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  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  11 landed on the Moon. And because of MIT's significant role in the ... who built the Apollo Guidance Computer and Buzz Aldrin ScD '63 himself (!) talking about their experiences. There has been a lot of coverage of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  , and yet it's such a foundational technique in the field of genetics ... in the field onto whole RNA sequencing as a way of getting a fuller ... points. Definition is a big and important part of science. The human

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  just a shade above the difficulty level of baking-soda-and ... and live a monastic life of solitude in a single down the hall. Katelyn ... the long and illustrious history of our beloved dorm, a proposal that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  gives only the case n = 2 and suggests that it contains most of the ideas ... classes for junior fall. One of the classes I'm in this semester is 6 ... because of cyclical reinforcing feelings that math became uninteresting and

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  individual blades of grass and refracting the morning light, ephemeral steam ... lights up offensively bright shades of neon blue and red, and the blaring ... lot, and talk in the dark. Many of the people from my childhood have

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  everything my class has missed out on. A lot of things still aren't the same as in the "before times," of course. We wear masks in class, and because of the restriction on serving open food at club events, I've eaten an

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  to tell you tales of MIT. This year, the first meetings are in ... should you expect? First, the admissions officer and the local Educational ... Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire and Belgian Congo). [source: MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  of 7 laps in 4 minutes (tying with the best score), and we were only a ... out of power midair and came in for a glider landing--except the wind ... the end of the day, however, score is divided by aircraft weight--and as

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  With Apologies to Dr. Seuss why MIT is amazing, a la buzzfeed

  

  . You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you ... . You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who ... ." With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  folder is complete -- all of the documents have arrive, been entered, and ... take the folder and cover sheet and make sure that all of the filing has ... complete applications, and we won't start admitting anyone until all of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  and then took the Green Line back to tEp. Throughout the first half of ... : there’s a balance between the familiar and the unknown The first time I went to the end of a T line was when some of my podmates and I went out

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  a bran flake when I saw that the first sentence of the description was ... this class, and that there was a camera filming me with the goal of ... workout", and 2) If I can get the hang of this, I will look AWESOME at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  the awesome company they are, decided to pay all of the interns and ... Boston Pops concert the night before the 4th and I figured the 3rd of July ... beautiful prose and various other forms of media. I left the dorm at 5:30 PM

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  musical chairs against a group of about 40 people (the majority of whom have their PhD). Yesterday I apprehensively put the equivalent of almost $450 into a vending machine and received 6 (apparently expensive) slips of

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  got tired and decided to take two breaks each climb – first on the 7th ... histogram, shown below.In the end, teams Beast and Slugfest battled for first ... I competed in the Green Building Challenge as part of this year's Bad

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  locations around Cambridge and Boston to complete the majority of my work. I ... a lot of my calculus and physics here because of the table space. I ... go to. I normally read here, for both classes and for the joy of

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  the snow is COLD!" and amusing everyone else. I remember my first winter ... much snow...and the roommate was from India and having her first snow ... idea of what was going on and what the plots were if you read the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  in spices, so I took a page from the book of Ling and bought a 69-cent ... DID YOU KNOW? Although three members of Queen routinely sang lead and backing vocals, the opening chords of Bohemian Rhapsody are sung entirely by

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I ... options over the next few days, there are lots of things to choose from and ... are welcome to attend either of these programs on the hows, whys and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  this year, probably the most accessible of the problems (and one of the ... (N), of successful free throws she has made in her first N attempts of the ... , and the opportunity to study math for a year at the University of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005