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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  between peak and off-peak travel seasons, and the fleetingly brief periods of time here in the Northeast between heating and cooling seasons (or ... group of rising seniors (and other underclass students) who are anxious to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSWcy-bx_lg Come celebrate with us in the comments and—more importantly—share this wonderful news with your community and loved ones! We hope you feel like you

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  music and anime has been constant. I was shocked at how many of my posts were about Jojo and even more shocked that I’m still just as obsessed with it! The manga’s been getting good and I eagerly await Jojo day each

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  comes to Decisions, both yours and… y’know… not yours. See with this ... will become. And, as a consequence, who you become is deeply entangled ... for nothing because it didn't pay off in the way I had wanted it to. And

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  little free library while I was living in my van. I wrote a poem here and there, and I read a few of Masha’s from 21W.762: Poetry Workshop. Then ... called it — and I thought, why not? We met on Sundays at 10 pm for me in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022