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• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Rush and Hall Rush

  

  Campus" in the picture below. I also managed to stab myself in the hand ... this hammock thing was, but it was fun to try to crawl around in ... people's rooms, talking to Alex '04 in Pittsburgh over the phone, and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  . In the end, it came down to A Mighty Wind and Hebrew Hammer, with ... and if you ever stole anything in your life, you should confess now ... and she won't admit unrepentant thieves to MIT. So, anyway, we wanted

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  . Brian came to MIT from California as an undergrad.  He majored in Mechanical Engineering but decided to do some research in the Math department ... .  He helped to figure out a longstanding mystery in fluid mechanics about

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  , explicitly foregrounds these concerns in discussing how the MIT education, and ... efficiency of management and to eliminate fluctuations in economic and social ... special talents, and to provide an environment in which these may flourish

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  this cool one MIT student and get to know them and blah blah blah ... ). CPW is a chance for you to meet people in your grade and go to once-in ... scary? So what! Live a little, get over here (I live in EC, and I don

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  there were elephants in Cambridge, I ran to get some elephant bait to try ... life behind the wheel of a car getting to and from the job that he loved ... commute! Some days you can find him walking from his home in Cambridge to

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I am a bad example but only for about twelve seconds.

  

  thing to my mom for even longer, as she is one of maybe three people in ... could give to a teenage girl." (I do not think the series is well ... currently in print.) "I just think it's not very empowering, you know? It

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  classes i was interested in but didn’t have time to take. one of those was ... important. as in, researchers have been unable to consistently replicate ... undergoing sexual harassment resulted in less measured tendency to harass women

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  get back to learning more trivia. so oops. sorry if like, you actually ... assassination of McKinley in 1901 were they asked to protect the president. It ... Homeland Security was founded (in response to 9/11). Blue Hall, the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  Biomolecular Systems on Friday morning. In an effort to procrastinate, I was ... equal representation of women in science. When I casually mention to ... very superficial, including the perks that women get access to the Women

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  it nearly impossible for me to type anything at all ever. Getting ... just spent an hour making, I'm sitting in a chair listening to Pandora ... Oshima (Director of the Artist-in-Residence Program), and I went to the MFA

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  learning community in which you will be encouraged to explore how these core ... coming in for the festivities. Most of us know each other as we chose to ... , who wanted to bring back the grand old hacks of the past. In honor of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Take Your Blog to School Day Vol. 1 Standing waves and FIRE!

  

  engineers may use in their career in order to measure certain properties, such ... did not get an in-class demo of this, but it was fairly awesome if I say ... So today we're going to take a little trip to 3-370 for some

  • by Bryan
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  rusty old bike is 19 mph; I wonder how fast I'd be able to go on a sleek ... window, but my daily schedule forces me to face the elements. In the early ... 's update rate. I don't know if what I'm seeing in the Charles is also due to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  In July 2018, in my application to be a blogger, I left a note at the ... arrive at MIT in the fall, to trying each and every one of these flavours ... "soy nut inclusions", and to be honest that descriptor sounds exactly how

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bloggers Wrapped 2019 aka i harvest everybodys data, my favorite pastime

  

  Abby brought up last year, people seem to disagree with how the data ... like i listened to a lot of alt r&b this yr but! thats just how it b ... is new...also the songs i discovered/listened to while I was in Taiwan

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. Click through for the extended answer.

  

  have no real interest in MIT from applying (the ones who do not wish to attend but just want to see if they can get in). How do I know if I should ... Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. As a matter

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  focuses on using technology to solve problems in developing nations. We ... forward to the next step: Put the carbonized material in a plastic bag ... (in sunny weather, it takes a couple of days) and then they're ready to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  : N/A   Ok. Now let’s get to the juicy stuff.   21W.755 ... effort in, but for some of the units I couldn’t do well no matter how hard ... first experience working on a pset for 10+ hours only to get a 50% is just

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  Physics of Baseball. Also, I went to nerd camp. In 1998, when I was about ... birds, took my first creative writing class, and learned how to make a ... ? Wait, I thought. You mean I get to come back to camp, and you'll pay me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011