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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  official description of the class is: 6.270 is a hands-on, learn-by-doing ... to do) we would win. Realizing all of this was a very happy day for us ... were quickly countered by things that were VERY VERY bad. I'd go into

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  economists do work that relates to [annotation note='not casual, which is how i ... : I do not have a time machine to go back and study the same person ... cannot do this so easily. Randomly assigning some people to get

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  door quickly. I faltered. He grasped both of my shoulders. We walked out ... what we could and couldn't do. We're dancing again, every Tuesday night. We don't have as many people as we usually do, as only MIT students and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  ? When I do get to MIT, I'm planning to declare Course 2 (Mechanical ... could do some of those things MIT kids do, it seems like so much fun. But ... thing to do. If I were to do it all over again as a prefrosh, knowing what

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  sentence up with a number of caveats all to the effect of: Yes, I do know ... “That sounds absurd, take these classes instead” or “Who do you think you ... now you’re learning something new, and that’s hard to do, but that doesn

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  pens, I might as well work for Livescribe and get paid to do it, right ... , somebody else paid, and all I had to do was show up at the airport and get on ... can do math, and you probably realize that that was on Friday. It's now

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Boston, through the lens of my children Visiting Boston at 37 years of age was ...

  

  . At this point I really had no idea what to do next, so we just started ... distances while they do their best impression of a drooling sack of flour ... him just absolutely cooking on the dance floor, but here's just a quick

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  figure skating championships in Boston. While I do not regret doing any of ... -life balance. Suddenly, I had so much extra time that I didn’t know what to do ... wanted to do something more meaningful with my time, particularly away from

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  Portugal. Here’s a quick look at some highlights from the project—and what a ... note="Another grad student was doing a project where--i kid you not ... first idea didn't work the way I expected it to, and we still wanted to do

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  through all the food I have stocked up, talk about where I do my grocery ... during the height of the pandemic, but when I do bake I find it really ... use them when I'm making a quick meal, but I'm more on my game with

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  emails with the subject line “help i don’t know what I’m doing with my life ... followed a lined path as quickly and accurately as possible. The instructor ... out what you’re going to do with your life.” The truth was (and still is

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  motion. My junior year it felt kinda like magic. If you told me to do something, I'd probably do it, no questions asked.  This year, I went to ... people may be confident that they got far higher than 70%, but I do not

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  quickly. As MIT says in the FUN form, try to do some things you enjoy over ... threw into a calculator that day because I can't do mental math. Though I ... MIT, you're gonna do it in March anyways. Was there any real shot left

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  , delivered right to your e-mail! A lot of the jobs do happen to require ... a ton of circuits, hook them up to the lab computers and have them do ... to do. You choose how to interpret it. Everything just needs to fit a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  machine, prototype, design, sketch, how to do mechanics and select materials ... time, etc) and managed to remove all the time I had to do those things ... amount of working. Just sitting and doing nothing during my free time

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  cvs. you have to be 18 to do so. guess how young i look then ... gene in C. elegans (which I have been doing since last year, on ... finish off the project. If all goes well, I'll do a mini

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  cable cars. Do you know how cable cars work? One of the very first things ... . (Free admission! If you're ever looking for something to do in San Fran ... ? This is one of those things I know, but do not understand, and could

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  other (mine has my name and a field hockey symbol). Here at MIT, we do ... for "screw around instead of doing work" and "work really hard ... that has the most potential for controversy lately. Here's a quick

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  realized that it's kind of bad when Mitra blogs more frequently than I do and ... Crate & Barrel on Boylston Street to do a book signing in December ... the "GOOD vanilla" but she's doing so in this deep, hypnotic

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  was doing pretty well until about halfway across the Harvard Bridge ... would do if she were there. In theory I should hate Dim Sum because 60 ... forced her to do that because I thought it would be a cool blog picture

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005