sorority house for a year or two, I felt it was a ... responding when the door alarms goes off late at night or very early in the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  sufficiently absurd, but at least they will (probably) laugh (or cry) at your pi jokes (out of pity). It is currently the first day of school’s eve, more commonly known here as Reg Day. Morale is at a local maximum. Provisions are

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  Today is the fifth annual Save The Frogs Day, a day to spread ... used to spend this day at my little brother's elementary school with my ... to their home ponds, streams, or lakes until they're ready to lay their

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013