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  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  be a look you want in a shot, it is not the look we want. David ... . The mass of a photon in any frame but its rest frame is E/c^2. The more ... background light. David is a shape in the dark. Putting some of them

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second First Week Quick update at the start of term.

  

  director of MISTI, MIT's international studies program. The course is held in the same room as last term's writing class, and is held in a similar ... 's course is taught by Cathy Culot, a native French speaker from Brussels. The

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  redundancy built in to the skydiving gear you wear.  Not only is there a ... Hello again from out in the real world!  It's been a little more than ... in a classroom with 4 other guys learning the finer points of how to

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  in Lausanne, Switzerland, supported by a research fellowship from the ... lived in a boarding house in downtown Lausanne. There was a lot of ... . Lausanne is a very Olympics-oriented city. The IOC is headquartered there

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Like Never Before Kevin Rustagi '11 talks about the MIT LMC and then some.

  

  LMC (Live Music Connection). To be brief, the MIT LMC is basically a ... various other events. They have a (FREE!) CD out that's available on their website, as well as iTunes. Kevin gave me a copy of the CD, titled Like

  • by Celena C. '12
  • August 30, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  semester are spent in a sleep-deprived and over-caffeinated haze, probably at ... at once is a nightmare. i barely remember the weeks i spent finishing ... we all woke up, we grabbed brunch at a place called the Donut Diner in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  -sized, in fact, at least, in terms of cyclotron. The final machine is about a ... '11 (Course 18, of Putz in East Campus): "I have a story that is a good ... mention that the trip is entirely free, plus we get a stipend?) Middle East

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  Engineering in Biological Engineering. A Masters of Engineering is a 5th year ... is that you get a masters in just 1 additional year, but right now my ... graduate school, I've just started to ponder what life is going to be like in

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Keep Holy the Month of IAP For It Is a Time of Rest

  

  Board) is a student group that focuses on improving computing, both in ... keep a list in my head of what topics I want to blog about. But I think ... " is a fairly short list. One of the bigger things I did was teaching an

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  of free speech to airline companies. I'd go back in a femtoheartbeat ... astrophysically precise.) *In fact, this fact is not factually interesting at all ... your driver's permit. Me: I don't know what a car is. I walked away from

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  in the town. Newport is a lovely town and it was definitely not made to ... and it is a few sizes bigger than my telescope in diameter, which ofc I ... is to be anything at all I had lots of dreams as a kid. In particular

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  as Avatar is in our books, it still has a lot of the same qualities ... problems, all of which combined is a very exhausting process. And we didn ... through this initial job hunt, we realized there is still A Lot for us to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Being First is Important There can be many firsts

  

  in an entry. We work hard to find pictures for you guys, and then we have to resize, upload, and link them in. I know I would appreciate it a lot if you would write the names of what's in these pictures down and

  • by Snively '11
  • May 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  in lab during the last month than I did in my own room... which is a ... spent long hours in lab to finish our products :) It's a great celebration ... each other on the mountain. They even had a hill which people skiied in

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  is to work at a design studio in the future, and I was so excited to ... all, my meals. Below is a collection of my attempts to put together ... , flyers, postcards, and everything in between contained. I made a big fun

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  almost died in Boston traffic. Note the lack of a shoe on Kim '09. Kim is ... mind. 1. The third-largest city in Ireland is called "Limerick" 2 ... lateral epicondylitis?" I won the "funniest answer" prize (a free entree and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  . -Eating at a Steak 'n Shake in Indiana as a minority is a lonely endeavor ... , and celebrate my 21st birthday in a country where the drinking age is 20 ... 'm sitting in the emergency exit row directly behind a bathroom - but rather to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  compared to a dance in which the couples change partners. Metathesis is used ... (take a look!). Tonight is my penultimate Central Meeting of the year, in ... for the Nobel in Physics; his work on the inflationary universe is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  Hello everybody! My name is Katy and I’m a senior studying electrical ... a cabin in New Hampshire, and skiing all day every day. Yeah, I ... hours a day, six days a week, for several weeks in a row. It’s hard to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  stop you and interject that it is in fact a “fork with spoon ... interesting(?) and noteworthy(??) statistics from my fall semester in a – perhaps misguided – attempt to sum it all up in a quantitative manner

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015