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• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  As regular readers of this blog know I love to bike. It's my primary mode of transport when the weather is (reasonably) nice, it's a great way ... front of me, and I'm going to hit it.     I tried to brake

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  enough to enjoy. now that i'm back in school i can feel how different it ... like thinking about it. speaking of my classes, i haven't talked about ... researching what different programming language implementations do. but when it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  21E. It may happen slowly, where semester after semester I take a few ... application. Or it may happen all at once, after this summer, when I decide to ... many projects to finish. My shelf feels like it will never be completed

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  hadn't ever used a mill or lathe.  I wasn't sure what it meant to tap a ... and learned how to use fast fabrication methods.  And I built a pair of robots that actually did quite well in the competition! It's been a lot of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  knowing how to use it. I'm hoping my internship woes quiet soon. They flare ... closest things I had to a brother and a sister. It was really nice to be ... had been through it already. On the 26th, I drove into LA for the first

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  dorm and learned how fun it was to have friends living down the hall ... . It's true that I missed my family sometimes and took some stressful ... missing out on everything in high school. But overall it was a really great

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  Sunday. It is now 11:04pm on Friday. I therefore have 56 minutes to open a little window to campus and show you how we here deal with stress. I didn ... , they all pressed submit, and it was over. Exhale. At 5:10pm, I scurried

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  process out there, but it is still useful to learn how other places do ... things, what works, why it works, and how we can make things better. There ... Plus 2011 conference at Yale University. IvyPlus is an every-couple-of-years-more-or-less-when-we-feel-like-it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  possible, especially because at MIT it is a required class for all mechanical ... subsequent months are spent on engineering and building. It's an amazing ... final product. Alas, here is my robot: Its name is Melotaur (both a play

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  It's April. I’ve been on campus for close to two months now. It’s ... ’t quite manage to erase. Summer really cannot come soon enough. It is coming, though! Just today it was like [annotation note="24 celsius for the normal

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  East Campus party had already passed. It was definitely the last time that I would enter some MIT buildings. And it was probably the last time that I saw some people, whether I realized it or not. I'm very attached

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  this post as eloquently as it could be, but the story below has been ... MIT until the coordinator suggested it. I thought she was joking, and then I didn’t give it any more thought until around Thanksgiving of that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  explains exactly how the climax of Fantastic 4 works. So, to rectify this, I ... 'm assuming that it must have a relatively simple answer and that as a professor ... temperature it is equally "frozen" whether or not it was heated and quenched to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  ’ll waive it. There is no benefit or advantage to applying to MIT Early ... , and that they are all interrelated. I think it is [annotation note ... understanding how climate change has negatively impacted the food supply in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  ground; it falls with a feeble “clunk.” exhaling, i attempt to mentally ... , and despite the fact that it’s been allocated into more vibrant, color ... . choosing whatever i’m interested in is easier than it sounds. i’m probably

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  property to keep track of how composites containing carbon nanotubes hold up under strain in real-life structures. It would be really useful to know if a bridge or oil well was under too much pressure before it fractured

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  free time at work, because you can break away from it immediately when ... . In many cases, it may even be something factual. This morning I ... it was because I was looking up Freddie Mercury a few days ago, which

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  warmth feelings i miss

  

  it was june, which in the relative scale of time we’re all in right ... a summer sunset, as it filled the sky with orange and blue, as i held ... were on, but i heard and i felt the wind blowing from behind me, as if it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  story of a student we had denied in 2011, and how well he had done ... written, because it demonstrates in fact what, in our decisions day posts ... -smart students has been more than difficult: it has been truly painful. If you are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  second just reminded me how it's never too late to be in charge of what you ... Class started today and before we know it, a lot of us on campus will ... commitments, that "soon it's like, 'Oh yeah! The rest of the world! I forgot it

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011