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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  , and that this is going to make me either a good scientist or a raving ... Roland: ""I firmly believe this value [for the mass of a quark] is correct ... effect is like when you're at a party, and you're talking to someone, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  is huge, and it's pretty much impossible to do everything in one day ... Midnight Madness at this restauarant where if you buy a soda you pretty much ... So one of the perks involved with being an MIT student is the ability

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  . BUT YOU JUST WANT ADVICE ON HOW TO WRITE A WINNING EARLY ACTION ... notice that Cyclops is kind of a total tool in X2? I really liked it when ... DID YOU KNOW? Wolverine is from CANADA. Okay, first of all, who

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  a year and a half ago i got offered a position as a blogger and i said no. half a year ago i got offered a position as a blogger and i said ... how happy i was that life felt like an abundant tree of gleaming vibrant

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  to work on it. So Kim, who is a good painter, asked me if I wanted help ... 't know how we pulled it off. This is what Crystle's and my room looked ... . Although my belief is that one should pick a living group based on whether

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Attack of the Giant Squid Attack of the Giant Squid!

  

  A couple weeks ago, Mitra commented on her CI-M (Communications ... aka HST.541J. One of the major topics in the class is the Hodgkin and Huxley model for the propagation of action potentials. The model is fairly

  • by Bryan
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  For pi are cubed. There can only be one winner.

  

  possibly be a coincidence, but Comedy Central is channel 52 on both MIT Cable ... blue and green. By now I think there should be a category called "e-mails that Sam has received from Hillel, who still mistakenly think he is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Super Adventure Club In a little while, I'll be gone.

  

  . get a haircut, or decide that my hair is beautiful. 3. take a bath That ... is in Atlanta, Georgia? Hey, if you came here from Google looking for something about South Park, no luck--this is just another stupid blog. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jenny Hu- Adapting to Artifical Gravity Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can…

  

  takes a while to get used to. It is important for astronauts to adapt to ... system, which is the inner ear structure that creates a sense of balance ... hires UROPs and is a great place for a first research experience. Jenny

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 7, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there a medical facility on campus?

  MIT has its own on-campus medical facilities providing a complete healthcare center serving the health and wellness needs of the entire MIT ... family members. MIT Health provides access to a broad range of clinical
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), which is a temporary designation ... writers of the 21st century. He is now a U.S. citizen, but maintains ties to ... is very significant. After that, how can I give up? How can I stop just

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  Network. The Quest Scholars Network is a group of all MIT Quest Scholars ... active members. MIT QSN is a relatively new group on campus; some of the ... what this meant and I wanted a much more concrete answer than that. But

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  : there is a memorial fund, benefiting FIRST, set up by Woodie's widow ... , ethically, and emotionally. As a cofounder of FIRST, he was known for bringing ... have ever encountered: an attentive listener, a thoughtful respondent

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

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  classes, I'll mention grading a lot. Of course, grading is only a small part ... .01: Introduction to Hacking. A student's grade in 19.01 is based on three components ... . The midterms happen at the end of a month. The final is only called a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  (though you probably weren't...). I got the "i know this is a busy time of ... am actually that much of a freak.) The fact that MIT’s its own little world is a double-edged sword. You get to be around some of the most

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  generally agree that almost anything can be improved if it is shot out of a ... Hello Internet! It's been a while. I last blogged on EA Decision Day ... morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  its graduates. But unlike many universities, MIT's alumni magazine is a ... : Technology Review. Actually, what you buy on newsstands is a slimmed ... . The highlight for many alums is the "Class Notes" section, a regular

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  , not a crippling imbalance in work-life matters and how I deal with them ... 've learned a number of things: At MIT, the week of my birthday has always been ... because that's just how the cookie crumbled. That realization helped me beat

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Metropolis and the Alloy Orchestra "The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must be the Heart!"

  

  ! You may wonder how the showing of a classic silent film could pack an ... create the soundtrack. The film is a precursor to almost every sci-fi movie ... , March 5, the Somerville Theatre was packed for a World Music Crash Arts

  • by ARTalk
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  5K with Brad, who is a marathon runner like myself. Sadly, he became a ... Boston side of the river, everyone is bound together by a love, or at the ... , under tech! MIT is a place where I can play a heated bout of Super Smash

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008