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• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  pages of lecture notes to get through, the last thing we want to concern ... and day to day obligations became the new norm. A shift of reference ... imparted a sense of weightlessness, probably similar to what a balloon feels

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Vroom Vroom! Hey! I know him!

  

  .004 and I've worked with him on a variety of other projects. He's always building something scary that does something awesome and it's fun to see his ... in his Facebook profile that led me to believe something big was going

  • by Snively '11
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions Statistics 2007 Numbers, numbers, numbers.

  

  admitted Early Action? Luckily, I can refer most folks to our website, where we offer a plethora of numbers for any statistical junkie. Recently, we ... 'll update the freshman class profile page closer to Registration Day. Here's a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  best of the blogs. As they used to tell us in grad school, done is better ... collocation. The simplest approach to such recording is the list, a group of ... of the expanding universe is revealed through cataloging Right: to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  applied to us, something difficult for all involved. Of those 18 ... Class of 2016, which is, to me, just about as awe-inspiring as any other ... celestial bodies next fall. If you are one of the students to whom we were

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  —and all others forced to bid periodically for their next opportunity ... themselves from the pain. The mere passage of time turned out to be that ... , Andrew J. '10 and I placed offers on a number of houses, all losing to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then ... United States and the former head of Google[x]. It's been called MIT's most ... of what it's like to be a mechanical engineer at MIT, and something of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done

  

  With the school year coming back around, it only feels necessary to pretend it’s December 31st and start making a list of things I want to accomplish by the end of the school year knowing that 90% of the items on this

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  the introduction to E.L. Doctorow's novel City of God. I quote it for ... beyond any ability of ours to measure. What do things look like just at the ... properties, no volume, no transformative elemental energies of light or force

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Hackapult Sieges The Dome

  

  attempt to answer the age-old question of how hackers manage to access the ... to pranks of years past".   I stood outside admiring the hack for ... . One of the lovely things about my office is that I have a window under

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  , because I don't actually have to think about the implications of anything I discovered, I just have to cite old papers done by other members of my lab and ... author. Morgan, the professor in charge of the lab, gets to be last author

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  ) As part of my weekly Boston Enrichment Trip, I ventured today to the ... ). According to the Fair’s website, “the value might derive from the edition, the ... Certificate of Italy” by King George I of England could match that. Way to go

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  that are mostly related to sex. Sex seems to be this insuppressible force ... constructs of funerals and legal proceedings as superficial ways to maintain a ... critiquing our deceptions, to our own selves and also to others; at the end of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  interface has a bunch of different methods and if you create a class… I DON ... related to what we learned about. There were a bunch of him eating spherical ... . Dora: On a scale from super chill to 0 chill. I don’t know. On a scale of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Deadline where I attempt to reason through an approaching all-nighter

  

  't reasonably expect for my body to endure another one of those hazy and hungry ... don't mind a lack of sleep too much. In the morning, I get to watch the ... be exhilarating. It pushes one to the limits of intellectual capacities

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7:15PM ET!

  

  work in large teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and build ... (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  plenty of things to keep me occupied today, and all of these urgent reasons ... of direction before realizing that you opened up Google Maps on your ... ; Yep, no need to do anything serious. I did a bunch of these things in

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That Lovely Pre-Finals Period

  

  changes to the GIRs (General Institute Requirements). These are the sorts of ... that the current structure of required/core classes leaves much to be desired, but it can be quite helpful for freshmen to take a variety of

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

  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  replace your recurring nightmare of being forced to swim the Charles clad in ... official schedule, so I'm just going to tiptoe over the bounds of propriety a ... attend without the aid of a time machine, so to jump on the blogger

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  day by doing new things! I’ve wanted to try many of the things listed ... accidentally got glue on my eyelids and had to rub parts of the makeup off ... meant that I’d have to braid my hair into 50+ thin braids instead of the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021