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• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  code, hours of pulling my hair out at office hours, just trying to get ... brain switches to a new task, however menial, it takes a certain amount of ... Spanish class of the day is at Harvard, SPANSH 81 Table Talk and Food

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  normal to us now like motion graphics were completely new and magical at ... honestly a lot of fun – frustrating at times, but (at least for me) nowhere ... city planning movements like New Urbanism. I think this is one of those

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products ... working alpha prototypes of new products. Students learn about creativity

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  An Olympic Hack Floating rings above Brigg's Field?

  

  Upon entering MIT, every freshman gets a list of "101 Things To Do ... : 2011 and 2008.) On the Class of 2016's list, number 82 tells you to Hack Something, following the proper etiquette (Hacker's Code of Ethics) which is

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A little something while you wait. Don't plan on doing work until we finish this.

  

  I have some pretty fond memories of second semester senior year, largely consisting of doing nothing, making random trips to Steak 'N Shake ... officially less than 4 days (OHMYGODDECISIONZ), over a 1000 of you will be

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  function was. Some of the astronomers that I spoke to at the AAS conference ... of thin air. While the 25 or so of us gaped at him, he unwrapped it ... Last year, my class sizes were on the order of 100, 50, 60, and 20

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  , so their residents get the feeling of being away from school at night ... Hello, gentle readers! For those of you who don't know me, I've been ... break from blogging. I'm here now to talk about one of the big changes I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  ever joining the group on an adventure through the woods of New Hampshire ... always has been) where I reside at MIT and where I spend most of my time of ... the cabin. There were at least twenty of us up there, putting our

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Tim Is So Beautiful to me

  

  Earlier this month we launched one of our new admissions videos called MIT Imagination. A lot of work went into that video. Elizabeth and ... . Or at least one of the rotating cast of characters who played Tim. Now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...

  

  remaining until we are seniors. This is scary as I look at the long list of ... past couple of weeks. As we head into the last couple weeks of the ... /lounges/libraries/other favorite study spot to ready themselves for the barrage of final projects and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  Somerset County, New Jersey, where the Italian soccer team happened to be staying and practicing. I had an enormous crush on one of their star players ... family went to watch them run drills at a nearby soccer field one afternoon

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Flip Flops The original title of this entry was "YakTrax."

  

  at MIT. I must admit that I also learned a lot of new information ... flops are my shoeware of choice, even I have to give in at some point and ... So how does a boy from Texas survive the oftentimes harsh winters of

  • by Bryan
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  the one where i talk to ameer what is real again?

  

  . And of course, you know I'm with you. In this new digital world order we ... going to have to find something new because the elders have kind of made ... , in front of me is the Jeremy, behind me is Ariel, DJ to my left, and

  • by kellen manning
  • April 9, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  with your choice of “Prestigious Big Name University with lots of money ... Here are a couple of other good questions that I have been asked by ... ...Referring to the application fee:“Full name of the applicant must be on the money

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / Events

  How Many Liveblogs Can We Get Onto One Page?! Mystery Hunt Part 3.5

  

  's a completely new kind of experience! Thanks again, more to come later ... the pictures you asked for: Death From Above at the beginning of the ... , Death from Above is doing a live webcast of the wrap-up events that happen

  • by Snively '11
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Mid-May Update Q&A: Athena tips and hints

  

  installed) to download a licensed copy of Eudora. Also available at that ... week of rain. :- But... I bet by now, all you '10 folks have your Athena ... solutions out there. You can get instructions on how to set one up at http

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  find a good new release (or an old album by a band I'd never heard of ... I did many things this weekend during CPW: -met you. As I said at ... 's entire stock of organic portobello mushrooms. Think of the vegetarians

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  anything before it. None of this is the case at MIT. The students at MIT ... Something very important happened on Friday. The final report of the ... (the classes that all undergraduates at MIT are required to take), and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  register a party at that time of night on that notice? Eventually I left ... , Caltech's cannon appeared at MIT for CPW, complete with intricately machined ring around the barrel. Of course, it was not going to stay forever, and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Your friendly neighborhood webcaster ignore if you can time travel within your own lifetime

  

  hurry you can still catch it at the Class of 2014 site! (use the username ... will transition from “the whirlwind adventure with my new classmates into the wonders of MIT I planned to register for” to “that potentially life

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 25, 2010