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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Infinite Corridor, set alight or, why dozens of people were crammed into a tiny stairwell at 4:19:53 PM EST

  

  best not written about on the blogs. Some of these phenomena can be written about on the blogs, though, and this is one of them. The central ... a HASS major) on campus, the Infinite Corridor is an 825-foot

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 10, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Publishing abroad A taste of an MIT-Russia student's blog

  

  first published on http://dfactorial.tumblr.com I wrote an article about ... ;congratulations on your debut!” There appears to be some sort of argument of ... potentially explosive story released today on Al-Jazeera - that elevated levels

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT salutes Harry Potter ...the best way we know how, with hacks!

  

  's Scar on the Dome July 16, 2005 On the morning that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was published, Harry's lightning-bolt scar appeared on ... On the morning when the final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Metabo lite s Why the Broad Institute is inspiring my exercise goals

  

  metabolism. I’m on a mission to figure out what the heck is going on here, and ... might tell me I’m on the right track. Clish and other researchers have ... this interesting research while sitting on my couch flipping through my

  • by Kris Guay
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  on the T, it took 45 minutes to go (compared to the usual twenty minutes). Despite the extremely packed state on the trains, Kenmore Square ... along the marathon route on Commonwealth Avenue. They were doling on hot

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Challenge I hope Chris Peterson doesn't fire me for too many prefrosh stealing his nametag...

  

  : introducing... the 2011 CPW Scavenger Hunt!! You will have 4 days on the campus of my favorite place on earth, and there are so many things to find ... challenge to you: Eat free food. Find a hack somewhere on campus Build

  • by Kate R. '14
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vote for Ksplice! MIT's spirit of entrepreneurship and collaboration in action.

  

  another, we work together and rely on each other to pull through. So, in ... don't normally do on my blog. I'd like to ask you all to do me a big ... beautiful example of tackling hard problems on a foundational level. Ksplice

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  shut this door from her iPhone on several occasions: 1) My decrepit old fogey of an iPhone that still runs on Edge is faster than Chris's 3G i ... 's phone at: finding things on maps, being good looking, etc. 2) Because the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Explanation I always end up writing about underwear!

  

  on the dorm's e-mail list between this senior and an undergraduate in ... bringing it up then. By the way, congratulations on graduating. Senior Wow ... ? Undergraduate What color underwear do you have on right now? [For the record, it

  • by Snively '11
  • April 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  opportunities to focus on nanotechnology. The primary majors connected to ... lab has a particular emphasis on liver disease and cancer. The Bio ... intravascular neural electrodes. Professor Matt Lang's lab, which focuses on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  .01 exam. So on the back of my index card, after writing in all the last ... , fewer classes allow equation sheets, so I started writing it on my hand ... TA or professor would notice ink on my palm and think that I was trying

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.

  

  finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in-depth description ... Lobby 7. Paul and I will be on Smallish Momenta (an anagram of "Simmons ... ); Snively will be on Death From Above; and I'd assume Bryan will be on Too

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Introduction To MIT World ...and my blog's first feature: Akamai, Clever and Cool!

  

  free and open on-demand video streaming web site that features public ... on the MIT home page under Education — click on "video"). This primary ... one to be the first one to reflect on in this new forum. So, I thought

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week of work

  

  and Conflict in the Middle East. My paper was on the relationship ... Probability and Random Variables. This problem set was on chapter 5, which is ... throughout the week than have all of them due on the same day. One of my major

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stocking Up Completely random but fun.

  

  they're pretty good.) On a slightly related topic - as I was scrolling through pictures on my camera, it dawned on me that I never showed you Cam's LED project. He worked on this thing for like two weeks

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That Lovely Pre-Finals Period

  

  IBM/Lenovo merger for class. It was a team project on mergers as a whole ... all week. There's a lot of buzz on campus right now about some proposed ... spotlight is the Task Force on the Undergraduate Educational Commons, so

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class-tastic

  

  on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, and two classes on Mondays and ... , depending on what's going on that week. A typical MIT courseload is 4 classes ... 'm actually taking the class on junior/senior P/D/F, so I'll just get a passing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yoga The joys of physical education

  

  (I can file an entry on Yoga under "Academic" right?) Today I received this email from the Committee on Academic Performance (links are all ... entry on PE classes and my previous entry on training for the Boston

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  Tissues - One 12 page lab report on the superposition of effects of ... Problem Set - 1 Exam involving problems on design optimization and NDE techniques 21F.703 - Spanish III - 1 Exam - 1 Paper on "El Espinazo del Diablo

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Clay Aiken! I'm not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on ... country who attend Clay Aiken concerts. They spend hours on several Clay Aiken message boards, and hundreds of dollars on hotel rooms, tickets

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005