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  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  a golf ball moving 1" to start your link and ends by pulling a string ... you to visit the MIT Museum and see his work in person. Here's one of ... home eating, ice skating, eating, shopping, eating, and watching movies

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding 1000 digits of pi nom nom buzz buzz

  

  learn to spot weld 5 digits of pi, and mentors/staff can arc weld them ... , Laureates and Leaders Induction Ceremony, East Campus social, and Simmons Hall social. The pies were oh-so delicious. I want to share with you some

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 Robot Competition 2016 robots dump (replica) tea bags in the (replica) Boston harbor

  

  students design and manufacturing hands on and culminates in the annual 2 ... was inspired by the American Revolution. The competing robots had to ... Church, hide cannonballs in Concord, and ride from Lexington carrying the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summertime Science Got that summertime, summertime science...

  

  to know is that I love science (and other things, like bluegrass music, Parks and Rec, and the Oregon Ducks). Another thing on the list of things ... officially said goodbye, and I STILL have that post. I'm working on it. Proof

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Freshman Advisors Can Be Awesome A night on the town with Daniel Barkowitz and his freshman advisees.

  

  year, and in exchange, I get to tag along on group outings. On Friday, ten of us went for dinner, dessert, and an off-Broadway show in downtown Boston. P.F. Chang's was packed, but we zipped to the front of the line

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  First read

  

  Welcome those of you who have just joined us! I encourage you to read all the posts from the beginning, and also check out the student blogs: Mitra, Kevin, and Allison. Tomorrow, the entire admissions staff will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  sequel to 801), WGS.151 Gender, Health, and Society, and WGS.229 Race ... class before I did… So I came clean and asked to attend the first lecture ... didn’t even want to. 98LH was an academic adventure, and a fascinating

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  to do it in high school, but I was afraid I'd get homesick and wasn ... postdoc who called to offer me a job, and for whom I worked for ten ... , MD to work at the NIAAA. I had a great time, and I developed a love for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Maker Faire 2012 the Dean is going - are you?

  

  the Internet) went to Maker Faire out in CA last year and wrote a blog ... huge convention/fair of creative people getting together to show off the ... around chilling, and there will be a 6,500 sq/ft 50,000 lbs life size

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri's novel comes to the Cambridge screen

  

  stranger to MIT. She spoke here as part of the MIT Writers Series and visited campus again as part of a symposium on Asian Diasporas and New ... Last Friday, I went to the AMC Cambridge to see the big

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two quick items from the web Anthropology of War and Peace, and a ton of snow at Chi Phi.

  

  corner of Commonwealth Ave. and Hereford Street in the Back Bay to welcome ... substantial entries to come this week): First, I saw a link on a military blog (Naval Open Source Intelligence) to a relevant MIT OpenCourseWare course

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Engineering Hero One of the coolest professors at MIT

  

  kid, I've always been intrigued by invention and design to the point of ... hanger into the socket and expecting my robot to come to life. Professor ... spent on the iterative design process and what it takes in order to be

  • by Bryan
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  answered, and I'll try to get to them quicker. Examples of questions you can ... meeting, and will try to answer all the questions I can. However, the ... 'll check in on this post every so often to try and answer your questions

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  to my ever growing collection, and we saw arrays of spices, golden ... took a taxi to Katara Cultural Village and had [annotation note ... ? We then drove to the ocean and the tour guide pointed out some lights

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Winter Through the camera lenses of people who don't have winter

  

  ; While heading back to my dorm, I ran into Kevin. The both of us being from California, we were ecstatic and decided to go grab our cameras and take as ... , got right down to business and started making snowballs. A picture

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 13, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Field Trip Every day brings something new.

  

  their workshop. I think I’ll get a chance to go back next week and explore ... After two and a half years here, you’d think I’d know most or all of what there is to know about MIT. But I don’t think I even come close

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 22, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  Congratulations on being accepted to MIT! You're amazing! And your hair looks especially good today! Did you do something new to it? Nope ... memory and how it's divided into various type (conceptual short term memory

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  What now suckas!? That's right. I have a brass rat. What.

  

  have had to wait patiently, doing PSETS, taking tests, and generally ... and you see somebody with a brass rat on then you know they went to MIT. And they're not hard to miss, they're massive, gaudy, and absolutely

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  differentiation that you had to learn, and there were so many things that didn't make sense to my young and undisciplined mind. I don't know if it was the ... mechanisms - but then turn to a pset or some solved examples and feeling

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  was finally able to read over the past week, and propped on my legs is ... Haram. And so I’d like 2015 to be about something different. There’s a degree of arbitrariness to the numbers that demarcate and discretize the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015