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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  'd like to major in a life science. Biology is boring in my humblest of ... was a fair benchmark for which course to declare, so Brain and Cog it is ... application to Cataldo EMS, a private ambulance service for which many MIT

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  In response to a request from a current applicant, I'm proud to present to you a virtual tour of some of MIT's machine shops. As you can ... keeping track at home). Pappalardo is home to a wide range of Course 2

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  congratulated myself on my good fortune and promised to blog about this. [A bit ... opposed to a performance group that students can join for credit (such as ... Hahvahd University). Thanks to a raging downpour, the audience bordered on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  station, took it a few stops, switched to another train, took it to Penn ... finally switched over to a bus to get to the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal where ... stage in front of a panel of judges to compete for $50,000. In "Startup

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT launches AI Education website I worked on this cool thing for my UROP!

  

  's bored at home and wants new things to learn, or a parent who wants to give ... a bug report to the "Done" column on Trello. This might be Stockholm ... though. We had a big push to get this website out ASAP when we realized

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 6, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  be a brilliant idea to make up some ghost stories to pass time. Here ... Infinite and out lobby 7 to grab a bite to eat from the [annotation note ... floor of the Infinite. You glance at your phone, to see a 4am Slack

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  so well within a career that is still considered to be male ... of those hard enough? I didn’t give myself a reason to step up, but ... I needed to apply. Just a little jolt of confidence can really go a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pie No, not pi.

  

  'll actually get to experience these types of adventures in less than a year, and ... , expecting a different type of entry and wanting to know more and more about ... such, It's time for me to shift my writing a bit. You'll notice fewer and

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  curricula were similar to that of a Soviet university and that “the kind of ... -ent form of democracy, is a persistent tendency to growth and centralization ... , educa-tional, and labor. There is a concerted effort to increase the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  into lalaland’ (the way that a line tangent to a circle moves with the ... : ‘There exists’ is just a fancy way to say ‘there is,’ while simultaneously making the syntax way more complicated than necessary. It’s just a way to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  seemed to be a consensus among a bunch of people I talked to that this was ... semester 21W.758 was a class that covered a multitude of genres but stuck to ... transitioned to comics by deciding, after drawing Demonology 101, that was a

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  to rise and after mumbling a couple of sleepy words no doubt filled ... lose a life for each such word. I’m supposed to meet up with my advisor ... heart palpitations (yes, this is a not-even-slightly-veiled reference to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Computer Science. It’s been a year since I came to MIT, slightly over a year ... . Literally dozens of opportunities for you to explore new research or get a job, delivered right to your e-mail! A lot of the jobs do happen to require

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  ground; it falls with a feeble “clunk.” exhaling, i attempt to mentally ... , returning to my dorm, and sleeping, but a desire to commit to the events on my ... ; Scott proceeded to explain FOMO, a very valid and prevalent fear among MIT

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  adventure. I broke my big toe into a bunch of pieces, then flew home to ... about it from a random e-mail (probably sent to all of the dorm mailing ... order to get to their favorite restaurants. After a couple days of touring

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

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  hours worth of work? God I hope not. Come to think of it, a part of that ... are a strange beast to me in E+M. 5:10am. Still thinking about SI units ... strategic locations as to create the most natural and flattering look for a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  If I Try Really Hard, I Can Resemble Ernest Borgnine First stop on the tour: London.

  

  city of London put it up for sale to make way for a new bridge. Oil and ... ,460,000, and the London Bridge was dismantled block by block and moved to remote Lake Havasu City, Arizona, where it was reconstructed atop a man

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  from near my home about 7 miles to campus. I get a nice view, I get to ... the way where I have to cross a side street, or switch sides of the road ... 're trying to hit is only a foot in front of you. So as the car kept driving

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  admission to MIT this year. This is a 4% increase from last year. Since most ... with MIT's mission to make the world a better place. We deferred ... and were not able to be considered. We recognize it's a lot of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  getting ready for casual Friday at work where I get to wear flip-flops and a ... able to get a copy of the book. For entertainment, the party had a "Make ... sidewalk outside Fenway Park hoping to get tickets to a game that highlights

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005