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  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
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  Emab Plaza is a busy shopping mall located in the heart of Nigeria ... entrance and exit gates. Within the plaza itself, paint-peeled buildings ... made up of shops that look onto the streets, small shops always abuzz

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  Over one weekend in the fall (Splash!) and one weekend in the spring ... here's the course description: "You choose the title, we improvise a 5 ... embarrass ourselves as we teach you about them on the spur of the moment

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  MIT-Now in Español!

  

  Hola! I’m delighted to introduce the newest page to the MIT ... ideas for the page and working with the communications team on an Español video, featuring members of the Spanish-speaking community at MIT, we are

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • July 16, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  (or FASAP, or Arts at MIT. It also may be the class with the most names ever!) being the best class ever. All the way back in September, we ... Theater Arts, Jay Scheib. One of our FASAP advisors, Sara Brown, was the set

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  You’ve read in my blog entries about the weekly Engineering ... second-year GEL student (hereafter referred to as a “GEL 2”) is that the ELLs take a lot of behind-the-scenes planning. ELLs are two

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2011 MIT Class of 2015 waitlist decisions will be released today, via email, at approximately 3pm…

  

  For the sixth consecutive year, we will admit students from our ... , but we do plan to admit 26 students from the waitlist. Today, around 3pm Eastern Daylight Time, we will notify the admitted students via email

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Math Women Rock k + 8 = awesome

  

  Women Rock, but let's broaden the pool of rockstars a bit. The Math Prize for Girls is the country's preëminent math competition for young women in the United States. Over 200 of the top young women mathematicians in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  Being the first three-day weekend of the academic calendar, Columbus ... sleeping marathons. Per tradition, I partook in the first of the three, as The Tech hosted its annual retreat in Maine. Maine seems to have a lot

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Got Questions? I have answers.

  

  sorts of things in the past month that have distracted me from blogging. Specifically: finding a UROP for the summer (I'll be working in the Lang Lab!) checking out the Boston Marathon hanging out with prefrosh at my fraternity

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 23, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEGGGGGAAAAAAA! [by Danbee Kim '09] Music from Sonic, Donkey Kong, Final Fantasy, and more!

  

  dark screen flashes the large bulky letters at the same time, or when it's associated with it's mascot, Sonic the Hedgehog. But instead of sitting in ... not only Sonic the Hedgehog, but also Donkey Kong, Silent Hill, Myst

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  nth Annual Concert in Bad Taste We are the mooninites..

  

  airplane. Then maybe two. Then sooner or later, people forego folding the paper airplanes and just start throwing paper into the air and catapulting toilet paper across 10-250. Why in the world would someone do such a thing

  • by Bryan
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Random notes A little bit of this, a little bit of that.

  

  A few random notes: Thanks for all the mini-contest entries! I ... news for Heroes fans at MIT: Masi Oka, who plays the lovable and awesome Hiro Nakamura on the NBC series Heroes, has signed on to the film 21, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Edmund’s New Toy Guitarring starring eJones

  

  Meet Edmund Jones, a member of the Admissions Office staff (and Sam ... photo (notice the tupperware! what a friend to the environment...), and ... 's the blog entry? I'm not seeing it. Are you busy or something? When you

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 28, 2006