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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  "Yes I said etc...... Just don't think about it to much (oh and I'm ... . Now MIT was not becoming a place that I hated, it wasn’t even a place ... spoilers please don’t read this excerpt). About a week ago a friend of mine

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  like physics, well keep reading, because you'll enjoy it. If you don't ... problem as its posed to us: A wheel of diameter R, consisting of a thin uniform rim of mass M and six thin uniform spokes mass m, is released from

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  underneath my t-shirts. When I shut the book, I cried. That series had been a ... astronomy and doing astronomy research, but I’m a little nervous about ... bookshelf (if you haven't already) and tell me (I'm curious): which books have

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  competitions. I’m in the weird situation where I just happen to know a lot of ... ’d be a conversation topic that I couldn’t really relate to, and it’d feel ... like a wish for a friendship to last, that you don’t grow more distant

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  About a year ago, I wrote about the origami I’d made at my internship in a “draft” blog post when I applied to be a blogger. That draft never ... semester), but now I have a brand new batch of internship origami for your

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  to do on top of the internship I'm doing, although I don't plan on ... I'm turning nineteen today, without much fanfare; after all, nineteen is not a particularly interesting age, and the past year itself has

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  can't spare an hour to watch the interview here, have a look at these ... a creator. I cringe when someone says 'I'm not good at engineering; I'm ... 2:50 PM, Wednesday, May 8 I am in a café on Mass Ave, waiting for a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  's a place for you. That is why I don't think it's redundant to add another perspective to the mix. I'm fortunate enough to live in a place I ... Like a great three-toed sloth awakening from a millennial hibernation

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  . Here is a brief breakdown of the classes I’m taking: ESD.054/ESD.05 ... exorbitant amounts of Chinese food, and watch a variety of different performers ... gone (they host one every year), so I didn’t really know what to expect

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biology-inspired design from MIT alums What happens when you bring together nature and technology? I think you'll like the result.

  

  ... Nervous Systems jewelry and accessories began with a very common story. Boy ... accessories. OK, so maybe it′s not that common of a story. Regardless, what began as flirtations in an MIT dorm has turned into a profitable company

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Law & Order: MIT Alum Unit Going to law school after MIT, and a profile of the first sitting federal judge…

  

  I'm often asked about MIT students going off to law school. For some reason, people don't seem to realize that you can come to MIT, major in ... show that 5-6% of MIT alums earn a J.D. Of my MIT friends who are lawyers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “So, what HAVE you been doing?” less sad shit lets get a lil more hype in here

  

  21 in February! I don't talk a lot about party culture on the blogs ... festival. A lot of unhealthy habits, for sure, that I won't delve into too ... concert mode for 72 hours. I feel like I'm most myself when I'm at a concert

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  , as a complement to my life (aka. I don't have to actually "major" in it ... best choice for me (they love to say, disdainfully, "isn't MIT a school ... don't think anyone can deny - that MIT does have a higher proportion of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  over 24 steps to make a single pumpkin. Some are so good that they don’t ... to fund ourselves. The revenue from these pumpkins is a big reason why ... " align="alignright" width="300"] Concept art of a glassblowing gremlin

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MEng (Masters of Engineering) Learn about the masters plans of Phil '05 and Laura '06.

  

  experimental work of a technical nature. M.Eng. theses normally involve one or ... wouldn't have been a change at all, and I needed a change. Also, it will be ... on the job, and while that isn't necessarily a bad thing, students from

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt LiveBlog Coming to you live from Mystery Hunt (Last Update: Sunday 5:04 PM)

  

  just been absolutely crazy and I'm just waking up from a power nap. I don't ... faster than we can solve them ... bummer. Alright, I'm gonna get started on ... puzzles solved yet this morning. Can we get a hint? And everyone is still

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  I've got an exam in twenty minutes, but I wouldn't be able to ... in a while. Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 15:21:31 -0400 [03:21:31 PM EDT ... weren't able to put your name down before they start!) The first night is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  . The reason that we don't have a separate form for EA is that the form contains a survey that won't be ready until after the RD decisions have been ... the coming months... I'm off to the library to read more apps! Have a

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  I still haven't played yet, but I'm coping with current events. I ... haven't actually gotten too deep into this game yet, so I'm not sure about ... , and watch number grow up. These overlap a lot with idle games, though

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  “culture shock” and see how fast of a learner I was. I'm sort of a ... is a life-long process, and I'm confident in my ability to sustain my ... language. I'm currently enrolled in a teaching credential program at USC and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013