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  “The Flying Luxury Hotel of Tomorrow” The luxury cruise of tomorrow is sweet!

  

  /index.html The flying luxury hotel of tomorrow: Cruise ship will sail through the air, not the water By Joshua Tompkins Popular Science Thursday ... could change the way you think about air travel. It's the Aeroscraft, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Letters Are In The Mail You are an incredible group of people, both academically and personally.

  

  Well, you heard it here first. The letters are in the mail. For the ... academically and personally. You are the best of the best. I wish we had enough room in the Institute for all of you, I really do. I'm off to enjoy a

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  Exploring MIT’s sports facilities there's so much to see!

  

  It’s a beautiful spring day here at MIT – the sun is peeking through the clouds, I was woken up this morning by birds, and we’ve now mostly exited heaviest-coat-in-the-closet weather (and are now entering bring

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  the number of rough ones about equals the number of purely good ones ... known for the [annotation note="the feeling of being overwhelmed by ... earlier in the semester I had asked my mom if I should spend the extra money

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  breakfast, I have an egg sandwich with tea, and for dinner, I have the juiciest, most delicious chicken and quinoa. This blog will focus on the latter, specifically on the beautiful fact that it is made entirely with

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  , right?) Item the first: The Journal of Negative Results. My advisor and ... goal in life during class two weeks ago, when we were discussing the isolation of the Clock gene in mice. Clock is the result of a point mutation

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  are having at school. Or maybe it's a bucket, swinging by the handle ... under the tunnels of MIT, and when it fills up past its capacity it tips ... there in the first place. My bucket sort of exploded last Saturday - and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Visit YouTube to Participate in the World Economic Forum! Have world leaders watch and respond to your video at this year's World Economic Forum!

  

  President Hockfield has asked the MIT International Review (http ... ://www.youtube.com/thedavosquestion and post a video response of no more than three minutes to the following ... individuals must do to make the world a better place in 2008?" World leaders

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  The leaves are falling like snowflakes and sometimes when the sun hits the trees just right, the Massachusetts landscape burns golden. The ... consider the brisk weather a welcome change. My impressions of fall, in the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  at MIT, centered at the Mediated Matter group in the Media Lab but including folks from mechanical engineering and the Glass Lab, had figured out ... the Lab back in June, but had no idea how it worked; at first, I didn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do letters of recommendation have to be submitted in the MIT application portal?

  submit documents. However, they do have the option to submit their ... through a third-party service other than the MIT application portal ... ) information into the Recommendations section of the application, regardless of
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  to turn the attention specifically to you, the wide-eyed and apparently ... 's not a good question at all, and I don't think anyone knows the answer ... to those with a “stronger” profile, which would make the very possible

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Song Remains The Same But sometimes my blog entry is a little different.

  

  Du Temps" was written while the composer was a prisoner of war in a ... I am very curious." Kallie: "Ok, since you seem to be rather in-the-know about the music program and musicals in general, could you possibly give

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  In September 2021, when I posted about the new Welcome Center that is now home to the admissions office and plays host to our visitors, I included a list of creative touches we had added to the space to make it feel

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  [by Justin '08] "We are, we are, we are, we are..." The Engineer ... . The Cambridge-MIT exchange has successfully made this year's land ... -brand entrepreneurial and innovative spirit, my exploits in the Mathematics department

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  class, it’s the first time that the number of hours my classes are supposed to take is less than the actual number of units, although it’s a bit ... figure out. The past few days, I’ve been walking around smiling, more

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  approaching the issues no one has dared to approach before.  We can take a hard look at many issues concerning the US and the world today and observe a theme: the United States’ 2016 election, police brutality, progress in the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  Things always seem to come in threes. The Three Musketeers. The Holy Trinity. Rock, Paper, Scissors. The Plastics. And for Simmons Hall, our three elevators, Alevator, Belevator, and Celevator, each named for the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Walk of the Strandbeest "New life forms" with PVC skeletons march on the Media Lab

  

  "Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are the basis of this new nature. I make skeletons that walk on the wind so they don't have to ... surviving the elements such as storm and water and eventually I want to put

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exploring the Outdoors! In Kresge that is...

  

  At the end of fall semester, I look forward to one thing. No, it's not finals (Common, who enjoys those?). It's the 2.009 presentations!!! 2.009 is the Product Engineering Process class, usually taken by

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 14, 2012