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• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  from near my home about 7 miles to campus. I get a nice view, I get to ... trying to hit is only a foot in front of you. So as the car kept driving ... and in a complete sentence, "dammit, this is a terrible way to die." My

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  Google Drive. Already a struggle to stay relevant in the two years since I ... created to measure. Maybe I’m just a nerd who has taken a lot of tests in ... , I want to spotlight a few of them because they are just. that. cool

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  note: if you’re ever in an exam and you don’t know the answer to a ... ’m planning on a video blog for next time (try to contain your excitement). Post ... .). In honor of his departure from our 7.03 class, I figured I’d dedicate a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  , relaxing after a year of MIT. Took a short family vacation to Nagoya, Japan ... help to explain a bit more. July Fourth My Summer, In Words Whee ... . (note: Montreal is a really beautiful city and a great place to get away

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  Tumblr is where I put a lot of this reflection. In particular, I seem to ... bed I should just get up early and then take a nap in the afternoon ... do this in reverse order I get easily discouraged when a problem is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  yet and you're sitting around wondering what in the world a Math ... schedule. Make the most of it, willya?) Take a CI-H to get them out of the ... FEE gets you out of the CI-HW part, leaving you free to take just a CI

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Toy Design Update How couldn't you enjoy building toys?

  

  submit a resume to their modeling department. After a short wait, a road ... Toy Design in several months but that's not to say I haven't been heavily involved. In fact, I'd like to officially propose that MIT move this

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  to learn to manage your time. There are also fewer examples in class ... problems you’re asked to solve—it is a creative activity with strict rules ... who actively like to think about math, and hopefully, if you’re a math

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  some things my eyes saw recently (this is exactly what it says on the tin)

  

  I have seen much in these past weeks. Here is a small selection ... best pic I got. Feel free to try to make your guesses. On ... packed boxes: many, many boxes. I'm moving to a different room next year

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 24, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  lot of what I was looking forward to in college.   freshman year  As a ... might call a “lifestyle class.” I’d sleep earlier in order to wake up ... this gif a lot to get it to upload :'([/caption] junior spring  Come

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  3 / A team effort Roll Tech: Your newest Intercollegiate High Team silver medalists!

  

  from jumps to step sequences. This was my first time taking part in a ... course, I also spent a good chunk of time in lab working on my final ... with a friend visiting from the other coast over lunch in Central Square

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 12, 2018
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  tool, or a visualization of some dataset.  We had the choice to make ... stalls (ranging from 'when i go there's always a stall available' to 'there ... in stalls, if you can hear the person next to you fighting demons as

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  to be involved in all of them, short of finding a way to clone myself ... , In Time ), and I have to decide how to spend it. MIT is a culture ... AVERAGE!! Friend 1: Man... in high school when I got a 95, I used to think

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  New Server As of this afternoon, mitadmissions.org is living on a new (and much faster) server.

  

  . I'll be back with a real entry very soon! Hope your summers are going ... Hi folks, As of this afternoon, mitadmissions.org is living on a new (and much faster) server. You'll probably notice better performance in

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 30, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  . Happiness is not a place. In the following months I went to CPW, shopped for ... closer you get to receiving your admissions decisions, the easier it ... posted online here. If you’re looking for a place to start, below is a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Graduation Some commencement pictures.

  

  cheap and easy to order in bulk. I reckon there were a total of close to ... ominous dark skies today and what was forecasted to be a partly cloudy to ... to cancel or postpone the elaborate shindig in Killian Court (check out

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  thought from the beginning to the end of a chapter, in which three or four ... This year I read 20 books. Here they are in a tier list, ranked based ... or perceived quality, because: 1) I don’t trust myself to make a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  picture. We could verify this by trying to get a picture from the same ... annex, which looks like it has a similar structure to the building in the ... . However, in the process of doing research for it, I read a book titled

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  can't get things done when you work in a group. you're addicted to ... energy for things you're passionate about. you're try to be a morning ... % chance you're a sick person to be around. you're laid back, can handle

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Kick to the limit! The Korean Flying Tigers! What could possibly sound more exciting than that?

  

  , there seemed to be a lot of air in between the kicks and "injuries." This ... be sitting next to the sports editor for The Tech, and through a bit of ... University in South Korea, where it's possible to major in taekwondo like an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 19, 2005