Search

Search Results

• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  a lot of people are excited to see some art! But where is everyone ... the hooding ceremony for MIT doctorate students and shipping out of ... Prudential Center peeks over the Back Bay Fens, where Boston citizens can

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  -Xin asks, "Hi, I need a bike (damn Simmons). I hear there are bike auctions sometimes. Where do I find out more about them, like where and when they are ... auction where old bicycles sell for very cheap prices. I also discovered

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ah, those inspirational Germans! The Magdeburg Bridge in Germany is an engineering marvel and an inspiration to all Beavers!

  

  Engineering) but this picture made me envious of everyone who is. The bridge is ... important shipping canals by crossing over the Elbe River. Without the water ... speculate that the Magdeburg Bridge will increase shipping volumes from the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  data. usually, we take projects various people are working on and obtain ... around cool stars. i am here with Jayna E. '27 and since both of us are driving this for the first time, Jensen (TA) and Amius are teaching us how

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  mass of a space ship is 1000 kg, with a circular sail made of a ... from #4's implication that thousands of people are using their computers ... “why is the ocean salty” are seeking an answer subtler than, “Because it

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  finishing my postdoc in Boston, and frankly we are pretty tired of this whole ... professional aerospace engineer does in his free time. Build model airplanes ... , at work? And the answer is ARE YOU JOKING? He’s always been a model

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  's like trying to pop a pimple, where you'd poke and prod at the pimple for ... single problem made me contemplate dropping that class. That should've been ... where many students had the same questions as I. But the lectures

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  This semester I built a Tamagotchi: a 2000s toy where the user takes ... design a circuit board. And that's where 2.679: Electromechanical Systems ... because how fun is that??! So, without further ado, here are the steps

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  to bail ship, so what do I do, I run. Where...you might ask? Right ... to get into the Museum Of Science for free. A few weeks back, Diana ... , so multiple visits are encouraged. I know I'll be back in the fall for

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  from a blogger meeting where we talked about blogs and things and i made ... shipping vessels. So if pirates sang, it wasn't the sea chanties we know of ... day shanties, like Wellerman or Hoist the Colors are not work songs, but

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  loophole made possible by the MIT station's recently-obtained non ... ) * The Times They Are a'Changin' (Bob Dylan) * If I Had My Way (Peter, Paul ... ) * Free Man in Paris (Joni Mitchell) * You Can't Always Get What You Want

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  thing that made dreams come true: the good old roller cart TV. She pulls ... to any of them. Stressed out of my mind, I watched some of the free TV ... made today. It was very wholesome, had instantly recognizable characters

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  moment I am drafting this blog post; because I made the observation that my ... talking about where we should allocate money to do the most good. One of ... many of the meetings, nor did I find the time to read the free books that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  of the Brass Rat. We then raffled off one grand prize of a free Brass Rat and a free hug from me.   Afterwards, the next two Ring ... . We then put it on a tank because tanks and we as a class made plans to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MFA Boston A trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

  

  students get in free with their MIT ID Card, which is always exciting ... last... This ship is part of the "Things I Love" collection, on loan ... ) with nautical paintings by Lane, Boudin, Dufy, and Homer; ship models and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  , because even though there are dentists at MIT Medical that are covered by ... it occurs to me that Dentist and Nurse are probably involved in some ... from the free pile outside the animators' offices.) Celebrating Harry

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Moving Across The Pond From One Cambridge to Another

  

  Alliances are made (and quickly broken) as each player attempts to gather ... -essential employees I said my final goodbyes, hopped on a plane to Canada and shipped off to a land of free healthcare, fizzy lemonade and double decker buses

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Open Letter Employers love students with dorm desk experience.

  

  recent Amazon Student promotion, which gives college students free Amazon Prime membership (with free two-day shipping) for a year. And, supposedly ... last month I made the terrible mistake of taking one of the 8am-10am

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 8, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  and said we could select 3 to take home for free. I asked her why she ... ']key decision[/annotation] we made was to not set an end location; rather, we set ... for the night. We made this decision mostly because we didn’t know how

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 11, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  2 types of games. Finite games where the goal is to win on a finite time horizon. Infinite games where the goal is to keep ... reward them for being useful. In all of these cases, we are brought down by

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025