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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coffee Talk Random things I love about MIT #1

  

  you'll learn, stumble-upon and/or be run over by something new. While ... -imagining, too. Professors Ulm and Vandamme have shown how to slow concrete creep ... subjected to load and which eventually causes it to fail. Based on their

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  dishes. I find my dishes. I make cookies and send an email to the dorm about free cookies. I talk to people. I eat a cookie.   punt - (1) v ... -sets expanded to fill the time I gave them: all the time I had. As a result, when

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They’re not just regular artists… ...they're Artists in Residence.

  

  because tonight is a lecture by our newest Artists in Residence. Those ... noted artists to campus to work with MIT students. The program is called Artists in Residence, and has been bringing artists to Cambridge for more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by ... celebration to a puzzling punctuation in the calendar. Hmm! I say to the mirror ... physical DVDs to your house. The Higgs boson and gravitational waves were a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Far and Away I was going to get philosophical, but then I thought about Hugh Jackman.

  

  think it was edited from a two-hour movie down to the point where it was ... credits if you happen to see it. Which isn't a bad idea; you get what you ... !! Also, Sam's Mom was benevolent enough to buy me a digital camera, so this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  hopefully no one is looking for a grand unified theme. First, I would like to ... It is 2:30 and I already stained my neurons and nail-polished them to ... Center for Biomedical Research. So I'm a) alleviating boredom, b) avoiding

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  NM – u? Sometimes there just isn't that much crazy in my life. Splish splash.

  

  secret life goal #11 is to get on television, I made a big show jumping in ... interesting things about which I can't wait to blog. The rest of the weeks ... , meetings - and spend my nights awake with worry about how little I have to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  really big challenge for me. This would best be explained by describing to you how a typical Thanksgiving dinner at my house. If you were to dine ... , culture, and diversity. I will admit that sometimes it takes a while to get

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  .) The professor said he was willing to make an exception but that the ... physics). Just a heads up to the 4 other people in the world who test out of ... exclaimed, "Hey! You write a blog, don't you?" I was quite surprised to hear

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  have spoken to some of the incoming students from affected areas. A ... Information Session to a room of about 50 prospective students and parents ... Orleans area have been affected by the storm, and close to three dozen

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 7

  

  finally got around to reading a bunch of articles from the MIT News Office ... ; and they could use this information as a new technique to measure black ... into the place to be. Other folks who were eating today's delicious gumbo

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The home of cool toys the best way to spend a Monday

  

  is by far the coolest toy in the inventory. So when I heard we were getting a fly-in for Marine Week Boston, I had to go see. The weather was ... Chris M. scooped me, but I just couldn't let a visit from the MV-22

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train(wreck) of Thought

  

  . :-) BUT I had to share a particular incident with you today as I was walking back from working on psets. I walked by the LSC announcement board (LSC ... Hallo everybody. As it turns out, video editing is a very time

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  40 Hours Left! The time is 0500 EST, 12/15. I am studying for finals. You are waiting for…

  

  suerte! :) ---- Some things I learned this semester: Here's a fun ... They Transformed New York. John Hopkins University Press, 1995. A 1907 ... sexual flirtation where the motion of a crowded rush hour express threw two

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  Fidelio. Tonight we had the Burton-Conner Trivia Competition. Prior to the competition, I sent an e-mail to my floor telling them to keep three things in ... message ever sent by telegraph was "What hath God wrought?" The second one

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  : spelled with a “z” at the end to feel more casual. There’s a whole other set of ... to NYC for a second-round job interview. The company put us up in the ... to bankrupt last winter after it hosted a $35,000 per plate fundraiser

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Woot! My t-shirt is funnier than your t-shirt.

  

  of getting mail. Well, for one, I wanted something to take my mind off of linear algebra and eigenvalues for a little bit by blogging. And more importantly, and more to the point of this entry, some shirts I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  VSEPR Google News is the best.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? A jurassic beaver once ruled the riverbank. I've had an extraordinarily busy (and short!) week that I will describe to you all in detail ... down by the river. Seems like nothing has changed since then. I know this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  dumb little poems and such emotional support procrastination

  

  far to drink? how dare I complain about thirst when a sea of knowledge ... ;   I'm supposed to be studying for a midterm right now lol ... material enough i can’t wait for the semester to end this course is too damn

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 7, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing! !!!!!!!

  

  day and a lab report due Thursday and a manual on electrodes to read by ... , sailing completely eclipsed all of that. It was definitely a night to ... . aaaah - i just went and slapped samvaran some more me: is he going to be

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 26, 2010