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  Prof. Missy Cummings on The Colbert Report At the end of the interview, she and Stephen face off in Rock 'Em Sock…

  

  comments on politics and the media in a similar way. It satirizes ... Last night, MIT Aero/Astro professor Missy Cummings was the guest on The Colbert Report. Professor Cummings was one of the US Navy's first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  I'm back at my parents' home now (watching reruns of Buffy the ... . On Saturday, we started at China Pearl, then walked through Downtown ... the wait was an hour and a half, so we headed down to Cafe of India

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  days of quarantine, I've been finding ways to feel like myself again. I ... longest streak I've gone on of not bursting and breaking down. (See ... again. There's been a lot on my plate as of late. There's been a lot of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  existed on a scale of ‘competence at bodypainting’ it seemed like the skills ... , in fact, is my definition of magic – competence so much more advanced ... outcomes of the model at all. If you asked me to imitate the work of any of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedules are up!

  

  website, and I did not like what I read. There seems to be a lot of writing ... Yesterday was the day that is usually my favorite day of the semester ... favorite day of the semester is actually the day they put up the full

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk: messy person edition not sponsored

  

  ever see one of those social media #inspo posts featuring an ... ~[/caption] here’s what’s on my desk, from left-to-right, top-to-bottom: my friend Katie Zhao’s new novel, [annotation note = "Katie and I have the same

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 19, 2019
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  cafes of the city. The familiar rituals of rural life gave way to a more ... 'm reminded of the myriad ways in which transitioning to a prestigious ... come from. I find myself drawing on the lessons of my farm life not only

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  döner, so I hoped the large Turkish population of Germany would be as good ... -style "I'm way too cool to be taking a picture of myself for my blog" format ... Zelda. You know, from the Nintendo games. Bryan just did an entry on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…

  

  ] The University of New Hampshire ROTC program recently organized a MOUT (Military Operations on Urban Terrain) training exercise. Twenty insurgents ... mountains of New Hampshire. We landed at the prison, and quickly set up our

  • by ROTC
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  really only showed up to take pictures, but I made the mistake of going on ... took pictures of the scenery along the way. There were some motivational ... be more or less dangerous than it sounds, depending on your imagination

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  voracious reader, so I snuck it out of her room and read it. And loved it. On ... Institute of Technology. I liked the way that sounded. It had a lot of ... a knower of MIT-related things, I have been asked many times how

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  There Goes My Baby The first music video from the MIT Logs.

  

  , rather than watch. At MIT, you won't see a lot of people who just sit on ... first single off their new upcoming album (to be released in October). A ... and start something new, create something from scratch, make it go

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  audience of one: the microphone! Fortunately no one ever walked in on me ... attempted and how many they had solved - this was a great way of allowing a ... Spring term classes started a few weeks ago, and hence all of us

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  The New York Times has had an interesting set of articles over the ... to take on 15+ hours of lecture a week (although probably not attending ... for one of the seemingly infinite student groups on campus. At Cambridge

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  sure. For example, on my first test of the year I got two standard ... . Honestly, nobody walked out of that exam feeling good. I don't think anybody actually solved any of the questions on the last page. Honestly, it was bad

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  , members of the MIT Varsity Football Team have gone on to such accolades as ... is best known as the father of George Steinbrenner, owner of the New ... I'm on the West Coast now, and things are great. First, I flew into

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• 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 but there wasn’t any room to do that in the Back Bay. In search of a new ... quickly ran out of room. There's an incredibly interesting story to how MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  ,[/annotation] in addition to the new stress of an unexpected return to family life ... time zone mismatches and Zoom fatigue got in the way of calling. I took ... on Monday night.[/annotation] Many components of the plan, while not

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  back in east campus jiggity jig

  

  've done this way earlier. i made some new door signs for floorpi. usually ... on mae, who recently dropped out of college and moved back to her ... 's been gone. so one of the themes the game touches on is what it's like to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 13, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Sport CPW cpw at senior haus

  

  (and residents!) got to ride around our courtyard on two horses, one of ... our bucket full of hotdogs and a handful of buns and embarked on a ... Freaking Good Coffee To end off the weekend of no sleep, prefrosh came to try

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 13, 2017