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  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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  application essays. I saw confetti stream down the center of the page. “well ... , so I passed over the cold pack of leather and watched as she pulled out ... picked and pruned at what would make me seem most interesting, most full-of

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Endless rain into a paper cup ...also, restless wind inside a letterbox.

  

  out the weather report in mid-April and this is what I get... I've been much more of lame-o about running outside since I got a MacBook and the above information was available to me with a simple push of F12. In

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 16, 2007
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• 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 / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  that still prevails, the world’s perception of the U.S., and the ... Affairs. It discusses the consequences of the surge in Iraq, and is very ... English Novels (21L.471 ), Eighteenth-Century Literature (21L.470), and The

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  , Baker House, like most of the dorms and halls on campus, was very involved ... ... The sign-up sheets for the teams would be in the lobby of the dorm, and ... or 9 years old and have been ever since. After the Red Sox' big

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  of a thrill upon seeing the Dome for the first time in months. As soon ... pledges, the sidewalks were a maze of storage boxes and moving carts, and my ... and one-third in the all-too-familiar calm of the PNW, the controlled

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  decided to kind of throw most of my writing rules out the window and have ... of the parents and the girlfriend was often only suitable after a long period of dewy-eyed joy and the calls to the superior ones about the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  Requirements, or GIRs. The GIRs consist of 17 classes, 9 in math, science, and ... ; Sciences (MAS) First Year Program. Each of the 8 required humanities, arts ... spaced out over the length of one's MIT career. With 8 required classes and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005