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• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  the dock. In order to get away from the dock, you have to get the boat ... chill because I was required to have PE every day in high school) I ... , the one who pulls the rope that the sail is attached to. (Now, in

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  those who are morally opposed to clicking on hyperlinks in my blog, here ... -meta-puzzle allows you to run around wildly on campus in search of the hidden item ... flaunted in our admiring, frustrated faces. Examples included (1) an Apples-to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting MIT’s Newest Truman Scholar! Yeah, I know I've been blogging a lot this week - but believe me, you…

  

  , "Whatttt. How can one person be so. incredibly. happy?!" I quickly came to ... , graceful, and the kind of person who, when I'm tired and crying at 2 in the ... 've seen her in a variety of roles over the past year and a half or so: she

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  GTL the secret to a successful summer

  

  uncomfortably close to getting scurvy, probably because I overestimate the ... reserving some time in your day to paint. ... A couple of weeks ago, Chris Peterson tried to describe my life as

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Evolution of Physics Physics gets harder as you get older, go figure.

  

  Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 Blogging Scholarship for $10 ... during sophomore year I'm noticing a trend in physics problems: they get ... in his class. Needless to say things got different when I got to MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Afternoon Props Props to ten people/committees/inanimate objects that deserve props.

  

  loved was born with roses in her eyes." 4. Joe '08, for inviting me to go ... revealing to me that you can get as much organic brown rice as you can fit on ... in our group. 10. My plug flow reactor, for heating to exactly 250

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  much else to learn. But in the last year or so, the old dream of doing a ... a scholarship.) I missed drawing. I used to draw a lot as a kid; I got in trouble a few times for doodling on my desk. But during my time

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  SpazBot, in pegboard form. I think Spazbot is trying to read green ... also taught me how to use the necessary tools), the spacers for the ... Brian and me how to solder, but he is much better at it. Here he is, hard

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  . I've worked around equations in loops that bring me back to where I ... like "Abby H." and she's inclined to underestimate the variability in ... protects her right palm from the cruel concrete. On Sunday, she goes to get

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITWE Goes Digital We stan Fred in this household 😤

  

  department in a nutshell[/caption] “But Andi!” I hear you cry, “How could you ... Pad pros to everyone in MITWE and the Festival Jazz Ensemble! That’s right ... With all the WiFi problems in [annotation note="One of the big

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  well as space in CAVS to meet, and we arrived early in order to prepare ... painters tape to build a flat-three-dimensional table in the middle of the ... HONK! Fest in Cambridge, a parade to reclaim the streets for horns, bikes

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  his expertise in fluid dynamics to develop and, he hopes, patent his own ... to put bikes in it," Cote recalled. Two weeks after arriving on campus ... Sports Innovation, whose mission is to involve undergraduates in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  standards until you've learned to be satisfied with mediocrity. And so, in ... 't even my lowest grade of all time in that point--that honor fell to an AP ... paying attention to the fact that I was getting all the answers wrong on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  moment's breath to stop and listen in the 10 minutes between classes, and ... in which to evaluate Amount of Work Input vs. Grade Output. There ... diagrams at 2 AM in the morning*. I went to the office hours of multiple TA

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stories from Uganda [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Installing an exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery.

  

  Service Center Fellowship. In June 2009, I traveled to Uganda again with ... brings computers to secondary and primary schools in Uganda. I have been a ... , medium format workhorse weighing in at about 8 pounds with its 180mm lens—to

  • by ARTalk
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photodiary now with 0% instagram, 22% my cat

  

  thesis proposal about to be turned in. Reese what are you doing that is not how cat feet work That's better. I'm in a cooking group on my ... Weird and/or neat things I saw around campus this week, brought to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  Tension filled the air as people were ushered in to 6-120. Scientists dotted the MIT campus, urging people to get to 6-120 as fast as possible ... corresponds to what its function in the circuit is. The battery is energetic

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  first time I even considered applying to MIT was in January of 2022, when ... Abby 2018 In 2021, my top song was The Monster Mash, and I listened to ... listened to more, i guess. Gloria and Teresa carried in number of songs

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m so ill. like, in the bad way

  

  this time to get sick not only at the beginning of the semester, but at ... you crazy? There's no good time to get sick!" But there really is. Allow me to explain. Immediately after turning in my 6.170 pset on Sunday

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  don’t need to have a “We’re off to see the wizard” moment in the middle ... .   To no surprise, I'm not the only person who's experienced this. In ... People walking shoulder-to-shoulder down the Infinite There’s always

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022