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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology A trip filled with enough desserts to satisfy anyone's sweet tooth!

  

  on our journey, one which would take us across Boston and involve the ... puffs.” We tried the vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry cream puffs, with and without chocolate on top. They fill the puffs with your choice of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stocking Up Completely random but fun.

  

  Three hallmates and I piled into a Zipcar the other night for a trip ... brand new refrigerator to our kitchen, and we figured the time was right ... rent the car for two hours and split the cost between four people. I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  three schools (and quite possibly all three schools) involved had students ... crashed the server at some point last week, and when it came back up, the ... .edu domain (and, I might guess, those on rpi.edu and cornell.edu). Relatedly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  with anticipation, with constructive interference and radiant energy and ... and Sam's Mom told me that it was coming the week of the 22nd. I think ... was too young and stupid to know what a postmark was. That's probably

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  .007, Design and Manufacturing I. The basic goal of the class is to design and build a car to complete a specific task or set of tasks and score as many ... friend, Mark Cote, won the competition and he and a few of the other top

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Summary

  

  pieces and I managed to finish at 3:31 -- and the competition started at 3 ... flywheel, cylinder plate, and bearing plates. Basically, you draw the design ... flywheel I designed for fun) and then use another program to take your

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Energized Watching the sun rise signals that it's time for bed.

  

  projects, do those last minute problem sets, and perhaps design a wind ... floating buoy-like structure to support a 700,000 kilo tower and rotor combo. I started working on it Thanksgiving afternoon, and finished it this

  • by Bryan
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  candy, and playing puzzles when clouds obscure the view -- sounds like ... UROPers hung up their lab coats to head home, Shaye and two other undergrads would meet at the lab and if the sky was clear, they would drive up to MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A way a lone a last a loved a long the An opportunity for heated debate and a cry for revolution.

  

  about 36 people go, we slept in cabins, we swam, we played Mafia, and we ... . However, I was served a #4 Big Bacon Classic combo with mayonnaise and ... poultry, so I took the hamburger and my receipt back up and asked for a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Carnival A glorious carnival is marred by the passing of a beloved goldfish. (24 pictures)

  

  !), Living Group Council (LGC), and Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender ... in time to try and knock down a fat cat. It's really hard to throw ... and Gabe put on velcro suits and then thrust themselves onto a large

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  for college. I talk to my future classmates daily, and it seems like ... seven months, the notion of a new life and future along the Charles River ... considering the past. And as I type this from an aisle seat on a flight bound

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  turn the dial to 88.1 hello caller, you're live on the air.

  

  hometown, and yelled and jumped up and down. I never told my mom how I lost ... week, and he was filling in. So after grabbing a bite to eat at ... incredible. Shaye's show highlights Celtic Rock, and our show had a little

  • by Bryan
  • August 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I-Rop, U-Rop my contribution to the future of medicine

  

  room reading a book and my nifty-cool-non-default email sound came on, and I immediately grabbed my laptop and saw that I had a new Google ... by the Dupont-MIT Alliance, and Dupont recently donated another $25

  • by Bryan
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  I was reading back over the last two entries and realized I may have ... ). First and definitely foremost. I like to make lists. And spreadsheets. And ... it into an Excel spreadsheet, I have also converted it to Adobe PDF and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of ... Review and Games Magazine. This year's Mystery Hunt begins this coming ... will have "warm-up" activities prior to the beginning of the Hunt, and at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  Last summer, I got into running. And it was really fun! I enjoyed it ... through Boston and tried to run to the airport [ [annotation note ... get back into running. I’ve been on break for too long, and it’s time to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  spotify ever since freshman year. shuli and ankita have also done posts in ... the lo-fi hip hop beats to study/relax to playlist, and that is usually ... when i was working in LA last summer and was doing no exercise and also

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  through some possible courses of action, and settled on: moping. First, I ... action would be to e-mail my professor and my TA. After procrastinating for a few hours, I finally hit "send", and away went my request for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  you can use your imagination, and I'll just describe some of the other ... and Productivity (LMP). This is another lab run by Course 2 (the ... IAP, maybe I'll finally do that) and whenever they take 2.008. 2.670 is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Awesome Robot Competition? LIVE?? Check out the 2.007 Final Robot Competition! LIVE May 12th/13th!

  

  and Design Final competition!!! This semester, MIT students have been ... , themed after the movie Wicked! Both me and Veronica P. '27 are taking the class and plan to write a longer blog about our experiences, but we couldn

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 12, 2025