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• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  from the somewhat ambitious "Find a UROP to turn into a thesis!" to "Keep ... "Write a browser quicksearch tool to make online utilities more efficient to use!" which rapidly degraded into "But I need to set up a server

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Above MIT The sky's the limit.

  

  Admissions blogger. If you want to read a little bit about me, you can check out my bio here. If you want to find out a little more about me, feel ... blogging act, I would like to show you a completely new way to look at MIT

  • by Piper '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  50 Years of NASA One small hack for MIT, one giant leap for NASA.

  

  a hack! For those of you just tuning in, a "hack" at MIT is clever ... be a good guess. I first heard about the hack from a few friends talking about in the morning, and I managed to catch a glimpse of it on my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Last Blog: Introducing My Successor I started "The Humanitarian Blog" to spotlight the amazing work that MIT students are doing…

  

  times a day. I miss MIT dearly, but feel so lucky to've experienced even ... each one passes a little faster. I'm currently a Junior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment, a think tank that's based in D.C, studying

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat the heat in the Z Center Pictures of the MIT gym

  

  This morning I went for a miserably hot run along a busy road by my ... Center. A few of you were curious about the facilities, so I thought I ... familiar with it. Note: I had taken these on a Sunday morning before the gym

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…

  

  ] The University of New Hampshire ROTC program recently organized a MOUT ... paintballs. I hadn't played paintball since I was in high school almost a ... in style - on a Chinook helicopter. As we boarded the bird at Endicott

  • by ROTC
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See your name among the stars… Forget having your name written in lights, get it written on a spacecraft!

  

  on a spacecraft! The MIT Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program is selling the ads to fund their project to launch a student-designed small unmanned spacecraft in 2010. "Choose a location on the outside of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  ," depending on whether a person is eating (essen) or an animal is eating (fressen). I have also learned the German word for "to strike a deathblow." Look out, world. It was a really, oustandingly lovely day today. Just so

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MVEMJSUNP A contest!

  

  If you're old like me, you'll remember a classic episode of Saved by ... actually be time for a new mnemonic, sorry Screech. So here's a contest ... Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto Charon 2003 UB313 Propose a new

  • by Bryan
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Sneak Preview

  

  awesomeness Interseting story: My mom was seated on the plane next to a couple with a newborn baby. They all (well, except the newborn) chatted about ... , where she plans on taking a short break so she can nurse her daughter

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christina Royce: Analyzing Re-entry Systems Christina Royce, a senior double majoring in Mechanical Engineering, with a concentration in Manufacturing through…

  

  type of manufacturing system is called a re-entry system, where a silicon wafer re-enters the system with a higher priority each time it is processed. Christina Royce, a senior double majoring in Mechanical

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading Some final notes before decisions are posted.

  

  Jones: It's More Than A Job Marilee Jones: Sending You My Best Also: Bryan Nance A Post For Parents and It's All About the Process, Bryan Don ... Imagination, Laura The Moment of Truth And a few numbers: we received a record

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Pi Day! 3.1415926535...

  

  Just a little humor to keep us all smiling. HAPPY PI DAY (the ... unbending. Oh, number Pi Oh, number Pi You are a number very sweet, Oh ... r squared, A half a circle and you're there, Oh, number Pi Oh, number

  • by Bryan
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biochemistry at its finest!

  

  for the first month of the semester. Indeed, it was a sad day. For 1.5 hours three times a week, hundreds of students fill 10-250 (one of the ... that prevents you from bleeding to death after a measly paper cut

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  After a not-so-brief hiatus, I'm back at the Institute! Over the ... -clean personal environment, extra sheetrock improves soundproofing, a rooftop garden insulates the building and offers a quiet haven for residents

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  TBP Dinner Sex@MIT is the most-watched video on CNN.com! (but it's not pornography!)

  

  a Tau Beta Pi (National Engineering Honors Society) dinner (courtesy of Sam '07, a nationally honored engineer) to hear a musicologist (rastrologist?) deliver a speech on economics. And in other news, Mollie '06

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anna Teytelman: Japanese Hip-Hop Extraordinaire! Anna Teytelman studies Japanese hip-hop and culture at MIT's Hyperstudio.

  

  When most people say they have a UROP, you can immediately imagine them sitting at a lab bench while wearing a white lab coat, safety glasses, and gloves. If Anna Teytelman, a sophomore in Management Science

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  Boston on Friday night. We expected to hit a lot of traffic, considering ... did face was while waiting to fill up our tank at a NY rest stop for a whopping $3.19 per gallon, which was a good deal at the time. It seemed that

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

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  this curious flyer outside of the Athena cluster in building 24 (aka "a computer lab on campus"). I particularly love the warning "this is not a dating show, but a competition." Okay, so maybe it's a little

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Road Trip—sort of.

  

  , and we took a mini-trip to Santa Cruz, Capitola, Monterey, and ... England Aquarium, which is in Boston, just a few subway stops away from MIT ... call it, Velocity We woke up insanely early to go on a fishing trip. I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 19, 2005