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• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  taking measurements of toxic algae concentrations while you’re on a boat in ... fulfilled by taking 4 gym classes, or by participating in 2 seasons of a ... , and so I randomly rank classes that happen to fit in with the rest of my

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

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  over their two best flights. 10 hours in the lab and it was born. Held ... colors of spray paint we found in the cabinet. Yes but what does a ... dot in the sky. By the time it was our turn it'd started getting dark

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? MIT means "WITH" in German. CPW! CPW! Hey prefrosh, I ... , George, gets here in 6 hours, at 4:50 AM. Usually I offer to come out to ... some of my incredibly dedicated colleagues in blogging, but I have an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  've been extremely lucky to interview at all of the top five programs in biology, and eat lots of free food and stay in free hotels and fly using ... home of a current student in the program. Sunday, Feb 26. I take a tour

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  In an engineering class with a lecture format, you get to learn a lot ... time in the Pappalardo Lab and the Lab for Manufacturing and Productivity. In the other two sections we learn how to draw and use CAD, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Finally! Pictures from the Conner 2 holiday party! Yes that was a month ago. Leave me…

  

  days to account for the way Christmas, New Years, etc fall in any given ... to participate in just about any of them. There are for-credit classes ... dent in that to do list! So if you've emailed me any time since the new

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  Here are ten important things that happened in the past week. 1. I ... most healthful food in the world, is actually bad for you, because it ... I have to cover it in a bacon-sugar sauce before eating it. Actually

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  me, not that he took my exam and then handed it in. Of course, that would have actually worked out really well for me because Adam is in his sixth year of German, whereas I'm in my sixth week of German. He had a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Friends, Carafes, and the Infinite Corridor What a week! Watch Tim play his instrument after a morning of camaraderie and cheap…

  

  your messages! I will reply in detail soon. Thanks!) This has been a ... a daily basis. ;-) Back at East Campus, Greg basks in the "ambient ... , basking blondes are no match for pillows in flight. Back on Tetazoo, I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Varied states of the basement A roundabout trek to an underground level of Building 7 leads me into areas very…

  

  the ceiling in this neglected room, but it looked interesting, so I took ... worn task chair waiting patiently in the corner. Hi, chair! How do you ... , so keep these in mind. We're almost out of Building 3 as we pass

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  're thinking. You're thinking, "But Laura, even though you haven't written in this blog in forever, I know you only took that picture on your second ... , it's such a cool class!" I was enrolled in 8.02, and I was very

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  published in The Tech," and that's one that I just never thought would happen ... surprise to any of you that my first (and likely only) appearance in our school newspaper is in the sports section. And hey, you saw it here first

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  's Department of Athletics, Physical Education, and Recreation (DAPER) is in ... PE golf right up until May so she would be able to graduate in June ... course in fundamentals of target shooting. Class will be conducted indoors

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston becomes Pottersville The MIT area is full of celebrations for the release of "Harry Potter and the…

  

  Boston/MIT-area parties. At Newtonville Books in Newton (a Green Line trip ... Leigh Cook's Josie in the Josie & The Pussycats movie, or as the lead ... either -- two references to 10 Things I Hate About You in less than a year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hi, My Name Is: (insert name here) name my newest pet and win BIG! prizes and fame included!

  

  , so before PetCo we stopped in at Borders for smoothies. They had Magic ... what they were getting ready for) Now I've had pets in the past, but ... roam free for hours upon hours. When I lived in Florida, this pet was

  • by Bryan
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  process begins in freshman year with the highly competitive process of ... students will purchase the ring in a typical year; one company actually shuts ... distance. Originally created in 1929, the undergraduate ring design varies

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our friends

  

  about the other people at MIT who shape the lives in our community: the ... associate with Jimmy - aluminum cans in a plastic bag, clanking away. I cried on Jimmy's shoulder that night. Jen with Big Jimmy, from In Memory of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  I thought about writing about walking on Big Rocks in the cold after ... know everything about how to not die in the Big Rocks when it's really ... that are white. Other say it's because their tops are covered in ice. At

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  In my last blog post, I mentioned that one nice benefit of becoming a ... . Trying out new places in my neighbourhood Now that I Live In A Place TM ... (Indigenous People's Day) to go camping - it's late enough in the season that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  to trigger vomiting. but i haven't had a cold in years, let alone one that felt this bad. here's what i knew other people did: spend time in ... -baked hell, but i did make tea. in fact, i brewed myself at least four liters

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022