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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  courses 2 and 16, which means you can take it for EECS, Mechanical ... feels rewarding. I can't bring myself to write too much more about it ... when it feels hopeless, I can pull through. Sappy? Perhaps, but darned

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  competition video here because a grainy 480x360 video can't do it justice - you ... can read this great article in Popular Mechanics about FIRST, this year ... tension will remain. Good: your FIRST season CAN go perfectly, because the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  Hrm, ok. Let's pretend everything is seven or eight days ago so that I can write about this as if it happened last weekend. [Begin Time ... local: I can go home to get things. Sometimes that means I can go home and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  being. I can dream in black-and-white or in color, but not in black ... that if celestial bodies won't move for you, you can at least move your ... nobody reading your blog can tell the difference anyway. At least I didn

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  record and it records audio while you're writing, which means you can slow ... , so you can check his blog out for some videos showing the pen ... I can talk about my job at Los Alamos, which segued into what my plans

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  combinations of images and words such that you can figure out which word ... repeated. We want to see if infants this young can determine which words mean ... . My summer is productive, but not too taxing. I can still relax and

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  pungent mushrooms, like a million thimble-sized cans of tomato paste, tempeh ... and bananas are basically the only things you can depend on on when the ... alternated between meltingly tender and softly chewy as only intestines can be

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  banana-flavored granola bars? There must be. Granola bars can taste like ... can feel my youth dripping away, slowly, like melting bananas. 10:30 pm ... , numbing eternity. I can't remember the last time I was so far away from the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  taught Latin at Splash! since sophomore year at MIT.  On April 30, you can ... !, you can't buzz until Alex Trebek is done reading or you get locked out ... temps. within it can vary by 25 degrees." Her answer, "What is the Grand

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  enjoying the laziest IAP I can muster. I sleep until at least noon every day ... , tablets cost WAY more than $150! "How's the battery life?" I can go all day ... software that you can use for a free 30-day trial or buy for about ~$25

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  , "I can't wait until I get to MIT and brush shoulders with Nobel Prize ... company since it was like a "omg-I-can ... their research (that is, if you can even understand the extent of their

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  poses a problem when the unit can't accurately detect whether I'm actually ... solution to the last post's title, you can go here. Personally, I was ... versions of that song. Can you guess where this post's title comes from? (No

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  shelter for the southern Californians here at MIT, I think we can agree that ... juniors, or even cynicists) can do to combat poverty. Every August in the ... close to a win-win situation as you can get without opening a jar of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  ) Can be repeated for credit Prereq: None Units: 0-3-3 Remove from ... ______ Undergrad (Fall) HASS Elective Can be repeated for credit Prereq: None Units ... comfortable with, the grad classes can wait. There's still grad school. So, only

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  is the best advice I can give to someone trying to choose between ... the country. Your roommate moves away out of the because she can't stand ... 've written that change is constant, I have to remind myself I can't depend on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  work. You can choose how involved you want to be, and no one really minds ... understanding can sometimes be on rocky foundations. In mathematics, Cambridge ... enough short-term memory and study hard enough, you can usually soak up

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  Kind Rewind. "[At MIT,] you can try something, and even if it don’t work, you can try something else," he said, during an interview after the ... got back to South Station: Dave: Can you believe we were here just this

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  with a passion, and I speak Spanish at home. Though I can’t say I truly ... Syndrome is the inability to correctly gauge the amount of things you can ... wayyyy too much. But I can’t help it! I don’t know if I’ll ever be cured

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  alarm by covering my head with my pillow. Sometimes my suitemates can ... , there are buildings at just about every college in any country that can be ... than you've ever been challenged before? Well, you can do that for

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  people who can’t locate Tibet on a map would clamor passionately for ... woman can emerge into her own The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an ... her jewelry sale, I can’t help but think that her heart is among

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007