Search

Search Results

• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  to sign. A week later they sent the card to her, and a few days later ... . Baker to establish a school for engineering in Cambridge. This college is ... an entry this is going to make! Well, it turns out that MIT is such an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?

  

  different light and expect you to be the expert in everything. Trust me, this ... at Bexley (a dorm) when a man called the front desk and demanded to ... and, most recently, a working metal lathe But there are certainly

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember, Remember, the 17th of December… things that happened

  

  numbers and MIT selects "prime" candidates - is that a reason for the date ... There has been some discussion on CollegeConfidential and in the ... . Specifically discussion about the reasons we picked that date and time. My

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are YOU Up To This Summer?! (2010 Edition) Happy summer!

  

  be a Giant Microbe. I ship domestically and internationally. There is ... out there! Don't let go of your chance to fame and glory on the MIT ... . My email is up there in the banner - I'm curious to see what all of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  trains. The story of country music is both a story of the rise and fall of ... country music. The freight train is a subject of particular fascination ... services and, ideally, to save them. Country music is considered to have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2024 Episode 7: The Apple Music Awakens

  

  to Spotify. Hang in there – the semester is almost over. [caption id ... internet to judge (and help you take a break from thinking about those ... . For reference, there are 525,600 minutes in a year. Congratulations to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Events

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  depicting the National Library in Sarajevo, before and during a siege that ... The first year is finally done! Woo! I'd put that text in some < ... when I was finished: ...this is despite the fact that I moved out

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry, no dorms yet but… ya wanna see some classes?

  

  lecture because that is pretty obnoxious when a professor is trying to speak ... borrow a small, discreet digital point and shoot of the latest technology ... was a good time to take a quick survey of what you want to see of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  . Where is theta, and is the component mgsin(theta) or mgcos(theta)? That’s ... ’d be the person who answers your frantic phone call and then tells you to check if your computer is plugged in. It turned out that I wasn’t able to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  A Hack and Advice Two entries smashed into one.

  

  would be there, and what I needed to take to my dorm. I was discussing this with Sara '11, MA born and raised, and quickly began to realize that ... live in Boston you need to listen to Tessie and I'm Shipping Up to Boston

  • by Snively '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  Maybe my favorite part of course 2A is sitting next to my friend in 2.001 ... through the Pappalardo Labs, and remembering that this is why I chose Mech ... pay the bills. It is a side pursuit for when I am not writing. I used to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “The Flying Luxury Hotel of Tomorrow” The luxury cruise of tomorrow is sweet!

  

  compartments throughout the ship and compress it to manage onboard weight. The ... Sci.comexternal link) -- This is not a Blimp. It's a sort of flying Queen Mary 2 that ... additional lift to keep the behemoth and its 400-ton payload aloft while

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  something that matters to you. Having a concrete goal is the major reason ... your vehicle is pointing relative to the Sun, Earth, and other reference ... hanging on my wall: I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  look like? This is a challenging question to answer, because the variety of experiences and perspectives across MIT is staggering.  That's the ... have the work ethic and stamina to actually get there.  This often means

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  you the same thing. And it's true! All I had to do was show up at the ... the launch vehicle. The strength of the fin can is essential to a stable ... /LOX engine ready for hot-fire, and is currently working on the design of a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  time if a) you are on track to pass the class, and b) you have difficult ... student. The equation is complete bullshit. Now that I’m home and I’ve had ... in with my parents. About a month ago I decided to go back home for the

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The After

  

  have been able to ship a few products that are out there in the real ... , working in the machine that is Big Tech. My day to day involves a lot less work on psets, a lot more talking with people, and probably the same

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  , and Linguistics is the same major as Philosophy, and there's no 13, 19 ... answers that the thing you do for the pleasure of it is learn a lot, and it ... more about what 2A is. Course 2 is one of the "stricter" majors- there

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  hard to work up the effort to do a comprehensive blog entry that detailed ... the search for cartoon characters we were down to two: A ferret and a ... out that there is indeed a ferret on that show named "Vice-coach Horace

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: A Quick Roundup Snively and his homepage dominance must be stopped!

  

  don't sleep, and perhaps that Chris M. is pretty smooth with the ladies ... to you.). There is one reason that wasn't clearly explained beforehand ... be as good.) The point is, IAP is great, you get a chance to explore

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 27, 2009