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• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  is when I sense some carelessness in a product.” Every Wednesday night ... Design. The concept of 2.00b, or Toy Product Design, is fairly simple ... peer pressure (far more effective is to have people work alone and then

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  calories), being with friends. This is what it looked like: The road to camp. Happy. And that above is mostly how I felt. Then I went back to Mc ... distance of this place from anything I'm used to is bitingly obvious. I took

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  , "experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted" (Randy Pausch ... declared Course 2! Woot! But enough about school... after all it is summer ... your typical mechanical engineering lab, but the research is neat! Aside

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  Championships next weekend. The thing is, no matter how many times I told myself "this is just another race," Regionals isn't quite any ol' race. You hear ... cheering squad, and MIT is no exception. I had the pleasure of being one of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  Second semester is just two weeks old, and I've already decided that ... me any significant pain. 8.02 (Physics) is essentially a review of high ... .00 (Psych) is filled with cool videos, neat facts, and references to one of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  astrophysically precise.) *In fact, this fact is not factually interesting at all ... firmest personal beliefs is that one should never waste the grammatical ... this one, which began with “One.” One could say that “one” is one of the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Jonte ‘13 The fourth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  2009 graduate of Franklin County High School, is one of 12 students ... mechanical engineering. MIT is an internationally-known, private research university located in Cambridge, Mass. Craighead said he is looking forward to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  opportunity to sightsee on MIT's money, but when is it NOT a great opportunity ... challenge was to visit an onsen together, which is basically just a giant public bath. Essentially the idea is, "welcome to Kyoto; in order to get

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  It's been a while. Hi. (This is a long post, but you won't complain ... isolation of the Clock gene in mice. Clock is the result of a point mutation ... other major mutations. To this, Carlos said, "This is typical of many

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  3) Nothing is new anymore During your first semester at MIT you'll be ... classes, and as a whole MIT is very good, but individual students sometimes ... prides itself on is making sure you have an enjoyable and fair first

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P

  

  are genres, and both have certain elements that the plot is built around ... interpretation of The Great Gatsby in which Gatsby is a seahorse when asked if ... , and after reading he believes nothing is sacred, and people should

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  science/engineering award available, and is famous for his use of polymers ... ’t know what will. My senior thesis project is on nanoparticles and I ... UROP was in the BioInstrumentation Lab and there is nanotech research

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  officially closed for the year. Every student that graduates from MIT is ... weekend in the White Mountains. The PE course offering at MIT is incredibly ... operate a Tech Dinghy, which is the most basic type of sailboats at MIT. In

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  Here is something that always makes me laugh: My sister (a Harvard ... of a harsh coughing noise) and "kamber" is really just a weird nickname ... I mean, the guy on my right is using MySpace, and I'm pretty sure My

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  everything, along with an excellent teacher, is what got you through AP Calc AB and BC. A fair amount of time is definitely not what you have right now. Your excellent teacher is back home in sunny, hurricane-prone South

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  is hard enough), a fuel cell that could theoretically be used to power ... nobody. Instead we're using 22 M formic acid, which is, needless to say ... like that. Anyway, the formic acid is pressurized, so it goes through a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  grill seasoning, which is the only spice that I have bought all summer ... cents. I have somehow convinced myself that Anna's is actually pretty healthy--at least you know that the ingredients are fresh, and nothing is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  . Unfortunately for me, I am a hopeless sap, so the best I can hope for is not ... scientist better half, is applying to grad schools this year. He had been a ... to say, since this blog's title is not "The Counting Crows are Life

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  dancing." Adam's line of reasoning is that once you're in a relationship ... ! I eat about 10 meals a week on campus -- that is, breakfast and lunch ... usually either get dinner on campus (that is, bring dinner home on their way

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  the rest of my life is meeting an anxious end. I'm still in the same ... is no conceivable way any incoming freshman can know or expect what the ... , you're being welcomed to campus and everything is looking up. You're on

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006