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  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  to learn to fly and is looking at taking pilot lessons over the summer ... by an iPad, and the necessary 8000 or so engineers have gathered to ... : If you're curious as to where all the puns went: I wrote the first part

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Term time again

  

  the eye, signal detection theory, and more, and we get to look at lots ... know what it's going to be about. Meanwhile, since I'm being hosed by my ... MIT, I'll dedicate this entry to describing them. I've italicized the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  class is taught by the legend Gilbert Strang, whom you may know for his 18 ... : The Untold Stories)   This class is fascinating. I decided to take ... class before—the homework for each class is to do readings

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  by looking out the window. As long as you're sitting, you're ... than others. If your work is getting frustrating, sometimes all you have to do is shift your point of view, and things will feel much better

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  cares about its prefrosh and wants them to see what the place is really ... stay. Boston is already my home. Happily, I woke up to a hack at the ... education to a drink from a firehose? There is so much more than water at MIT

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  to put me in biotech. I think the lack of math/applied technology is ... (and also encourage me into switch to 10B). The bio track is exactly the ... to the computational side. As of now, this is the major. 🎉 Maybe

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Classes

  

  -run class. Once you get beyond the science core GIRs, the material is usually ... at MIT take this class. The textbook is fascinating; it's something I would actually read for pleasure as well as work. The material is

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  life. This is the first year I've been old enough to actually vote, and though I realized there were other ways to get involved without actually ... like everyone under 40 is crazy about it. I'm not going to get into my

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  talking about for days. So I guess this is your sign to go to fancy ... the way that it is all very brick and has a lot of historical features ... paraphernalia I was exposed to, I decided to test my own limits on the way back

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  loftblogging 3: liberation via customization i <3 process

  

  sized loft, before quickly realizing that my room is way too small and the ... furniture. Although I initially emailed the EC house manager to request ... tutorial hours to help teach residents how to use the equipment and with loft

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  weekends and then party after. It's great to be surrounded by hardworking people because it motivates me to not laze around or procrastinate by ... also work out together!! One of the guys I'm living with is in ROTC and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

   doing instead of living." I felt like the best way to approach life was to fill it ... school; that there is so much left to sneak up on me, to change the way I ... this is what my parents have been trying to tell me for the past eight or

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  your parents what to expect over the next year. (She's visiting for a ... way? Name two. I dare you to. Anyway, this album is my favorite new ... out. All of this is leading up to the tried-and-true open question

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  feeling of getting stronger and lifting big objects. I love the way your ... challenging to navigate. Carpal tunnel syndrome is theoretically aggravated by ... they get, or if the pain is an indicator that I am making the problem

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  See me, feel me, milq me, heal me Picture entry! Don't read if you're on dialup! DON'T DO IT! Sorry, but it's for…

  

  of what you're going to get is going to be camera-phone pictures. I ... , remember in the summer when you used to get nice, well-cropped color pictures ... a dialup connection and your computer is powered by, like, a hamster

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On my way…

  

  , and I have a few things to finish up here before heading home for the ... Turns out that Anthony isn't the only one who loves Amtrak. I called ... cancelled. I will now be getting home almost 4 full hours earlier than I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2005
• Blog / Events

  emergency blog post because Lilly Chin ‘17 just won Jeopardy and is also the greatest of all time "who is the spiciest memelord?" it's you

  

  ! And she was ahead by so much at the end that this was her final Jeopardy ... befriend some of the best and brightest minds in America and around the world ... from the r/Jeopardy subreddit     Also, it is Because

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  and 2 labs will do that). So...I thought I'd take the easy way out, by giving you one of my problems to take a look at. 6.033 is Computer Systems ... physical device itself, and has to make the flash look like a traditional

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  FINAL TERM ATTACK Like a black light attack, only it's not like that at all.

  

  may comprise more than 20% of the whole. Try to assemble your "text ... Life is the first thing that should come to mind when I have to develop ... while running down to the Senior Haus lobby to pick up the Indian food I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  more moral option to choose?” The problem is not very interesting, prima ... this is not so straightforward by formulating two variants of the problem ... bogged down by this, we will have to grant the existence of some morally

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017