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  USA Wins 2nd in International Math Olympiad Three MIT '09s won Gold Medals.

  

  On July 6, the world eagerly watched as London was named the host of the 2012 Summer Olympics. And this coming February (while we're evaluating Class of 2010 applications), Torino, Italy, will host the 2006

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2010

  

  For the fifth consecutive year, we will admit students from our waitlist. Within the next few days, we plan to admit approximately 60 students from the waitlist. When our waitlist decisions are finalized, we

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 13, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Study Break on the Roof! We had an EMT study break on the roof of the tallest building in Cambridge!

  

  police officers (who unfortunately could not attend) to see the place where she works - the roof of the Green Building!  The Green Building is the ... !  She brought up her giant telescope and we looked at the moon, Mars

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The home of cool toys the best way to spend a Monday

  

  Chris M. scooped me, but I just couldn't let a visit from the MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor pass without geeking out. I love airplanes, but the Osprey is by far the coolest toy in the inventory. So when I heard we were

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  knot again my spread for Infinite Magazine Issue 9

  

  changed, but a lot has happened. Kidist is still the editorial director, and I am still the internal relations director. As a club, we put together ... personally think was a great success. You can check out the full issue here

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  ; the exhaustion in the undergraduate community has been palpable since the first long weekend, where professors assigned the same amount of work despite the [annotation note="extra is a strong word here. to be

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Pumpkin Drop Trick-or-treating is not enough.

  

  that it reaches the peak of its trajectory one meter above the roof of the Green Building, which is 90 meters tall, with what velocity does the pumpkin meet the ground in McDermott Court? How much time, in seconds, does

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Life, As Physics Problem also The Tech said a thing

  

  First off: The Tech ran an article about our site redesign / admissions wiki today. Amita Gupta, a freshman member of the inaugural Tech FPOP, interviewed Matt and I yesterday for it, and the article is pretty

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  At approximately 11:20 pm on Tuesday night, Charles stepped on the pedal and accelerated the motorized shopping cart from 0 to (approx.) 25 mph in the gaspingly brief time required to scream barely the first two

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Athena, Deliver Us From Finals And lead us not into temptation of crying ourselves to sleep at night.

  

  Late on Sunday evening, just before the first day of MIT's finals, hackers erected a giant statue of Athena, the patron goddess of wisdom, in the middle of Killian Court. Alerted to the hack by email and word of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 20, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ops Air Force A summer spent with B-1Bs and C-130s.

  

  [by C/4C Adam Fuhrmann '11] Every Air Force ROTC cadet has the opportunity to attend a 3 week base visit called "Ops Air Force" during the ... Force life so that they will become better officers in the future. I spent

  • by ROTC
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Love is Blinds A short, fairly irrelevent entry, as told from the perspective of the 7+ people who…

  

  last night, in the hallway ANGELA MONSTER: Allin and I are going to ... the dorm ANGELA MONSTER: (on the phone with Economy Hardware) Hi, I bought blinds the other day at your store and they're the wrong size.. is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  with people around the world to create and disseminate affordable ... are blogging from Assam, India. The students of D-Lab’s Cycle Ventures class are working with the Rickshaw Bank, a project of the Center for

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  again will be thrown away, and students will be scattering across the world for the three months we call summer break. I’ve had the opportunity ... ’ve recorded in the semi-permanent realm of the blogosphere (who are we kidding

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  officers; it’s a catch-call term used by employers to encompass all the miscellaneous tasks an employee may be required to perform outside the scope of their stated job description. Of all of the other duties I’ve been

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Story of the 5 Wits A look back on my externship at 5 Wits

  

  Captain Nemo's abandoned submarine from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Now, you may be wondering why this is the story of the 5 Wits. Well, there was Common Sense, who decided that she could make water just the right

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  The Abominable Snowman If you can't see the Yeti, make the Yeti.

  

  possible. We build snowmen so large that they require the use of ramps, ice ... entry in the works, for those of you who are sick of hearing about it ... hitting Boston, I called up my friend Dan '10. "Did you hear about the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  Canada! My friend Yida, showing off the giant ramp of the snowboarding ... I wanted to see more of the francophone part of Canada. :D We flew into Quebec on Saturday right after classes ended. The whole trip from

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by ... say that: the blogs actually turned twenty on August 6th, 2024. But as you get older, time has a way of sneaking up and past you, the way that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  Not surprisingly, you all seem to be the most interested about how the interviewer will evaluate you in the process and what role the interview plays in selection so while I’d planned to start at the very

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008