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• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  Hard to believe but my time at the institute is starting to wrap up ... , except for my recitation section, but maybe it'll pick up. Not much to say ... class follow-up to 2.009. 2.009 introduces you to how products are made

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  muttonchops, and sustainably-harvested calabash smoking pipe, I roll up my mental coding sleeves, pull up a terminal, and rake impatiently at the ... victory. 1:55 PM I bundle up and continue along my irreversible temporal

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  already boarded. I rolled up to the driver. “Can I get on this bus?” He ... . The car filled with cricket sounds and clean, cool air. After setting up ... the next 15 minutes on a mission: my hair drenched, pants rolled up and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  gave up. Which means you get no logic, sorry. Just think of this post as ... weekends ago, I took a morning bus up the countryside to the next big town on ... walking by. To take up more of my day, I decided to ride the shuttle around

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  have a massive summer reading list that I cooked up... although it is ... companies (arguably, that's redundant) don't like to give up their stuff. I ... 're getting rid of. Most companies end up sending piles and piles of perfectly

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  title of this entry. If you haven't thrown up yet, hang on. My friends ... dig the pictures) And something shiny tonight that will likely end up ... bajillion new pieces of art have sprung up. One of them looks like a giant

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  could not put my thoughts together while studio’ing it up for midterm ... up diagrams and export drawings from my 3D model - which I spent all ... couple months as an architecture student, summed up in a quote from Joel

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Update The latest on app tracking, app numbers, etc.

  

  international students.   The Early Action season is shaping up to be a ... and bags of mail. Yesterday, we became up-to-date with application ... to check up on the status of your application components. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  everything familiar to me. Until then, my summers had been taken up by academic ... department of Sandia National Labs. How? Talking. I hardly ever shut up about ... , I woke up to an empty house (my family had left for France), and sat

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Arts Party 2010! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Now that I'm about to graduate, it's time for some fun…

  

  great experience. We've come up with a logo to represent Arts at MIT ... compromise, we've decided we could probably liven up the place a bit by ... this, so once this gets up and running I could probably blog about it. A

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Inside/Outside words/pictures; I really don't know what to put here... haha

  

  summer reading list and catching up on a whole list of movies ... “catching up with culture and society,” I also have on the list reacquainting ... fill up by January and send it back to Art House Co-op, the organization

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 5, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  the way up, but not for a particular reason any more palpable than the ... halfway up the mountain, legs and throat on fire, clothes soaked through to ... down and hit up an onsen (hot springs) at the base of the mountain. It

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  short year. I've also got some quotes that I pulled up and read before I ... feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first ... master calls a butterfly." ~ Richard Bach "Fall seven times, stand up

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things You Shouldn’t Do And something I did

  

  build websites, share files with people online, and do back up their ... our space tends to fill up, so a solution was devised. Student groups ... move all of our pictures out of our athena accounts and free up some room

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  snowball up onto the first snowball. But. . . how? The second snowball was impossibly heavy. We ended up having to build a large ramp out of two more huge snowballs, eventually heaving the second snowball up the precarious slope. The

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  a really good blog entry in general. But then I woke up and was ... anyways, the moral of the story is that I woke up this morning and thought ... -ish verbatim, “I would’ve given up on question one.” Or like this one time when

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  stops, only to start up two seconds later with the beeping oh god the ... /D/F, which is exactly what it sounds like. You can take up to two classes on ... time we all see each other, it's like picking up right back where we

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  pinned at his waist, I mostly just ended up rotating until I was parallel ... 's when I need to charge up. 2) Someone spilled water on my laptop. Yikes ... gmail and did a blank search, bringing up the 10 most recent emails I

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  be MIT. It's so obvious but up until today I've ignored this awesome ... up to my cubicle very sad that day but, of course, I never did do what I was told. You see, because, data, can be backed up, but 3 years

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  the legwork up to you) but all center around never having actually ... examples: Maddie '11, after staying up until 5ish studying for 2.001, gets ... . She wakes up at 8, completely rested and effectively has just reversed

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008