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• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  for the aero/astro degree. here is a part of that airplane (i worked on ... square.   i volunteered in a door-to-door get ... one year ago i was living in an apartment in seattle while on leave

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016
• Blog / Events

  NSUW Coffee Chat Casual conversations with professors

  

  ) event Coffee Chat with Professors. NSUW is a sponsored group of the Sloan ... Business Schools. Dr. Aggarwal's expertise is in the areas of initial public ... and Journal of Portfolio Management. As a Fulbright Scholar in Brazil

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  City Strangers a comic

  

  text in the art for accessibility (and because my handwriting is very mediocre): I’m living in New York City this summer. Oh stranger, it’s … a lot ... from the fire escape. We listen to a drag queen read children’s books in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 25, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  Angry Birds Fly at MIT Students construct trubuchets, catapults, and air cannons to take out the dastardly pigs on Killian…

  

  each develop a prototype of a product that can (and in many cases does ... The weapons set up in Killian Court The "pigs" and their defenses A ... .  They weren't just any birds: they were Angry Birds. In 2.009, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  not a single game is downloaded on my phone or computer.   I ... sophomore. I’m crashing in Tokyo with a friend I made through inline skating. She’s almost 30 and lying in bed with a heating pack on her back after

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summiting Mount Monadnock camping trip!

  

  a camera store in Malden to buy film, then Texas Roadhouse, and lastly ... England's forests for a respite; a cabin in a place like Sunset Pond, a pen ... stargaze. In a similar way, the stars are as empowering and overwhelming as

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Accidents Happen My mom was right.

  

  explore? Being a scientist-in-training myself, this is encouraging because ... Parents are always the optimistic ones, right? My mom always has a response for me when I claim I made a mistake: We don't make mistakes; we

  • by Bryan
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.

  

  One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In short, Mystery Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT where students ... finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in-depth description

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  excitement replete Looking back now, 'though it hasn't been long It's a marvel to see how much I've grown In brainpower and stamina for sleepless nights Time kept a rhythm, while we scraped along Now we start to peer

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Fabulous Festivities & Fireworks for the Fourth The annual Boston Pops concert and fireworks show.

  

  separates Boston from Cambridge and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the ... secret of the Boston 4th of July celebrations is that the Boston Pops do a ... river in East Cambridge. I think the Back Bay area of Boston is very

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  16.810 Rapid Design and Prototyping 8 days to build an airplane. Intrigued?

  

  . Throughout my childhood, a small walk in closet in the basement of my house was ... (featured in the video). 16.810 is offered each IAP, and I certainly plan on ... presentation for 16.810, we made a short video. Here it is for you to enjoy

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  August 23, it means: Um...yeah, year is almost over. Might as well start in ... waxed philosophical in a fairly lengthy essay, pondering if the segue into ... We begin with certain trivialities. *Resolution: A firm decision to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The youngest known meteor impact crater in the world is located in Haviland, Kansas and is less than 1,000 years old. I wrote a ... ... in case there's a chapping emergency, and one of them got lost -stain

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  Celestrium (which is a non-precious metal that's really durable.) The gold ring ... name is even engraved on the inside, in cursive! So, in the picture below ... *stunning* rings, we had dinner in an adjacent room. There were a bunch of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Festival

  

  event... And this is the "after" picture, a half hour into the event ... Association sponsored some mini-golf, with prizes for a whole in one. Sadly ... currently at MIT for Campus Preview Weekend (this post is dedicated to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Inherent Asymmetry Around.

  

  , doing well on these GREs is more a matter of pride than anything else. Well, no not exactly, GREs cost $$$ and are a real pain in the neck, it ... a classroom in building 66, parked my butt down for 3 hours and took a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  after 11:18. That is a LIFETIME in late person time. I could have made my ... wouldn't mind if maybe he reclined his chair in her space just a little bit ... 57 bucks on a bus 40 minutes after the one I had bought a ticket for in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  An MIT Acronym Quiz how many can you decode?

  

  TLDR: PLAY MY ACRONYM QUIZZZZ As a school best known by an acronym, it's only fitting that MIT is itself a LAND OF ACRONYMS. Our first few weeks as a freshman on campus involve a deluge of new three-letter codes

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 21, 2026
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  start of another day. Winter in Wyoming is its own beast, a stark contrast ... of Cows![/caption] Winter in Wyoming—a symphony of snowflakes and ice ... company so we braved the elements together often with sleds in tow for a

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  first project in 4.113, each one of us had to thoroughly research a ... write code that aggregates geometric elements in a defined space as if chemical reactions are adding a certain ion in a petri dish...and pray that

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011