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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

      A fun problem, from my 10-year-old brother’s Russian math textbook: The sum of three cats is a dog. It only works on female ... two solutions. Here’s a huge hint, in black text on black background, so

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Maker Faire 2012 the Dean is going - are you?

  

  called, "Preparing for College: What's a Maker To Do?" Its on Sunday at 3 ... probably already know what Maker Faire is, but if you don't it's basically a ... 's an Arduino section, a 3D printer section, there will be robots walking

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  rolltreppe I use the word funky loosely in conversation but these tunes are tight. um did…

  

  Chris Peterson once said, "rfong is a good photographer, and in order to do that you have to be really creepy." (Um...thanks?) It is that ... to my favorite MIT band, Rolltreppe. I've been living under a rock

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Well, you just cost me money.” Best. Desk Call. EVER.

  

  this. I'm still working on the Ring Premiere entry, but a friend ... : hello, Bexley Desk guy: hi, is this MIT? me: this is a dorm at MIT. guy: can you connect me to the science department? me: this is a dorm, I don

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  As you hopefully already know, I am a sophomore in Course 20 here at ... that I am a biological engineering major. Moreover, even though I ... provides all students with a common core of foundational scientific knowledge

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  BEST WEEK OF 2007 ...a self-rewarded happiness.

  

  't blogged in a while. Life, we'll say has been a little exciting lately, and by a little I mean a ton. I was invited to interview for my PhD at my top two choice schools!!! Needless to say, I did a happy dance. Still

  • by Bryan
  • January 20, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Dirty Little Secret? Free concerts rock my socks.

  

  finishing it now. I'll share why. So at home, we had a little pipe burst in ... . For those of you who don't know, Head of the Charles, is a regatta where ... teams all raced (note remember to post results).   Now crew is a

  • by Bryan
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Times

  

  to do," he says. Dr. Demaine is not a man to be easily defeated by a ... A great article about MIT Professor Erik Demaine in today's New York ... . The intricately pleated sail-like form swooshes gracefully in a compound

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Normalville

  

  might enjoy doing at lunch tomorrow with your friends: D3: The ... Luther King Day, every IAP. A bit before noon, a large crowd began to gather...   This year, we gathered not only for a kickoff speech

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  doing research, a funny thought). Then, I got into the semester, and you ... mean, it looks like a plane at a given location (if you suppose that you can only see a short distance away). This isn't to say that flat

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  much as you may think they do.[/annotation]In a strangely comforting way ... capable of doing. These solo experiences exist on a wide spectrum, from ... came with a trip where it'd just be me on my own two feet. I could do

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  everyone – who am I, and what do I want? It only took a few moments of ... I don’t know where I’m going to be a year from now. That’s never ... a senior in high school trying to figure out which college I would be

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  of aluminum stock, 1.5"R with a height of .625". We were allowed to do ... to use a CNC lathe and a CNC mill. For those of you who are unacquainted, a lathe and a mill are tools used to machine metal

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  doing a UROP (at least for me) is the prospect of applying the skills I ... about academia. I also learned a lot about what kind of work I want to do ... . Was your research output impactful enough to lead to a start-up?” I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  a living out of doing these things.” Maita: “Like being a housewife ... The last time I wrote a post as I was flying at some undetermined ... ,998 feet*. I hate you, technology. But sometimes you are a cool cat. I spent

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  really didn't do too badly, and also that you could have gotten a zero and ... amplifier, and a speaker. Put it all together and what do you get? Well, you ... canned pineapple in JELL-O but not fresh pineapple. How tired do people

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  My second year of college just ended. I’ve been trying to think of a ... halfway point at MIT. Usually when I sit down to write a blog post, I like ... profound or at least informative on the subject. But the truth is, as a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  teacher from whom you received the best grade. You do not need to choose a ... disqualify you, but it is rarely necessary. If you do submit a supplemental ... recommendation -- one from a math or science teacher ("Evaluation A") and one from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  is never easy, but in most cases it's possible to do. Certainly a lot ... never easy, but in most cases it's possible to do. Certainly a lot of ... . Nehalita asked, Could you do a separate entry on class plans? I know a lot of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Fashion Free For All like the hunger games but we love each other

  

  free things. By the time we got there, there was a large mass of people ... [/annotation]so I got first dibs on a lot of cute clothes. The entire event overall ... wrench a cute skirt from the hands of some other vulture. It was, in fact

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 26, 2019