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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  Eurostar train through the Channel Tunnel, referred to by some as one of the "Seven Wonders of the Modern World". It's certainly interesting to travel ... inside the door, the ceiling began leaking on me. Needless to say, I got

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Return of QBert Whack-a-mole, a piano player, and a whole lot of fun. All in 24 hours or…

  

  describing to you the journey would be a faux-pas on my part, so here it begins ... unmarked Toyota Matrix to New Hampshire. All I remember of the drive was ... was able to spend a night away from the noises of the city and spend

  • by Bryan
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT hacks Caltech

  

  Some of you may remember last year, when Caltech students came to ... decided to have a little fun with Caltech. You see, Caltech has this famous cannon, the Fleming Cannon (belonging to Fleming House, naturally). They

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  . Basically, the project was designed to have us develop some type of scientific ... of course, everything in science is easier said than done. Now for my ... skills would come in handy until about a week ago when I scrambled to get a

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / CPW

  Who’s psyched? I’m psyched! It's gonna be stitchin'!

  

  't actually build it, we paid a company lots of money to build it, but it ... 's all sorts of other stuff, but that's not what I'm here to write about. I ... gear, and just come to listen to me blather on about MIT and what it

  • by Snively '11
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Final Push Who needs sleep?

  

  This is it, MIT is in the middle of finals week and the final grind is upon us. My last final is tomorrow morning (exactly 12 hours from ... the material. I've just woken up from a nap, ran to the store, and am

  • by Snively '11
  • December 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  points on a sheet of paper. If you want to connect those two points ... everywhere, from algorithms to superconducting circuits. What is duality? As a ... points define a line. Now suppose you draw two lines on a sheet of paper

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ISEF Lunch

  

  those of you looking for that information, here it is: The MIT Office of ... and guests from 2:30 to 4pm on Thursday (May 12th) at Majerle's Grill ... are excited to provide their yummy lunch for the ISEF finalists and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  PumpkiNerd Carving My dorm had a pumpkin carving contest, and categories were funniest, scariest, geekiest, most original,…

  

  expression on her face -- she obviously is a fruitarian. (I suppose "vegetabletarian" is more accurate.) Me? Not so much. For the handful of you ... , and best overall. Can anyone guess which category I entered my pumpkin

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Staying Organized In which I look exhausted and talk about my notebooks

  

  sufficiently hosed this weekend, following an already-stressful week. Such is life. Hopefully you're able to decipher my rambling in this video! If not, feel free to ask me questions (which I'm sure other bloggers would

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Imagination there is no place i know...

  

  told me that "MIT can be either a steamroller or a candy store: it depends entirely on how you look at it." We wanted to make a video that showed the candy store side of things. Soon I'll post up more on the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  of the series 7-2, thanks to a strong pitching performance from David ... Birmingham for an evaluation of his delivery. Because ASMI is in conjunction ... to privacy," said one Sox official. "Most of our pitchers go there at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t stop me now! I am a satellite, I'm out of control.

  

  take a cab, and a jar of vaseline to prevent chafing. That seems like ... DID YOU KNOW? According to the MPAA, the 1995 Mel Gibson classic "Braveheart" is "rated R for brutal medieval warfare." By the time you read this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a shoebox pc clips of summer

  

  internship on june fourth, it's already july 17th, and i move back to mit late ... arrangement of the couches on the living room floor. the google home that can ... has been fine. i lived on the boston side of the river last summer, and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays! The bloggers' holiday pic.

  

  Just a quick note to say happy holidays from all of us to all of you. We hope your vacations are fun and safe, and that your 2006 is super. :-) P.S. All questions to date have been answered in the previous entry...

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken with my head cut off What I've been up to since last Friday. In case you want the Cliff's Notes…

  

  sore and threw my neck out of whack trying to do this (as the one on the ... hours of cheerleading camp and practice. Thanks to some amazing coaches we ... -retentive people like me lurve MathType. We're allowed to have a single sheet of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  The ‘Game’ Supporting inter-collegiate relations.

  

  to Yale.) And WAIT! This really is not just a rivalry of two schools, MIT is in the mix too. MIT has a long standing tradition of hacking the ... So last week, I made a trek out to the school down the street for The

  • by Bryan
  • November 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pick My Halloween Costume! Mm, crowdsourcing.

  

  choose to accept it) is to pick my Halloween costume. Voting will last ... feel like finding a new costume. Fortunately, I already have a bunch of things on my closet that I could use as costumes (blame the Assassins

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Highlights Highlights from the Hunt complete with the first puzzle we solved!

  

  jokes..." Brian: "The answer is SPEED OF LIGHT. Can I spell that? S ... I'll leave you with some of the funny quotes from the weekend. Also, this week, I'll be highlighting some of the puzzles from the hunt. The

  • by Bryan
  • January 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Cheat Sheet This amazed me when I first saw it.

  

  on this PDF is awesome! If you even have a slight bit of geekiness ... Mystery Hunt is a yearly tradition at MIT, but this isn't an entry about Mystery Hunt. This is an entry about one of the tools our team has

  • by Snively '11
  • August 2, 2009