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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Life, As Physics Problem also The Tech said a thing

  

  immediately after my accident was all about trying to figure out the physics of ... the physics of real-life scenarios, it's useful to start with the ... 's pretty easy to explain what happened. I'm going to assume that (1) only the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

   flickered back on, and I happened to find myself looking down the lecture hall at ... used up all the space on the bottom board, reached for the one above it ... to keep an eye on my newsfeed while watching the presidential debates

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Spy vs. Spy The former directors of the US and Saudi intelligence agencies speak at MIT.

  

  -Faisal, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States. The forum will be ... service, the General Intelligence Directorate, from 1977 to 2001. Prof ... "Saudi Arabia and the Global Community" Thursday, February 16, 4pm

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  on a post about the class for three weeks now, and i'm really hoping to ... acknowledgement statement, as adapted from mit's statement. the land on which i ... people from their land, and hostility to the point of killing, is something

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / Events

  SMRT Only at MIT could a wholesome, traditional integration bee end up like this.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Human females are the second-largest female primate ... 're Course 9, and you like Dr. Phil?" As promised, I headed over to the MIT ... something, and he started solving the integrals in like 30 seconds, and after

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  Last week, non-seniors who want to live on campus in the [annotation ... notifications on, is exhausting. If I’m already online all the time, going to ... the end of all that is to go on yet another Zoom call, or even just

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  leave the room when our teacher told us to etherize the rest. In 10th ... projectile motion, above everyone's heads, before smashing on the floor by my teacher's desk. As I rushed to the sink, my teacher made my partner Max

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  if you're going to do all this stuff on the street you also have to ... , who didn't even speak Mandarin, how to put one on.) The authorities ... wholesale on the streets to Chinese buyers. When the border crossing opened

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  to prepare kind of an absurdist take on the song. The song beigns with ... minutes to sing the first chorus, highlighted by a thirty-second "why do we ... Sam's Mom successfully conspired with Mitra to drag me to the Clay

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  conferences. I had a thermo pset and an essay to work on the night I found out ... full of thoughts on how to iron out the next several chapters, how would ... focused on the literary side. I circled back to a lot of thoughts I’d come

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  company email. Pull up the spec that I need to work on. 8:40 AM- I get lost ... analytics I’ve been working on. We’re going to talk to his boss about the ... *written by Liz O. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  .com/education, but it's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... submit a proposal beyond "lying on the beach," but often little more is ... any reason as long as students don't apply elsewhere. "It's reached the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  . When your application pieces are processed, they will be posted on the My ... deadline versus those submitted on the deadline day. The bottom line -- no ... these extra materials as they reach our desks. Catching up on some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  , a 3.5 mile drive from campus. I sprint to get on the bus 3 minutes ... in time and take an Uber to the rink for my 20-minute on-ice warmup at ... hotel, and we head to the rink. It’s again time for my 20-minute on

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  awesome on the third mission, and hoping to have enough time to refly our ... we arrived to the competition site, a brisk wind decided to settle in ... designed to fly at 20 mph and the wind is 30 mph, your plane will take off

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  . Second semester, D's and F's do not show up on your transcript, but A's, B ... came to terms with the fact that I wasn't preordained to be a computer ... the societal implications of technology. I wanted to learn about

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  an airport and i was in the second-to-last row window seat on a redeye ... a big window in our house and i sat on the couch in front of it and ... dragged two friends to a book talk at the harvard coop, where we learned

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  the day, I was trying to figure out how to tell folks on here what the ... , early on Sunday morning, I was lying on the floor. I don't tend to lie ... looking over to the side and seeing what's going on elsewhere. Oh, good

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk ... year. In the interests of time, I'm going to reprint an entry (edited ... 's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The German language has two different verbs for "to eat ... (fressen). I have also learned the German word for "to strike a deathblow ... parties, a floor-sponsored trip to some island in the middle of Boston

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006