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  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  Institute (RPI). After graduation he returned to Cuba to found the Mechanical Engineering lab at Havana's Universidad de Villanueva and become the Department ... 1959, the National Inventors Council offered $5,000 to anyone who could

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  pretty psyched to see just how cool the PE offerings at MIT are! A small ... to de-stress and take my mind off academics for a little while. Plus ... classes on offer, that I'm surprised that students need to be incentivized

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  French. She also wrote a book, Les Institutions de physique which she had ... but used terms like dy/dx. In his book, Nova Methodus pro Maximis et

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  Danny B.D. '15 before flying to LAX that night. May 15-19: ISEF @ LA This ... out at the table, along with some of our LA ECs. If you are at ISEF ... . ISEF will take up lots of my time, so I won't get to do much else in LA

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  Google Form out to the residents, and here are the responses! (a la Humans ... night.” - Marie de A. ‘18 (not pictured, but the top of the doorframe

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  of the Institute wanted to make a new interconnected technology complex ... were modeled after European cities with islands such as the Ile de Cite

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…

  

  Souter; scientists like Edwin Hubble, Robert J. van de Graaff and Brian ... , Honolulu, Hawaii, is a senior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  ://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1226150-1,00.html Yet another article de-emphasizing the ... the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an outspoken advocate of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  to offer guidance, I am sorry to say that I don't always give the best ... with Neil deGrasse Tyson, a noted astrophysicist who essentially said

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7PM ET! the premier product design class at MIT

  

  management, consensus building, and the value of communication.  The ... , and Joonho should be doing that in a few days (he got a press pass for ... webcast of the final product presentations, which begins ~7PM ET, by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  The POWER of a Mechanical Engineering

  

  projects to improve life in impoverished communities at Tecnologico de ... -France Program 2011 Internship: Électricté de France, Clamart

  • by MISTI Program
  • December 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Igs Where Science meets Silly. Hello Silly!

  

  -Gallés, of Universitat de Barcelona, for showing that rats sometimes cannot ... . Golombek of Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina, for their discovery

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  As my second semester at the Institute draws to a close, I've been ... . Teaching is an exercise in both design and effective communication. I love ... Leadership Training Institute (a semester-long weekend program aiming to teach

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  't really like home that much I decided to stay at my boyfriend's home in DE

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  , Baron Pierre de Coubertin (who founded the modern Olympic games) is buried

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Central Meetings Today, we'll mail out the first of four batches of letters announcing the MIT meetings…

  

  , Northern Virginia, Montgomery County (MD), Wilmington (DE), Greensboro

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!

  

  diploma with both areas of specialization written on it, and we don't do ... actually get two diplomas to show off at graduation (and to hang ... the truly worthy will be able to dance at graduation with a diploma in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  trains, wrong trains, struggles with communicating, directions ... indeed la dolce vita. 12 days without thinking about school, work, or exams

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  French House. Nous avons beaucoup de traditions. Towards the end of fall semester, we hold Dîner de Noël, a fancy formal dinner. We decorate the ... like 7 or 8 alums. In the weeks leading up to Dîner de Noël, we have a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  clients -- from Tour de France stage winners to some of North America ... to win this year's Tour de France. Cote gave Basso the wind tunnel ... shave his head bald to get rid of aerodynamic drag before the 2004 Tour de

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006