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• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  and I are working on measuring the power it takes to pedal a rickshaw ... to measure the amplitude of a triangle wave and its derivative. We ... with people around the world to create and disseminate affordable

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Town Cambridge: university and city.

  

  place is actually still pretty green and pretty. Well, the first picture ... . After reading Chris' entry about Taiwan, I realized that there hasn't been ... figured I would take some pictures of places that are important to life here

  • by Cambridge
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcome our new bloggers! Huzzah!

  

  hope that you continue sharing your story to the world, and we are ... hometown, and has much to tell you about the virtues of serif fonts in this ... from campus to beaches and shipyards, and liveblogged from the depths of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2025
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  challenged us to think about the "optimal, ideal inhabitant of the world" and ... me a lot to think about. I'm certainly thankful for the opportunity to attend and pass on the message. Have a great Thanksgiving holiday everyone

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  that number isn't actually that high by comparison to the coastal cities, the difference between Burlington and Boston is that in Boston the snow ... winter. You have to know how to dress for the cold. A few simple rules

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I, Robot "Turn it, leave it, stop- format it. Technologic." IAP Robotics competitions wrap up.

  

  -100 after exiting lab and found the lecture hall in a standing room only situation. Outside, there were a few robots on display: The actual ... Today, most of the IAP robotics competitions begin to wrap up

  • by Bryan
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  and fostering the strange yet insightful corner of the Internet that is ... in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions elsewhere, and who ... , then all I can remind you is that success is not always a straight line

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Halls are Alive with the sounds of students...

  

  ' return to campus, I reveled in the laughter and greetings heard down the ... love to see and hear about all the cool things offered to students or ... , we like to talk about MIT Beef and the Lab for Chocolate Science. I

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Amsterdesk Time is on my side, it's on my side now.

  

  taken a class that would help me to solve this quandary. Here are some ... to do except homework. This is especially useful since almost all of my ... ... but it turns out that tonight, 2 AM is really 1 AM again (blast you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Thanksgiving on First East – Team Bemis makes hand turkeys!! (For justice and the greater common good.)

  

  sat down to eat like a big ol' happy family. Our lovely and gracious ... and Gobblin' Tom): The hostess steps out to greet her guests ... invited to our party. And even dessert! All in all, it was a happy day

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  's something to write about on a very cold rainy day, and b) I have some really ... around the time you were born) is told that the most important thing he will learn at MIT is not a collection of facts, but how to think about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  admissions, then all I can remind you is that success is not always a straight ... make yourself. And if you spend the next few years trying to make ... ’ll look back on this Pi Day and realize it all worked out okay. Here is the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who you gonna call? The Mythbusters @ MIT!

  

  : Last night, LSC hosted the Mythbusters, Adam and Jamie, who came to MIT ... concert. Mythbusters on stage. Now, what you might not know is that the ... had the opportunity to try to bust the Archimedes Death Ray myth. So a

  • by Bryan
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…

  

  's confident that the proteins would be ripped apart and rendered harmless by such extreme temperatures and pressures. Mad cow disease is thought to ... back to animals. Appel assumed that the United States, like most modern

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  you which one the lie is. Two Truths and a Lie ----------------------------- 1. The first day of high school, I rode a unicycle to school. 2. I can ... ? And to be completely honest, I really love MIT from the mobius strip in

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  Cornell and she is responsible for some of the biggest lessons that I ... a tough sell. I thought that all I had to do was to show up and tell ... Cornell 10 months ago I made a promise to return in each of the next three

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  IM sports totally rock

  

  a degree, and lifelong friends, and...) to show for it! Sorry for the ... , and when you feel that community, you know this is a special place. ... glowing. Really, IM sports are the coolest thing ever! It's a great way to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  step to "solving the puzzle" is connecting the corners and the outside border. Once the puzzle is framed, the remaining pieces are easier to connect. Crafting a class is similar - we go into painstaking detail to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  in a more active manner, through direct words and actions, that to me ... ’t get any closer to a mental model that would allow me to paint like that ... they asked me what i would want to become a magician in, and for a while

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2011! how to be a blogger

  

  forecast for the long weekend: A sun-moon wearing shades? Now that is ... , we have a few upperclassmen spots that are open for the fall, and if ... stories that will keep people coming back to the blog. If you do have a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2011