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• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Wrapup I'm done!

  

  . We used mills to drill holes in some polystyrene brackets, and we used lathes to turn and tap a plug for the end of our bottle. A tool we didn't use, but look really fancy is a pipe bender. In addition

  • by Snively '11
  • January 29, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my name and preferred name?

  the name we will use in all official print and email communication from ... may use your preferred name or your legal name in communications ... You should use your current, legal first and last name when filling
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  , and I was surprised to find that many friends wanted to visit me. A ... get to the parking garage, and my rental car agent greets me with a ... question.   These little things reminded that I was, indeed, in a new

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  .72), where students work in groups of three or four working to solve a problem ... patent, leading to a total of seven patents in seven years (almost a ... studied Engineering at the University of Havana before coming to the US in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  busy to help the person beside us in a pset that dragged on for too long ... pretty much in your shoes. I've identified a college that I was very passionate about way back in August, and knew I wanted to ED it, no questions

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  used to see him when I made solitary adventures downtown on Fridays in ... ’s really excited to go to Metro State (a local community college) in the fall ... Mall, and exchange my tickets. A man says something to me

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  to implement takes in any text file and spits out a list of tuples of ... use most frequently in our day to day lives?! We immediately thought of ... frequent in our whom- construction and usage also it's amusing to see a graph

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  to a remote Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas. In a place without ... his passion in technology to design a new educational system that gives ... director of pedagogy in a school with no teachers, Lou’s job is to make new

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  testing, and it introduced me to a lot of the software that I'm now using in ... have a test tomorrow?] So I, the gallant boyfriend, am stepping in to ... , and in that picture right next to the bed is a model rocket. My first

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  the time...haha). In defense of not using a schedule, I think my ... . Lodish: "Biology IS History." (he was trying to tie in how biology is a ... (environmental engineering) majors in the course, so it was also cool to be in a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  liquid nitrogen and everything else 🐸

  

  furniture and drove to Walmart and went to meetings. A few days in, I pulled ... , theoretically. I like to sing and dance, but I haven’t been in a production since ... not to miss. But in postcamp, I really felt like a camper again. We

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 9, 2025
• 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 ... use each machine, we get to learn by making a spiffy Stirling engine ... . In the other two sections we learn how to draw and use CAD, and

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

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  --Typhoon, a "sea coaster" that uses conveyor belts to pull your raft uphill in a ... otherwise contribute to ** THE 24-HOUR SHOW ** a play in a day, produced by ... not too much. You should see MIT students try to split the bill at a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  think back to the call I received from Steve Jobs on a Sunday morning in ... products, from my Macbook to my iPhone, are omnipresent in my life - Steve ... were a fish, he'd have provided much of the water in which I swim. When

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  ? every relationship is going to produce a decent amount of new anxiety. in ... able to do. as a simple example: in the linked document my friends write ... . i think we tend to overthink interpersonal relationships in a way that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  can I fit in?" It's a question that's been on the forefront of my mind ... to is: No one has become great by wanting to be great, greatness is a ... remarkable don't do it for any reason beyond that it's what they love to do, a

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

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  glass by using a lamp to melt it) who made glass eyes, lab equipment, and ... answers to, so a docent would've been nice; and in contrast to the glass ... choice for several trips I took to Boston in high school, and we never got

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  to walk through. In my head was a mix of regret, anger, sadness ... my whole identity around my confidence. So, in a way, the world I had ... chapter of The Prophet when I first read it. I held on to it for a future

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  together in a concentrated burst of effort to do everything that lies at the ... 'm getting at is that you will likely be able to find a variety of student ... composer, and once I went to a Boston Pops concert and this girl who was in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  together. There was going to be a fifty-fifty chance we'd be in the same ... large. Twenty thousand leaves. Each one used to be on a branch, only a ... , which was weird in the sense that I had to actually get up from bed to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020