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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Helicopter Flight Training [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] 500 feet above Boston with two MIT Deans.

  

  hard to get caught up in this experience and miss the whole takeoff. I ... nothing short of incredible, so I jumped at the opportunity. Before I knew it I was 500 feet above Boston catching a glimpse of the Red Sox

  • by ROTC
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christina Royce: Analyzing Re-entry Systems Christina Royce, a senior double majoring in Mechanical Engineering, with a concentration in Manufacturing through…

  

  of impurities, and heat treatments (1). Thus, the same piece of silicon ... engineering and is the associate director of the LMP. To analyze these systems ... to create the next generation of smaller, and therefore more efficient

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  here at the foot of the Rockies. There’s snow on the tracks, and the ... shots of the landscape. The forests were increasingly covered in snow, and ... present as far as the eye could see, and, of course, covered in ski resorts

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Open Sesame…Ring. RFID magic + a ring = wearable CharlieCards

  

  undergraduates at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, was first used ... ring as soon as I heard of it!) Tiong and Seow have a Kickstarter page ... The future of, well, pretty much everything seems to be coming to us

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  knot again my spread for Infinite Magazine Issue 9

  

  coherent project, usually taking up 5-10 pages of the magazine ... working title of the spread for the entire semester, and we came up with ... fabric we would use. A couple of friends and I made a trip to the Garment

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 20, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  #funhogging the best thing I did over IAP. also: INFINITE ICE CLIMBING GIF

  

  . In each sport, reward comes in the form of hard-won grace and moments ... sports.  These hardcore ice climbers and mountaineers, braving the unknown ... Angeles, though, I never got closer to these alpine pursuits than the pages

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 3, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  .) The house is very old and it has a lot of doors. (The first floor ... smell of the wet morning air in the early autumn and the hope I had for every single day. I knew all the genres of stations, and I thought I knew

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  , my friend and I crossed the Harvard Bridge for the first time. We had ... abandoned in the midnight heat, and only the steady murmur of the Charles ... chocolate, and take a walk. I assured myself that the lack of motivation was

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  Grimson before the event, and the whole force of people who came together to ... happen. I included videos of the talks in this entry, and I highly ... explained over e-mail, “I sent emails to the Chancellor and a lot of deans

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  . It is the first installment of the Guide to MIT (coming next ... number of electives. The units required depend on your department, and can ... -H/CI-HW courses: attend class and/or recitation because failing one component of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  understand the documentation and how to make sense of Drake in general, but we ... - The Art of Comic Book Writing Final script, and some storyboards This ... Tom Cruise and wrote a 20-page script based on it. The final script is

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  was my first hunt! I was dragged into the hunt by Shuli, and so I hunted ... THEME “Who is John Galt?”… which was the entire text of Atlas Shrugged and ... MIT culture as a whole. Speaking of this year’s Mystery Hunt— The

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  and collaborate with several of CAVS’s visiting artists. The first ... tour, and we landed the front page of the next issue of the Tech. Photo ... the scene. The table, first of all, had to be made. We used a roll of

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  , right?) Item the first: The Journal of Negative Results. My advisor and ... improbability of randomly changing the correct base pair and hitting upon the ... , and the Fox Network's repeated cancellation of critically acclaimed

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  the first few hundred lines of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, and a ... Last year, my class sizes were on the order of 100, 50, 60, and 20 ... , and The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe? Before the first class, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  Well, I've reached my first "last" of the year... I just put the ... -dimensional science geek (most of the time). I read poetry voluntarily, and I quote it ... large puddle of water on the steps of the subway station... and land

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  decisions page: We know that applying to college is stressful, and that the ... are about math, and some of the puzzles require that you knit something ... puzzles of puzzles, and there are also puzzles of puzzles of puzzles. At the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings we want to meet you!

  

  and times of these events, and for a list of all of the events. Saturday Stop by Fairfield, CT, the headquarters of engineering giant GE and ... home of a Baltimore alum, the first gathering will be Saturday (March 24

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 21, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  First off, congratulations to the Class of 2012! From what I hear you ... . And now, with the congratulations out of the way, it's time to get to ... sort of math and science. Walking through the new Center for Theoretical

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  of a Skinned Knee--and marked the pages I thought my parents should ... needed them: The Care and Keeping of You before I reached puberty, Don ... household chores and limiting the color scheme of your work clothes well

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015