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• Blog / Hacks

  50 Years of NASA One small hack for MIT, one giant leap for NASA.

  

  a hack! For those of you just tuning in, a "hack" at MIT is clever ... I finally snapped the photo I had come for. All in all, it was ... interesting physical and logistical challenges for their perpetrators. As you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Match Game

  

  .70/2.007 robotics competition, 6.270 throws in an interesting twist: the robots must be autonomous. The competition is so popular, they hold it in the 1200 ... to be a "good match" for MIT? What do we look for? Alignment with MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  is an opportunity for you to talk about your involvement in the things ... mechanical engineer. I went to work for General Motors in Detroit designing ... (which should also be fun for you to do). In my next blog entry in a few

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  piano was to fill a random spot for the State Solo and Ensemble Contest in ... absolutely horrific when written down.']normal.[/annotation] Still, in the past few years, I've been in charge of many a thing, between music directing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  . So for those of you in high school, wide-eyed and unsure of how to get ... can I fit in?" It's a question that's been on the forefront of my mind lately, and it's got me thinking about incredible people and what it is in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2010 Roll Call It's May 1st -- welcome to MIT!

  

  your MIT reply form with an affirmative response, check in here in the ... website, we though they might be interested in buying one for themselves (or ... 'd make Tim Howe (for those of you not in the know -- Tim Howe, like Jack

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , asking questions about the trends in everyday communication we take for ... skills. :-) And then today, I met with an operations research professor in ... was helpful, because now I'm fine with getting up for morning classes

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  are not. For the curious: "DUSP EXPLORER is an online, interactive ... can do, for how we as people live in the world. Course 11 is the perfect ... greatest benefit the planning department has for MIT students lie in their

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  , for all you haven't-learned-MITese folks), I UROP'd in a really amazing ... , after all, loves biology. Piper is looking for a summer UROP in bio ... … no harm in taking a class as an elective, right? Talking about plane

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  in Maine was quite stunning – they don’t call it Vacationland for ... Day is a very popular weekend for retreats, brief trips back home, or sleeping marathons. Per tradition, I partook in the first of the three, as

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  minuet dance lesson for us to get us more in that baroque mood. 21M.500 ... DID YOU KNOW? The German language has two different verbs for "to eat," depending on whether a person is eating (essen) or an animal is eating

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  For most people, sprinting a mile in under 5 minutes is physically ... tolerance for discomfort. It sucks in the moment, but lets you do cool things ... aren't sprinting.  Instead, through training they've built up an enormous

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  organization for lost orphaned baby whales in the middle of Africa, speak Spanish ... , these students put in an immense amount of work and were able to overcome ... ideas. In fact for Christmas, some of the faculty used their own money to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  me in on who each model was: "that's the town masseuse!", for example ... . I learned that there's a group in Arkansas, developing a glove for ... battle to fight both in advocating for the importance of undergraduate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  -PhD.) For those of you who are "new" to the blogs, I graduated in June 2008 ... University in England. I am reading for a Masters degree in Integrated ... ’s all relative! At MIT, I lived in Next House for my first two years and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Stud/Fac Dinners Genius idea to get free dinner with MIT geniuses

  

  The 2006 Class Council is responsible for planning and executing many ... What to do if you get an ugly corsage How to Treat a Pimple How to ... of, in my opinion, are these student faculty dinners. **2007 Student

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions Don't stress out!

  

  could take your mind off of things for a while? Just in time, the blogs ... . Questionable Content Angst abounds in this comic about an indie boy, his robot ... -drawn dystopia set in post-apocalyptic England. Penny Arcade For, by, and about

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Think Happy Thoughts D-Lab Memories >> Graphing With Matlab

  

  understands how I feel about being stuck in an Athena cluster generating graphs ... in the cluster with me may have some idea as well. ...On an almost completely unrelated note, I recently learned a great mnemonic for the stock

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  leave for an IAP trip to Germany, and then Switzerland. More on that in ... day, and turned it in. My last assignment for Junior fall complete, I ... from my group's final presentation to a scene in Waiting for Godot  

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  campus for the summer. In August, I'll move back to French House, but this ... 'm laughing with a friend, in his/her room, and not because I'm moping over an ... people in their thirties and forties and even an elderly couple dancing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011