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• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  ) Thursday UROP Toy Lab (work on presentation/build toys) Friday 18.03 PSET due (haven't started) UROP Meeting Saturday Work on Toy Design all day Sunday Work on Toy Design all day Monday Work on Toy Design all day

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  61 Things to Love About Boston Give or take a few.

  

  in, from my lab-mates, from my friends...and so on. Maybe it's not as personal as face-to-face conversation or talking on the phone, but it's handy ... Bridge for a day to film 21? (More on the movie itself later.) #35 - Wait

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Spirit of Competition [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] Every year, the Army, Navy, and Air Force duke it…

  

  of being in the Navy, when push comes to shove I knew that the guys on the other side of the court were definitely on our team. We are a group ... can always count on air support, and nobody is going put forth less than

  • by ROTC
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  then, I don't know. Also, we will begin notifying some students on the ... on the waitlist to about 500 people, and many of those people accepted a place on the waitlist. But it just isn't ethical to keep that many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class of 2009 Ring Delivery The '09s get our brass rats. We think this makes us like, so cool.

  

  last Thursday, and while I'm not big on getting dressed up, semiformal attire was "encouraged," so I sucked it up and put on a dress. I left ... . Adelaide sits on the floor in the hallway to strap on her heels. Adelaide is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  As you know, MIT is embarking on a mission to tackle the world ... Zag, hosted by Marsha. There's a nice piece about MIT research on more energy ... only decades away, at best, from the point of no return on greenhouse gas

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  campus on Monday and spent two hours at events for undergraduates 2. Iqbal ... on Monday about the importance of small farms 4. Brigitte Madrian ... few weeks ago on the ways form logistics affect retirement savings Read

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  The UA Committee on Orientation has come out with a report on ... . :) A lot of what is in the report is based on the data we collected ... Dormitory Council Special Committee on Housing & Orientation) Erik '09 (4

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  . ''Usually a degree in engineering means you'll eventually be working on cars ... here's just one example of a) how hands on the class is, and b) how it focuses on using technology to solve problems in developing nations. We

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  article about younger students at MIT. She worked hard on the application and on the required tests. She earned an ACT composite score of 32, which included a perfect 36 on the math portion, and an SAT score of 2

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  .edu domain (and, I might guess, those on rpi.edu and cornell.edu). Relatedly ... on campus: The rigorous freshman physics class 8.022 (also known as ... question, which was forwarded on to me by the awesome Nick '09: Alex isn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Surprising Research Results The chimpanzee-human relationship, and CEO pay.

  

  , startles, and really makes you think. On the train on the way back from a ... genomics research, had the following teaser on the front page: A Later Split ... economics research on the controversial topic of executive compensation

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Answers, and live updates Live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl.

  

  architect of Simmons Hall. I'll update you on the lecture and also answer some pressing questions as the talk goes on... First, some CPW answers. I know ... dorms he imagined for MIT on Vassar Street; Simmons is the second from the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  Three-day weekends seem like the perfect opportunity to catch-up on ... of numbers, I found that they are very, very different. We arrived on ... partner stops you from falling two stories if you lose your grip on the wall

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Love Potion No. 9 roses are #FF0000violets are #0000FF

  

  provide you with a few thoughts on dating at MIT. I make no allegations of the sort that I'm an expert on the issue by any stretch of the imagination, but for those of you interested, here's my take on the lay of the

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  naturally at 8 a.m. on a daily basis and I've found a semblance of work ethic ... immediate peers at home had gone on to university, and a spread of gap years ... level of education on a footing equal to my new classmates by simple

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Summary

  

  that you want on a 3D CAD program like Solidworks (see image below of a ... tool paths. Then, open your file on the computer connected to CNC mill or ... pictures. But, the flywheel has little mice on it, the bearing plate has bars

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Study Break!

  

  break thing. All of the dorms were like "oh we go on these awesome trips ... value of the study break a couple of weeks ago when I was working on this ... move on to the next. I took one look at the question and just burst out

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  considering the past. And as I type this from an aisle seat on a flight bound ... kitchen table on a daily basis is really starting to sink in. It's not that ... cried and where I first skinned my knees on a playground. Yes, to be

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  the runaround a star-studded event twenty years in the making.

  

  So on Sunday, I turned 20. I am now OLD. Now since I have a summer ... the festivities tonight: 6:30 meet on kresge oval for a picnic 7:00 the first secret is revealed So over the course of the day on Monday, a

  • by Bryan
  • August 18, 2005