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• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  mode of transport when the weather is (reasonably) nice, it's a great way ... the way where I have to cross a side street, or switch sides of the road, on my way to work. And the most complex of these is the traffic circle

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  , we finally completed exploring the first floor of CES. Our jaws dropped ... the second week of January to reflect on what happened the first week. I ... wanted to put myself at the forefront of that field. I started doing

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  dance team. We have a big performance coming up the first weekend of March ... . At the beginning of January, I flew back to Boston for a month ... , but after the next week or so, a lot of CK stuff will be done and I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams Hello free -

  

  was the first real session of studio, and we… practiced drawing a ... simply a dream. One of the most exciting things about partaking in art-related anything is the sheer range of supplies you get to use! Although all of the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 18, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  campus for the first time. The novelty of that comes in waves. I love ... the first time in my life I wore gloves without a half-inch of space ... ="aligncenter" width="768"] My notebook from the first day of in-person class. To

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  'mores-making partner. I think that was the first of many times my heart melted at camp ... the overwhelming satisfaction of playing Capture the Flag, dancing with seven-year-olds to the addicting melodies of Lady Gaga, and initiating a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  culture in my games and culture class, taught by one of the first ... a big window in our house and i sat on the couch in front of it and ... carried all the boxes i'd packed into storage up five flights of stairs, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Toys II Using household items to save the world

  

  the fun of it. "It's the first time we're working together as kind of a ... , one of the MIT students who in September launched a $150 camera balloon ... the impacts of the oil spill to dissipate, he said. "If we do it now

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT’s Newest Nobel Laureate Can you autograph my problem set?

  

  Nobel prize for his "for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis." Courtesy of the MIT News Office: Schrock was cited by the Nobel committee for being the first to produce an efficient metal

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Telethon Live Blog Where we call you --

  

  . It also reminds me of the first time I actually met Snively, where his ... guys, but the phones are kind of all busy right now so I have to wait a ... relatively long streak of getting automated answers! So the telethon seems to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  party, but, really, as much as my friends and I love the the intrigue of ... back when I was applying, and it is the first time we've asked this ... what kinds of things they talk about. A week and a half to the early

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  to pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome. No summer ... , right in front of the departure gate boards. Maybe they were upset that ... picked me up from the airport. Our first stop: Walmart. Not exactly the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  exposed. For a moment, I was reminded of the giddiness of first love, how it ... perhaps it was because our school was 80% Caucasian and in the heart of ... fetishized Asian women, but out of fear that my friend would think I was the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  I’d intended to write this post the first day of classes, but was swept up into the chaos of starting the school year, which has been a ... or a new UROP, and pre-semester cleaning of my new home, the DPhi

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  puffy jacket will always remind me of certain backpacking trips in the ... never provide. Yesterday, instead of lining up at midnight for the Black ... hosted by the local Patagonia (you may have heard of their prominent anti

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  ceremony today will be one of the first steps along that road. Mr. Chang said ... Shih and Albert Chang will be going to the Massachusetts Institute of ... graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. Four

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”

  

  inner pony!” or, “This part is when the baby stands up and takes his first ... also the words of the MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE) director, Frederick Harris. Other times, another kind of life lesson comes from the calm and

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 1, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  guys got to see some of the nice weather we have hidden around here ... it's just not the path I want to take. A couple of years ago, the Sloan faculty heard the desires of the MIT community for a recognized

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  world again. I had a great day of reading. The applications in today ... , "Whoa, one of the girls in the third photo from the top is wearing a ... .mathcamp.org/hunt/2003 www.mathcamp.org/hunt/2004 "...courtesy of the Mathcamp/ESG team

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  week of the revision period would coincide with the first week of classes ... general chaos. The first week of this four week period I had spent ... ;         I finished up the first draft of revisions

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019