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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  is supposed to cap off your four-year experience in Civil and ... Friday, so I thought it'd be an opportune time to discuss the classes I ... year), the aim of this course is to provide the tools engineers need to

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  nudges you to ignore the rigid grammar of academic life and enjoy your ... dear to civilization. No matter how gingerly, how mildly I tug it open ... takes on average 20 seconds to wriggle the drawer back into its proper

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  -state machine. It takes a while for the robots to look like much of anything ... SpazBot, in pegboard form. I think Spazbot is trying to read green ... coder who always reads this blog and used to leave me vaguely snarky

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  better job eulogizing the Milk than I ever could. If you're a milk-enjoyer, please take a moment to think of our beloved Milk as you drink your own Milk in the bottom of your cereal bowl, mug, or biohazard bin. The annual

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  Hello all, I interrupt the great back-to-school flow of these blogs to deliver a semi-personal, semi-existential rant. I am THIS close to ... checkout books from your public library via said e-book reader. First I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Going On Some of the 600+ Campus Preview Weekend events.

  

  /or waterproof footwear! (Thursday looks to be beautiful, though) It's after ... the MIT admitted class of 2012. It's going to be a fun weekend. In ... to look at it that way), going until 6am Friday. Speaker building

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  : blogging for MIT admissions!) Even though I didn’t get, or even attempt to ... Computer mouse with retractable cord, which doesn’t seem to work Headphones ... the point of a career fair is to collect job prospects, not swag. In the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  fascinating, not the least because I get to see Winnie-the-Pooh cartoons (in ... new meaning. So this week, I decided to shape up a little. By this, I mean: get more sleep, be more productive, win at life. Huzzah! With this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I’m Watching ...

  

  restaurant and even after when we were just getting some ice cream, because ... learning to trust shapes and colors to be the real thing? Like a faraway ... someone gave me the opportunity to find out, would I? I'm thinking if I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  Garden State. Still having jet-lag, I woke up quite early so I wanted to ... came highly recommended, and overall I'd have to say I liked it. After it was done, I decided I'd drive through Tacoma and get a sense of the town

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  , then your intuition is likely to be better than random chance. This, I ... fewer-than-half of applicants insufficiently prepared to do the work at MIT) and then threw dice to stochastically select among the remaining

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  ’m trying to get a sense of what it would feel like to pursue different ... I moved to campus this past weekend! It’s super exciting! I will ... anyway. Also, read to the end for a really special surprise :) Things I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  people steal gas). It kinda worked. We mostly used strainers to get the ... fast enough, and the longer we baked to try to get the crust to cook ... ’m excited to give you the full story of the complete mess that we made. Here

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  structure. Or, to be more descriptive, geography and physical structure have a ... "normal" (though really, there's a limit to how normal anyone at MIT is ... relative to the general MIT population. How did this happen? There are

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  important items that engineers should add to their personal wish list. Now it's time to blog about something I feel particularly passionate about: public ... snickers, like "why does a chemical engineer want to be an actor, too?" But

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  we got back, we dispersed onto various couches and chairs to get some ... 153 minutes before the deadline to sign up for the Simmons Retreat, I ... I couldn’t go—I had promised to go to a Puzzle Club event on Monday

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  getting in,[/annotation] and when we got to the courtyard we found that the ... increasingly turning over and over the knowledge that I would have to leave. But ... was a little room for sadness to creep in around the edges: as my room

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Am Excited a day in life of a student

  

  minute, to get a glimpse of their current lives. Chances are, they will ... necessary to marvel at its results and review the pages of in-class proofs with a fervor of a child who has just learned to read. I am excited

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEGGGGGAAAAAAA! [by Danbee Kim '09] Music from Sonic, Donkey Kong, Final Fantasy, and more!

  

  for a game set in ancient Rome, but I was ready to get back to the more ... , Metal Gear Solid, and Final Fantasy, just to name a few. Last Thursday ... and dads with small children to local college students to dred

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  in Berkeley next year, I thought it might be better to be a little more frugal. Just playin'. But seriously, maybe it's because I only get to eat ... sketchy youth hostels and subsisting mostly on döner. I was planning to live

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007