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• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  prospective students why MIT is amazing, or (d) all of the above - I ... one entry. Over the next few days, I'll be sharing all of the 30-plus ... and 8, of Simmons): "I'll be UROPing in Prof. Field's lab (in the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  figuring out the optimal scoop-ability of your favorite [annotation note="or sherbert, if you’re me"]ice cream[/annotation]? What about the power of nerf gun bullets? Or maybe the power of a single footstep? Want to know the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  for the past few months, Nashua conjures images of flatness and tranquility, of quiet car rides punctuated only by the soft hum of the engine as trees flow endlessly past the window, of loneliness and stagnancy and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Amazin’ The Mets clinched the NL East. *happy dance*

  

  class, and you pretty much just sum forces all day long. The sum of the ... takes the standard deviation of a set of numbers. Which really isn't cool ... to indent the condition of my else command." So there. And now, for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pervnert This entry is not suitable for children under 7 or finite-volume, compressible vapors.

  

  -foot-tall letters thoroughly ingrained the structure of cyclobutane in my mind, and I probably won't forget anything about the state of American Civil War medicine ... " and a high school bully's demonstration of the Pauli Exclusion Principle

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  In one of the 28 (and counting!) responses to my last post, Kelly ... of applications I still have to read. The other work (yes, other work ... "Not the same few colleges," which also consumes a reasonable amount of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  One of these labs is not like the other GELlin' like a felon

  

  the first day of GEL. The Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program is designed to help the next generation of engineers (like me!) build leadership ... the past (courtesy of high school marching band) is the fact that you

  • by Stanley G.
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Lilly Chin The Spiciest Memelord

  

  restaurant recently introduced a new kind of delicacy--the memelord burrito ... engineer, this is only the beginning of Lilly’s journey. So, who exactly is the Spiciest Memelord? ** Some Lilly Chin fan art, courtesy of Luis

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I shudder as I think of all the unsuspecting high-school students making ... (DMSE), I have the perfect tools to conduct a quantitative analysis of MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  90% of these getaways have happened in the Big Apple, “Weekend ... a special added bonus, I have also included the diary of my ... woke up to the second blizzard of the year (which conveniently arrived

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Delivery I think Abba said it best when they sang, "Ring, ring, why don't you give…

  

  then falling off the face of the Earth (I'm telling you, it's flat, I ... leave it alone without its partner Ring Delivery. And seeing as the Brass Rat is one of MIT's most famous tradition, I figure better late than

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The CPW LiveBlogging Project A big experiment.

  

  variety of prefrosh guest bloggers during CPW. This has been done in the ... real time, using your cell phone. If just 10% of the prefrosh currently registered for CPW each upload 5 texts and/or photos over the course of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 3, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  part 1: impact One of my strongest core beliefs is that the answer to the question "what is the meaning of life?" is not "to change the world ... 's admirable, in a way, to declare this the meaning of life. The world faces many

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  it's IAP, the MIT tradition of "work hard, play hard" absolutely still applies, although I suppose the definition of work is a little more flexible ... decided to blog about all of them. *** Part the First: Riddles As you may

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW! The greatest shopping list ever.

  

  for details. ;-) I was really hungry. Such is a day in the life of a ... . You just can't top the experience of spending that much money on ice ... .03 (Vibrations and Waves) exam of the term, but once that's over it's officially

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  ? Of landing inside the best Wall Street firm from which to write the story of an age? Of landing in the seat with the best view of the business ... last year for the commencement of the Class of 2011. And it's echoed in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas the night before the 8.01 final and all through the Haus, everyone was studying like nothing else. Including me. Just not…

  

  ! Woo hoo! With that said, here are a few of the things I've seen while ... windows of 5th West: Oh, the holiday spirit. This one may require a bit of ... , on my way to the Student Lounge off the Infinite, I saw that this hack

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Close up shot of Pluto. (Image Credit: NASA) On Jan 19, 2006, the New ... the inspiration of that human spirit of exploration the insatiable curiosity we have as a species I hope that gets into the minds and hearts of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was I just graduated!

  

  or September of 2016. I thought, in the style of my last blog post, I ... speech from the president of the MIT Class of 2020, Nacho Nwana. Though it's been a long ten days since the video was posted, it encapsulates a lot of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Got Questions? I have answers.

  

  sorts of things in the past month that have distracted me from blogging ... of the MIT Undergraduate Research Journal preparing for MIT ... MIT, I know that many of you are currently in the midst of choosing

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 23, 2009