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• Blog / MIT Life

  Accidents Happen My mom was right.

  

  response for me when I claim I made a mistake: We don't make mistakes; we ... around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them. I recently read an article on Slashdot about the power of accidental

  • by Bryan
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  summer, but then I got the ambulance job up here so I'm staying in Boston instead. But I can email them for you!" In response, I said this: "At this ... weeks. In short, I am a glorified counselor at nerd camp. I do, however

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Primer trimestre del primer año Una historia de terror, diría… pero con un final feliz.

  

  abalanzaba sobre Best Buy, intentando comprar televisores y cámaras digitales

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Thursday liveblog Updated whenever I get a chance.

  

  getting stopped in the halls. It's awesome, but I'm starting to lose my ... Student Welcome -- and I'm happy to see that most people are traveling in ... :45am: I actually wake up. I look outside and see that the bad weather

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  visual depictions of my summer i've been a busy, busy bee.

  

  Dhabi from the sky- a city in an actual desert:   And I was home ... Cinnamon rolls I made with Elisabeth '22 shortly after I moved into ... ="aligncenter" width="487"] Cinnamon rolls[/caption] A few days later, I travelled

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  16.810 Rapid Design and Prototyping 8 days to build an airplane. Intrigued?

  

  (featured in the video). 16.810 is offered each IAP, and I certainly plan on ... robots (and that I'm in now- more on that later). As part of our final ... . Throughout my childhood, a small walk in closet in the basement of my house was

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT Goes To Senegal Like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, except with fewer filibusters and more dancing.

  

  name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010. That doesn't mean I'm not allowed ... This week in blog entries posted by people who no longer go to MIT ... offer, although it does mean that people sometimes look at me funny as I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Heck yeah, democracy. PSET Extension!!

  

  So as I mentioned in a previous post, I'm taking 6.005 (Software Construction) this semester, which if you remember, I described as a "notoriously ... Saman" Which in turn resulted in the following i'm-so-relieved-and-in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  There Goes My Baby The first music video from the MIT Logs.

  

  As it says in my introduction, I used to sing in the MIT Logarhythms ... when I was in the group. Yes, I'm a proud Log papa. :) It definitely ... first single off their new upcoming album (to be released in October). A

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  Like Bellamy’s young hero, I too am back in Boston. Except its been about a week, and as far as I can tell the city hasn’t been transformed ... stuff is as neat as I do, and want more,you are in luck! As part of the

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute

  

  first snow day I have had in years. The view from my window Back home ... stick around more (case in point: I had never seen snow turn black), but ... I woke up today to blowing snow, the sound of fire trucks (from the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  I conducted my first of ten meetings this fall in Hartford this week. I think the meeting went quite well; the ~250 people in attendance seemed to find the session helpful and informative. I did get one question

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Mystery Of The Missing Application Tracking Portlet A quick clarification.

  

  up for some reason. I'll look into this when I'm back in the office ... I apologize for the confusion surrounding the removal of the Application Tracking portlet in MyMIT. The system is supposed to display a

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 2

  

  Today's tie: blue/gray/slate-colored. I worked with Amy and a student today in my subcommittee, and we had great group dynamics. For lunch, I ate at the brand new Steam Cafe, a very yummy new dining option! I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings

  

  Hi! I’m Brenna Heintz, one of the Admissions Counselors here at MIT. Now that I’ve finally emerged from my first season of reading applications, I’m excited to start meeting all of you! Kim was kind enough to let

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Random notes A little bit of this, a little bit of that.

  

  producing and is rumored to also be in the film. I don't know if you caught it in all the pre-deadline craziness, but a recent entry by Melis ... A few random notes: Thanks for all the mini-contest entries! I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  did not get an in-class demo of this, but it was fairly awesome if I say ... engineers may use in their career in order to measure certain properties, such as velocity profiles in a pipe or internal pressure of a soda can

  • by Bryan
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Off to Zambia

  

  used (location? design? stigma?). In a community in India (I think ... Through my awesome D-Lab class, I am going to Zambia today until Jan 31st. Zambia is a land-locked country in southern Africa (see above

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Break and Study of Cities Abroad Students in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning enjoy a subsidized spring break abroad…

  

  , highlighting differences in city design and planning between the two locales. While in Scandinavia last spring break, a few of us met up with the 11.027 class in Copenhagen. Ian '06, Andrew '07 and Ruth '07 MCP '08 are shown

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday at the water park

  

  my boyfriend and I ended up at the water park in the first place is that he's from a ski family; they own a condo in Maine and he's a ... family in Ohio; I am of the firm belief that summer is not summer until one

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 8, 2005