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  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  Answer to the subtext: Meta-phor! Also, a clue to the answer to the ... proof that a post could be hazardous to your mental health. If you walk ... my riddle: It takes about 8000 engineers to change a (metaphorical

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  my activity coefficient away. He explained to us that this was a ... the classical style, you have to prepare the 7th degree of a chord in ... pset due in at 2 PM, this chorus tends to take on a special meaning

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  to be calmed by a swim in cold water. Mira tells me about her past ... might try to make this a habit in the future. 12:00 p.m. I have leftover ... -house groceries to make themselves breakfast and lunch. So we get a lot of groceries

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  Hamilton-listening time took a serious hit. Partial fractions continued to be ... five. We had to do integrals, with a time limit. If you got one wrong ... This blog post is by Mike W. ‘19, epic speed integrator and Random

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  assignments, I decided to take a break by traveling to Bath in Somerset, UK. I ... cold, but still!) Then I took a train to London at 6am and another train ... probably the 5am walk to the station; it sounds a little torturous/scary but

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  ), and we decided to stay in Boston for a couple of nights before heading ... with knew a grad student from MIT and asked us whether we would like to ... colossal marble columns, no longer holding a tourist's guide to Boston, but

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  year I also had to make a decision: theatre or ultimate? It had become ... Freshman fall I decided to join a sport. I had never played sports in ... veteran players! How to play defense by being on the open side of my player

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  two foils by making two model detectors to assess each foil's properties ... sheets of copper, making a grand total of three layers (the "triple" comes from the three separate GEM foils that are stacked to make the final

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wheels on the Bus Go Round And Round what do you get when you cross the flinstones with public transportation?

  

  with power supplied by humans by making it a multi-passenger bike. So far they've done a lot of work with the project and hope to have the ... the Busycle. Here are just a few pictures I was able to snap at the

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  before weigh-in at the tournament in order to make a certain weight class ... class ended, I took a mini-break – only to return just in time for the ... point for it. And with no baskets, holes, or lines to guide a judge in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  + a desire to pretend at adulting = overly ambitious attempts to cook massive group meals! My friends and I are actually planning to do a big ... adventures! Part 1 - Acquire the Ingredients There’s a bunch of benefits to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  make a quick collage? You can use existing images from magazines and your ... theory classes because I was forced to consider what I was going to make of ... or experience to add to this five-year “collage” I was making as an

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  Career Fair is a magical time: in addition to the opportunity and the ... we, um, don't). They are a half-hour walk from MIT, by 3 pm or before they run out of donuts. That day we got to get a lot of donuts to share

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  ."]PhD[/annotation] programs.  Well, I don’t really have to make a decision until if I get in, but choosing to apply is to make that decision a possibility.  It ... out by the mortifying ordeal of being known. Being vulnerable to a bunch

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  and Catan, topology and tango — they are united by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high character, and a strong match with MIT’s mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biology-inspired design from MIT alums What happens when you bring together nature and technology? I think you'll like the result.

  

  was turned off by academia, and wanted to explore those interests in a ... Louis-Rosenberg and Jessica Rosenkrantz take it a step further by actually ... program designed to replicate a natural phenomenon, such as the branching of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  thing I said to the lab assistant was, "Can you give me a hand? I have no ... by a thousandfold, so I stuck a piece of white bread in the oven and ... or something. Thirty minutes later, I returned to the kitchen to find a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  followed by a one-day sale the next day, to benefit the lab and its ... created by a team of about six artists. In this blog post, I want to convey ... is annual, put on by the MIT Glass Lab (the people who make the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  no role in a student’s success. “you can make it anywhere,” we want to ... music and a breeze of spring from the courtyard. i’m talking to a ... ’t always make smart decisions. we compete for free food and not for a high

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  ... rubs hands v. Making a control group In order to make comparisons ... , which is a measure of sentiment ranging from -1 to 1 calculated by taking ... of them. I ended up having to pay for a storage facility in the area

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020