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• Blog / Community Projects

  No Touching one plane, two planes, red plane, Corn Dog

  

  paraded their airplane into the hangar, it was common to overhear good ... , and compliments about everything from the landing gear design to the paint job. Sometimes people get enthusiastic and want to touch each others

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics professors have a charming sense of humour Excerpts from relativity problem sets

  

  .033, Relativity. Relativity is a great class to teach, if you enjoy designing ... amusing excerpts with you. Enjoy! (The point of the problem was to show ... linearly at relativistic speeds.) (Again, the problem was to prove

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Discovering Product Design through Photography Beautiful photos taken by DPD 2013 freshmen

  

  took deserve to be shared with the blogosphere! Discover Product Design ... five day program, we introduce the freshman to the world of product ... , and some visits to firms like Eleven, THE MEME, and even a hardware

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  Yesterday I met with Ta-Nehisi Coates to talk about writing. I ... this much. This week, to my academic detriment, I'm proof that energy ... to go be a writer! I'm going to write my essay right NOW!" So I went

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I GOT TWENTY DOLLARS IN MY POCKET (because I got a press pass to SpringFest 2013, of course. photos inside!)

  

  As Matt wrote earlier, today was SpringFest 2013!  Or, to put it in ... awesome violinist (Rebecca Zeller) who had to switch bows after each song ... mean the memories of the seniors I was talking to.  Since I'm a freshman

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT honors Officer Sean Collier (photoblog) photos from today's memorial service

  

  turned out by the thousands today for a memorial service to honor fallen ... memorial service found other ways to pay their respects: Rest in peace ... Memorial Fund, which will support a Collier Medal to be awarded to people who

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  Dear current and future MIT students, There is a class you need to ... observing: sketching, assembling a telescope, using a telescope and a map to ... up on the roof (using a telescope to find Comet Pan-STARRS as the sun

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  to work hard and play hard, and helping out with Terrascope. And ... , but we’re not obligated to make it fit the theme so long as we ... . You’d think it's an insane amount of time to be doing this, but it’s not

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Update It's been an amazing year!

  

  life update to catch you all up to speed.   Hair   If I 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

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Invasion of the Stikmen Another invasion of MIT?

  

  around finals time, MIT had an invasion... Well as I walked to lab last ... another one! So I thought to myself, "What are these strange creations?!?" Baffled by these little men, I tracked down my friend Steven '15 (my go-to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 14, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Pics or it didn’t happen? It happened!

  

  in our stories. The contestants, from top to bottom, left to ... , "From Generation to Generation" // Bruno Faviero, "Vision" // Bruna Moscol ... ; It was incredible to hear how 15 different MIT students interpreted the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 10, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Cloud i live there now

  

  I just restored my laptop to factory condition to get rid of an ... taskbar. Here's what I had to back up before doing this: My ... backgrounds) Here's what I didn't have to back up before doing this

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • February 8, 2012
• Blog / Events

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

  

  From May 9th to May 13th (a Friday, naturally), MIT students endured ... short span of two semesters, the term starts to lose its meaning. It's like calling everything and everyone a flurg - you start to wonder what

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread talk amongst yourselves

  

  feeling stressed out right now. You can use the comments below to blow off ... application of course, or what you want to do with your life, and so forth - but ... to: 2) keep it civil - in tone, in subject matter, etc. we're all

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

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  .) So last week, I decided to make up for it by...doing a 9.00 essay? How, uh, relaxing. And now, to punctuate the beginning of this week, I've got a 5.12 p-set, an 8.02 p-set, and a 9.00 test - all to be taken or to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  Time to state the obvious: the world knows MIT pretty dang well for its contributions to science. That includes the obvious disciplines falling under the term: every branch of engineering - from aeronautics, to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We now interrupt our regularly-scheduled programming… I tried getting ahead on my reading assignments but that only lasted so long.

  

  your questions, I feel loved. Special shout-out to my midwest friends ... it. This morning I got to go to class as it rained ice (yes, ICE ... paper upon which I doodled this. Seriously, I'll mail it to you. But you

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  day relaxing and then have to recover from the effort of recuperation ... and IAP, I did my best to take it easy. That’s the wonderful thing about IAP-you operate at your own level. Want to go abroad or do an externship

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Road Again Adventures in Texas!

  

  account - feel free to follow me @MikeyMIT. So far it's been mostly text updates, but I'll try to include more pictures for those that want to try ... to Boston. A whirlwind trip, no doubt! Hopefully I'll see some of you

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  things that don't belong to me, I've spent the past 100+ hours staying up ... that should rightfully go to the extremely awesome '14s (seriously, I ... trying to do everything possible to distract myself from the fact that Camp

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010