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• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  grade teacher) used to encourage me to occasionally take a DOFMH -- day ... sleeping in until 11 AM; I then rode my bike to the Student Center and ate a ... time to blowdry my hair normally. In fact, I don't even own a blow dryer

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Latino Cultural Center It's Mes Latino!

  

  classes to have a cup of coffee, get going on my to do list, take a nap, or ... didn't get to eat everything you wanted, you still got a show! Here is ... student center. This is home to a post office, dry cleaners, the ID card

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 3, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  working on a project to remedy that — she’s putting together a collaborative ... in the space, how to get access, and notes about the space’s culture ... : As a meche always looking to discover new makerspaces, I was so happy

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  for this day to come, for this year to end. But now, a large part of me ... to no longer be among the 'babies' of the school, to be replaced by the '14s, and to hear about prospective '15s, not to mention a few ambitious

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  sheet can be used to detect particles by amplifying ionization patterns by ... well-known physical principles. When a voltage is applied to the foils, a ... if a few electrons were to come near the foil, the charge on the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Heck yeah, democracy. PSET Extension!!

  

  /classmates can answer them - a.k.a. a way to get instantaneous answers to questions ... the past 4 days working on 6.005. Our assignment is to create a Sudoku solver, which will read in any Sudoku puzzle and figure out a solution to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  you should never get that vocal or intrusive, but you do have to learn a ... MIT is likely to face, come 2113? 6)Over a 1000 freshmen will be ... will you say hi to, if a new fish is born today? 7) “Are new fishes born

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  training on my own is that I get to form my own schedule. I'm not tied to a 5 ... , bonded by a common passion and alma mater, to practice and dedicate their ... , as a full-time student as a full-time MIT student, there was the all-to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  Today I will tell you how to get into MIT. You get into MIT by ... gleaned from a morning of traipsing from car-to-door with luggage stuffed ... of a creative-imagery let-down? To be specific, the car was nearly the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  straight from a bachelor's program to a PhD program -- I'll never get a ... 't have to explain to all the postdocs what a "blog" is -- but I forgot the camera. Hey, I'm not a morning person, and I can't remember to do

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  of the class further by "introducing a moral question concerning food ... emissions significantly by 2020 or at least 2026 to keep the global ... protein? I get that, but hear me out. In order to avoid devastating climate

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 3 the people who make it all possible

  

  to wrap up by providing a bigger picture. When we entered MIT in our ... As a way to tie up our visual arts discussions on the blogs, we want to write a final installment in our Visual Arts @ MIT series. In the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  today, of all days, i feel it's appropriate to begin with a land ... Busy With Things But Not Really. which is kind of a bad place to be ... . i don't have a family to celebrate thanksgiving with, which i guess

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The Igs Where Science meets Silly. Hello Silly!

  

  . While I missed the ceremonies, I did make a point of going to the informal lectures. The informal lectures are when you get a chance to actually hear the reasoning behind all of this research. Consider it a "Why" to the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  to is: No one has become great by wanting to be great, greatness is a ... I get a ton* of emails from both applicants, newly accepted frosh ... remarkable don't do it for any reason beyond that it's what they love to do, a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  - watch the first two episodes to get a sense of what each character is like ... a better artist, and that by learning to view history as a body ... - specifically, art that takes a while to experience, such as books and movies and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  needed a uhaul to bring it all back (0:53). We were buying 140 cans of ... brought all the metal over to the shop and Kristen welded the pie rack by ... . Then we noticed a problem. We had made it in 2 parts to be bolted

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Reason to Celebrate My advisor is a genius.

  

  people refer to the recipients as a Genius because they are awarded a ... taught by a Nobel Laureate. Freshman in 7.012 this term have the privelege ... everyone else I know does keep up. Friend: Your UROP advisor is a genius. Me

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  ="84400" /] Out of a mild fear of getting lost or left behind, I attached myself to an old lady who was also getting up to stretch her legs; we had a ... way to a backwards-facing seat at a table, allowing me to get better

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  the runaround a star-studded event twenty years in the making.

  

  @MIT, you could grab a bite to eat before the performance begins. After ... friend would randomly send me a puzzle to solve that would help me later on ... opportunity ever to participate in a mystery hunt runaround. A few pictures

  • by Bryan
  • August 18, 2005