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  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  ) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products. From the website: In ... and took a leave from MIT to become the founding CEO of HelmetHub, which

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trading Room

  

  in 1996: Sloan has just completed the first fully equipped state-of-the ... carrying on the school's tradition of pioneering research in finance and ... bringing together the very best of theory and practice," said Glen L. Urban

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  and arrive safely in the ever-humid city of Houston, Texas. Enter: sleep, food, an absence of psets, and the realization that my younger brother is way taller than I am. I spent the first few days of Spring Break

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

  first flight, and has done a lot of other things. I think she had a couple ... Apollo guidance system, for the first mission in 1969 and then also the ... Hubble. She was one of the leading drivers behind the development and the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  should basically consist of a "memorable moment" in the first four bars and ... first part written already, and then the second part should kind of follow ... ) and provide evidence of the completion of my music concentration (3

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  semester (although I haven't had the chance to build most of them... yet). Tetrahedron I think we can all agree that the triangle is the pinnacle of ... flawless design, but with the power of hot glue, it is indeed possible

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can’t live without clean water Alfinio's sustainable water initiative

  

  country is one of stark contrast; some of the best health and education ... and flows down to Jazmín is downstream of a pig farm, the root of many ... Nobody can. We can mobilize and make this happen! Help eradicate the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  may understand the next question and not feel dumb. Unfortunately ... into one week, and again, just like any other place, there isn't a lot of ... your throat as possible in the shortest amount of time it can. An example

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  socially aware hacking, part 2 this time, it's personal ((last time it was also personal))

  

  th. There's a very, very fancy portrait of David Koch in the first ... and championing climate change denialism for the financial benefit of ... patronage of the Koch family and the fossil fuel industry, and realign its

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Introducing the baby bloggers! but read it intrrrrrrroduuuucing, like I'm a very excited announcer

  

  It is that time of year again! The semester is starting, campus is coming alive, and here on the blogs we have a fresh new crop of baby ... extraordinaire and recent joiner of the ranks of the notebook addicted, and the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  , and the first that it has been federally recognized as such. Earlier ... People’s Day. As we do so, let us reflect on the richness and resilience of ... histories. And, we commit to using the challenge of our past to inform a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  . Basically, they try to get rid of all of the overstock and damaged books, so they're sold for drastically reduced prices. And the "damaged" books are ... reccomended reading: And it was all so cheap! I am now the proud owner of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  on and off public transit with ease. This felt like the kind of stuff ... baby of everything," he had said, "and now you're like the mom of the ... had grown. And when I saw Aiden on that hike trail at the land's end of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  sandwich, eat, and rest before the first segment of the competition, the ... center of the ice. My music begins, and I skate towards my first jump. I go ... 75% of the pset left to do. I chug along and get through most of the

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

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  for context) For the first half of this class, we had to take a ... amount of slime I needed was way too much, and removing the slime after the ... inside of a normal balloon, and then use a metal straw to suck the air out

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  you, and where did you live? Most of the professors were, of course ... locus of control -- so the semesters I've been really stressed and ... over to the table where Brit '05, Lara '06, and I were chatting and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  community for students with an interest in the blend of STEM and humanities ... college sports for the first time, had just joined my sorority, and was ... D I took the Concourse version of this class, and I found it so hard

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  of “PNR shall be missed.” And with the first week of [annotation note ... heard throughout first semester. They fall under the categories of, what I ... less a list of phrases and more the collective tendency to excuse poor

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Thanksgiving!

  

  So I'm about to cook a turkey for the first time in my life, but before I foray out into the world of basting and boiling, I wanted to wish a Happy Thanksgiving to you all. And just remember had it been for

  • by Bryan
  • November 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  , numbers and one-upmanship equivalent of the "Not necessarily being the ... doctor and are thinking of coming to MIT first, you're not setting yourself ... sophomore year of high school. Even with me diving head-first into studying

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013