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• Blog / MIT Life

  Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…

  

  reference. the human mind imposes its own coordinate system upon the fluid ... as its basis vectors. thoughts have mass, carve ripples into spacetime ... see tiny flower gardens enclosed by a long curling fence on one side is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  -so-proud hometown of Kwame Kilpatrick… yeah). I enjoy long walks on the beach, though ... were a Crayola crayon, I would totally be Dandelion- it’s clearly the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Break and Study of Cities Abroad Students in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning enjoy a subsidized spring break abroad…

  

  'll register. It's a CI-M class, so it fulfills part of the Communication ... 've gotta go pack - I'm off to Cologne and the Rhine Valley for the long

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  to college. But now the payoff has come, and it is time to make the ... will. That said, it's important to check in occasionally so I'd suggest ... know that it's good for you to do the same. It’s the best way for them to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  (#11) to write about it. ------------------------ Merudh wrote: "HOW DO ... as how we look at it in reading and selection, there is absolutely no ... off the air, no matter how bad it gets. I haven't seen Daredevil - is

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting Through a Difficult Month Study, Study, Study

  

  March was the busiest month at MIT so far. It truly felt like it was never going to end. It seemed like all my midterms were clustering on the ... felt a little anxious before an exam before as just about anyone does

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  said that if anybody could come up with an exact formula and prove it ... science for 30 years. No no. I'm serious. Well, this is it: the last time I ... had a hard time wrapping their minds around the idea that it was just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!

  

  diploma with both areas of specialization written on it, and we don't do ... majors (perhaps thinking that if they make it difficult to understand, only ... does not sound like a big difference to you -- but believe me, 60 units

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  right now? How are other people approaching it? Am I doing it the way I ... I’ve been back on campus for about a month and a half now, and it’s ... came onto campus almost every day anyway. But it felt official to move

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  . Honestly, I'm proud of how it turned out! Inspired by the "Retro ... the fact that it was going to get erased eventually. Really shows how ... slapped a π on the deck because I figured it would be on-brand for MIT. And

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  sciencey things and learning cooler sciencey things and getting paid for it ... your algorithm doesn't work, an astronaut nearby can just pick it up and fix it (whereas if you were testing in Real Space, you would lose your

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  July and Unified O.O and lots of pictures

  

  to October...) and building gliders for it. Running away from getting ... sure who drew that but it's awesome. (3) Balsa wood gliders, that is ... brainstormed. How was the class to be structured? How do you explain all of the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 14, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Happenings What's been going on? Recent events at le MIT.

  

  attended the CPW Welcome event Thursday night. It was a 5 minute, 5 step guide on "How to Do CPW", and I heard it was "amusing" though I was really ... it:     At the time, I actually didn’t know that there

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 4, 2014
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  getting out, but it didn’t take too long. the only thing they seemed ... airport) for so long that blogging is the only thing that can keep me sane ... ". translating from corporate to normal speak, it means the toilet is clogged and

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 1, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  , Thursday and Friday, to make a four-day long weekend. This year, breaking ... semesters; it's usually 13.5 weeks of classes, plus 1 week of exams."]the end ... , it turns out that the week before the last week-and-point-five of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  It's a little-known fact that McCormick Hall is home to not only ... some other people, whoever they might be. I mention this only because it ... have selective amnesia (or maybe I actually did have it. Either way, I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  super satisfying to fold once you figure out how it works. Five ... saw the light of day (mostly because I forgot about it until last ... because of a book I’d found in the school library. It contained a variety of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  really need to experience it first-hand to understand how I felt at that ... I hate Bevi. It’s frustratingly slow, the user interface makes me want to pound my head against a wall, and it costs hundreds of dollars

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  the Van Allen Radiation Belt HOW COOL WAS THAT?! I was in. (But it ... 're interested in a professor's research, just go ask about it and see if they have space for someone. That's how I got my first UROP!) The experience is

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

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  Whew. It's been awhile. Um...so what I've come to realize is that IAP ... know it was a week ago, but I've been tired, ok? Anyway, if you check out ... 'll give you all a few days to work on it, then I'll tell you the funny story

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006