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  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  uniform rim of mass M and six thin uniform spokes mass m, is released from ... slipping? I've played with my tablet and written up the answers nice and ... game plan. 1) Energy. Since the wheel starts high and ends low it looks

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  By Celena Chan '12 So here I am, writing this, and it just hits me ... Californian (Nor Cal REPRESENT!), 5'2", and a lover of all things food. I was ... CPW with two needs: 1) To have fun and 2) To skip school. Needless to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  and 2 labs will do that). So...I thought I'd take the easy way out, by ... about the Therac-25, the X Windows System, multi-threading, and a couple ... projects, where we're presented with a fairly real world problem, and we have

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For love of Baxter A story of love, loss, and catnapping on Burton 1, as documented by my cell…

  

  kidnapped Baxter because he smells funny and no one on the floor likes him. If ... first: Prepare a double layer strawberry and dark chocolate cake, and ... HIM GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (and have some cake) (and other people too if

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Things Mmmmm.

  

  here you really have to pick and choose what is important to you. I do ... that, I try to show for whatever sounds cool. And you know what sounds ... . Ooooh. But the magic wears off after a couple weeks, to be honest, and

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thomas Friedman on Energy & MIT A NY Times article highlights MIT's innovative energy solutions

  

  We’re all aware of climate change and the impact that it will have on ... challenges, and President Susan Hockfield established the MIT energy initiative ... Vehicle Team, and the Solar Decathlon (read more in the Spring 2007 issue of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 2, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Go Sox!

  

  Titans, and they only moved there when I was 11. In the past, I've only ... fan - you just kind of get sucked into it. And it's even worse when you ... or a floor lounge to find 10+ people anxiously watching everything, and

  • by Evan B. '10
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Entrepreneurship invasion I love it when students start useful companies.

  

  friend, and another guy have started a company. He wants to take a year to devote himself fully to the start-up. And he's trying to get a freshman I ... called Dropbox, and I must say I'm impressed by their technology and ease

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  New ZigZag video podcast & behind the scenes An inside look at the new video.

  

  A new and different episode of ZigZag, MIT's video podcast, is up ... went about contacting students and setting up a production schedule. I sent out an email to a dozen random (and awesome) freshmen that I know

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  My Funny Valentine No kissing on Valentine's Day.

  

  : And it wouldn't be Valentine's Day without: r = a(1 - cos(theta)) Plot ... infection rendering my voiceless and without a desire to eat. So I think my ... you have a viral infection. You should take some Robitussin CF and oh

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  giveaway that the person you’re talking to has been fully and wholeheartedly immersed in the MIT culture. I am certainly a full-blooded MIT student, and ... . The first number after the dash gives the floor in the building, and the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  considerable grant money, and over the course of a year, create something truly ... heard about OpenCourseWare, a large (and well-funded) effort to put all of ... opportunity, a way to explain the research process through material, context and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  Yesterday was my team's first full day in Zambia, and what a day it ... , where we walked through an open-air produce market and into a large ... during the day, and although I wore a hat and drank lots of water I got

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  existed, and I'm kind of glad I didn't because I think I would have gone ... , and got H A's in my entire life. I applied and got into MIT. Someone ... their SAT, and got H + 5 A's. They applied and did not get into MIT. Does

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hooked on a Feeling High on believing everyone's in love with me.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? On keyboards in German internet cafes, the y and z keys ... and noticed a tabloid magazine on the counter which, as far as my ... life and exclusive pictures. So, that's been my first encounter with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  programs and freshman advising/seminars? When do you choose your classes?" I ... last minute changes, and then submit your final registration in Dupont ... Orientation, but then second term, you join the rest of the world and do things

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second First Week Quick update at the start of term.

  

  Studies minor, taught by Lori Breslow and Bernd Widdig. Lori is the director of MIT's Teaching & Learning Lab and Bernd is the associate ... the same room as last term's writing class, and is held in a similar

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  , which is actually part of the School of Architecture and Planning and not the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.) We went to the South Street Diner, which, according to both Ruth and the How to GAMIT is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  So this weekend was a long weekend, in honor of Columbus Day and also in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a ... three-day weekend per month during term, and sometimes a four-day weekend

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun with Legos A photo journal of THE coolest room I've ever seen.

  

  all the innocnet and clueless froshies. This convenient relationship ... innocent and clueless froshies bond together over an interesting but random ... ," and it takes places in E15-001, aka The Lego Learning Laboratory. E15

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2005