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  Spring Term 2006! Spring Term Oh Six starts today (music video included).

  

  compete against the rest of your class of 150 people with goals to have ... is really too early to have class; unfortunately, all semester I will have to take it like a champ. So today's schedule went a little like

  • by Bryan
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Scholar

  

  lifetime is about to come true for one of America's best and brightest high ... Scholar will be the first show ever to celebrate higher education as the ultimate American prize. For the chance at a full ride to the college of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  and loose, so I needed to hand-sew it tight. My laptop makes a cameo ... concepts of damped harmonic motion and centripetal forces, which is to say we ... inspired me to fix my own somewhat broken trapeze, and I'm really happy with

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  day by day.  We want to make sure that we are fine owning what we can ... to make lunch at roughly noon. I know it’s supposed to be a break, sort ... printing and model making do not lend themselves exactly well to online. The

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  of diversifying your sources of media:     Ethan and I ... description: There is often a tendency to consider technical systems as 'purely ... historically contributed to its current shapes. In doing so, we will come to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  Aviator and Family Guy) while assembling our airplane to drown out the ... and headed out to Wichita, Kansas for the 18th Annual AIAA DBF ... .   (You'd be surprised how many people want to lick our airplane. It

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  there enough air for everybody to breathe?" Just as I've never noticed a ... MIT student. I think the reason this question comes to mind are ... began taking steps to remedy the situation. 2. The Larry Summers thing. 3

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  Wow, lots of questions to address today! I guess I'll start by ... , you have a DNA that encodes a protein you're psyched about, and you put ... the cell gets both a red (your gene) plasmid and a blue (unknown gene

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  unique power, like density control, or to control friction, or to forget ... ’t help but feel like he became a propaganda tool. Used to support the U ... superhero. How many new heroes and stories have missed their chance to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  . So yeah, makes sense."]VHS[/annotation]. I had to look up how to make ... [annotation note="Ok, it's like 3 now, but i'm not going to change the language out of respect to the original post."]Two weekends ago

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  've let your life go to hell, so boring!" Not so!  Life is actually pretty ... only THEN that I discovered I really didn't have a lot to talk about ... ! ACTIVITY! LECTURE! WITTY! WOO!" Now?  "mow the lawn. go to work. clean stuff

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in MD Summary of the end of the year, and a look ahead to the summer.

  

  single, and I do not have to use the Saferide or MBTA. Yes, I am home ... up from your little desk and seeing a line of caffeinated beverages ... I subject my body to can be justified by the increase in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT Frolicking in nostalgia

  

  at La Verdes at 3 am and trying to make a pack of four Vienna Fingers ... MIT milestones often have something to do with 3.14159... 7 years ago ... weekend baby!!! Some people may sneer at how MIT folks seem married to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Am Excited a day in life of a student

  

  infinite. That is, it’s on a whole new level of infinity, and this makes ... 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 / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  drug. And I want to learn how to make it. Last week we discussed the ... ; Computational Photography a.k.a. How To Make Photoshop) - The second lecture ... most awkward conversations I'd ever been...well, witness to. There's a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  the early universe to him. If that didn’t blow your mind, maybe this ... marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder. He turned around, and some gears at the back of my mind began to turn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  remember the first job I ever wanted to be was an interior designer. I drew lopsided houses in school and haphazardly scribbled drawings to proudly present to my kindergarten teacher, who graciously accepted them with a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  and part 2 to get up to speed if you haven’t already. We spent most of ... , we met Djuena Tikuna (the indigenous singer who was to perform with us ... finally complete! Djuena then taught us the lyrics to a song in the Ticuna

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  cinematography was so contentious, how Stanley Kubrick managed to make slow action ... aversion to enjoying “mainstream” culture, but I always shied away whenever ... winners. I didn’t quite understand the draw of film buffs to the black and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  (ExpressionEngine hates me) I decided to hold off on publishing until Wednesday ... original story, so I decided to write a post with both stories and hold off ... wouldn't do justice to any of them, so I'm going to write three posts. Here

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013