Search

Search Results

• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  bestowed upon ten leading researchers from four different continents for ... could blog it for you. But I digress. Want to know the answers to the ... Chemistry (move over, Schrock) for proving, along with 20 student volunteers

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  in the archives if you look for titles that start with "Meet the ... Students? Thats because the form said that it was for US. students only. Or ... Mid-Year Report or some sort of supplement for it?" SyRx wrote, "I'm an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Results of My Summer cookies, web usability, and painting

  

  graphic design for personal websites, music videos, robotics and circuitry ... lessons along the way: 1) For the grittiest frosting you'll ever taste (feel ... consistency of icons and the familiarity of the website to ensure that the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  semester, but you can start to poke around in the 6.811 course website ... a client that was looking for a way to use his iPhone to take steady ... the popular grip shutter for iPhones is just the little circuit you see

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  In the South for prospective students; in the mail for incoming students Travel & email.

  

  Report from MIT Medical. Instructions for obtaining your MIT computing ... is the one that generates the most excitement. For many students, it ... care about you, here are some tips for choosing an email address: You

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  fraternity, selected behind closed doors. The website malfunctioned for several ... in all of us. It’s the event where the Brass Rat for each class is ... most ironically for a RingComm made of 5 mechanical engineering majors

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  Today I got an email from MIT that directed me to a website which ... Studies and Planning. The number of applicants for admission to the ... Schmill Dean of Admssions Now is no time to despair! Lucky for us, we

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jenny Hu- Adapting to Artifical Gravity Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can…

  

  nearby sites such as the moon and low Earth orbit. For NASA to carry out ... takes a while to get used to. It is important for astronauts to adapt to ... , found this UROP on the UROP website. The Man Vehicle Laboratory often

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  hope springs eternal a warm feeling

  

  anything but a kind of pure, unadulterated hope for the coming semester. It ... few inches of snow forecast for tomorrow"]not yet spring here in Boston ... people talking in rooms which have sat empty for around 11 months now. Soon

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  computers remember things for longer. Very, very fast computers that only ... computers using warm and fast computers. Cool rocks for hot computers. Part ... Interesting Things) talking about all the cool ideas they have worked on for the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  DID YOU KNOW? "The Canticle of Freedom," written for the dedication ... meeting for my UROP (the turkey one) just to get free apple pie 2. discussed ... for Thanksgiving: 10.213: Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics -- Well

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  . Rhythms were broken, routine thrown for a loop (or many loops), and I spent ... scheduled for Wednesday, and classes were cancelled in anticipation of ... whole, asking for volunteers. I needed grills. I needed people who knew

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  it gets cold every year, to Miami for New Year’s and a Green Christmas and to Myrtle Beach for Thanksgiving and Hanukkah. My parents drove down ... ). Thanksgiving for me is the beach, yoga classes twice a day, and almost absolutely

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  completely redesign our website (as well as the website for SFS). It will be a ... you're here, and we have your attention, I would like to ask for your ... 've been talking about this kind of redesign for the last few years and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  home situation and fast wifi, there was no way i would make it on ... decided that was fine; i liked cooking for myself too much to risk being ... 't worth taking an LOA; i had too many plans for the year that couldn't be

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  of our home planet in Book II and you'll see what I mean: "And fast by ... seen, although I suppose you could think of the chain as a metaphor for ... of FRBs (Fast Radio Bursts...very unfortunately nicknamed "furbies" by

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  my friends and I started looking for an externship (a short internship ... finalizing the user experience using proto.io (silly-fast mobile prototyping ... to be built ASAP. Talk about silly-fast! And so far, startup life has

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  program for his junior year that would allow him to merge the arts with his ... the academics that he doesn”t feel much affinity for otherwise. It was a ... humanities focus for these brilliant mathematical and scientific young minds

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  i'm writing this post while sitting at an LAX waiting to board my flight to boston. this summer went by weirdly fast but in a way that i can ... air polluted but it does make for some great sunsets.

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  - safe haven? All of these consequences are fast-forwarding through my ... ’s chasing away so many, so many things for convenience, efficiency, and power

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011