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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  received an e-mail saying that "Professor Alan Guth has agreed to serve as ... to immediately re-open it to e-mail my mom, sprinted outside to tell ... . Soon, we were e-mailing back and forth to schedule a class registration

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  are all numbered (e.g. “I have 5.111 at 12:00 in 10-250”) wasn’t enough ... Environmental Engineering degree), 1-C (Civil Engineering), and 1-E (Environmental ... in MechE would provide me with a solid yet broad engineering background

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2

  

  in this case being the 1E cats" - credit for caption and images goes to Nisha D. ‘21, fellow blogger and 1E resident. 4 (left). From a ... from the annual 1E Hall Thanksgiving, cooked entirely by students and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  action would be to e-mail my professor and my TA. After procrastinating for ... first of two very profound e-mail moments. Out of the blue, I got a ... LIFE - forget how it felt to receive that e-mail. If I go crazy and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  A couple weeks ago, my dorm (Burton-Conner) got an email from the front desk⁠01 courtesy of the valiant desk guardian Ekanem O. beseeching us to pick up our packages: Hi…

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  lot of people told me in my freshman year not to join DPhiE. It was ... telling us they don't want to join DPhiE. They hadn't even talked to us, yet ... live in the house since I wasn't as close to DPhiE as I had hoped

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  Sometime last year, a prospective student e-mailed me asking about ... instead of coding all day. I LOVED it. When I e-mailed my first draft to my ... ; *         *         *   On November 29, I got a *REALLY* long e-mail from "no

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  partially inspired by e.e. cummings* and partially inspired by Python code. *By “e.e. cummings,” I mean “the Wikipedia entry on e.e. cummings

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  RAHHHH IT SNOWED AGAIN!!! As the blogs’ resident snow enthusiast, I consider it my sacred duty to announce the [annotation note="i.e. the first one where snow actually collected on the ground and that I was awake for

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  24 Pumpkins a journey through the streets of Boston

  

  Operatives: Miranda Z. ‘27, Evelyn L. ‘27, Csilla F. ‘27, Allison E. ‘27

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  and ran into issues clearing big rocks or other obstacles—i.e. machinery

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  learn, and there are many cool MechE classes I won't be able to fit in to ... side, I was often choosing between schools/programs that offer “MechE with a climate focus” vs “Climate from a MechE background,” which boils

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2021!

  

  inside my house now. i love it, but fear for when it a w a k e n s a ... to be bloggers (i.e. no prospective students or students at other

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  jynnie, but a bunch of 2E alums are coming as well! i've never been to the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  authors took the liberty of assuming an accented e (é) is the same letter as e, and that an i with an umlaut (ï) is the same as an i. Other than

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  E V E R Y T H I N G.  We are throwing it back SO HARD that at some

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Events

  The REX That Was a review of the most recent confusion

  

  Today is Reg Day, i.e. Registration Day, when MIT students make official their fall schedule (add/drop notwithstanding). Tomorrow is the ... published in the Tech in a center-spread titled The Daily Confusion (see e

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  (MIT MechE), Shreya Dave (MIT MechE), James Weaver (WYSS Institute

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  O bu nkita n’ime ulo akukwo? Mba! O bu ewu!

  

  ? Alex: A ewu? Ebe? Vincent (atụ na- egwu): E nwere ... dị ọdụ n'ebe ahụ. Ọ na- ese egwu , ma, n'otu oge ahụ , e nwere ihe a ... mara mma

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 24, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fashion Design at MIT calling all fashionistos and fashionistas [pictures inside!]

  

  pretty awesome. MIT designers: Romp Apparel  Ministry of Supply 'e d i t ... down in 'e d i t' by Samantha D., MIT Class of 2015, a series that takes

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 16, 2013