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  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  professor teach? [answer at the end of the entry] I remember sitting in my ... ) next to a friend of mine from Singapore. At the time, he was the only ... scorer for Singapore at one of the international science olympiads. I had

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  stability. He talks about the 120 degree separation of the fins and their ... obscene hours of the morning to attend a 2 hour long double lecture. And you ... its name is Grease Lightning. Its empty mass is 0.1kg and coefficient of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  -- oftentimes there aren't so many degrees of separation between people. ... Wow, lots of questions to address today! I guess I'll start by ... few months ago, I wrote a summary of my last project; a paper describing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  --become the center of the universe." now i am sitting in the grass outside ... the commonness of gun violence in america. we talked. ed bertschinger ... , classmates, students of color. we talked about being white, and we talked about

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  Music Room (the name of our TV room at Skullhouse) at 2 am watching ... before and had no idea what was going during either of them. One by one ... if anyone was still awake. I replied "Yea! There's tons of us down here

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  of bloggerdom, crowding my blogspace with its inconvenient, road ... amazed, out of my suite kitchen one night, the sound of a cadre of people ... émon approximation of Tim the Beaver. WRONG.However, I digress. What I really meant to

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  I am delighted to join the impressive cadre of admissions office bloggers - a source of insight into MIT that I hope is of value as you ... have the honor of holding the Bernard Gordon Chair of Medical Engineering

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I like romantic things like music and art ...so why don't I have a boyfriend?

  

  "Sexiest Vegetarian of the Year 2004" by PETA. So maybe one of these days you'll go to an information session at an ivy league university, or ... your parents having frank and open discussions of your future and college

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  get the hang of it, it was a ton of fun! Rowing shells move a lot faster ... Rowing at MIT The heavyweight men near the Museum of Science. PC ... Engineering, and one of the most awesome experiences of my life has been rowing

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  software interviews, and hanging out with a bunch of coders is always fun ... this post had nothing to do with Portal, but that's sort of like stating ... around to playing Braid, which is sort of like Portal in that it involves

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  but one part of universe, thus it follows that it is one part of 42, one ... Wow. You guys asked some hard questions! And a lot of them. No ... 's calculated using an arbitrary combination of color choices and the amount spent

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  amazing universities, many of which don't have any Nobels to their name. The ... Like many of you, I stayed up quite late watching the election ... , including the Tremulant concert at TT the Bear's Place (one of the many, many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Otra Vez, Como Siempre Some J-Pop to cheer you up. =p

  

  (Todai), the most prestigious university in Japan, through a year of ... Amazing Discovery of the Day: After nearly three semesters at MIT, I ... ). Wow, it really shows what kind of MIT student I am over this last year

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Eletha Flores The awesome Eletha Flores '10.

  

  ] Eletha Flores, 17, of Springdale who is graduating this year from Charles Herbert Flowers High School and the Class of 2006 valedictorian, is the recipient of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation's Gold Medallion 2006 award for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  of people hanging out in there. It was less about who won the ... the age of 3, and I thought the goal was to stack up the tallest tower ... out last year about the making of tetris and it’s so great. It’s about

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  studied Engineering at the University of Havana before coming to the US in ... teaches us about the FUNdaMENTALs of design and we have guest speakers share ... included the Chief Engineer of General Motors and an engineer from Texas

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  on my butt) around the ice rink a couple of times, sans costume. But ... phone when I discovered a picture of 6 or 7 year old me dressed up as a ... of sugar. I was reminded of the days when Halloween meant spooky

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  admission decisions and the last of the regular action candidates clicked ... particularly conscious of the magnitude of this selection process, given the ... decisions, we utilize a wide range of sources to help confirm and validate our

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  "Mankind has always had a yen to travel. Millions of years ago ... school year of studying. Luckily, MIT understands that its students ... in 34-401 (A room at MIT where a lot of EECS events take place) talking

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  accomplishments and those of my friends, we couldn't help but feel some degree of ... I’ve recently had a number of startling revelations: I’m almost ... a list of 14 colleges that I was planning on applying to, but I had

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006