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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  .) Also, a small person living on your coffee mug can't tell that it's now a ... complaint like, “I was five standard deviations below the mean on the last ... 's not a riddle.” On the other hand, General Relativity has been an eye

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  of summer vacation, we're still riding on a high, fueled with excitement and optimism. We're recharged to take on the semester again, excited ... weekend, and [annotation note="Or 3 if you skip your classes on Wednesday

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  on behalf of MIT Admissions. I'll explain how FIRST and KC are ... : every year, in January, a star-studded team of engineers on the Game Design Committee unveil that year's game to the 37,000+ students on 3

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pics from the WMBRBQ! Do You Like College Radio??

  

  that are half-written and I need to work on/post soon. These young ... procrastinated"]today[/annotation] was the WMBRBQ! WMBR (Walker Memorial Basement ... MIT. Today we had a barbecue (the WMBRBQ) in the lawn next to Walker

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  's. More on that later."]last year[/annotation]at MIT? Packing up and leaving ... that as soon as I stepped on campus, it was like no time had ever passed ... echoes of the time I spent on campus: I give the advice to freshmen that I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  . How’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then ... ?'” (DFW went on to deliver a timeless and celebrated address that is well ... getting applicants to share information and insights about their lives in

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  , extracurriculars, office hours - so much going on that while I've started writing at ... me. He says 'hi.' lol...) But today, I wanted to make some time and ... grade at MIT. My birthday. And so on. I've cried over some of these

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  Franz Kafka, we bloggers too suffer from “writers’ block” or creative blocks and periods of crushing inability to blag.   But of course, given that we’re all 2017-era tech school students, our blocks often have

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading.

  

  night with him on Wednesday, watching his little body fight progressively ... fine now, and living through that experience has shown me - first ... Boston on Thanksgiving morning, research changes the world. So to those of

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  ...all sandboxes for building castles. Put them all together, slap on a deadline, and ... programming or other media) in a spirit of playfulness and exploration." Don ... a Grand Theft Auto-inspired game set in, well, any setting on Earth

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  Today I neglected to bring a jacket to class. As the afternoon waned ... estimates, I caught six different strains of flu on the way home at 6:30 pm ... symptoms of tuberculosis. On the flip side of the burger (to coin a stupid

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  . This is probably due to the fact that I'm not on campus and, while I ... to help you learn about MIT. Since getting home from MIT I've had the ... glad I'm not at home, and many other typical college experiences. Today

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  here i go again i have watched Mamma Mia! seven times this year

  

  I: Just One Look and I Can Hear a Bell Ring I live on a fairly ... , commencement volunteers, and anybody living on campus for the summer. We were ... of performances involving people from the wing on the whiteboard. We

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 9, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  Artist on the other two Star Wars prequels, and Revenge of the Sith was his ... digital animation work on his first film. He is working at Pixar, and is a Technical Director on the forthcoming film Cars. Both my ILM friend and my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  Hispanic Literature. We read a different book each week (Bodas de Sangre, La Nada Cotidiana, La Plaza del Diamante, El Beso de la Mujer Arana, and a ... on, and you can see how this might get annoying. But, the class was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  lives. We see that one kid that sits behind us in lecture. And to all of these people we ask one quick question as we hustle on in our lives. In ... to hear about the spontaneous adventure you took today. You’re worried

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Lots of good and important stuff for both EA and RA admits.

  

  's Entry: Chris wrote an awesome entry earlier today for admitted students ... ! It will be in the mail on Wednesday, and in your mailboxes soon after ... : Campus Preview Weekend Registration: Please register for CPW on April 2 or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  12-person feasts on random weekends in the middle of the semester (very PNR-core). But! This Thanksgiving, most of us are on campus, so we ... time[/annotation], so today’s blog post is like Maxwell’s equations: it

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  (Yeah yeah, right now it's Saturday but I wrote this on wednesday ... /finishing/making minimal progress on my 8.03 problem set when I remembered I haven't updated ... :52am. I am really quite ashamed to say I've been working on this since 8

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  educational and rehabilitative game designed to help developmentally disabled ... but with… …a rendition of What Does the Fox Say by a live band playing on the upper levels. The crowd exploded into cheers and applauses

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013