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• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  Remember the plot of The Matrix trilogy? Neither do I, which is why I ... day to mastering the subtle art of falling sleep randomly in public ... particularly stunning occasions come to mind: -As part of the Discover

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  to look right back at you in the eye. That's one longwinded way of ... myself really actually relaxing in the mountains of New Hampshire. Now, if you know even the slightest bit of me, you'd know that I really really

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  stripped of our work, activities, friends, and most of the things that keep ... get ahead on work. And I'm one of the lucky ones - I'm at my parents ... exhausting place to live in at the moment, and the stress of even just looking

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  you spent last Friday and Saturday eagerly awaiting the unveiling of the ... Admissions Stu Schmill took it with Woodie back in the 80s; one of his classmates, Megan Smith is now the current Chief Technology Officer of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / Announcements

  Reaching for the STARS* *Small Town And Rural Students

  

  Today, (April 4, 2023), marks the public launch of the STARS (Small ... the collegiate success of students from small towns and rural ... country and around the world. Now, as a founding member institution of the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 4, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Not Admitted Students I just wanted to tell you a story. It has a moral, but you don't…

  

  a steep rock face at the back of the temple. The rock face was full of ... , and full of vigor, began to climb. However, soon he was defeated by the ... , about a quarter of the way up the slope, a rock fragment that he had been

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  untangled the unruly tangle of shoelaces that is my life schedule and turned ... totally a secret fanboy of (Hard News and The Panic Virus are fantastic ... ??? ? units And for the sake of completeness, here's my fairly standard

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  rest at the top of a hill of height h. What is the angular velocity of ... involves the moment of inertia and omega (angular velocity (what we're solving for!)). 2) Moment of Inertia. We need to find it. For the wheel

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  From One Cambridge To The Other A year away from the Institute

  

  wonderful exchange student from the University of Cambridge, Rob. An ... the help of the Cambridge-MIT Exchange (CME). I was intrigued, not only ... -20 different room layouts a year I'd say I'm a bit obsessed with the idea of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Infinite Corridor, set alight or, why dozens of people were crammed into a tiny stairwell at 4:19:53 PM EST

  

  best not written about on the blogs. Some of these phenomena can be written about on the blogs, though, and this is one of them. The central ... the entire length of MIT's main buildings.  And a few days a year, the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Calm Before the Storm After 6+ months of planning, over 2,000 prefrosh and parents are headed toward Cambridge, Mass...

  

  . Rockapella is probably one of the most famous examples of a cappella.) Kim ... in our undergrad days). These are, of course, just a sampling of the ... Jamboree, All A Cappella Extravaganza, and the 7th Annual Battle of the Bands

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  The summer before college was my last summer of being 18, and thus my ... . They had little booklets at the front of the library for children to log ... comics. Spoiler alert: I didn’t win. Probably why the title of this blog is

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Tragedy for MIT and Boston Devastating news for our community.

  

  on campus, apparently by one of the Marathon bombers. As of the time I write this (8:15am on April 19), one of the bombers is reportedly dead ... . The Office of Admissions is closed today, April 19, and our information

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  'm sure you must be familiar with most of them) how highly do you rank the ... top 10 in the whole of india, i guess...it somehow doesnt show on my ... explain the details in one of the optional essays

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  ocean of sky, I woke up and instantly felt the narcotic echoes of the ascent to 10,000 meters or so of altitude. The night before, I had primly ... , suffering great pain in my knuckles because I did not conserve the momentum of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  Last Friday, Kirsten '15 and I (well actually the whole class of 2015) lined up outside in the chilly weather right outside of Kresge auditorium ... long and rich tradition of  "The Standard Technology Ring" (but everyone

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  of 5 games played by the MIT community. Playing the games was straightforward, but winning them was not. The top-ranked players of each game were ... response was determined by the collective responses of all the other players

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  socially aware hacking, part 2 this time, it's personal ((last time it was also personal))

  

  companies which are, uh, potentially accelerating the doom of our species not ... th. There's a very, very fancy portrait of David Koch in the first ... different kind of portrait. I have a few pictures below; the best ones are by

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  give an overview of the IPA symbols that are used in English. By the time you're done here, you should be able to make out most of the above text ... , manner of articulation, and their voicing. A consonant is voiced if the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Together in Service MIT community working collaboratively

  

  of Music. (I know, that one is a little out there.) But the point of ... I am so appreciative of MIT’s theme for the Inauguration of our new ... says a lot about MIT. It says the kind of things about MIT I will be

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 20, 2012