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• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  :30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We ... of 1 minute and 49 seconds. Success! But Corn Dog was still in the air ... with the air going over it and vibrates wildly out of control. For Corn

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Together in Service MIT community working collaboratively

  

  week of symposia that is free and open to the public and organized by ... other. During the first Inaugural Symposium Infinite Innovation, one of ... engineers and the other 50% are biologists. You need a place where the myth of

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 20, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  math textbook: The sum of three cats is a dog. It only works on female cats, and all three of the cats and the dog must be Russian. There are ... you can only see it if you want to and you highlight the text:  

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

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  immerse themselves in the habits and cultures of their host hall and send ... . Apparently this was one of the better feeds, with beans on bread and ketchup on ... Parallel"]Walounge[/annotation] by the armful and shopvaccing layers of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  chanties) came first, but the original spelling was chanty, and was later ... to.  The Golden Age of Piracy was from 1650-1739, and the Chanties as ... , and it wasn't like Captain Hook and Mr. Smee. Also, most of the shanties

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  , particularly during first semester; part of it stemmed from trying to find the ... little pockets of the MIT landscape. And I stayed in some, and realized ... of intense workloads and the difficulty of transitioning to a new

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Support MIT Sports!! Vote for MIT Crew!

  

  for "Crew of the Week" and you can all help our crew team be recognized by going here and voting on the right hand side. This site is a little ... fast. Crew at MIT is one of the largest sports, and our only Division 1

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  My new job @ admissions like nick saban, but for nerds

  

  or less, except instead of going to the NFL Combine, I'm going to FIRST ... things to focus on, we've crowned Lydia Princess of the Internet, and Her ... I was rewriting my profile this morning - the first substantive

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  , And if we’ve no place to go, Let it snow, let is snow, let is snow! The first big snowfall of the year has coincided with the first of four final ... are about five inches of the snow on the ground right now, and traffic

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  dull thing," and I think that he's kind of nutty. First of all, the ... Biology of Culture: Bridging Art and Science Straight from the ... to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Pumpkin Drop Trick-or-treating is not enough.

  

  landing? You may neglect wind, viscous drag, and the altered aerodynamics of cold, wet pumpkins for the sake of simplicity. This past weekend’s wind ... that it reaches the peak of its trajectory one meter above the roof of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  down the page at this point) about increasing class size at MIT, and how ... number of rooms and allow the individuals to decide for themselves. I also ... if MIT had to go the way of large state schools and begin having

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  year I had brought the potato cannon a few friends of mine and I had made ... ).    And of course, the main event:         ... shot, with a rundown of the safety features and design performed by Ken

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Introduction To ARTalk An introduction to the ARTalk guest author blog by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director…

  

  [by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director of Arts Initiatives, and Ken Haggerty '11] MIT is at the center of one of the most original and ... making, performing, looking at, and understanding the multitudes of formats

  • by ARTalk
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  disparity of wealth and afforded healthcare in the American population. In ... of four (69.6% of the patients are below this income level) and 200 ... medical staff and the scarcity of interpretation services there (even though

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  conversation between the page and me, and that journey won’t disappear simply ... learning about the craft of writing, I certainly understand the frustration ... the same (and a quick glimpse at Twitter would prove that they

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  trips to Denmark and the UK, when she encountered lots of people who made ... corner of the couch and work on debugging code for my UROP. 6:15 p.m. We ... feeling pretty stressed and mentally out of it for a few weeks so I’m hoping

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  syndrome this summer, and I can’t tell if it’s because of the team I worked ... . I went to a comedy show and golfed for the first time. I went to the ... Somerville for the summer and spent a lot of time around Porter Square. I went

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  with excitement and wonder. Of course, the honeymoon didn't last forever ... my cohorts and I were escorted to the FAP lair on the fourth floor of ... orientation winds to a close and the impending doom of endless torrents of work

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  think one year into the future, and there’s a fuzzy semblance of what my ... South Africa and witnessing the migration of dolphins, sharks, and whales ... , and cosmic magic. Part of the team trying to send humans back to the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024