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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  No Pain, No Gain I wish it weren't so.

  

  actually be a good thing, since - as I discovered earlier this week - I'm not ... and triceps might need to be a larger part of my life - asap!! I was slightly jealous of the other members of my EMT class, none of whom seemed to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of School Fall term classes began today at MIT.

  

  Steven Pinker. For me, physics was certainly the hardest; not only did my ... , for some reason, chose to enroll in MIT's hardest physics class, dubbed ... Prof. Pinker... well, he decided to move to Harvard. This term, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  waiting (not scrolling on my phone or talking to someone, but just existing ... There are many things in life that require you to have the ever ... . I remember when I was in your shoes. Back in the day, I had to do it

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  , across the street from Burton-Conner (not to be confused with the Sailing ... members of the US National and Olympic teams did not learn to row until they ... I always seem to know I’m back at MIT when I can vaguely hear my

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  occurred at our house. I'm happy to announce that we did not, in fact, burn ... formal. Also, we are not required to be "dry", a.k.a. we can have alcohol ... difficult to look back on my time at MIT and not also see it as my time at

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  it nearly impossible for me to type anything at all ever. Getting ... just took me two minutes to type those sentences. WHY WHY WHY did it have to be those two keys? Couldn't it have been something trivial, like F12

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wanna be on the Radio? (Update) CPW: T Minus 4 Days

  

  entry. Thanks everyone! Expect an entry tonight about how to make the ... Thanks to everyone who volunteered to write a CPW Blog Entry. At this ... I'm going to stop asking for volunteers. But, if you have a personal

  • by Bryan
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Random Post While Reading Apps. Because we need some new posts...

  

  coffee. I ate some Count Chocula. Nice visual. For those not familiar ... applications, we get a lot of applications. We then need to read those applications - and since we have so many to read, we often find it more efficient

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  : Carmeuse   Since my freshman year, I have seriously wanted to ... plane taking off from JFK when it finally hits me: I’m going to a country I’ve never been to before that speaks a language I kind of

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Onion article about Robot Hazing at MIT Robot hazing at MIT *gasp!*

  

  that police say involved butyl alcohol and compressed air. According to ... 13 inches in diameter, was reportedly forced to climb stairs built at a ... actuators to short out. A second robot, a biped from MIT's Leg Laboratory, was

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  After a not-so-brief hiatus, I'm back at the Institute! Over the break, I took large bites out of the Big Apple on my two visits to New York City. While walking around the downtown area, my roommate took me to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  A Visitor In My Own Hometown Yeah, so it was boring. But it's still where I spent the better portion of…

  

  Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got 'til ... other night after a long day of travel and lugging. Good to be back, but I'm glad I had a time to see my parents, friends, and get a taste of home

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let the Rush Begin On Greek Life at MIT.

  

  So here's my introduction to Greek Life here at MIT. MIT has 26 ... came to MIT for CPW, I didn't really understand what fraternities were ... one at all either. I remember coming to MIT as a freshman and hearing

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “The Flying Luxury Hotel of Tomorrow” The luxury cruise of tomorrow is sweet!

  

  air, not the water By Joshua Tompkins Popular Science Thursday ... Sci.comexternal link) -- This is not a Blimp. It's a sort of flying Queen Mary 2 that ... Aeroscraft is not lighter than air. Its 14 million cubic feet of helium hoist

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Introducing the New 2017 Bloggers Let's get ready to ruuummmmble!

  

  “Dadward.” I’m not sure how I can follow this up with another fact. All I ... shop in Seattle), and I gathered to select the bloggers who will join our ... and permutations of our cohort, duking it out (I mean, as close to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  socially aware hacking, part 2 this time, it's personal ((last time it was also personal))

  

  companies which are, uh, potentially accelerating the doom of our species not ... :)     The statement reads, Tarnished Horizons Dedicated to the lives disrupted by climate change Tarnished Horizons is intended to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Researchers Develop Autonomous Shoe Technology out of the MIT STrIDE group

  

  incoming hazards and obstacles. The demonstrated use case is to avoid ... be extremely useful for helping people not stub their toe.   MIT ... algorithm-based sensory attachment that connects to any footwear insole, uses

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi on Pie So much pi[e].

  

  dishes). I want to share them with you, to the extent that I can share 1 ... this blog post I’m going to go back to grading. (“Grading” is a word ... have learned that happiness, to me, is books, rivers, forests

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  professors perform to demonstrate level curves and rotational modes? Not ... yesterday, Jeanne's phone rang and we went to meet our overnight guest (who ... my floor after an effort to microwave a bagel pizza went terribly

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  What now suckas!? That's right. I have a brass rat. What.

  

  and you see somebody with a brass rat on then you know they went to MIT. And they're not hard to miss, they're massive, gaudy, and absolutely ... have had to wait patiently, doing PSETS, taking tests, and generally

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2009