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  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  This morning, MIT alum Adam Riess '92 won the Nobel Prize in Physics ... , who is just 41 years old, shares the prize with fellow researchers Saul Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt for "the discovery of the accelerating expansion

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  to Boston from a family vacation in Toronto, I took the T back to MIT ... cabs when travelling alone. The T is not scary. In addition, if you’re on your way home from Boston Logan, it’s free. I Instagrammed the trip back

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year in Review blogs, bhangra, and a baby monkey

  

  I love the holiday season, but not for its parties and food, its ... for its signal of the year coming to an end and the promise of the new one to begin. I prefer the days right after the holidays, taking

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  ? That's right -- the first completed folders of the year. The brown folders are your complete admissions files; the green cards associated with each folders are the summary cards (or "E-3 cards," I have no idea why

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Oh The Things I’ve Seen Warning: Hold on to your socks

  

  , here is a complete listing of all the moving picture shows I’ve viewed in the last month. (Warning: Hold on to your socks) TV Shows: Southland House Lie to Me Bones Men of a Certain Age The Game Meet the Browns Numb3

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Boston Pops John Williams and a bottle of wine -- on a school night!

  

  Thanks to the organizational prowess of the Tau Beta Pi (engineering ... engineer, I went to the Boston Pops last Thursday night. Happy 125th anniversary to the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO)! This is how lovely Symphony

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Saturday

  

  Spring has sprung at MIT, with flowers in bloom across campus... The awesome folks at the East Campus dormitory built a giant hammock (!) stretching between the two parallel buildings. In this photo, you can see the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SONIC JUBILANCE A day at the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT

  

  been part of MIT since the Institute’s earliest chapters. By 1884, 23 years after MIT was founded, the Banjo Club and the Glee Club had been officially launched. The October 22, 1884 issue of The Tech confirmed that, “An

  • by Jeremy W.
  • February 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  Junior year pretty much ws a gigantic ride on the struggle bus for me...  but more on that later! This blog isn't about the lesson I learned this ... Engineering students. The course focuses on educating students about the design

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  Like many of you, I caught Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith this weekend. If you stayed through the credits, you saw the name of ... Artist on the other two Star Wars prequels, and Revenge of the Sith was his

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  in my head. I was experimenting with large format for the first time--building my own 4x5 pinhole camera out of foam core and playing with the Student Art Association’s Speed Graphic. I loved the results: The fine

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  . My take on the movie, 21: Completely NO spoilers: * Check out ... . Synopsis: (some spoilers for the first hour of the movie) Ben Campbell (Jim ... outstanding intellect, Ben was offered a chance to join the clandestine MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate Can MIT brainpower, with the help of the LHC, finally put the matter to rest?

  

  -100 in a quest to solve one of the greatest conundrums of our time: latke or hamentaschen? The latke and the hamentaschen are both Jewish foods that have long divided the world, being the source of almost every battle

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  going to debut on the big screen. A white sheet would descend from the ceiling of the Simmons auditorium and display my work of many days. There ... Admissions blogs. 20.219 Becoming the Next Bill Nye was to end with a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skies over MacGregor Views of campus, Boston, and the Charles River from ten stories up.

  

  the summer. Specifically, he lived in B entry, which consists of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth floors of the high rise and is broken up into half-floor suites. B entry has a common entry lounge on the eleventh

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Helicopter Flight Training [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] 500 feet above Boston with two MIT Deans.

  

  [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] For the second time in my life, I had the ... nothing short of incredible, so I jumped at the opportunity. Before I knew it I was 500 feet above Boston catching a glimpse of the Red Sox

  • by ROTC
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Battle in The Bay a comic

  

  I'm finally all settled into my summer experience in ~~the bay~~ My 6AM-6PM days begin with a long but beautiful commute through the mountains and are filled with hours behind the tissue culture hood. The cells

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 04 What I took way back when

  

  up the class with the number? (Hint: there are two 14s and two econ ... : Eric Lander “has been one of the principal leaders of the Human Genome Project” and in 2003 “has been named 'Scientist of the Year' by the National

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 23, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Live from the Glass Lab! it's...tuesday afternoon??

  

  One of my favorite MIT organizations is the Glass Lab, where students ... for the holidays at MIT. I'm on their mailing list, and this morning they sent out the following blast: Dear Glass Lab followers, One of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See your name among the stars… Forget having your name written in lights, get it written on a spacecraft!

  

  on a spacecraft! The MIT Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program is selling the ads to fund their project to launch a student-designed small unmanned spacecraft in 2010. "Choose a location on the outside of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 3, 2006