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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  on different gear settings Basically, I used my old roomate as a test anti-dummy and had him pedal his heart out on different gear ... . Too eh. Experiment #3: A block and an inclined plane I think we all

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  ! My research was on Using Optical Tweezers to Create Nanowire Based ... picture? Those are zinc oxide nanowires growing on the edge of a silicon ... building block of the simple nanoscale world. Nanowires can be used as a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  Room" by La Verde's (an on-campus grocery store) is now just has a bunch ... , if they're me. My friend Daniel '12, on the other hand, used his list ... Wellesley Go clubbing on Landsdowne Street Buy clothes at the Garment district

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  The floor on which I live, Conner 2, has a large TV. A large broken ... Resident Tutors, graduate students that live on each floor) walked up. "Hi ... 're kind of like the MIT equivalent of the Facebook group. Everybody's on a

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  I returned back to campus on December 29th, and as the Amtrak approached Boston South Station, I spotted snow on the tracks! As I stepped ... -covered sidewalks. I had yet to master the tunnels and navigate through them on my

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  on anonymous MIT Confessions. 1. A summer discovery In my freshman year living in MacGregor House, I used to live relatively far from the laundry ... Advisors) and other house staff who live in MacGregor year-round"]would not

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Awesome Robot Competition? LIVE?? Check out the 2.007 Final Robot Competition! LIVE May 12th/13th!

  

  ’t let you all miss out on the BEST PART!! The culmination of 2.007 is the final robot competition, where students for a single-run showcase on ... -elimination tournament on Tuesday! Quote from an email: "Each head-to-head match is a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  laundry, and have a place to sleep. You'll actually be living here and will ... liveblog I intended it to be, but I'll throw up the first location on my ... there, so I'm going to move on now and take some pictures of some other

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  I spent today playing with yeast cells, and I couldn't be happier ... . Today was my first day and I decided to come in at 8:00 - which, in turn ... proud of myself for making it on time - only to find that I wasn't even

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I saw a turkey the other day… hello, world!

  

  ...which may not be a big deal to most of you, but since I was on a ... omnipresent canadian and white geese. (I’ve even seen these guys picketing on ... symptom of my not-inconsiderable grogginess, but on further examination (I

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  has things from 2018 I still haven’t followed up on. Oops. So instead of ... -person graduation got canceled, 10 friends and I instead went on a road trip to ... night in Las Vegas, then… Pass through Valley of Fire on our way to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  “Today, I want to show you guys what I've been working on lately,” to which ... else on MITblogs, appears to have been born with a last name). Sympathy ... . Other news: I have at this point exhausted the bloggability of not being

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  ,[/annotation] I was accepted into MIT early action. I cried on the phone with my counselor as I told her the news, sitting on the floor and feeling the world ... note="though no longer quite as lively"] fairly active discord channel of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  decided today to sleep in and not check on the Chemistry prize. Big mistake. Today, Prof. Richard Schrock, along with researchers in France and at ... for the Nobel in Physics; his work on the inflationary universe is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

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  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 20, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  a rush, I find it helpful to do a quick scan of the entire dining hall ... [salad bar; only on Tuesdays at Simmons] = Avocado toast Cheese pizza ... on the Cinnamon Toast Crunch on top. Layer on the rest of the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully this post will be helpful. How does the waitlist work? We are aiming for a class of about 1,120 students this year. Based on our estimates of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  HYPERfine question, for reasons that will become clear as you read on ... volunteered to step in for her. 8pm. I stood on the badminton court, racket in ... spontaneous tutoring session The debate started at 9, so I turned on the TV

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Answers, and live updates Live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl.

  

  Hi! I'm blogging live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl, the architect of Simmons Hall. I'll update you on the lecture and also answer some pressing questions as the talk goes on... First, some CPW answers. I know

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  poor TAs had to help debug 200+ students’ homemade ChatGPT clones ... , much of our work in 6.2050 relied on hardware simulators that magically ... involves getting a large language model (like a smaller version of Chat

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024