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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  , and living groups that lie on the other side. The bridge is dotted with ... (more on that later!) with our student ID) Someone (it turns out to be ... , and 3) Graduation (maybe 4) Ring Delivery). On Friday night, I peered

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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

  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 / 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 / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  to persuade all the rednecks on the jury. In other news, I smashed my foot on the bottom of my grandparent's pool at a family barbeque today ... the truth was that she was considered a world authority on lots of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Iron Man is a 15-year-old MIT Student and lives in my freshman year dorm

  

    In Invincible Iron Man #7, it was also revealed that she lives in the same dorm I lived in freshman year, Simmons Hall. There, she ... rendition of Simmons Hall is to the real one. ArchNewsNow   But do

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• 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 / 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
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  -encompassing. Any individual aspect of MIT is, on its own, manageable, but put it all ... my classes, I’m meeting new people, exploring new interests and ... Ave to get groceries from Target and H-Mart helps clear my mind a little

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  the spreadsheet are just some of them. Today I found out about a new ... Experiment group (STrIDE). Using the same technology that's found on autonomous ... be extremely useful for helping people not stub their toe.   MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Seatbelts, Everyone! Interrupting Radio Silence...

  

  broadcast? Today's xkcd!: Randall Munroe = zeitgeist-capturing genius . He ... your classmates (like they do on the magic school bus), they are incredibly important. No one goes through MIT (or any school) alone; the help

  • by Alina G. '11
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions For you.

  

  advantage of the sunny, 55 degree weather to catch up on all the vitamin D I ... grace, my writing professor agreed to move the location of today's class ... waiting left! ‚ô• (P.S. Thank you, Kuljot '13, for helping me come up with

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 10, 2010