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  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  Design and Manufacturing I (2.007 in nerd-speak) involves two ... challenge that can always be met. In his lectures, he starts with a problem ... favorite guest lectures. I thought I'd share his background and some of his

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  temporary dorm in Baker House, and I walk into my quad. And now for an ... hope that I'm not in the room when they are put to use and I must commend ... myself calling everyone in my phone book to tell them i'm here and safe

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  do. There's a lot of angst in the UA about how we can get more people ... Association Vice-President, or UAVP, of MIT. In March, I ran for president, with ... force behind it, that I meant to come out in Tuesday's edition. It's about

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Staying Organized In which I look exhausted and talk about my notebooks

  

  life. Hopefully you're able to decipher my rambling in this video! If not, feel free to ask me questions (which I'm sure other bloggers would be happy to respond to, as well) about how we stay organized and how we

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 28, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  tell you, honestly, how I feel. I stopped fighting my own mood to try and ... -control to only let the emotional floodgates open a little. I apologize in ... graduating high school and moving into college, I graduated in a lot of other

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  . Killean Court: Now, I'm stuck in the AXO house in Boston, where I live. A ... : Where did the river go? And now, well...I've been in the house for a ... self. I should have been in Lobby 7 making sure she coughed loudly

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  . If I choose to stay in this dorm, can I keep the same room?" The answer ... , and who can argue with that? Also, I'd encourage you to look at what ... with people you don't like in a shiny new one. You can use amenities to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  introduction--unless of course you've never heard of him, in which case I'll just ... synced to the note.  I'll keep you updated on how it goes, unless I end up ... which case I'll probably be too embarrassed to blog about it. In other

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Events

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

  

  TFP (an ETLA) was handing out in Lobby 7 and I wondered about the rate of grape flavor diffusion into my mouth. Specifically, I wondered how I could ... Newtonian fluid). I was in the middle of calculating the kLa when I grew

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

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1

  

  up for classes. I'm co-teaching an a first-year advising seminar on media and the election, and so for the past week I've been meeting with ... , clinical disease and therapy. Subject can count toward the 9-unit discovery

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  't have any pictures of the game "in action," but what can I say? I was too ... in the bible and there was something going on at that moment. I stayed ... on the tennis team (nice matching job!). I was interested in finding

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2014…The Parent Edition Suggestions for getting the most out of CPW when you are a parent

  

  One would think that after seven years in this office I would not be ... will. That said, it's important to check in occasionally so I'd suggest ... and perhaps even an umbrella. Weather can change quickly in Boston

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  and can be arrested and legally tried in court as an adult.” Whoopee! I ... since I started blogging. A year since robots in the FPOP and the free ... ’ve taken thus far. I spend four-and-half hours every week in the lab (7

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  boxes in Saran Wrap. Inside the boxes, I carefully loaded all of my ... , which I framed and padded with my winter coat. Then, in a thick black ... conveyor belt at security, I was fighting tears. At the gate, I sat in a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  thinking, “hmm I wonder what happens if the glass gets cold how do you even ... necklines, as opposed to 3 in a general snowman. Whatever, I thought. I ... paperweight!!!  This is probably my favorite thing I made in the class. To

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  that a movie is technically brilliant yet morally repugnant? How can I ... intermarriage." I can't say that I sat through all 3.5 hours of the movie ... very thing that you hope to deny exposure to the light can often grow in

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  , but I was Captain Von Trapp in high school and after a hundred hours ... 't know exactly how the runner-up ended up winning so thoroughly, but I ... Abdul hits in the background. It was just then that I realized that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"

  

  one of my favorite things to pass. I often thought about how long that ... repository of the murals (including ones not featured in this exhibit) can be ... Last Friday night at around 2 am I finally got around to visiting the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  how to skateboard so I can [annotation note="I do skateboard frequently ... Caltech, which I was also applying to EA. I was completely in love with MIT ... because there weren’t enough interviewers available. But in the moment I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  . Nothing says epic like "ESTA - ES - SPARTAAA!") I suppose you can be ... 'undeclared' at some point in the middle of the semester (which just means I ... lately is going to make some monumental difference upon where I end up in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007