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• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  Due to an Act of God, I am in the shiny new JetBlue terminal at JFK ... has nothing to do with the above. I have been spending too much time on ... TO CHICAGO RAWR RAWR RAWR.) There's a discussion topic called "Advice

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 7

  

  ; and they could use this information as a new technique to measure black ... finally got around to reading a bunch of articles from the MIT News Office, including one on some awesome undergraduate research. A snippet: An MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  may or may not be able to read without being on a college wifi network ... are working on. I’m very happy to have my own piece of a square in a ... showed up to on the first day and got a spot. Conveniently, my two phys ed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  on a simple charter bus. On the way, we just happened to stop in ... I have so much work to do tonight, but I just fell off a treadmill in ... because you can't take pictures in the dark or on a whitewater raft. You

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  A man who is hired to eavesdrop on a conversation wrestles with his ... three weeks leading up to that date poring over a complete set of ... lamentable theft of our student-given right to a winter/summer vacation, during

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Resolved: MIT Rocks Even the Senate thinks so

  

  Barton Rogers, on April 10, 1861, the doors to a powerful new institution ... I came across a news article on a friend’s Facebook page the other day. The U.S. Senate congratulated MIT on its 150th anniversary in

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  this opportunity to talk about a few Nobel-prize-winning discoveries ... awarded to an MIT professor just a few days after I learned how quantum dots ... synonymous with “we needed a science word to make our thing sound more

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  when it just feels better to put on pajamas and rent a movie and order ... experiencing real winter, but I'm going to have to buy a lot of new clothes upon ... other people in the world are shallow in what I editorially find to be a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christmas in February Shiny new toys MIT gave me this semester

  

  work with at MIT these days. There's a lot to unpack here. (Indeed, I ... blog post about this class from a year ago if you want to see a more ... .2060. (Yes, we still do some things on paper at MIT.) A digital oscilloscope

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  , dragging pajamas on in a hurry before jumping into the softest bed for a nap ... the right to carry a laundry hamper across their own yard. When I walk ... , used to completing psets by Friday morning and then simply sitting on the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  up on a table and kicked a can to demonstrate the concept of frequency ... have to take it like a champ. So today's schedule went a little like ... relate to heat transfer and fluid dynamics. 2.007 will be a fun class

  • by Bryan
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  can be fun, but it is hard to find a way to balance everything. The good, and the bad.  I want to focus on the happy things. Here are the happy ... , and I even got to read some of my own work on my friend Valentina C. '16

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch Ceri on SciShow! teenage mutant YOUTUBE NERDFIGHTERS

  

  prolific blogger/vlogger who graduated in June with a double-major in 7A ... , writing and editing science content for the show, but a few days ago she went in front of the camera to nerd-fight SciShow creator Hank Green

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  that apartment dwellers can use to split a bedroom in two to save on rent ... "constrained space" team building a WALL was not lost on us when we had to start ... into a beautiful chick, or to fried chicken, depending on how hard you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  ICIC A journey to deliciousness

  

  Harvard and MIT meet up on Thursdays for a nice bike ride to a new ice cream ... cream. A bit afterwards, I began to realize we had gone pretty far and ... going half a mile an hour to get up it. I've never biked up a hill like

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  . Provincetown in the dark was a stunning approximation to the iconical New England ... On the first night of my mandatory vacation, I walked to the beach ... . Pulling up to the speaker, Eric ordered two baked-not-fried apple pies for a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  adventure. I broke my big toe into a bunch of pieces, then flew home to ... following e-mail to my mom on December 2, 2012: “So, I spontaneously applied ... students on the subjects of leadership and service through a series of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  supposed to do with this mountain of trash bags now on her hands? Make a ... cut and glued on the body suit to embody a mirrored collage. The collar ... on a creature, the scales are meant to protect and shelter with things

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  activity, no one on my team knew how to build a bottle rocket. We relied ... . Sounds like a pretty perfect afternoon to me. Part Two On the last Friday ... while trying desperately not to cramp or throw up in a bush on the side of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  So I'm trying to figure out a matrix issue while studying 18.03 and ... (fortunately?) before I got a chance to comprehend the next problem I saw the ... ? AB --> BC Calculus in high school is designed to take about a year

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008