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  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  , for having a web site that your on-board wi-fi cannot load. Greyhound ... up early from a field trip at the Pittsburgh Zoo to go on a road trip ... travelling is stressful and twelve hours is a long time to spend in a room with

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  model as a web tool, but cloud GPU time is expensive; we could send it to ... When I was a freshman I joined a plasma physics lab. Plasma physics ... things, then you can write down equations to plug into a simulation, and

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  Convention Center, the BIABF was a bit like the MIT Career Fair but with coat check, classy security, and fancy wine. Plus a much older and wealthier population. Really, a whole new world.    If you're wondering what an

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Update It's been an amazing year!

  

  Hey guys, it's been a ridiculously long time since you last heard what's been going on in my life so I thought I'd throw together a giant ... out. With no one to provide monthly reminders of what a well kempt hair

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  much. Prom is a nice excuse to dress-up, see what your friends look like with make-up on, and maybe ride in a limo, but in the end you’re just ... mail a month or so ago, and I was surprised to see that it was exactly

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  + weeks of winter break and a month of IAP: Priceless Winter break is upon us and promises to be a grand ole time. I'm especially excited about ... . Another popular option is working on a UROP. If you don't have a UROP yet

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  summer, I interned at a lunar exploration company called ispace. They are a ... , Mission 1, may have unfortunately [annotation note="This is a very nice word ... working on ispace’s Mission 2 attempt as a part of the [annotation note="A

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  very few undergrads (Now I'm excited a lot more of my undergrad friends ... building a database of alumni, so last day and night I spent a lot of time ... across the Web piecing together fragments of the 100K's rich history has

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  you’re on your own, kid

  

  large my web extended, how many people I actually do consider a friend. I ... considered me a friend taking time to check in on me. Another common thing I seem to hear alongside these check-ins are "I don't know a Cami without

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Belated Guest Entry by Carin '13 - a little late perhaps but incredible nonetheless

  

  a poverty action project sponsored by the Public Service Center (http://web ... over to England to visit a childhood friend. I've spent the past week ... traveling I've done this summer finally reminded me of a guest entry I meant

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  The MIT Spring Term subject listings have been posted to the web. Check them out! Here are a few highlights: 2.007: Design and ... manufacturability are emphasized. Subject relies on active learning via a major design

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

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  lectures and one 4-hour lab a week. During the lectures, Professor Slocum ... Instruments who designed a sensor that detects the weight of a passenger and ... becoming a adjunct Full Professor, he consulted with the Universal Textile

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  that the MIT Alumni association coordinates. It is a super cool ... alumni work at! There is a huge list of companies to choose from, and since ... opportunities is much smaller. The program lasts a relatively short amount of time

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  Dan made a wrapper that turns a web app into an iOS app, an open source ... Longtime readers may recall that I am a big fan of the His Dark ... graduates might consider their obligations to their fellow humans. In a way, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  Have you ever heard the joke: What’s green and has wheels? A logical ... ? Or maybe a green van? That’s green and has wheels, right?” A practical person, however, would recognize the tell-tale signs of a bad joke and wait

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  No I'm not a Cylon (or at least not that I know). But for those with memories spanning more than a year it's simply easier to introduce myself as ... Undergraduate Admissions. That roughly translates into being the person with a

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  had finals", "I was off adopting a child from Abu Dhabi")(oh, did I ... that will suffice. So I'm trying something new this time, a new reason ... truth. Yes, folks, I'm about to tell you the truth, and man, is it a doozy

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society studying humans? studying computers? porque no los dos?

  

  The Tech has an article out this morning about a new HASS ... . However, an MIT convention that spans the two is the HASS concentration, a ... rise to the level of a [annotation note="Although, if a minor is offered

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  MIT e-mail using just a web browser, just navigate to http ... perks I was looking forward to if I got accepted. The first was a Brass ... being able to write down "[email protected]." It's a

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Doonesbury Conclusion Official Doonesbury news.

  

  "Doonesbury Voting Hack", a web site (adorned with art borrowed from the Town Hall) which enabled would-be-ballot-stuffers to spew out over a million votes in a single night. "We're all running cgi hack scripts" lol'd one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2006