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  Evil Institute of Technology Mystery Hunt, Day 1.

  

  , and Roger Barkan First: Recognize the various cookies used to make the ... job to stop him! At 12:17pm today, hundreds of hunters gathered in ... sign to gather our team, the Rubber Duck Hunters: I saw lots of people

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  awesomeness that make me glad to be at MIT (not to mention projects like this ... In my last entry, I left you with this teaser: "I will reveal the #1 place to watch the fireworks in my next entry." Without further ado... 1

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  to make it almost impossible to succeed. Yet despite their situation ... Now, I can be pretty sure that most everyone applying to MIT has a ... like I could have found a cure to cancer, ignorance, AIDS, made an

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  for each Friend—to generate data from the Friends script and make sense ... to. Each character has their own collections of traits that make all of ... Py and pandas for my calculations, and matplotlib and seaborn to make

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  register[/caption] To make the ride less boring, though, they put dioramas ... waited to make my transfer to the red line on Park Street. Being back in ... it, and entering would cause all of that to flood back. To make me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology A trip filled with enough desserts to satisfy anyone's sweet tooth!

  

  decided to find out, while celebrating a 21st birthday. We had three stops ... and without chocolate on top. They fill the puffs with your choice of custard right before your eyes. The custard recipe was discovered in Japan

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore accumulations because i miss show and tell

  

  to your second year than the "sophomore slump", and certainly much more ... This week, as classes began to die down, I told a friend: "the only thing I gained this year was academic hardship." Sophomore year tends to

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the Love of Darties and ChemE An audio journey

  

  inviting faculty members to your darty. Well, [annotation note= "I really ... .” Okay, it’s actually supposed to say “one week ago” but it definitely wasn’t good a week ago. Come to think of it, it wasn't necessarily amazing two

  • by kellen manning
  • March 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  . Today, May 15th - which happens to be the International Day of Families ... decision, including the 52 to whom we have offered admission. At that point ... the time and effort you have put in to letting us know how much you love

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 14, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Under the Dome A full day of free fun at MIT

  

  seem to have a thing already for free events at MIT. I'll cut to the ... -off event to the Cambridge Science Festival) What kind of free things you ask ... creations. There isn”t much left I can get my teenagers to do with me on a

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doonesbury and MIT Meet Alex Doonesbury, MIT '10.

  

  I skipped 4 days of school to go to Seattle and Vancouver to learn ... people ever tell you how pretty your cities are?!?!) I have about 200 pages of reading to catch up on. The last thing I should be doing is blogging

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  have a specific question, and you're particularly motivated and want to ... drinking that soda. Thanks to Shilpa for telling me that dubious bit of ... twice during your last two years at MIT. I also have a 6.003 p-set due

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  Genome Project, which mapped the human genetic blueprint. It would seek to ... mutations that give rise to cancer or sustain it. Proponents say a databank of all such mutations, which would be freely available to researchers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  —you use this to blow up your negatives into a viewable size. On the ... "Doc" Edgerton invented high-speed stroboscopic photography, and to this ... , and it’s where you can put his invention to work in 6.163: Strobe

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  i woke up naturally at 9am this morning to a sunny day, feeling rested, and realizing i have no commitments. so i went into boston to find ... afternoon. then i walked down newbury street from mass ave to the library and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Film! [by Nathan '14] Documenting Science Through Video and New Media

  

  how to use serious equipment to create a film. Above is a photo of me ... assignment. I was trying to capture the sunset on film. We also explore different types of documentary, from the classically framed interview to cin

  • by ARTalk
  • November 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights and Sounds Only at MIT.

  

  Boston Symphony Hall, where we hoped to pick up Boston Symphony Orchestra college cards. I haven't actually had the chance to use mine yet, but at the ... group of girls clustered together, gossiping happily, oblivious to our

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 5, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW, via Video Experience (or relive) Campus Preview Weekend through online videos.

  

  For those of you who couldn't make it to campus for CPW, here is a ... of you who attended CPW -- it was great to meet you! Here are the ... , but worth watching! Click To Play The CPW Festival The Festival

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  to make charcoal Read on, grasshopper....   What is charcoal ... solutions to the fundamental, seemingly intractable problems that plague ... focuses on using technology to solve problems in developing nations. We

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Secret Life Of Marilee Jones Sam is the funniest, though... BOTB and CPW Feedback.

  

  Marilee Jones's singing voice when she sang to the students who had ... coolest Playstation games ever. That's all I really wanted to say. Try it ... you can ask him. 4. We got to rock out to the Joneses: Ben Jones and

  • by Bryan
  • April 9, 2006