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• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter two Week two of school away from school as I learn about and work on transportation…

  

  'm splitting my time between Service Design/Performance and Technology Services, so basically, applying technology to the analysis and optimization of train routes and service. I'm working with some great people, and you know

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  kids, and you'd be surprised how often the argument, "It could save his ... perspective in life (i.e. a lot) you can make it through the day and in fact an ... some awesome people and my job can be a lot of fun. Very entertaining and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  really didn't do too badly, and also that you could have gotten a zero and ... moments of panic, I had the sense to reach in and rip it out with one clean ... , the only evidence of it being a slight tenderness and a dull throbbing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two

  

  -disfunctional and the beds were twin extra long just like my old dorm room. Our ... much looking around, and to my surprise, the place was great. A little ... . And order I did. Pizza de Quattro Formaggi Translation: Four Cheese

  • by Bryan
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  , four-time IMO gold medalist and Putnam fellow, has his own entry on ... devised a new cheer that we want to do with the crowd and cheerleaders. We're going to try to premiere it at this week's men's ice hockey game and, if

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  front half of its body, and the child just kind of licks it off ... conference on sustainable energy with NREL, and I'm an undergrad so I didn ... hand and Fire Viper on the right hand--it's way better than a Fireball

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  , I'm kind of running around because I'm jet-lagged like crazy (Adam and ... :30 PM and gets into Boston at 6 AM. Come on, that's just evil.) but I ... Adam and me up to their family's condo at Sunday River in Maine (because

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  sit down with Richard Rusczyk and Dave Patrick PhD '97, two of the folks ... include great textbooks for gifted math students, an active and interactive forum (merged with MathLinks) for discussions of math and math problems

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  When you have a 2.5-year-old and a 3-month-old, anything after 6AM is ... , got coffee in the lobby, and checked out of the Hyatt (still no sign of ... info session the night before and it was so amazing that they didn't need

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  successfully bribed Ben to let me stick around as a blogger this semester, and since I've already had to break out the long pants and awesome jacket, the ... -mail--who knows, I might pull a Mitra and end up using it. Classes started on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  . "Your interview gives us a vivid sense of you as a person and how you ... Educational Counselor's (EC) name and contact information via your MyMIT account. Please note that there may be times when there is no EC in your area and we

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sun off a beach The one where it rains. I mean, another one where it rains.

  

  people I don't really know and I went down to Carson Beach today and then ... rain cloud above my head (see my life as a cloud) and bring horrible ... cold and windy, mostly cloudy, with scattered showers. Luckily, Yunjie

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  ridiculous stereotypes about MIT and MIT students. I'm a little touchy about ... person and keeps telling me to "find the good". I decided to "find the good ... , and we're proud of to be a little offbeat. Around here, "nerd" isn't an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  getting ready for casual Friday at work where I get to wear flip-flops and a t-shirt, and my Harry Potter desktop wallpaper's fact of the day read ... read." Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince would soon be released. I

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  pencil, and a few loose pens and pencils that only see the light of day ... and Wednesday, and meets for a two hour lab every week. While the lab ... ="105488" image3="105489" /]   2.003- Dynamics and Control I  This class has

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  that they hold and the choices that they make. So I figured that a half-decent way of introducing myself to the world (and give a decent overview of ... importance because you might just pay attention to the little things and get

  • by Paolo A. '21 G
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  'm going to do the best that I've ever done at this school, and I'm super ... three parts. Classes I'm super excited for my classes this semester (and ... the Course 6 foundation and header classes! This basically means that I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  "]anonymous Gamemasters[/annotation] and funded by the de Florez Fund for Humor, dormspam ... while [annotation note="the top 10 scorers win $15 each and the next top ... involved "wits, skill, and the teensiest amount of luck," to quote the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  -track during Independent Activities Period (IAP) and nearly NR-ed (no ... ="The attitude that your grades don't really matter and you should do the bare ... an identity and confidence that didn’t depend on my grades. At the same

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  Early this morning I got a text from my friend and former student ... prototyping sessions and fluid analyses with subtitles like "real engineers ... -called brass rat, a touchstone of MIT culture with a long and illustrious history

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017