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• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  ] "Ball." ME: [pfft] If I'm being honest, it wasn't the most brilliant ... DID YOU KNOW? When the cartoon "Underdog" was syndicated in the 1980s ... abuse. Wow, Super Energy Pill would be an awesome band name. Uh, sorry

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  Graduate School greatly exceeds the number which can be accommodated and it ... linked to the following letter: Dear Ms. C: I am truly sorry to inform you that we are not offering you admission to MIT in the Department of Urban

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

  2.007 Robot Competition 2016 robots dump (replica) tea bags in the (replica) Boston harbor

  

  "No innovation without fabrication!" This is the motto of 2.007, a semester-long class for mechanical engineering students. The class teaches students design and manufacturing hands on and culminates in the annual 2

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  XC is Sexy

  

  tent, not to be confused with the tents for the Amherst, Bates, BC, Brown ... I first saw the slogan "XC is Sexy" on the shirt of a 12 year old ... Forest Hills. (For you subway people, we took the Red line to Downtown

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  π Day

  

  /14) was also Einstein's birthday, and seeing as I was right next to the Albert Einstein Memorial at the National Academy of Sciences, I set up my ... the National Academy of Sciences? I was there for the public exhibition

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Normalville

  

  Normalville kept the team up-to-date on our progress.   You might be ... Congratulations to the Random Hall dormitory team ("Physical Plant") for winning this year's Mystery Hunt! I really enjoyed the hunt, and our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  walked in. Click here to see the brochure. [embed]https://youtu.be/vVIKaj2X ... here to see the brochure.  [embed]https://youtu.be/C5FMUYPs ... here to see the brochure. [embed]https://youtu.be

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  : they have no business in the admissions process - in either direction. First, an applicant should never assume something to be true about a ... said primary source, I can tell you that no, MIT doesn't have the highest

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  First of all, apologies for the radio silence. I've been sequestered in reading and committee for the last few weeks. Today may be a Sunday ... characterize the Media Lab as being "the place where everything cool that has

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  to be SO interesting. Perhaps one day I’ll join the ranks of video essayists, as I believe video essays to be the most digestible and accessible ... photos of Blahaj being placed in human-like situations circulated on the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We, the people

  

  was the premiere of Swades, the latest film from Oscar ... the Bollywood equivalent to, say, Tom Cruise/Hanks). When we arrived, the theater was packed. The last empty seat in the house went to MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  I'll be interviewing there in three weeks. (All of the schools at ... story here), so I'm excited that I had the opportunity to apply and be ... information; first I emailed one of the cheerleaders, Lisa '04, who is currently

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  would be able to create using those implementations. The initial idea ... lighting model code to remove the shadows and shift the values to be ... be super tiny so that it would compile in the range of 10 to 15 minutes

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  wouldn't be doing the day justice if I put it at the end of this one. ... I think FUN would be a good way to describe this weekend. THURSDAY ... screenings of older movies every Thursday night. This week, the free movie is

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  a sports car because I'd jump to the end of a problem instead of being ... generations of former freshmen, since I'd waited two years to finally be the ... be marooned in the desert. Sure, I arrived on campus, picked up my new

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Underneath your curves (Free) sample problems from MIT's integration bee this year.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The new wave-y pop song "I Should Be Allowed To Think" by They Might Be Giants begins with the lyrics, "I saw the best minds ... this would be way, way easier. No, not the girl who builds robots. And

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Energized Watching the sun rise signals that it's time for bed.

  

  the design project seriously, and thought that it'd be just plugging ... brought to me to be able to press print and be done with it, but the process ... As the semester begins to wind down, it comes time to turn in

  • by Bryan
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  ! Academically, it was the best part of my week. It felt great to be back helping ... that proving such trivial things would be such a hassle! Other than the ... breakfast/brunch (normally it ends up being brunch cause sleep is not for the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Awesome Autobiography in rage comic form

  

  have learned now in my advanced age. On the same day, in a very different part of the Internet - though culturally close and easily accessible via ... ; now, 9 days later, it has filtered through the rest of the Internet back

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Facebook. Because social networking makes you cool.

  

  * official. I'll see if they guy who started it will make one of the bloggers ... on passing the aforementioned 18.022 exam. Final in 8 hours, you'll hear from me after that :) However, in the meantime: Congratulations to

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 16, 2009