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  all the notes i took in (another) week but it was midterm week so it's just crib sheets

  

  .001, the first version of this class. Our professor encourages us to think of this class as a tree, so this first midterm covered the 'trunk' of stress and strain, as well as the 'branches' of elasticity and visco

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • March 30, 2026
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students ... —if you look beyond the thing you’re waiting for—it can also be full of

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Went To The Ballet! 💎 color me refined 💎

  

  previous level of knowledge of ballet was at best mediocre. I know vaguely of ... single-file to get on the bus, and on the way out of the classroom I threw ... hobble around and everyone would aw (including me). This was of course

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 18, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snake doodles🐍🐍 i drew snakes to start off the year of the snake!

  

  [caption id="attachment_110676" align="alignnone" width="768"] happy year of the snake![/caption]

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / Hacks

  A hack, for cap 🇺🇸 spoilers-free

  

  , so did the new decoration of the MIT dome. Sometime late Saturday ... on the roof of the Great Dome as an homage to the Marvel hero. Via the Globe:  One of the jokesters — they cheekily call themselves “hackers” — reached

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  CASE: Identity and Intersectionality and some bunnies if you hate everything else about this post

  

  vaguely political ambiguity of the previous sentences and would rather just ... . This new group hosts a monthly forum in which attendees discuss issues of ... open to all MIT students regardless of identity. How did you find out

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Blizzard Barbecuing A few feet of snow never hurt anyone

  

  Yesterday Spanish House celebrated Boston's record breaking snow fall with the WTF(Winter Time Fun) Barbecue! Who says a few feet of snow signals the end of outdoor activites. Photo Credit to Hollie O. '15

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vlogging about Course 3 and Applying to MIT A video in which I talk to myself and I am an awkward MIT student…

  

  I did the vlog thing!   I didn't take a video of a cat, but here is a picture of Rory:

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Am Excited a day in life of a student

  

  away from proving that the set of all real numbers (R) is uncountably infinite. That is, it’s on a whole new level of infinity, and this makes ... Analysis homework contained only four distinct numbers in the statement of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  Because my summer plans are about as fluid as one of those squishy ... into a lot of part-time jobs. I’ll need something else to occupy time, earn a bit of money, and begin exploring some random careers. I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Events

  twerking, MIT style need more be said?

  

  Welcome to another edition of MIT Students Can Be Artsy™, aka We Do ... /confusing names like 50 Shades of Plié and #DTMF.  This year's fall show? DTWERK ... Dictionary.  Or maybe innocence is bliss?) I think the variety of dances

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Everything I ever wanted to know about making stuff.

  

    Many thanks to the Global Grand Challeneges Summit staff for the photos, and to Ed McCann and Mark Murcko for some of the anecdotes and quotes of the scientists featured here.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Maker Faire 2012 the Dean is going - are you?

  

  huge convention/fair of creative people getting together to show off the cool stuff they make. (Sponsored by Make magazine, of course.) There ... replica of Mousetrap the board game. Rather than have me add 25 hyperlinks

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  ¡Vámonos! An introduction to GRTs and the support system at MIT

  

  Residential life is a big part of going to college, and the unique diversity of living environments at MIT is something we're proud of. As many of the blogs have illustrated, school is often exciting, but when the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Rachel was at SF Pride with Facebook

  

  Hundreds of Facebookers united behind one banner and under several ... -- on the bus there, I ran into a flock of Google interns wearing this super adorable shirt: But for the most part, our view of the rest of the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opera No, not the browser

  

  One of my housemates here in Boston is a grad student at the MIT ... what I brazenly call The Birthplace of All Things Good and Awesome (I ... grasp, I've been following the Opera of the Future project with growing

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 10, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Something is coming, part 3… And the anticipation builds!

  

  To begin, add to Next, mix in a little of this (slightly nsfw for about 3 seconds) Now, put Jess and I in charge, give us a couple of months to stir, and what do you get? Wait and see! (no spoilers in the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To RFID or not to RFID? That's not really the question, but it's kind of a cool title, no?

  

  savvy (like me), here's the wikipedia article on RFID). One of which is ... 's of Engineering in EECS. (Actually, it looks like since then, Colin's done way more than that...) Pretty amazing stuff. Meanwhile, one of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW and other acronyms C.Y.G.W.T.S.F? I.F.C,I.B.Y.C!

  

  HOLY COW GUYS! CPW IS ALMOST HERE (42 minutes as of right now) You ... be setting foot on campus, many of you for the first time, to experience what a little bit of MIT is like. Can't sleep? Curious about what to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? About 25% of my blog posts are partially written while ... days of MITblogs, circa 2006. Long before my time, Sam '07 would prelude each of his blog entries with a snappy yet life-changing piece of trivia

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009