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  Christmas in December and July

  

  Rock is not very big, and that is true. It wasn't as small as I had ... just before midnight July 15, who will wait to borrow it from a friend or ... Longfellow Bridge to check out the Stata Center at MIT, which they hadn't seen

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply if I’ve completed more than 2.5 years of college?

  Students who at the time of entry to MIT will have completed more ... part-time, calculate your full-time term equivalency to estimate your ... study area or intended program of study at MIT. If a summer semester is
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  2.5.) 2. It is possible to succeed in life even despite enormous ... same electron. This is perhaps my favorite fact ever. It's thought ... decided to call it a day when the robotically-sonorous female voice on my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston’s 4th of July Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has…

  

  approximately 100 Smoots and 250 Smoots), the bridge, with nothing to block its ... Boston Pops is combined with an amazing fireworks show, and is televised ... separates Boston from Cambridge and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer’s end

  

  sail at mit is free to the mit community!) fallen into the charles ... this is the first time i've spent a summer at mit as a UROP student ... cards than i can count at the laverdes sandwich shop walked to harvard

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  . It sounds like all kinds of amazing. ^_^ P.S. Devin wants you to ... 's not the real reason I'm posting. (Actually, it is, but I figured you ... in under five minutes! Woo hoo!) This week is different - I'm going to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  's advice to people looking for UROPs is to make sure to look for UROPs that ... an ultrahigh vacuum. The microscope will now be used to image the surface of high-temperature superconductors in an attempt to understand how

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where I’ve Been All this time ...

  

  hostage; not completely involuntary I would say. It’s so easy to go into ... Rogers Founder”? behind it is where we hold architecture lectures. Now ... long it’s been. If you’ve ever visited MIT, you’ll know this entrance at

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  - Hot plate. This thing is amazing - it goes from like 25 C to 200 C in a ... in the 70s, we have come to understand much of its genetics well and see how it applies cross-species to higher order organisms. You might

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Personal Projects

  1 Fish, 2 Fish, a Lot of Fish, and a Snail Putting a Big Box of Water on my Dresser

  

  don't even remember what sparked my interest in wanting to get one (it ... ( [annotation note="As it turns out, MIT housing policies allow you to have up to ... floating light above it. After I got back to campus though, I realized that

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  description: There is often a tendency to consider technical systems as 'purely ... historically contributed to its current shapes. In doing so, we will come to ... BOLD (2003). Zittrain, The Future of the Internet - And How To Stop It

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  just me), that once the exams are over, it's hard to fully relax ... TO SET THE MOOD: Cologne by Haux       The last few weeks of every semester is chaotic, nerve-wracking, and stressful

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  to put bikes in it," Cote recalled. Two weeks after arriving on campus ... Sports Innovation, whose mission is to involve undergraduates in the ... 's national championship. ''It's good to see that being a geek works out in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  One of my favorite places on campus is the Metropolis makerspace. It ... my own. It turned out that a TON of people wanted to learn how to weld. It got to the point where people would ask Isabella and I if there was

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  video series intended to debunk the myth that blood is red in your arteries and blue in your veins. It's akin to a "choose your own adventure ... though it's a summer course) THAT COMBINES BIOLOGY AND MULTIMEDIA AND LETS

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  . It feels weird to be doing things for the last time when I already sort ... my last fall beginnings: in the adult world, it’s up to you to choose ... , the other three getting master's degrees at MIT. Tomorrow is

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman

  

  okay, it’s a bit early to proclaim my love for this place, especially ... Friends™! and wow it was a lot to handle. and for someone like me, who was ... is SO nice and interesting and friendly it had me shook. i’ve run into

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Turning on the Light A note to the MIT community.

  

  It's hard to wrap my head around the chain of events that unfolded ... happened. It's to reach out to those at MIT. These last 12 hours have been ... , and to have this piled on top of everything else that's going is enough

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Highlights Highlights from the Hunt complete with the first puzzle we solved!

  

  -wiki-wiki-wiki-wiki-forever fresh" Brian: "The answer is shynonymush." Chandra: "I'm reading photon jokes..." Brian: "The answer is SPEED OF LIGHT. Can I spell that? S-P-E-E-D O-V L-I-G-H-T" Pete: "Hello, I'd like to speak to Agent Chitty Chitty

  • by Bryan
  • January 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  Columbia as he is helping to develop the University's master plan. It is ... it is usually a good idea to take at least two. We will also accept ... college fairs in New York City this past week. It was a fun week! First was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005