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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  focus on the aspects of MITese that are (in my opinion) universal across ... advancement and development of science, its application to industry, the arts ... ." Science Core - The set of GIRs consisting of two semesters of calculus, two

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  -shelf collection of science fiction” at the MIT Science Fiction Society Library ... , spanning fantasy, hard sf, and horror … [and] 98% of all science fiction and ... . If the amusing rivalry of Harvard and MIT was ever unclear, it makes

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  tale from last April.  Longtime readers of the blogs may know that I've come to understand the challenge of MIT through the lens of physical ... challenges of balancing growth and recovery, and the isomorphic relationship

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  University in Toronto ("The social life of donuts: Commodity and community in ... In 1965, the U.S. government awarded George (MIT Class of ~1923) and ... birth of a child by centrifugal force." You are familiar with the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  I wrote this on my first day of classes this past Tuesday, and ... lol) as a real-time reflection of four years at MIT.  Today is hectic ... lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is that there are always tons of opportunities to apply what you know while ... Hackathon (or ATHack for short). The goal of ATHack was to pair teams of MIT

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  laser cut acrylic parts, high degree of fit and finish, and working ... ;Top left photo by John Chow.   End-of-the-semester class ... a live band, an audience of 3300, and an overall class budget of a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  climate of despair and misery, we finally go crazy. All rationality is lost. We are here to celebrate the ideas that are borne of this insanity.”[annotation note="The only true part of this quote is the first sentence. Winter here

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  of advancing science, problems we were solving, not the ugly worries of ... --the research and academics are, of course, first-rate, but I wanted to know what ... stories that have stuck and relevant snippets of my own life. ([1

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors ... applied to college 2 years ago (2 years! I'm old :( ), I wrote over a dozen unique essays to all the colleges I applied to (btw - applying to 15

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  big hopes of working in biomedical engineering and product design. Now, with my last final of my freshman year tomorrow, I am now a computer science major (with a potential double major in ???? because there's too

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... improbably old. According to science (and by science I am obviously referring to Science Magazine, who published a study on my expected lifespan in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  students with all variety of these and more. I've had all three. My first ... of my MacBook Pro scraping against a doorframe when I miscalculate the force I should apply through my legs to get me where I think I thought I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  The bridge of one of my favorite songs goes: Malingap, buwis ... prefer to think of MIT as malingap, buwis-buhay, parang slow-mo, makulay ... of frats hosted a boat cruise, where my friend took me along as his

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  of easily editable cubes[/caption] The same idea can be applied to ... In the world of design, there's this idea of parametric design: designing based on a set of parameters and functions, rather than by just modeling

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The most important blog entry ever This is probably the most valuable entry ever written... not kidding. Bookmark it. Class of…

  

  on it): http://calendar.mit.edu/ Activities Association of Student ... exchange with Cambridge: http://web.mit.edu/cmi/ue/ MIT International Science ... ://web.mit.edu/acadinfo/deptcontacts/undergrad_administrators.html Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences (HASS) Concentration (which, at this

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 6, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  discretion in being out, and to offer a more comprehensive view of LBGTQ ... part of that process, I polled the bloggers on blogging features and ... then on several blogger lists of current and former bloggers. Through

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline. If you’d rather not spend hours ... Netherlands to do a semester at the Technical University of Delft, where I ... spring of 2013 I graduated and got a permanent job offer from Echogen

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now. Specimen ... second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you ... .875 ceiling tiles in each of the three showers; outside the showers we have a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  unknown to the universe I went for the front door, all while my TA just ... 't make this stuff up. It is against all the rules of absurdity (which I ... , terminating both his life and my dreams of graduating (as well as my reputation

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007