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  MIT’s Once-a-Century Party

  

  rehearsing the lights for MIT's 100-year-anniversary of its move to Cambridge ... $10+ million event.  It's not every Saturday night that you get to see ... on the seal playfully arguing about the merits of theory vs. practice

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 8, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I screwed up a lot So a bunch of my blog posts are dead.

  

  then you will be made of fail and then the little voice in your head that mocks you all the time will point and laugh at you for ten million years ... are full of broken links. What up, guys. I got a degree from MIT and it

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  (CONGRATULATIONS, Class of 2012! I'm way excited to meet all of you ... million other blog entries that I've been meaning to write - including ... swear). The point of this entry is that my friend Liz '11 and I recently

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  From a combination of Being enrolled in a music class this ... Choir Thursday night, I destroyed both of my knees running three miles on ... stretching by spending most of Friday with my legs propped up on a giant

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  intricacies of turbulent flow, how it disrupts normal optics, and a million ... are some funny stories in there.) One of the 3 million reasons I love ... So the other day at work, I was sitting at the bottom of one of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Financial aid news & more MIT announces costs & aid for the 2007-2008 school year.

  

  tuition and fees for 2007-2008 and has budgeted an additional $7 million for ... budget to $68 million, President Susan Hockfield announced. "The world needs the kind of leaders and thinkers who graduate from MIT. By finding

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  million extracurriculars I was involved in. A word of advice: Take a deep ... So many of you are starting off with college applications trying to ... mom in a frenzy exclaiming that I'm not going to get into any of the

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  than 60 countries and more than a million participants, including more ... in terms of geographic outreach but also its structure of different ... teacher and suggest they consider signing up. If you're not an American any-of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.

  

  If you enjoyed the story of the MIT Blackjack Team -- the movie "21 ... tic-tac-toe lottery was seriously flawed. It took a few hours of ... Srivastava take the lottery for millions, like the MIT Blackjack Team took Las

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Surprising Research Results The chimpanzee-human relationship, and CEO pay.

  

  occurred millions of years later than fossil bones suggest, and the break may ... discussed just that kind of research from MIT. The first article, about ... Institute of MIT and Harvard was headed up by David Reich (also an assistant

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Pumpkin Drop Trick-or-treating is not enough.

  

  that it reaches the peak of its trajectory one meter above the roof of ... landing? You may neglect wind, viscous drag, and the altered aerodynamics of cold, wet pumpkins for the sake of simplicity. This past weekend’s wind

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Issel Lim: IBD Research Issel Lim has been trying to create an effective mouse model for ulcerative colitis, a…

  

  About one million Americans have a form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which causes inflammation of the digestion tract and leads to ... weren't bad enough, IBD increases the risk of developing colon cancer and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  How about an eπ Reunion?

  

  .5 million gallon pool). "O" was one of the most fantastic things I have ever ... may not have heard, the Class of 1997 is throwing a "e^2" Reunion to commemorate the 7.4-year mark of our graduation, and we're doing it in grand

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  program is clear from the millions of FIRST alumni, including 20% of MIT ... millions of students around the globe. I loved hearing about "nerd ... The Festival of Learning is an annual event organized by the MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  I went to the Arnold Arboretum!!! i become one with nature

  

  On Friday, I went to the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University for ... North America, and is home to over 1.3 million trees, shrubs, and woody ... spent a couple of blissful hours there. The area is HUGE—281 acres, to be

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ADITL MIT's Technique spearheads one of the most interesting projects I've seen on campus recently.

  

  gave me the opportunity to take a million pictures of the disastrous ... pictures of my friends. (Hi, Sam.) What made this different from all the ... of my friends and everything around me is that hundreds of other people

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  .8 million more votes than Trump, but he won the majority of the electoral ... million test subjects, ~32,000 of them (or about 0.22% of them) are enough ... 6.046, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, is one of the most

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  . Every week, I've been putting chalk art up on one of the boards, as well ... Chalk of the Day). The gig I'm doing kind of extends that part of student ... on a skateboard, doing an ollie out of a giant fire behind him I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Letting the days go by Fish finders, the Apprentice, and techie fashion.

  

  square miles of the ocean and find millions of fish. Rather than being used ... are lots of terrific applications! This will be a challenging year to choose from so many great applicants. A quick roundup of some interesting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Be a Blogger 2022!

  

  alarming amount of tropical fruit plants on my apartment front stoop there's a million fun things happening in the Kendall/MIT Open Space it is time for those of you who might want to be bloggers to share your garbage

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2022