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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  . Check them out! Here are a few highlights: 2.007: Design and ... manufacturability are emphasized. Subject relies on active learning via a major design ... professional responsibilities and ethics. A required on-line evaluation is given

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  A couple days ago, I received an email from a blog reader who asked ... fun?" I think this is a very interesting question to pursue. So one ... , take my academics seriously. There are also a number of I'll say

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Friends, Carafes, and the Infinite Corridor What a week! Watch Tim play his instrument after a morning of camaraderie and cheap…

  

  your messages! I will reply in detail soon. Thanks!) This has been a ... a fifteen minute walk from East Campus.) The food was pretty good! I ... times per year, a swap meet-style event takes place where you can get all

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  difficult, or at least uncomfortable.) One of the perks of being a biology ... Fridays, since many bio/BCS classes meet for an hour and a half or two hours twice a week rather than for an hour three times a week. This term, I only

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  , I went to MIT for college. I graduated about 20 years ago as a ... when I was a student at MIT). I found that I enjoyed my coaching more ... followed my passion. I quit my job at GM and became a full time crew coach

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  There's a story on the AP wire today (look for it in your local paper tomorrow) on a bit of Media Lab research called the Jerk-O-Meter (?!), which ... patterns and voice tones to rate people -- on a scale of 0 to 100 percent

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  This was supposed to be a deeply philosophical entry on the wonders and perils of vegetarianism, but I got a little involved this evening ... Rachael Ray's salsa stoup. It's thicker than a soup, but thinner than a stew

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  wrote. Honestly, I'm a bit embarrassed -mm] Without a doubt, the students ... 've seen a truly mind-blowing hack. Someone needs to do something about that ... city (250,000+ college students can have that effect on a place), the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  ’m a lot better adjusted now than I was in high school, and I might have ... things I’d forgotten and felt a warm surge of familiarity upon recognizing ... . Whenever I saw a mural I’d passed by a million times back then, I felt a jolt

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  a/n: this post is a little outdated - my hair is currently a faded ... of calm consideration. They have a really lovely ambiance, with ... dull roar of a hair dryer.  I walked into the store with overgrown

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  sexualisation I tend to talk about friend groups a lot on the blogs. I've always been someone that has traveled in a pack. In high school, I had a group of three girls I hung out with a lot and I felt like I understood them

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

    “It’s just a few more weeks,” my mom told me, on the phone ... . “You work harder in high school than college,” she said; she had, as a math major at a tech school in the ‘80’s. When was the hardest that I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  My first year was a little rough. I could've written more about the low points, but it takes a certain amount of humility and retrospect to ... once I've had a chance to reflect and forgive myself for stupid mistakes

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  that went. Note: A lot of this information is taken directly from ... designing the model, Raymond knew he wanted a turntable for easily maneuvering ... on the side to move the gun up and down. It's a relatively large gun so

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  humanities classes. The Man to Send Rain Clouds (≈1750 words). A beautiful ... read it! Across the brown wrinkled forehead he drew a streak of white and along the high cheek bones he drew a strip of blue paint. He paused and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  Bonjour. It’s me, Jacky, again. More than a year ago, I wrote a ... ramblings. A lot has happened in the past eighteen months. A pandemic closed the MIT dorm kitchens and subjected on campus students to a dining hall

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  I've been watching a lot of chess. Watching, not playing. My eyes ... patterns. Pawn takes, knight takes back, bishop takes. It's a game of who ... to Mother, Mother a lot. Perhaps TikTok is to blame, snippets of their

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  A few months into living on my own, my roommates and I have learned many important life lessons about food, mostly through trial and error. A lot of error. Here's a list of my very own freshman housing horror

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  . 1 trending series on Netflix right now, garnered a lot of attention ... they deserve. I was, of course, hyped to watch it since I've never seen a convincingly spunky Indian female character, let alone a protagonist. Sadly

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  Since January, I've been having a sort of crisis about my place at ... to learn for the test. For an AP. For a final. The singular goal was to ... learning that's been weighing on me a lot since I came to MIT. I often times

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020