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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  show choir my junior year, and the captain of the 40-member flag corps ... kind of a blur for me -- my high school boyfriend and I were having problems and then broke up, so the whole semester is just a blur of angry

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  , meditating on the nature of nothingness and absolute freedom. It’s been a long ... the inky blackness of words on a page because honestly, when we have 198 ... and day to day obligations became the new norm. A shift of reference

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  Needle is one of five, and together they play music based on how the people ... of marching bands and crowded cheering. A large marshmallowy Boeing ... seems to be some sort of parade or festival every other week. And they

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Invasion of the Stikmen Another invasion of MIT?

  

  spoil the location of them all! If you're on campus, see if you can find ... Some of you that frequent the blogs may remember that last year ... week, I noticed something interesting on a crosswalk on Memorial Drive

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 14, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Smashing pumpkins and other halloween treats Turning back time and dropping squash off of tall buildings

  

  by catching up on all of the work that you were supposed to have ... accidents” (source) and lost productivity. Regardless of the time, MIT was ... much longer than I anticipated on Friday night and didn’t really have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my ... work in large teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and build ... models; building and testing mockups; customer evaluation of mockups

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

                                                Oudenaarden The pre-8.03 reaction: my level of awe and wonder is inversely ... back and forth, which in turn pushed air out in the form of sound waves ... ’s extraordinary. You’re a blob of cells, and not only are you reading and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stand Back! I'm going to try . . . well, you know the rest.

  

  chamber with some microphones and a tweeter with some tanks of various gases ... and correlating it with EKG and all sorts of other stuff. For lab 9, each team of two people was given a setup and allowed to come up with

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  and uncontrollable, I return to the list. I remind myself of what I know ... butter to any meal qualifies it as a meal of substance. Sure, it might not ... A few years back, I began keeping a tab of life's certainties

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  I was out meeting a friend and some of her friends that I didn't previously know last night, and the topic of school came up. (SIDE NOTE: that ... go to MIT and one of the girls asks: "Do you participate in the annual

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  , administrative, and intellectual backbone of a whole list of "hands-on" student ... and today, MIT hosted hundreds of middle and high school students for a ... Space Weapons" and everything in between. You can check out some of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  application. In the span of a lifetime, two years is really not that long. And ... week since I watched Hamilton on tour. An entire week of attempting to do justice to one of the most beautiful productions of theatre. Of writing and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Events

  May the Force Be With You Use the "mass times acceleration" wisely my friend.

  

  So tonight, I'm going to watch my friend Timmy '06 and the rest of the MIT Musical Theatre Guild put on Star Wars: The Musical. I'm kind of excited being a Star Wars fan and all. I'll give my review of the

  • by Bryan
  • November 12, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I study Global Change Science/Climate?

  , Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, and the MIT Energy Initiative. ... predict changes in the global environment. Additionally, a variety of
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  choice of how much slack doesn't depend on alyssa or bob. it depends on the tasks, how long they take and how they depend on each other, and how many ... ; all four of us lived on floorpi. that night, i realized i didn't pack my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mechanical Sense of Humor My Course 2 lab instructor is amazing.

  

  group of people in a pub in London, and when they find out you are a ... building a robot for a robot-wars type of competition, and have been having ... , so they chose one of the motors at random and installed it in their

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 06 The inside scoop on all 54 units I am taking this semester

  

  Description: Preparation and analysis of financial statements. Focuses on ... . Requires a 20-page paper on the economics of long-run economic growth ... Nobel Prize and National Medal of Science) good thing I have: An alarm

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  that time of year… ...when every day feels like 48 hours instead of 24. When's summer?

  

  on a loop:   You are in the front yard of your aunt's house ... noisier and quieter than the city. Here, the sounds of birds and insects ... again, thousands of miles away from where you normally live and go to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  at the clover food truck on the way. i saw lots of real people, shopping and eating lunch. i saw the verizon employees on strike in front of the verizon store, and i saw a farmer's market, and lots of tourists

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Back to Boston Recommended Orientation events

  

  ?) and can't wait to meet all the new '10s. For the past couple of weeks, I've been getting all sorts of rush/Orientation emails, so I am slightly aware of all of the fun I have been missing. I am involved in a couple of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 27, 2006