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  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  's pretty inspiring to see all those folks from the MIT Instrumentation Lab ... with Kwatsi here] But perhaps the most fitting MIT tribute to the moon ... Today is an exciting anniversary -- July 20, 1969, was the day Apollo

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  to really like it, for a few reasons. Certainly, it is a swiping of the ... things that I like. First, the word "factor," which is something I like to do to numbers. You could not imagine my joy when earlier this summer I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi on Pie So much pi[e].

  

  dishes). I want to share them with you, to the extent that I can share 1.909859317102744... π pies over the internet.   (A secret: the pies are a lie. Their bottoms are excised and their insides are pudding.)    Here are the pudding

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.

  

  , physically, intellectually, and emotionally reacting to the three weeks I spent in Zambia. To make a long story short, the only road to Mwape (the ... two weeks) was completely flooded, so we were unable to make the trip

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  TGIF! After a long week comes...a FEAST!

  

  yummy. ! P.S-- Sorry for the video quality, I've been trying to fiddle ... Sorry for being MIA you guys! I've had a tough couple of weeks, but I ... out to dinner on Friday night as a reward for working hard all week

  • by Celena C. '12
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-wedding update

  

  , admissions officer. At the reception, I got to sit next to Julian Wheatley, a ... . Sadly, the Sox lost 6-5. I did not report that over the microphone. Back ... the Economics Deprtment and Athletics Department. And to the person who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week MIT: It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver.

  

  computing to practicing for the upcoming performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and much more. And let's not forget the value of simply chilling with friends. The second reason it's a hard question to answer is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breaths Perhaps wisdom, perhaps not. See for yourself.

  

  as you right now. I'm about to submit the application to my top choice ... means as much as I'm afraid to press the submit button, in order to have ... out myself to treat myself to some sushi and then celebrate the arrival

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  153 minutes before the deadline to sign up for the Simmons Retreat, I ... , when I expected the retreat would still be going on. But a short email ... the leaves red and orange and gold and yellow. Don’t be silly, I laughed

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  A Very McGann Christmas Happy holidays.

  

  attendance. Just a few miles from my house is the famous Big Duck, which always gets all gussied up for the holidays. It's great to be able to ... The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. On Christmas

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  Apparently this is not the case in England. They do things ... counts for pretty much your whole grade. While this is not such a big deal to students in, say China, it’s a big change from MIT where our

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Emergency Morale Booster Night! One of my favorite e-mails of all time

  

  , sent out an e-mail to the house. It made my day. The subject was ... least one hug for every other participant, to be distributed at random ... : YOU!!! Hope to see you there tonight! Love and "HOW HIGH CAN THE

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2012
• 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!

  

  pastries just waiting to be injected with ice cream! They opened the store in ... chocolate ice cream. Being MIT students, we also analyzed the chemical and ... decided to find out, while celebrating a 21st birthday. We had three stops

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Update It's been an amazing year!

  

  had to name one aspect of myself that has changed the most in the last year, it has to be the volume of hair on my head. Although I always ... decided to go and see what all the fuss was about and what I found was

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  to be an LA for the next semester, and landed the job.[total time ... As my second semester at the Institute draws to a close, I've been ... pursued more advanced coding. Throughout the semester, my goal was to help

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  concepts I learned. The things I made. I just haven't. Instead, I want to use my final post of 2021 to share the best part of MIT — the people. I know it's cliché, but I know it to be true. At MIT, friendship is

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story Of @MITStudents as told by the person behind it

  

  special programs meant to support and enhance students’ lives outside of the ... their work, we want to start highlighting the experiences that you create ... to ask the community, send them to us or tweet at us and we’ll push

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  the GBT, so it took all my self-control not to fling myself onto the L ... straight face, I asked Jenn to go inside and get the sheet off the bed so that I could put it in the washing machine. When she tried to push the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  backpack for a week Try to get over your fear of how ugly the titans are and ... you haven’t talked to in a while Wake up early and watch the sunrise ... Expunge the dust from every surface in your room Learn to pick locks Read

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Almost Famous You probably think this entry is about me.

  

  have until Mitra gets home to read this entry. So today the first issue of The Tech since the marathon, so of course they decided to cover it ... front page of The Tech. Because, really, if you're going to run a marathon

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 21, 2006