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• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday at the water park

  

  worlds. Actually, it's a story about going to a water park. But the reason my boyfriend and I ended up at the water park in the first place is ... ridiculously good skiier (that really is him, by the way). I'm from a beach

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Where the Sun Shines, There Hack They MIT is known for many things, including its legendary hacks.

  

  of the interdisciplinary nature of MIT. In 2005 MIT Professor Emeritus Samuel Jay Keyser gave a talk on the history of hacks. In Where the Sun ... deconstructs the psychological nature of hacking, and gets to the inner zen of

  • by Laurie Everett
  • August 2, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden, part 2 a zine carved out of pink erasers

  

  ="aligncenter" width="507"] specifically from the tree in front of Walker Memorial[/caption] [caption id="attachment_90797" align="aligncenter" width="507"] the commuter ... ="aligncenter" width="507"] imagery borrowed from Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  plenty of free parking (oh the naivete). One of the "cons" on my pro ... I got kind of used to walking places and taking the T. Eventually I got lazy and started using Lyft more, for the convenience and also

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  from mit. the apartment looked like this:   this past semester i ... lot. i helped design an airplane in 16.82, one of the capstone options for the aero/astro degree. here is a part of that airplane (i worked on

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cats!! I love where I live!!

  

  East Campus is the best home I could have ever asked for. Dorms at ... own special culture - and ours is especially fantastic. Not only do the ... floor in the world is my home. I live on the third floor of the east

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  16.810 Rapid Design and Prototyping 8 days to build an airplane. Intrigued?

  

  . Throughout my childhood, a small walk in closet in the basement of my house was ... !). Birthdays and Christmas were the only days of the year on which we'd actually build according to LEGO instruction manuals; As soon as we completed the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  ADITL My wednesday.

  

  the weather. I actually wear flip flops until the first snow, so yes. 8:28 - 8:40 AM: Breakfast made to order, the wonders of having your own chef ... modelling of a new version of the device I'm working on in lab. 10:05 - 10

  • by Bryan
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  -kg mollusks in each jar. The local dumpster cat gang has raided one jar ... out which jar they raided before you take the mollusks to market. Your evil neighbor, a competing mollusk hunter who owns the dock’s only

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stand Back! I'm going to try . . . well, you know the rest.

  

  much just going nuts. For our final (9th) lab of the semester, we were ... impulse with various levels of damping, etc. The lab setup my partner Pall and I were assigned? Force Gauge. Excellent. The lab that most people

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  St. George’s Day England's National Day

  

  this at the local supermarket: The signs say Happy St. George's Day ... another MITer at the time and neither of us knew what St. George's Day was ... entry on 23rd April but I'm in the middle of exams. Very stressful. More

  • by Cambridge
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Leaves, Strawberries, Doors Pictures of campus, faculty dinner, another door. (7 pictures)

  

  to turn as early a September, but only recently has most of the campus ... from this week: Also this week, I was invited to the faculty dinner at the ZBT house, home to Bryan '07, among many other awesome people

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  The grass is always greener on the other side. Or that's what they say anyways.  When I applied to the Cambridge- MIT Exchange (CME) program, I was pretty excited about the grass. The CME program lets MIT and

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Invasion of the Stikmen Another invasion of MIT?

  

  Some of you that frequent the blogs may remember that last year ... on the crosswalk? Well... I honestly had no idea the first time I ... . As usual, Steven was in the loop. He mentioned how he had stumbled upon

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  And the Lottery Says…..

  

  Burton Conner. Hi Mitra and Sam! *waves* Just felt like sharing. Right now I’m off to go shopping for random dorm room things, so more later.

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  encourages us to go wild with our imaginations, as long as the end product ... [/annotation]! So here are a few silly instruments I’ve designed throughout the semester (although I haven't had the chance to build most of them... yet

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  It finally happened. I got Covid. Right at the last week of ... in my room. I feel a lot better compared to the first few days of ... on the spot and then schedule it to get published right after. I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  Like you might have read on some of the other blogs, the EA Telethon ... you guys. The night was particularly entertaining when we started ... . It was pretty funny when I looked at the sign-in sheet and saw the name

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story Of @MITStudents as told by the person behind it

  

  usually at the gym at the same time, and the other day we were talking about ... about the Division of Student Life (DSL) at MIT? Essentially DSL promotes the idea that learning doesn’t just happen in the classroom. Learning

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Road Again Adventures in Texas!

  

  Just a quick post here - I'm actually on the road right now, doing ... along the way. (As for the other stops in Texas - Dallas/Ft Worth, Houston, and El Paso - Kim has been hanging out there!) Well, it's off to the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 4, 2010