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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  : On each daily webpage there is a summary of the day's material. These ... Dissectable Leyden Jar? It looks like this: It consists of a metal ring on ... the hilarity of it all. Honestly, we had people on the floor, everybody

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  Reflecting on the lessons of last semester, I knew I was going to have to kick it into high gear for my 6.042 exam on Wednesday. I spent ... through all of my other commitments, I studied from 10pm to 2:30am. Then on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Thanksgiving Gobble gobble!

  

  (From 6.00 lecture on Tuesday - clearly, my mind was on the lecture...) Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Hope you all are enjoying the holiday weekend - spend some good, relaxing time with your family and friends

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s here! The post you've all been waiting for, or at least until you saw Snively with…

  

  Some of you may remember that a few months ago, Snively and I, as well as our good friend Garrett '11, were working on something awesome ... and the i3 DVD has gone out to the class of 2014 everywhere. For those

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  I read the news today Oh boy! I hope that you're as excited as I am.

  

  "that thing from the first five minutes of Good Will Hunting." If you ... beautiful mathematical problem of the millenium in 2003. One of my friends ... Hypothesis if it is actually false." Last year I wrote an entry on a one

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Parafilm Effect The center cannot hold... unless you stick it together with Parafilm.

  

  reagents. With the use of the special Parafilm M dispenser, which are sized ... conveniently cut off uniform sized strips or squares of 2" (50.8 mm) length. The thickness of all Parafilm products is 0.005 (127 um) and although we are often

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Open Thread: The Final Countdown a noble tradition of posting all day on the internet

  

  As you probably remember, we are launching the new MITAdmissions ... , ExpressionEngine, is, like my mom's 16 year old minivan with 250,000 miles on ...  noble tradition of infinitely long, rambling, nothing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  finals in the department of urban studies and planning, she's exploring new ... , at least it's not as bad as the freshmen on the floor who, thanks to the P/NR system, have spent the past week playing Final Fantasy X on the

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

  5 days to May 2

  

  you considering? Leave your thoughts in the comments... For those of you on the wait list, we won't know if we'll be going to the waitlist until we hear back from everyone. With postmarks on May 2, I don't expect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  mentors, and tinker around with lots of new shiny gadgets, technologies, and ... , hidden somewhere on the HackMIT homepage, is a series of fun, technical ... I took part in HackMIT last year, and it was a great deal of fun! I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Better than a Ryan Cabrera poster Want a Warhol in your dorm room?

  

  of the Student Loan Art Collection at MIT's List Visual Arts Center ... ) to borrow for the entire academic year one of nearly 350 noted pieces of artwork from MIT's collection. Artists represented in the collection

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kickstart My Art highest form of expression

  

  culture at MIT. MIT has a lot of students who are creative, self ... . Now, Mark could do a lot of things in a lot of organizations, and all of them would be great and cool. But the project he's currently working on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 29, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  tunnels instead of freezing and trying to make my way through snow ... myself to find my way on my own. Thankfully, though, there were a few signs ... your last semester of high school and keep on being your awesome selves!

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  invariably in some new form, as the class requires. Every Sunday, I bring a ... of six sestets, having the same six end words in each of the stanzas, but in a different order. The poem ends with a tercet which has two of

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule ... going on, and I don't remember getting much sleep whether it was checking out another aspect of MIT or talking to the potential students. Rule #3

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Graduations

  

  I'm on my way now to my brother's graduation in Pennsylvania. I'm not ... speaker will be Irwin Jacobs, the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Qualcomm ... 't know what Jacobs will say, but here is a list of previous MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT Goes To Senegal Like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, except with fewer filibusters and more dancing.

  

  on the beach in Dakar: The music scene in Dakar is one of the most ... to still take advantage of the incredible opportunities MIT has to ... (sabar drummers), learning to dance the Senegalese way, and eating lots and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  almost all of Wednesday working on the 18.112 pset, and realized that I ... of the missed quiz it doesn’t feel like a reset day; I catch up on ... for the first half of the summer had only one real “deadline”, and that

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Ah, TV… A super-sized value meal for the mind, not the body.

  

  As you know, we are hunkered down reviewing all of the MIT Regular ... 's Anatomy. SPOILER ALERT! This entry assumes that you are up to date on all three shows as of January 22nd. Proceed at your own risk... Battlestar

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  come to that conclusion on your own. As you know from some of my ... not good enough?" Certainly an honest and worthy question, and you have ... , passionate people. Go figure - I just described the vast majority of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005