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  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  joystick from left to right (MIT has several synonyms, one of them is "hell ... 've started my class. If you're a mechanical engineer, attend MIT, and are a ... Engineering Tools." 2.670's job is to get students familiar with the tools and

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  possible, especially because at MIT it is a required class for all mechanical ... about the contest description on Bryan's blog. The four years at MIT are ... humanities, and only one graduate ball represents the coveted MIT diploma

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  albatross fly, this is probably not the place to look. I give an explanation, but my source is my professor telling me and like a quick google search ... !] ... This blog is a long time coming. I initially anticipated making this on

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  've been playing a lot of in the last two weeks is Slay the Spire, a ... me explain the phrase "deckbuilding roguelike". A roguelike is a kind ... is different every time. The other key features are being turn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  school in a city that has so many other colleges and universities is ... prospective students, lower your standards for dining options, especially at MIT ... 've heard good things about the bullet train"]student center.[/annotation]MIT

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Lost in other people’s stories My brand of escapism

  

  MIT. Why do I listen to so many audiobooks? I think part of the reason is that there’s simply no kind of escapism like living inside someone ... arm’s breadth away is the perfect amount of distance for the human

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 28, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  hello, after six years

  

  writing. this is not possible to stop, how change continues to happen. i ... -flying) animals. the ones that can't fly are still this type of animal. this is a ... the thought a good home in my body. one of these thoughts is the idea

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  way it fits me best. This is one of the pages I've made for myself ... favorite libraries at MIT are closed on the weekends anyway. I'll tell you ... to get ahead in my assignments because this upcoming week is so packed

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  . If I had my way. But class time at MIT is limited, and it's too late ... mention that 21M.235 is a HASS-A. MIT's HASS requirement means that, on ... intelligent thing I could say is "ah, that's pretty!" (There's nothing wrong

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Art and Craft of Taking Notes ...take note.

  

  dorkiest parts of myself, I'll say this: simply living at MIT is a huge source of inspiration. The entire place is an idea farm more than anything ... One of the habits I developed in high school is carrying a notebook

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences

  

  background, TRB is the biggest transportation conference in the country ... Transportation is a much smaller conference put on at the end of the week by the ... got is covering most of the cost of the week, but not quite all, but I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  . “This line is for the Melancholia film screening. It’s by ... : melancholiathemovie.com Without sharing too much about the film, Melancholia is &ldquo ... ’s prelude to the opera Tristan and Isolde. The film is split into two parts

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  hosed I could barely remember what day of the week it is. No, really ... Below is the greatest store ever.) I kept forgetting to bring it to his ... is a simple image of the aftermath of 2.007 on my room. (2.007 is a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  . Seriously, this is what we do for kicks. If you think that's lame, MIT is not ... for 6.081. But I'm tired and confused (why is d+=1 legal normally but ... the freshmen chemistry options) is that the students memorize the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Review of “Shopgirl”

  

  Last night, my roommate and I ventured (slightly) beyond MIT's campus ... MIT arise from accidentally hitting on your TA or forgetting the name of ... are too expensive. Jeremy is just so immature and blunt that he will

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  name, but Norbert is just a cool name as it is). One thing I didn ... reason why you wear 3-D glasses is to feed different images into your eyes ... : Red/Green or Red/Blue Although the red/green or red/blue system is now

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Tofu corndogs and low-fat ice cream

  

  right now is to eat something. A huge something. (Actually, that's not ... . Plus, my boyfriend is some ridiculously elite freestyle skiier, so he has ... of flexibility in making food that tastes good but is also healthy. (I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  what to expect when you’re expecting a bad grade, that is

  

  walked out. In light of this, some serious cheer is in order, and so I ... just a list to pick and choose from. 1.  Eat a Lot of Food This is the ... . 2. Recalculate Your Entire Grade For some reason, this is always

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  ”. Short of having her come to MIT and feel the fabric herself, there was ... of. Unfortunately, by far the most common scientific test for silk is ... Boston cold. But then inspiration struck. MIT has tons of high-tech lab

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  what i ate in a week* living the influencer life (clickbait included)

  

  just tried to write a blog as fast as possible. this is not very high quality as a result and thus i would like to say that this is not representative of the rest of my blogs =D  not to be cliche, but there is truly no

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 9, 2024