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  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  Newtonian fluid). I was in the middle of calculating the kLa when I grew ... opporunity to see War of the Worlds for free--a premium discount on the already ... perhaps the IRS. Sadly, I didn't get to watch a bunch of people send out an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  stack of applications before me. To my right, out the window, I see big, fluffy flakes of snow falling from the sky. I start to think that I could ... plans to "automate the heating of the Cocoa water every night." "The cocoa

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  how many times you have to go for it to pay off; the calculation of how ... they'd like; the frustration of trying to help read difficult rhythms out ... and years of musical training; the challenge of (or failure to) playing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  boots are totally impervious to the wet. Except maybe the joy of strutting ... )/14485008384, according to the back of the shirt, and google gives the ... the calculations to solve the following physics problem: how fast would

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  chairs with the professor to discuss ethical and social implications of the ... . From the assignment: "The nature of the comparison is up to you, and the ... claim to make about the juxtaposition of these two images. Whatever you

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Onion article about Robot Hazing at MIT Robot hazing at MIT *gasp!*

  

  was locked in a room and forced to calculate pi to the 1083 decimal ... : 15 CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Several members of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology chapter of the Theta Tau fraternity are in campus-police custody

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  's such an abundance of amazing things to do, both on campus and around the ... going back to school after a long absence. It is hard -- not the level of difficulty of the work, but simply jogging your brain again to compute

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  . Your score, which you aim to maximize, is calculated as (the number of ... involved "wits, skill, and the teensiest amount of luck," to quote the ... location over another, so it was hard to predict the actions of other players

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  , Design Squad cast members learn to think smart, build fast, and contend ... team has just two days to complete the project. Challenges range from ... before putting their work to the test. Keeping their eyes on the grand

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Well I Know That It’s a Wonderful World from the sky down to the sea, but I can only see it when you're…

  

  to find a semester's worth of rushing over to Building 68 to turn in ... because of the combination of directing an ESP program almost single-handedly and trying to manage 72 credits until mid-Nov (with orgo added into the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 21, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  , 19,020 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2020. As of today ... , with other people, next fall. Of the students to whom we do not offer ... the balance that we will not be able to admit them to the Class of 2020

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  sitting with me for a while. I quiet them most of the time, but occasionally they come up, bile burning in the back of my throat, to painfully remind ... place at MIT. What good is it to be at the best school in the world if you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  took 6.S978 to try my hand at the intersection of law and technology ... Boston to meet us on campus. The rest of the semester, we continued to have ... piece of model legislation to regulate the increasing volume of data on

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Latino Cultural Center It's Mes Latino!

  

  't bother to calculate for the sake of not feeling old. Here he is scolding me ... Hidden from most of the hustle and bustle of classes and rushing to ... LCC exists simply to promote and support all of the Latino organizations

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  about marching to the beat of my own drum or any other idiom. For every ... , instead of trying to bust my ass to get an A instead when the rigid ... -grade teacher told us all to “divide your page in half.” The other students made

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  talking to the students, however, a strange feeling of familiarity emerged ... . The buildings are built out of tasteful sandstone and, as a bonus ... half-day sample of the Stanford Experience. Being home briefly for summer

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  investigate where your frame of reference lies. No, put away the calculators and ... so much to be done. That drive to achieve and make the most of any ... 're stationary with respect to the plane. But it goes without saying that, relative

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Researchers Develop Autonomous Shoe Technology out of the MIT STrIDE group

  

  MIT alumni have been responsible for some of the most revolutionary ... the spreadsheet are just some of them. Today I found out about a new ... incoming hazards and obstacles. The demonstrated use case is to avoid

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  of career advice and a few back-of-the-envelope calculations related to ... we're told to keep mum about the details of our internships. (I am at a ... interest of privacy, but this has got to be both the most blissful and the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  you. Because I just want to share some of the wacky and fun things that ... all of the links to wikipedia, that is effort and i am lazy and want to ... assassination of McKinley in 1901 were they asked to protect the president. It

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021