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  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  Today was the major flight day for most of the teams at the Design ... designed to fly at 20 mph and the wind is 30 mph, your plane will take off ... few extra seconds short from setting the high score at 8 laps. When it

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  fact that people say an education at MIT is like drinking from a fire ... into a routine at MIT. Psets due every week on Tuesday and Thursday ... different interesting events happening at all hours of the day that I want to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  line, at which point he "knew it wasn't Ikea," the Swedish furniture ... Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in 1902. Adam Riess as a freshman at ... . (The answer: It couldn't.)" Riess also met his wife, Nancy, at MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  spring here at MIT and spend a ton of time practicing, cross training and ... successful student athlete at MIT requires. Personally, I wouldn't trade my spots on the hockey and lacrosse teams for any other opportunity at MIT

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  it, every week with a test coupled with at least one or two p-sets has constituted, at some point, a hell week. But dead week is on a whole new level. It's the equivalent of a reading period at MIT, only classes continue

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  I always seem to know I’m back at MIT when I can vaguely hear my alarm go off at 6am. A lot of people seem to think I’m crazy for waking up ... -wee soccer in kindergarten at the ripe old age of 4 and since then I have

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  is a snapshot of a week in February 2009, when I was at MIT, while the bottom is a snapshot of the same week in February 2010, when I was at the ... the clock at MIT and getting several full nights of sleep a week at

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  at all - beyond the ordinary variations. Even the DNA tests could match ... field guide: - The Students at The Land of MIT have this crazy energy. It ... next week, or the two kids at the math diagnostic that were overheard

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  is by yours truly, Advice: "If at the end of the application process ... or two, at least at first, and spend a long time just thinking. When ... , and it'll be up to you to decide what goes on there. If at the end you

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  it isn't representative of a typical weekend at MIT. It is true that ... " you -- it's jam packed events because so many groups at MIT are excited ... while you're at other events. Again, that's not to hide this aspect of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents Too… ...enjoy your visit!

  

  When I arrived at MIT to start my freshman year I had never been on ... on Thursday night at 7:30 pm Stu Schmill, Dean of Admissions and Donald ... Parent Connectors and Alumni on Friday night at 5:00 pm Sponsored by the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  Bickerstaff At the parade Cracked was sandwiched between a brass band from Italy ... , with whom we would perform at CAVS later in the term, although we didn ... -based street performer Jenny Romaine were later asked to give a talk at CAVS

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  , because even though there are dentists at MIT Medical that are covered by ... some stuff in my mouth that I can NO LONGER FEEL. It's at this point that ... working as a production assistant at Pixar. That means I was mostly at my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  I experienced at CPW was just amazing. How can one compare an MIT education to a drink from a firehose? There is so much more than water at MIT! Thursday, I arrived at CPW two hours later than intended. My flight through O

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  before I go off and become an adult. It's kind of strange and at the same ... through senior years, I spent it at a less-exclusive high school where there ... then what I'd lived in before. For one, travel at MIT was primarily

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  One thing I've been hearing from prefrosh at an alarming frequency ... stereotypes have at least a grain of something resembling truth to them -- for ... boys do suck at dancing. In this case, however, I don't see the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  literature (at least, until the motion picture starring Johnny Depp as the ... reason, is sitting at a desk, rifling through some papers. His partner ... , smirks unconsciously at certain parts, then breezes through the heavy door

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  alarm on weekends. Oh, dear. So, I awoke with a jerk at 8:30 AM yesterday ... at 10 AM on Saturday morning. Unlike my usual Tuesday and Thursday ... engineering honor society, at which the equally lovely and no more comparable

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  school crew program at the Detroit Boat Club (I was on the varsity crew when I was a student at MIT). I found that I enjoyed my coaching more ... followed my passion. I quit my job at GM and became a full time crew coach

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!

  

  Did you know that you can't double-major at MIT? Okay, I'm just ... that at MIT. If you complete the requirements for two majors at MIT, you actually get two diplomas to show off at graduation (and to hang

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 12, 2005