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• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  (aero/astro) major at MIT. we spent the first day of class watching videos ... ), or vertical-landing rockets (hey spacex, hey blue origin). control ... ; this can be as simple as making sure a toilet doesn't overflow or as

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Challenge I hope Chris Peterson doesn't fire me for too many prefrosh stealing his nametag...

  

  : introducing... the 2011 CPW Scavenger Hunt!! You will have 4 days on the campus ... and/or destroy something Meet a professor in the department you might ... time in days, you should load the pictures onto your computer and send

  • by Kate R. '14
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time and change

  

  been in many others, so it feels more or less over. I'm in Louisville ... they were the same person with different aspects played up or down. They ... among you, Merry Christmas, and to others, Happy Holidays - or if you

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  feelings feel more distant day-by-day, but i faintly remember how painful it ... a few days. the night i found out i was deferred, i wrote: Watch me ... day for a few months, and the night i got deferred, i just stopped

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  household my sister and I planned out our days based on television shows. I awoke every summer day at about Price is Right (10:00am for normal folks ... levels in WoW, FlyFF, Maplestory, or whatever other free to play MMORPG I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Marching Band Refused to Yield Band in the name of love.

  

  ." Today, 3/4, is unofficially national marching band day. Get it? Anyway, to ... -infested Valentine's day crusade to deliver something like 2,000 love-infested "band ... or other, so I probably won't get a chance to do it tonight. Anyway

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 4, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  less than five days. I screamed in anguish with my friends on [annotation ... days so that I’d have no regrets. For context, I live in Burton ... impromptu schedule for the next few days that would enable us to spend as much

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  requirements. Math with computer science, or 18C, requires several computer ... 't taken many of the more applied or CS-related classes. So let me now talk ... class, one additional analysis class (manifolds, functional analysis, or

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  head, that's 55.4 days. That's nearly two (non-leap year) Februaries. Anna's personal Splash stats: 573 High School students 1 or 2 teachers (I ... can sign up to teach >= 1 sessions of any class 1330 hours of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  already have. It becomes part of you. My favorite (and well-used) fleece or ... Sierras, or favorite climbs in Yosemite. Gear becomes attached to specific ... -Black Friday ads). Later I dropped by the local climbing gym with a new friend

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  better experience for you guys. First, we'll be adding a lot of new portlets in the next month or two based on requests that you've made for ... right (new portlets, fresher content, online community) or if there are

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  businesses. Typically, a “date” is bought by his or her friends, who pool ... were California Pizza Kitchen, F1 Racing, Vapiano’s, Melting Pot, among ... . About fifty percent of HDGC cases can be linked to a gene mutation in CDH1

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  vessel of content (text and/or illustrations).” This definition encompasses ... quality of the printing, binding, or illustrations, the provenance, etc.” So a $1 thrift shop copy of Isaac Azimov’s I, Robot has little value

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  delivery of local anesthetics using polymer-based or hydrogel-based systems ... just hope I could drop all my classes and spend all day in the lab. I ... Dr. Kohane’s supervision. When I was searching or my second and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  up points that make or break neuroimaging studies. 7.342 - The X in ... I walked into the room were as follows: 1) HOLY CRAP YOU ARE A VERY ... postdoc at the Whitehead Institute, 7.342 assigns two papers a week on some

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Name in Flashing Lights Or maybe just mitadmissions.org

  

  you and anyone else will have a similar experience is 1 in a bajillion ... from you soon! See you in 9 days! CPW is a blast -- tips for conquering

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Events

  101 Things to Do Before You Graduate from MIT What every MIT graduate should have experienced.

  

  lecture halls. On this particular day, there was a musical performance

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2007 Dancing and dining with 950 engineers; candids of Bryan and Sam included (~25 pics)

  

  other things, the first two consecutive days of nice weather since ... design for the event. Notice the casablanca lilies!!1!!cos(0)!! I applaud

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  first trick: Experiment #1: Testing the acceleration of a mountain bike ... last three day weekend. Thanks everyone for the encouraging messages for

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Holiday Stories Here's mine. What are some of yours?

  

  gingerbread houses for their children to decorate in school the following day ... . Seeing this, I decided to scrap my entire house and start over. 1/2 hour

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006