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  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  turn it into a for-credit UROP as well. RATP has asked us to consider ... . Apparently you stand on a slower portion for a few seconds, keep your feet ... commuters using a walkway such as this twice a day would save 11.5 hours a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  to use a CNC lathe and a CNC mill. For those of you who are ... /plastic/anything that needs to be shaped into a part. A lathe is for radially symmetric ... parts in SolidWorks, import them into a program called "MasterCAM," and

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ISEF Reception MIT will host a reception at ISEF in Indianapolis.

  

  The MIT Office of Admissions will host a reception for participants ... Thursday, May 11th, from 4:00pm to 5:30pm at the Indianapolis Artsgarden ... serving some appetizers before you head off for supper. The Artsgarden is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2006
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Urban Studies and Planning at MIT! On the DUSP: Part 2

  

  Urban Studies and Planning (Course 11) is a small, interdisciplinary major ... very... abstract. After bouncing around for a while, I'm now a double in ... [annotation note="Urban Studies and Planning"]11,[/annotation] hoping to bring a

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 3, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  that way for four years. This led to a bad habit of me pushing all the ... 6 shirts I can rotate for a max of like 8 outfits in any season ... so large that even a .5x wasn't zoomed out enough for me to get it all

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  think it'll end up being a little more important than making yet another ... even cooler name. 4. You might think Xena is a funny name for a planet ... vegetarian for a month was so I could write about it on my blog. So, you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  , because I'm leaving for Mexico in a few hours and I have yet to pack and ... Performance • Latino Karaoke • Cena Latinoamericana: A dinner for MIT students ... the Phillipines for May, a relatively young but so far very productive

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  In this past semester, the definition of "home" changed a lot for me ... four months. Coming home for the first time after this whirlwind of a ... some of them voiced some concerns that there wouldn't be a place for them

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  Moscow (for free!) for a 3-day hackathon, plus 7 days to adjust to the time ... ’t sleep for a consecutive 36 hours.   Our first attempt on the ... MISTI makes it possible for a broke college student to do that! With that

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Vroom Vroom! Hey! I know him!

  

  I have a friend named Charles Guan '11. He was my lab partner in 2.004 and I've worked with him on a variety of other projects. He's always ... never really looked into what they meant. . . There are a variety of

  • by Snively '11
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  't want to walk to places like [annotation note="i would die for a grilled ... campus for hours of dance practice every day. a bike would've been so worth ... a week for various things i was involved in, and a bike would've saved

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  make a combination that's so confusingly delicious for how mismatched it ... CPW doesn't get boring, even for current students. Despite many of us ... events and have a good time with the prefrosh. My fraternity, Phi Kappa

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  'd been getting a lot of questions lately. Lo and behold, while looking for ... MIT account (go sign up for a myMIT account right now) including a very ... international students.   Each time we write a blog entry we have to pick a

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  't important, we wouldn't ask for it on the application. It's a holistic ... questions as soon as I can... "A Probably Not So Important Question That Might ... be accepted." For many applicants (especially those doing IB or A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  : Build the second ball for the snowman. This was easy, just a smaller ... grabbed a potato, cut in half, for the eyes, a carrot for the nose, a red ... used a pirate hat for the hat, two wooden stakes for arms, and two lost

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  Daniel wrote, "Any idea what date the application for '07 will come ... registered for MyMIT and live in the US, you should receive your application by the end of the month. As for the online application -- which is how most

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  and with a full schedule. Here is a look at how I am keeping busy for ... grapefruit, and sat in front of my Real Analysis class (18.100A) for a solid ... the class is in 26-100 and is basically a graduate requirement for over

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome 2014s!! :) See you in the fall!

  

  finally made the decision on matriculation! For all of those that replied in the affirmative, congratulations! You're in for one heck of a ride ... ever know. :) Honestly, after I heard this a few months ago on the radio

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Math = Broken Whatchu know about math?

  

  This OFFICIAL MIT blog is probably not designed for late ... finished most of a Diff Eq. PSET (I started at 10:45 PM, it's been a long day ... Part II, 4) d?" Me: "No, solving for k was impossible, not even

  • by Snively '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  Muslim Students” Association joined forces for a dinner celebrating the ... away for the year) on a traffic simulation project in Singapore. I wasn ... top of that, I”m a news editor for The Tech, which requires me to be

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010