Search

Search Results

• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  - helped call the Early Action pre-frosh. Yes, all 522 of you! I'm not sure if we were lured by the idea of talking to prospective students or the ... showing of support. Most of the callers were freshmen, like myself, though I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  concert. As promised, the second part of a picture entry. Check out ... , like the one in Prague. This is actually a field of huge stones, and you ... moving of all was seeing this, the hotel that Michael Jackson dangled his

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Real, live MIT students * IN HD* A look inside the world of MIT Admissions Interns

  

  Hey you! Yes, you, the one reading this sentence right now! How would you like to have a glimpse into the life of current, MIT students and ... , check out the page. They work on a lot of great projects in the office

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  Television MIT on TV.

  

  Tonight's episode of MythBusters on the Discovery Channel will show ... ," which included such classics as the "Winnebago of Science" and the "Flammschmeisser." And, of course, you can catch Ankur '03 on Beauty and the Geek 2

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  Welcome to the first of the many blogs I have meant to write but just ... -years could participate in, and I immediately did the online portion of the ... DO NOT put your hand inside the laser cutter. The second part of the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  /her life" doesn't work. Of course, if you have the right amount of ... 'd share with you some pictures of the waterpark I work at. I mean, I know ... , Runaway Rapids Waterpark: This is the kiddie section. It's full of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  made the room burn. Whatever manifestations of worry there are, I felt ... of APs to the warm spreading feeling of “but I’ve taken X number of APs ... ? Defining my senior year by the future of "college." I can’t tell my past

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

                                                Oudenaarden The pre-8.03 reaction: my level of awe and wonder is inversely ... back and forth, which in turn pushed air out in the form of sound waves ... glass to fall apart from each other are the same vibrations of a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... indistinguishable blob. this is a familiar experience, the feeling of days blending ... , always following the same pattern - a glimpse of immortality followed by a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  of it is technical, it’s a really sharp break from the math ... reason about them. So I thought I’d take the opportunity of doing ... gesture recognition. The first day of class was more of a survey of UI

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What kind of student support services are available?

  the water pressure. They are a friendly and easily accessible hub of ... and the holistic experience of students, especially undergraduates. S3 reinforces the core values of MIT by providing support in an accessible and
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  of the covid restrictions at the time (not that I would've wanted to travel very far then); so this year, I knew I wanted to make the most of my ... essentially the best of both worlds because we got the price of a hostel but the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The famous Pioneer Zephyr trains of the 1940's were ... professors. During the first week of my product design and development class ... 't. Granted, most of it probably has to do with the sweet beard that I've grown

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  saying when it will be returned. # Brute force is the last resort of the ... sense There was a hack today! Like any hack, the code of ethics was strictly followed (as per usual) with the possible exception of the last one

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  Half of my family hails from Northern Italy; specifically, the Veneto ... music lies among these members of the family. My grandfather played the ... can be heard on tracks of Beck's Odelay album). And during the late 1800

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  On the hallowed grounds of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... forge enduring relationships and learn to acquire the tools of both his ... girls, and at first found kinship in the physical similarities of age

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  ) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products. From the website: In ... ; The effort spans the early phases of product development, including

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  HI EVERYONE~ It’s the FIRST DAY OF CLASSES and I haven’t blagged ... of June, I went to China for the Masters of China Studies Visiting ... .   In Shanghai, there was a Chinese characters version of The

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  What I Have Learned From The Early Decision Process At MIT Here are some of the things that impressed me.

  

  covered that. So let's get to the meat of the matter (or for you vegans out there, the shiitake mushroom of the matter). Here are some of the things ... ; The quality of the essays. I was constantly floored by the way so many

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  has most of the US, except Florida. It makes me wonder what the global ... with all the snow? Well, back in 1948, the Mayor of Boston had the same conundrum. Except one of his ideas to get rid of the snow was flamethrowers

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011