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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Life, As Physics Problem also The Tech said a thing

  

  FPOP, interviewed Matt and I yesterday for it, and the article is pretty ... my crash and how that might have affected the fact that I escaped ... , and besides F=MA and watching my teacher set his hair on fire I don

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happiness ...can now be found on a website

  

  some days I literally bounce out of bed and others where I wish a ... another these past few weeks (and for that matter, during my entire life ... , Christina '10 - an MIT alum and a fellow Camp Kesem (more on Camp Kesem in an

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Challenge I hope Chris Peterson doesn't fire me for too many prefrosh stealing his nametag...

  

  printed and are sitting in boxes waiting to be distributed to YOU when you ... of my favorite place on earth, and there are so many things to find, see, and do! So, if you're coming to CPW this weekend, this is my

  • by Kate R. '14
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Finality Just one more week.

  

  forget things otherwise and partially just because I like feeling awesome and productive every time I cross something off :) I have a list for all ... day, all the things I want to do next summer, and of course, all that I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Get It Done Keep On Keeping "On"

  

  in a play, and organizing a student rock concert to raise money for the memorial fund of a classmate who died in a car wreck - and oh yeah, applying ... just veg out and watch some football or hang out at the mall or play COD

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  will.i.am: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston The Black Eyed Peas' frontman hangs out at MIT.

  

  the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, wearable computing in the Media Lab, and miscellaneous cool stuff in the Precision ... hours after he learned about energy-storing inverse lakes, he and his

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome to the Woodshop Don't forget close-toed shoes and please WEAR GOGGLES.

  

  ... ;) Where architecture comes to life with wood and more.Two afternoons each ... tools correctly, and ties up their hair in proper fashion. We're not ... also foam and plastics) which we can use for our class projects

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 5, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Regular Action Decisions: Saturday 3/14 We will post RA decisions online on Saturday at 2pm... or probably a minute before.

  

  :59pm, simply visit decisions.mit.edu and log in using the same username and password that you use to log into your MyMIT account. There are no ... decisions.mit.edu and enter your username and password. Decisions.mit.edu will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ‘Twas the Night before Finals Likely the highlight of my literary career. And some words of advice to EA.

  

  , and all through the ‘tute, You would think that the students had all ... hoping for at least one 5 AM rest; And I with my physics, roommates with ... to stress, You’re on pass/no record, and it’s just one test!” (“http

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  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 / 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 / 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