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• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  Physics demos at MIT are pretty high on the list of awesome things in ... the semester by breaking a glass. A lot of people compare at MIT ... virtually sing, showing their passion for what they do. It's part of the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hip-Pop – Konnecting Souls Part of the MIT series "Hip-Pop in French: Contemporary Theater, Film, Dance, Comics and Graphic…

  

  Technologies: A Talk and Demonstration Part of the series Hip-Pop in French ... Cultural Services of the Consulate General of France in Boston A choreographer and composer, Franck II Louise is a pioneer of the French hip

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  windows, and one of the windows was flapping around on its hinge. The woman was standing with an elderly man, and the two of them had been trying ... the bouldering wall. It was dark and drizzling. Out of nowhere, a guy

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  sure that I can claim the title of being the founder of mascot ... )[/caption] The initial idea I got the inspiration for this from one of my favorite ... mascots were going to have varying levels of accuracy based on the data

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  for those of you who don’t know, i’m part of the mit ohms, a south asian a cappella group. this post is a look at the different components of ... !)   i. music we mostly sing songs arranged by current members of the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  Institute of Technology, class of 2012. The topics of my application essays were: the process by which I knit a replica of the spawn of Cthulhu ... the circle of life producing an incredibly nerdy musical at math camp

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Together. thoughts on today's tragedy.

  

  rate in the triple digits.  The wailing of sirens and the steady chop-chop-chop of helicopter blades overhead filled the air. We were very fortunate to have no immediate members of the MIT community directly injured by

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

  Cancer on my mind Wait, shouldn’t that be Carolina?

  

  winning book on cancer, or maybe it's because I just took a tour of the Koch ... elaborate on the many wonderful aspects of this Institute, namely its interdisciplinary nature, or the fact that of its over 500 researchers, half are

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  . I’m from Grand Rapids, Michigan, Furniture Capital of the World and proud birthplace of both the Holland Tulip Time Festival and the Christian ... -so-proud hometown of Kwame Kilpatrick… yeah). I enjoy long walks on the beach, though

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Home Warning: Graphics Intensive.

  

  . Congratulations to all of you that pressed the submit button yesterday and others ... finished with the vast majority of your college applications within the next ... about you, but I remembered the first half of my senior year flew by in no

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  every member of the whole place thinks that it's the most wonderful place in the world--it's the center, somehow, of scientific and technological ... 's view of New York: they forget the rest of the country. And while you don

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  Freudian terror. Flash back to the real world, where school is still kind of hard despite having little in the way of required classes. A classmate ... than one adapts. So with that out of the way, I have some actual comp

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  On Sunday morning the Design/Build/Fly team rolled out of bed at 6:30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We ... began making the very unhealthy-sounding buzzing sound of an electric

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.

  

  name of the fictitious character who often takes responsibility for mysterious things that happen at the Institute during the middle of the night ... friend of mine tipped me off about the hack, but publishing his or her name

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  rattle off mean. Here's a great explanation by a class of '13 about how the ... known for it's legendary professor Walter Lewin, 8.01 is the crux of ... name and 2 hour classes, table problems, and labs are the plays of the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  the morning so I woke up around 9:30am and then went to 14.01 recitation ... interface has a bunch of different methods and if you create a class… I DON ... always puts super cute pictures of his cute baby son with captions that are

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a bachelor of science and a master of engineering. In which I make a Voltaire reference and the soup is a metaphor but luckily…

  

  of flour and one cup of milk and stir it into the soup. Cook five more ... My thesis is done. It is 384 pages long, 2.0833% of them text, 4.9479% of them pictures, and 90.365% of them code.         Here is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 21, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day of April) cami edition

  

  vlogging every day of April and trying to release videos somewhat on time, but also I'm using Adobe Premiere Pro after using Sony Vegas for the ... 'm trying to get used to the new interface. I am at no means super

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 19, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Study Break MIT is home to some very dedicated gamers.

  

  the stress level on campus would be pretty high right now, most of my ... the rest of us with a few games and toys to play with over the next few ... across the east side of campus for my UROP (more about that later) when I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 11, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Check Is In The Mail As you know from Matt/Ben's blogs, the decisions are in the mail, or as they…

  

  of 1300 GMT the decisions were at Boston's South Station (the main post ... those of you not familiar with the 24-hour clock, or zero-hour, that's 9 ... , you may be one of the 12%. For those not in the 12% - do not despair

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 10, 2005