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  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  On Friday morning, I walked into Lobby 7 to head up to the Edgerton ... embellished with a QR code. Now theoretically, if one were able to scan the code (unfortunately, the rippling surface of the fabric made the code hard to scan), one

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Ask Me Anything go on

  

  closed! at 10:54 EST. so i can go to bed without worrying about whom ... I do a small amount of requisite shopping, I am going to eat an entire ... Jay Cutler into diabetic shock via the television. During that time

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The best picture we took in Paris Slightly delayed for some slightly successful attempts at photo editing.

  

  . This is all chronicled in my favorite Tech article of all time. Regardless of what it looks like, this is a tribute to our institute, not a poorly-spelled tribute to Matt McGann. It's Eiffel's fault, not ours

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  ZigZag Episode 7 A new episode features Commencement highlights and an interview with the party button guys.

  

  to check out the view from up there. Nice work on ZigZag to producer ... working on a Masters in Fine Arts degree full time for the next year; Zig

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  4 8 15 16 23 42 If you already know what those numbers mean, this entry is for you.

  

  So I'm a Lost fanatic. Long-time readers know that Alias and The OC are my two favorite shows, but Lost is positioning itself to take the ... the Red Sox will never win.) Are you obsessed too? Argh. Go to the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  ”. Short of having her come to MIT and feel the fabric herself, there was ... a fire alarm and have everyone in my dorm freeze to death in the ... ."]Spectroscopy[/annotation] doesn’t lie, so my mom would have to believe me after seeing the evidence

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / CPW

  Hottest ever CPW ouch global warming

  

  This chart first appeared in my CPW history post, but I wanted to republish it to show how absurd this CPW's weather will be. I updated the ... by temperature. You can also mouseover individual blocks to see data

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT DDR Tetris on 6-foot LED Matrix "We did this because we were bored." -- Russell Cohen '13

  

  both, on a 6-foot tall LED display, thanks to three bored MIT students. Burton-Conner Tetris Battle (Burton Conner is the MIT dorm that is home to the creators) is now all over the web, having been covered, among other

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Inventional YoYo what the what

  

  things to blog about most will have to wait. But this couldn't. John Chow, who was admitted to the class of 2015, is a professional yoyo-ist. Yoyo

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 12, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Leadership & Double Dare 11 pictures of the leadership conference, and 16 pictures of the Double Dare sex challenge

  

  (SLP) speaks to conference attendees Attendees and special guests have lunch in a banquet hall in the Hotel@MIT (Note, this is a link to the hotel's website, NOT to its email address) Dean Jones (Dean of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply to be an Exchange Student, Special Student, or Visiting Student?

  An Exchange Student enrolls at MIT to take classes as a non ... Scholar Program, which enables current graduate students to enroll at ... demonstrate their ability to handle MIT’s rigorous academic standards. The
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT gave my pod free art supplies!! and despite being hosed, we used them

  

  . I used gouache paints because I wanted to have the ability to blend ... grants of between $50 and $250 to pods and virtual groups for art supplies. The intention was to support "shared art experiences for learning

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 7, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  , not just MIT) have a responsibilty to find a way to take the pressure ... Sorry for the blog vacation guys. We're scrambling to get ahead in our work before we retreat to selection committee tomorrow. (Don't get

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  them, somewhere, and that many people have their side of the story yet to ... remain, in some core aspects, who I was and who I am, and I may have to ... didn’t think I had been super committed to CPW activities, but I actually

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  A Continuing Experiment in Cooperative Eating or, every food picture I have ever posted from pika

  

  have penguins on them. It is decidedly winter. But at pika, it's spring ... , strange instrument concerts, and sitting in a dark room listening to music ... of the week's events; read/watch this if you want to know more about

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Watch this! An MIT blogger alum deservedly gets a moment in the spotlight.

  

  will not link to here.) The folks at PBS's Nova have been producing a ... & Engineers. A now, the producers have shown the good sense to ... , and really important, research work. Would you like to hear the short

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  An American Idol Math Question You guys are all good in math; help me out with this one.

  

  button.) When it's THAT close, you really have to wonder. Someone tell me ... her that American Idol's voting system may have some issues. Did you ... 's always going to be a tie. Voters just max out each contestant's phone lines

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  NOOOOO! It's so sad!

  

  maybe my entry may have persuaded you to pick the red chair. It was a well ... I've found my excuse to write a new blog entry. Remember way back ... copy of "The Tech" after work today. I was very excited to get my Tech

  • by Snively '11
  • July 9, 2008
• 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 / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to ... noticed I am late for class, and have to finish it this afternoon! Sorrrrrry

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006