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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  yards morphed into a new plan that would introduce the most iconic unit of measurement to date: the Smoot. This new unit of measurement was the height of ... boy enthusiasm. I can’t help but get as hyped as them, and soon enough

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  columns to maximize the amount of space used. Color coded headings also help ... all of the lecture notes for a unit and copy down virtually everything ... equations or concepts per unit and then tested on our ability to use them in

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  teaching at MIT help me learn to speak Italian?? Good question! As part of ... in Italy and Germany? Physics! In Italy I taught a unit on waves and interference to fourth-year students, and a unit on reference frames to third

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  us of what our efforts would help reverse: an unequal distribution of ... S.I. adopt this number of books as a new unit of measurement.I've seen ... sparring. Kilofonzies, The S.I. Unit of Cool Finally, I caught this gem as I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  this weekend, and enlisted me to help organize. My main contribution ... don't get it, visit www.edithpiaf.com) The next day, I helped chop ... , where mes amis mingled until our feast was ready. We played this "game" in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Red Sox *wwooooossshhhh!*

  

  Hey, did a Red Sox game just start? The dorm just shook and it sounded like a bunch of fighter jets just flew by, another benefit MIT has ... has to be a game, because I just heard the last little bit of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A little something while you wait. Don't plan on doing work until we finish this.

  

  Blogs wide game of Funny Farm. It is pretty much impossible to solve ... actually be able to do it. The game is pretty self-explanatory: you start ... 's the game with a couple of solutions in it: Following? Okay, the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  project management and teamwork. So far, I helped make a video game spinoff ... Creating Video Games I used to play video games in middle school, but kind ... planned to take any of the many game related class offered through CMS. I

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  coworker. I went to my first baseball game... Go Isotopes! ...and tried ... Frisbee game. I was in a wheelchair for a day. Then on crutches. I learned ... every bone in my body. Strangers helped fix my bike, and battered and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  the Men's Ice Hockey game for a little Marching Band on Ice action and watched the team continue on their 9-game-long undefeated streak with a ... (offering free ice cream and challenging engineering-themed games), the crowd

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  three classes in some "coherent unit": I've taken a whole bunch of lit ... be lit classes!" Me: "Oh! But they all have to form some coherent unit ... actually do form a coherent unit. Concentration Advisor: "I'll be back

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  . Yesterday I overcame yet another longtime fear and gave blood. I couldn't help ... ever watched it. Anyway, no. What I really couldn't help thinking of was ... helping to dilate my blood vessels, and how this all related to the pressure

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  , which classes are taught by professors you like, and how many units you ... lab class in the same term if you can help it (they're often all offered in the afternoon). Taking more than 66 or 72 units in a term is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  begun to claw its way through the United States, and a month earlier, MIT

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  .002 (What was I trying to do, taking 39 CS units of virtual class?) and added ... state, to skirt the emotional fatigue and the crushing helplessness that

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  institutions of the United States are subject to forces similar to those that are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  44th President of the United States and Beyonce is identified as an

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  recognition in the United States, and it showed that one in two adults -- 117

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  in no small part upon the young men of the United States and that if

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything

  

  person I was as a child. We had just moved to the United States. I had just

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2015