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2.009 Final Presentations Live Webcast Project Engineering Processes aka The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can Have Without Their…
It's that time of year again! Final Projects Time! Finals Time ... will say, the best part of final projects is when you are done with them ... 've created something really cool, and gradually, those moments of I -
Blog / Academics & Research
Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet
while I was cleaning things out for the new semester, a gentle reminder of ... .310, we were allowed to fill one 8.5” X 11 sheet of paper, front and back ... between the size of my handwriting and my grade point average, a fact that -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Reuse Poetry Giving things away
, I'm reminded of the times I said 'UROP' and my grandparents thought I was mispronouncing the name of a continent, or the way I refused to call ... away. There's a whole region of the pika basement called Reuse, where -
Blog / Events
#WeAreMIT SMASH helped jumpstart an intense conversation between students and administration
take away was what everyone on every side of student health on campus is ... communication gaps are largest. I spoke with Dean Randall, Director of Student Support Services at MIT, and Dr. Alan Siegel, Chief of Mental Health -
Blog / MIT Life
Pilot The first video in a vlogging experiment
seriously. In an ideal world, I'll post one of these videos every Sunday night and then continue blogging regularly once every couple of weeks. Hopefully I'll be able to keep up this schedule (hooray for end-of -
Blog / MIT Life
Closer Calls and rising unease
Emab Plaza is a busy shopping mall located in the heart of Nigeria ... its own life. There’s always a crawl of congested traffic at its ... made up of shops that look onto the streets, small shops always abuzz -
Blog / MIT Life
What’s Making Me Happy: Week 2 TableTop, Net Neutrality, Complexity Theory And More
- Subreddit The concept is simple, users ask the question "What if x piece of ... a few of my favorite questions. "How would modern American football ... by the United Front and the Taliban regime continued to conquer all of -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Becoming a Princess the making of a Halloween costume [+many pictures of ponies]
going to class as a princess. Let me explain. I'm a fan of the TV show My Little Pony. That makes me solidly a member of that group of fans called ... , etc.) of the My Little Pony show or franchise. They typically do not -
Blog / Challenges
Turning on the Light A note to the MIT community.
It's hard to wrap my head around the chain of events that unfolded within the last couple of hours. As emails flooded my inbox around 10 ... going on. The idea of a shooting occurring on campus was impossible in my -
Blog / Academics & Research
Bridge Building: In Progress The culmination of what I've learned in civil engineering
in MIT speak). There are a LOT of components to this class, but one of ... climates have streams that are dry or have low flow most of the year and can ... imaginations (and engineering skills). Oh, and it is supposed to hold 2000 lbs of -
Blog / MIT Life
Spring Break Good times all around.
This past week was, hands down, the best spring break of my college ... intense craving for home/family/my mom's food - none of which I'd had in ... and arrive safely in the ever-humid city of Houston, Texas. Enter -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man
idea of me going to MIT when he got a small, gray MIT t-shirt for me to wear. That has since been replaced by an assortment of sweatshirts, t ... . A pack of Brass Rats, in their natural habitat What's that? You can -
Blog / Decisions Day Threads
Open Thread: Admitted in Early Action.
Congratulations and welcome to the class of 2017! This is what you look like right now: Go ahead and introduce yourselves :) -
Blog / Life after MIT
The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.
peers, it seems like "post-college plans" are a dreaded can of worms that ... came after 6th, and of course, college after 12th. College. Something so ... on some kind of maturation pedestal - and it is worthy of the hype I -
Blog / Athletics
(K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics
As some of you may know I am a big Patriots fan. Yesterday the Patriots lost to the Giants. It was pretty painful. But the midst of it all ... inconsistent on both sides of the ball. Earlier this season, when the Patriots -
Blog / Academics & Research
Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.
's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences a.k.a. Course 9) sent out the ... the Visiting Committee. The Visiting Committee is made up of members of ... committees, different cast of characters. This is a very important process, the -
Blog / MIT Life
Inventional YoYo what the what
be for the next few days and weeks. So though I've got a bunch of ... , who was admitted to the class of 2015, is a professional yoyo-ist. Yoyo-er. The man has serious skills with a yoyo. He's already got plenty of -
Blog / Admissions
Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title
of free food? I'm excited. So much so that I'm running two East Campus events. Guess what they are based on this picture of my bookshelf. Since I ... official schedule, so I'm just going to tiptoe over the bounds of propriety a -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.
for only a short letter. Much occupation before the Committee of the ... . Last night, by special invitation, the Academy met at the house of President Quincy to mark the anniversary of his birthday, on which he entered