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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few ... was a limitation on the size of the cups we could use to drink apple ... is probably not the most important thing I’ve gained by coming to MIT

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  challenging classes I’ve ever taken. It’s a natural followup to MIT ... , which we'll come back to in a followup piece, suppose I gave you a list of ... implications of winning the majority of individual votes--by a sizable margin at

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  process, a guest lecturer, and lab time to test out the process for ... showed us CAD modeling. I came in to this class expecting to have a good ... of my Harvard classes overlapped with a weekly lab, and trusted me to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  , you have to agree with the professor's solution in order to get the A ... first of the following month. This would normally total to a tuition ... getting hit up for cash by the 'tute is not the central theme of this entry

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  's faculty - and what's actually here on the website is only a small sample of ... UROPs in the lab to meet with Professor Langer for a pizza dinner! I ... Last week, I blogged a little about how MIT's student body really

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  a scooter to get around; my freshman year, I just walked everywhere ... described as a golden retriever bounding between everything from scrabble to ... of them. i came into mit wanting to be a 14-2 (mathematical economics

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stealing from the Class of 2016 And you'll have to work to get it back

  

  allow people to contact a large number of other people whom all have a ... lists. It's impossible to avoid getting added to many MANY mailing lists ... mailing lists that only see use for a semester, others that get used for a

  • by Snively '11
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  Frogger without even batting an eyelash. Please try not to get hit by a car ... into the wilderness on your own, but after a few rides, you start to get ... walk back across the Harvard Bridge to get to my apartment. According to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  doing things well to try to get a return offer, I could essentially focus on trying to do a single thing: the work that I was assigned. Summer's also nice because I get to do things that I wouldn’t have time for

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

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  flight to boston. this summer went by weirdly fast but in a way that i can ... work on a tuesday to bash my head on the same bug i've been bashing my ... code to work. i won't miss my long morning commute and getting around LA

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Lobby 7 Gotta love it

  

  Here’s a little tribute to lobby 7. Since my start at MIT in January, I’ve walked through this lobby nearly every weekday to get to my ... chancellor speak, seen the president dance, witnessed a hack, listened to a

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  Written early September after a presentation by Spencer Glendon from ... gets in Arizona in summer. I expected the wet towel in my room to dry ... to run in. But it’s getting closer, and each uptick in temperature is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  movement is to get a UROP at one of the many laboratories conducting nanotech ... . Relatedly, I've been getting quite a few questions about nanotechnology at MIT ... Have you seen this adorable video? Patrick Bennett, a Berkeley

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  heart, and I didn't want to make things worse by allowing myself to get ... have two attitudes about: the get-used-to-it or shut-it-down-immediately-by-telling-people-to ... was a few more meters away to say things outright. I was a girl; I wasn

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  specifically to getting an internship at a company external to MIT. Research ... class has a specific number. We typically refer to technical classes by ... either an acronym or a number. There's a quirky language to MIT, a handful

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  go to bed a little later than usual. Usually, by this time I would have ... a week to do them. I just hate the feeling of finishing a pset and the ... is that they create a comfortable space to ask questions, which has

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  wanted to print the current W1MX logo on a PCB, but the best he could get ... sure you need to give your real call sign” “That’s totally a real call ... to figure out how to get to the club room. Walker wasn’t the most

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  . I got to hear stories about my UROP professor as a graduate student (I ... opportunity to do a little spring cleaning. There are few things in life more entertaining than making a pile of clothes to give to Goodwill while singing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri's novel comes to the Cambridge screen

  

  Last Friday, I went to the AMC Cambridge to see the big-seen adaptation of The Namesake. The film was based on the fantastic novel by ... stranger to MIT. She spoke here as part of the MIT Writers Series and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  "]simple![/annotation] So, here’s a quick step by step guide on how I managed to finish my ... their days to help you make a short film. And for getting caught in ... start to finish. And during that process, I learned that making a movie is

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019