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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  , except that he vastly underrates both Galaxy Quest (one of the best movies ... better than two stars). Now, Roger Ebert didn't like "War of the Worlds", and not just because of the whole Tom Cruise/Oprah thing. Rather, he was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  it's IAP, the MIT tradition of "work hard, play hard" absolutely still applies, although I suppose the definition of work is a little more flexible ... decided to blog about all of them. *** Part the First: Riddles As you may

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT Mini Maker Faire Celebrating STEAM and creativity

  

  the event justice in this blog because of my general inexperience with STEM maker culture (although I’ve had plenty of immersion with the arts ... the additional component of technology. Instead of traditional

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 11, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was I just graduated!

  

  or September of 2016. I thought, in the style of my last blog post, I ... speech from the president of the MIT Class of 2020, Nacho Nwana. Though it's been a long ten days since the video was posted, it encapsulates a lot of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Stuff that happened on Pi Day (besides decisions) pastries and pie-ings from around the institute

  

  a few days later with some of the other stuff that happened on Monday ... , Koch Institute, Division of Student Life, MIT Dining. Meanwhile, the MIT Museum took advantage of the day to announce their new home at...314 Main

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 16, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A little bit about me and my trip to La Republica Dominicana A trip to the Dominican Republic to compensate for a bitterly cold Boston winter

  

  (where the sidewalk ends), I'm from Bethesda, MD (a suburb of Washington ... just got back from my second visit to the beautiful town of Punta Cana in ... spent a lot of time reading Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson by the pool

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Amazin’ The Mets clinched the NL East. *happy dance*

  

  class, and you pretty much just sum forces all day long. The sum of the ... takes the standard deviation of a set of numbers. Which really isn't cool ... to indent the condition of my else command." So there. And now, for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pervnert This entry is not suitable for children under 7 or finite-volume, compressible vapors.

  

  -foot-tall letters thoroughly ingrained the structure of cyclobutane in my mind, and I probably won't forget anything about the state of American Civil War medicine ... " and a high school bully's demonstration of the Pauli Exclusion Principle

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Untitled "The work is untitled because meaning is always changing in time and place." ⁃ Félix…

  

  work of Félix González-Torres stands at the intersection of ... identity lends itself to a political identity: the idea of a blank passport ... stacks of blank paper. But that's the beauty of the untitled. Its

  • by ARTalk
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m so ill. like, in the bad way

  

  obvious drawbacks of being sick, it's impossible to catch up during the ... yourself healthy. Take this advice from a hypocrite. At the end of freshman year, I somehow managed to come down with a strain of the flu that left

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? Prelude.

  

  Prelude. In light of the halfways, quarterways, three ... someone out there is reading, learning something, or just caring out of the ... announcement that I'm throwing my hat into the ring with the rest of them. Nobody

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fraternities @ MIT They're quite a Rush.

  

  of the easiest. MIT's 27 fraternities stand alongside the dorms as a ... and the same triumphs - both of which can be found in abundance at MIT ... or more, ranging from as simple as who sits at the head of the dinner

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  died after medical complications. He was 75, and one of the finest men I ... introduction: to the tens of thousands of FIRST participants around the world, and to the decades of MIT students he taught in Mechanical Engineering

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Leadership & Double Dare 11 pictures of the leadership conference, and 16 pictures of the Double Dare sex challenge

  

  Here are some pictures from the Undergraduate Female Leadership Conference I attended last Saturday as part of Women's Week Here are ... lunch in a banquet hall in the Hotel@MIT (Note, this is a link to the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  of the hilights reel. To start things off, I'm working in the new ... Cities group, and our car, the CityCar has received a lot of press over the years ... current list is: -Treasure Island -War of the Worlds -The Time Machine

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Maker Faire 2012 the Dean is going - are you?

  

  huge convention/fair of creative people getting together to show off the ... replica of Mousetrap the board game. Rather than have me add 25 hyperlinks ... be there! Oh yeah, its got everything. In addition to all of the

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  (students, faculty and staff) are back into the rhythm of the academic season ... innovations. Some of the most successful examples are outside of the classroom ... -Perez) and I engaged in an online experiment: we took all of the lectures for 6

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i made a dress out of target bags i also edited a video about it

  

  ://youtu.be/M-zuz_nZhGY Details: I filmed this with my phone, balanced precariously on the edges of ... with my tuition. Most of the voiceover was recorded in one take, somehow. I got most of the bags from the Target in Central Square, as well as

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 21, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  improv companies online, and i looked at the pictures and read a bunch of ... that none of them had any shows soon. and improv sounded fun. at the ... myself. most of the process consisted of taking a video of myself doing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  , the entirety of the drawer declares mutiny and goes madly deskless. It ... place on the hierarchy of desk assembly, and it took me at least 45 ... 've had a harsh life. Why complain? I can afford the luxury of reattaching

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009