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• Blog / Challenges

  Hosed Exams=Cars, I'll show you how!

  

  the same time? That's how exams are here. Most of the time they're all ... that last one up), but it mostly just boils down to you getting hosed by the end of the week. What's being hosed? Well there's this saying

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please Vote for My Idea for the Obama Administration! Change.org is sponsoring a competition whereby anyone can post an idea for making America better.…

  

  . They'll also receive the support of a national lobbying campaign run by ... ten winning ideas have a real chance of being implemented. All you have ... to becoming one of the Obama administration's priorities!

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YoYoPhones The iPod has nothing on this.

  

  overwhelming courseload of two classes, one of my classes 2.008: Design and Manufacturing II gave me a taste of the various manufacturing methods including ... , flexibility, and rate. But as you well know by now, at MIT, nothing is ever

  • by Bryan
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  From across the Web… Recent happenings across the Web.

  

  , Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management, by the Seattle Post ... Some random links I've been accumulating: The New York Times asks Professors Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of MIT's Poverty Action Lab about

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

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  's major newspaper. Figuring ways to go faster with the flow By Phil Mc ... researcher at the MIT Center for Sports Innovation, has an impressive list of clients -- from Tour de France stage winners to some of North America

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  continuing obsession with Food Network by recounting some of the best and worst ... class (all 9 of us) our AP Chem teacher, Mr. Richard Richard Sweger, by ... by Ruth Graves Wakefield in 1937. She was working at the Toll House Inn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  PumpkiNerd Carving My dorm had a pumpkin carving contest, and categories were funniest, scariest, geekiest, most original,…

  

  "vegetabletarian" is more accurate.) Me? Not so much. For the handful of you ... carved the general form of a regression equation. James '08 thinks he can out-geek us by carving Athena. Right. Other people noted how he

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Study Abroad Fair Learn about opportunities to study in another country (8 pictures)

  

  the face value of your education by coupling scholastic endeavors with ... - 5 PM Where: 2nd floor of the Student Center (La Sala de Puerto Rico ... . Take advantage of the wondrous opportunity to discover a different

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 2 A recap, with pictures.

  

  & Erin stopped by and we stalked people using the satellite feature of ... most of my time attending events and meeting prefrosh. Started with the ... you left in our office, informing us of this, has made its way to, um

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  flurry of many things, but second most importantly, it’s been a flurry of ... ="108229" /] In honor of holiday meals at home, I want to share a holiday meal away ... 12-person feasts on random weekends in the middle of the semester (very

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  of everything that came after it: including everything written by Jane ... In the middle of 5.12 (Organic Chemistry) lecture, 16 men dressed in ... remember) here?" A brunette near the front of the room slowly stood up, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  very, very small fraction of the Mountain Dew consumed by the team Death ... sticky. Of course, this left behind all of that gross duct tape residue ... , so I put some on. The first piece went on kind of lopsided, so I pulled

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  the last several weeks of the semester, I was so relieved that I didn ... ratings were high, but it ended up being one of my favorite classes that I ... autostitching, or automatically stitching together separate images of the same

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  devices here. I had a sort of spiritual reaction to being surrounded by ... didn't even know about until a couple of my friends told me to register ... (!) by registering as a student. I was there for hours and didn't see even

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Meet More People a guest post from Amy F. '20

  

  beautiful words by my dear friend Amy F. '20. It's conclusions she's come to ... in search of more friends, new experiences, and potentially a ... !!) place because of him, along with all of the other wonderful people I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  One of my NRAO friends is a big fan of the band "Drive-By Truckers." I had previously listened to a grand total of Zero alternative country ... because the woman standing right in front of me got to take home the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  beginning of this year. Two of the girls I had heard about in a very ... sided sheets of paper with prompts like "Who do you want to live with?" and "Tell us something funny, we read a lot of these!" It seemed to go

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  Restore Sanity and/or Fear, hosted by none other than Jon Stewart and ... front of you. And, of course, as you leave the security checkpoint, your ... number of friends from home, MIT comrades, and MIT alums were heading down

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  stood there surrounding by the buildings hearing about the hacks of days ... , someone stopped by to see me, or worse yet...it rained and why on earth ... most of the tour guides, several live in my house and I appreciate seeing

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  sardonic words of the ever-quotable Winston Churchill, "This is the sort of ... now made it's way into my blog, like several other songs I can think of ... well capitalize on the opportunity. As it happens, I'm feeling sort of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008