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  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  painfully SLOW. I was reading Matt's latest entry where he talks about the 30-minute read. Actually, pretty much every reader in the office can pull off the 30-minute read, except for the new guy (that's me). My average is

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  I'm in the Pacific Northwest, waiting for my Seattle Central Meeting tomorrow. You may wonder what Admissions Officers do when they're on the road on a non-working day. Well, for me, I decided I'd go catch the film

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Burton-Conner long live BC

  

  of varying cultures. The dorm is being renovated starting next year, and although I'll [annotation note = "I really don't know how the COVID-19 crisis will influence the renewal, but

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  A brief intro... Last Wednesday, I left MIT to compete at the 2016 Eastern Sectional Figure Skating Championships in Simsbury, Connecticut, the final qualifying segment for the 2016 U.S. National Championships in mid

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Fall Hits MIT In other words: Kate dumps all the pictures she's been meaning to post.

  

  events spanning the last week of which I took pictures. To whet your appetite: It was my turn to cook for the Tetazoo Food Coop, and my partner ... . I'm planning to write a blog post about the Food Coop later this week

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  T Minus One. BRASS RAT BRASS RAT BRASS RAT.

  

  (Class of 2007's Ring) The Brass Rat is MIT's class ring, which is earned at the end of sophomore year but premiered early during spring semester. It's one of the most recognizable rings in the world, based on

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Updates, Previews, and My Successor

  

  busy. That being said, I begin with two plugs: -- Check out the second issue of the MIT International Review at http://web.mit.edu/mitir/! -- Forum on American Progress will be releasing a booklet, America in the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Davidson Fellows scholarship program A great scholarship opportunity from the wonderful folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.

  

  competitive for another wonderful opportunity: the Davidson Fellows scholarship program. Sponsored by the good folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent Development, the program provides scholarships of $50,000, $25,000 or $10,000 to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Off to Zambia

  

  ) We will spend the majority of our trip in the community of Mwape, which is in the northeast corner of the nation. Last January's D-Lab Zambia group installed solar panels on the roof of Mwape's primary school

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline & Taking Questions Advice for RA applicants; I'll answer questions Thursday.

  

  Please remember that January 1 is the submission deadline for ... should you should click the final "submit" button of your online application on or before January 1. If you are applying on paper, have the Post

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  lectures and one 4-hour lab a week. During the lectures, Professor Slocum teaches us about the FUNdaMENTALs of design and we have guest speakers share their real-world experience with the design process. These speakers have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection begins Picking the Class of 2010.

  

  This afternoon, we began early action selection for the Class of 2010. As is my custom, I wore a tie today, out of respect for the applicants and the difficult decisions we make in selection. This year, we received

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  my pleasure to welcome you to Japan: the country of neon-lit karaoke ... Japan-based company in Tokyo who attempted to be the first private company to land on the moon earlier this year. While their first attempt

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  Let’s meet the CNC mill. This one is called HAAS. He’s proven useful ... molds for the plastic pieces of our yo-yo. I’ll make a blog on the yo-yo making process in full some time down the road. This blog is about CAM

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  I competed in the Green Building Challenge as part of this year's Bad ... teams competed to see who could climb up the 18-story Green Building the ... placing third, with a total of 103 climbs! I climbed the Green Building a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  Every day, we began in the same place. The bathroom, where we reluctantly washed off the vestiges of sleep at 5 A.M., and prepared for the day. We had bathrooms on every floor of the dorm building, and they all

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  Boston to Frankfurt, and then Frankfurt to Almaty, the cultural and educational (but not political) capital of Kazakhstan, en route to the 27th International Olympiad in Informatics. The International Olympiad in Informatics

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s All Work Together Easier Said Than Done

  

  I joined GEL because I want to be able to implement my ideas in the ... Manufacturing across different three time zones to work together. Context: The ... failures of the AC unit for the car leading to a few occurrences of smoke and

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  On Friday, October 24, the Edgerton Center at MIT organized an on-campus premiere of the documentary Underwater Dreams. The film follows the journey of four high school students from the Arizona desert, who in 2004 won

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday Honoring the decades old (?) tradition of the East Campus Friday Afternoon Club (FAC)

  

  coasters, swim the across the Charles river (YOU HAVE NO PROOF), and have a ... East Campus is our Friday Afternoon Club, or FAC. Every Friday of the ... food item for the denizens of East Campus. Tetazoo takes FACs extremely

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2014