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  Helicopter Flight Training [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] 500 feet above Boston with two MIT Deans.

  

  chance to ride in a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter. My first experience was ... Visitors has a number of benefits, to include skipping the long line of students who had signed up to fly. The Deans were given a short safety brief

  • by ROTC
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nisha’s Restaurant Review: February this is extra but i'm doing it anyways

  

  to dinner with my friends has been a much more productive bonding ... boyfriend to celebrate his return from GTL Israel over IAP! It's a cool ... favorite place that I've been to all month. Roxy's is a (truly amazing

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  cleats on feet, smile on face thoughts on injuries and spring season

  

  roller coaster. As a junior, it was a bit tough to sit on the sidelines and ... would’ve been looking at a surgery that would leave me unable to put ... pretty sore after playing a lot, so I am only allowed to play for about

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  to Computers and Engineering Problem Solving)- This is a required class ... ’m enjoying it so far, and I have to admit that it is a good feeling when your ... . This class used to be called Engineering Economics, and was considered a

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  engineers to meet their architect comrades). While some of the concepts are a ... our first such project. We had to building a balsa wood column 12 ... Add Date -- the last date on which you can add a class -- is this

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  around and snuggle close to on a warm summer night. It's a house that ... and a few grapes (to be linguistically fair, you know?), sailed on the ... , napped in the sunshine while flipping through a library book, awoke to the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  more classes to graduate, exactly enough to be a full-time student, and I ... extracurricular activity, and I’m hoping to spend a lot of time on it, especially ... .30[/annotation] sophomore year, and I’m excited to have her as a professor again. I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thomas Friedman on Energy & MIT A NY Times article highlights MIT's innovative energy solutions

  

  .I.T. students and faculty, and “fact-based analysis,” including a trip to Saudi ... world, including in India and China, working together to build a plug ... to build a clean car. I just love their tag line. It’s what gives me

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Punting

  

  Punting is a really relaxing and nice way to spend the afternoon if you’re not the punter. My name is Lucy and I’m a junior ... amazing to see him in person. He is a fellow at Gonville and Caius College

  • by Cambridge
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  ’s only all-female dormitory. MIT women choose to live here for a variety of ... , and triples, and the Annex is a fairly recent addition to Mc ... lovely spring afternoon, waiting to go on one of our social events: a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Go to one in a town near you, and send in your pictures/reviews.

  

  it out -- it's a great opportunity to meet some potential future ... all of the Admitted Students Parties. Today, I'd like to highlight a few ... Massachusetts to Malaysia) will host parties in their hometowns for students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  ever I willingly failed =P) and told me to sleep "a lot" and come back if ... MORE sick. I went to the doctor willingly, which is a rare thing for me ... )...and he tells me to sleep "a lot." Which I did, over the three day weekend

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  implementing a project from this class to address energy poverty by weatherizing ... increased linearly with wind speed up to a threshold, beyond which the ... ="aligncenter" width="400"] learned how to use a bunch of sensors! an anemometer, thermal

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Quidditch: The Best Thing EVER? Yes.

  

  that I went on a bike ride for fun, instead of just to get to class ... one hand (since the other holds on to the broom). We used a volleyball ... /Independent Living Groups. It was great to meet people from all over campus with a

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Takin’ My Time I've got to keep on chasin' a dream...

  

  time, and I can't wait to see the issue come out in just a few weeks ... refers to the final day that MIT students can "drop" a class (remove it ... their dorm onto the "testing site" below. According to Matt - who, as a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  with a focus on (what else?) genetics. What I really want to talk about ... ? (By the way, here's a general rule to pronouncing MIT numbers: the ... listening to songs composed by Alexander Borodin. Borodin was a chemist by day

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can a family member contact MIT Admissions on my behalf, or ask questions about the content or status of my application?

  No, it is MIT policy to communicate directly with applicants about their applications, rather than with their family members. If you have a question, please email us from the email address that you used to register
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s all about the numbers… Jump back into the basements for the first of two entries early this week on…

  

  'll ask "8.01 or 8.012?". As a celebration of MIT's devotion to numbers ... .014: Calculus (single-variable) with Theory. Join me on a journey to 18-014 and ... entry to a helpful staircase. Gotta have a Coke down there

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  assigment. If you're a prospective student, allow me to explain. During the ... things that are often made. I'm using this entry to warn you against a few ... illustrate points. The use of a living group's name is not meant to imply

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  also as an Asian woman. It feels like a brutal knife to the heart in a ... it more room and confidence to gnash its teeth loudly and openly. In a grocery store parking lot, a woman forced open my friend’s car door to ask

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021