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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  Thanks to the agrarian principles our society was founded upon, a new ... (here are a couple). And every new year, I find his musings to be just as ... didn’t refine my short answers for hours or give them to a second party

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  hours a week during IAP to prepare for our annual show...those hours stack ... "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were ... workshops, which are super chill opportunities for people to try

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  hope springs eternal a warm feeling

  

  help but be buoyed by the thought of meeting (or at least seeing) new people in the hallways. It will be hard for us to recover after such a ... to rage, and in a place where most students are only here for four

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  to get a little more bang for your MIT buck, based on things that I ... get quite a lot of things, if you know where to look. Like... Free food ... groups or one of MIT's many offices should be enough to get you started

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  You don't need MIT to be a success. Don't get me wrong -- I think MIT ... 't want to go to MIT, despite the nice scholarship thrown in for good ... great, but not right for Kevin. By following his culinary gifts, he has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  sent a link to a Google Docs spreadsheet where we were supposed to fill ... it was something to the effect of “You should have used a Google Form instead of a Google Spreadsheet.” This was immediately deleted by someone

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  new trails to follow. For each reference, I made a new entry in the ... gremlin brain was endlessly fascinated by it. I dragged my family to see the ... place for me to embrace my interests with others who seemed to be just as

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy New Year! And so two thousand nine begins...

  

  -in-law's new house, enjoying the snow and festivities. (By the way, for those who ... zone! :) ) I've made my new year's resolution to try and work out more this year - what's your new year's resolution? Best wishes for a safe

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  . He was single. The other one decided to stay for CPW, even though he ... pancakes and French toast for breakfast, accompanied by delicious smoothies ... . Anyways, we then headed over the McCormick to eat some good takeout food for

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  and learned how to use fast fabrication methods.  And I built a pair of ... and intensity, and it's intimidating to be told that by the end of this ... "Spatula Bot") that tries to climb the steep hill by keeping my center of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  me introduce to you our new bloggers! Class of 2015:  ... Roulette by leaving custom business cards in local stores, and she'd like to ... his loathsome liking for cheese-curd fries, we're happy to have him

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  geographic traits to New Orleans, Venice. A quick Google news search produced a recent New York Times article as well: Bras says sensor technologies for ... " O.C. on September 28th). My visit to Orlando, by the numbers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  , the pledge class of ‘92 getting hauled to jail by Boston police, and ... distance of the bridge so they’d know exactly “how long it would take to get ... measurement to date: the Smoot. This new unit of measurement was the height of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage

  

  days like this it doesn't look all that bad. Welcome to New Vassar! Tim ... security desk is the piece "I DON’T WANT TO SEE MYSELF WITHOUT YOU" by artist Jeffery Gibson. This work was specially commissioned by MIT for its

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  Course 6 to better understand and contribute to the policy debate. For the ... , and with this new approach to cross-institutional classes, we were able ... best to learn as fast as we could about the law in the short time we had

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

  kinda fast and is [annotation note="probably easier to animate hehe and ... for both the tech guy and the student who gets their silver tube in the ... heavily inspired by someone I knew in high school whom I really looked up to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  use each machine, we get to learn by making a spiffy Stirling engine ... In an engineering class with a lecture format, you get to learn a lot ... tell, this is a very expensive class for MIT to run and we're all really

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  plan an achievable timeline for what needed to be done when, and by whom ... no real way, however, for me to talk you through exactly how difficult ... field, which I would use to combine 18 and 21W. This was the plan for two

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You should get this bundle right now definitely clickbait

  

  game bundle to tell you that you should buy it. Here's a list of some of the games I've enjoyed from it that'll hopefully convince you to get it ... play as Ordell, a twenty-something bookworm who moved to a new city and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  ’s capital. I frequent it often for my electronic needs—to replace printer ink or buy new paper sheets, to upgrade my iPad’s internet plan and most recently, to get a small phone to use while in Nigeria. It always pulses with

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014