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

  

  you want to try at home with your vacuum cleaner. Ours is very different ... Today is an exciting anniversary -- July 20, 1969, was the day Apollo ... film "Giant Leaps," produced for the Giant Leaps Symposium: It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  so bad that I switched it to sophomore exploratory, which is basically ... satisfied with, you can switch it to listener status, salvaging your GPA for that term and allowing you to take it again with no penalty. Why was I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  -level gist of it is pretty simple; on a low level, we had to build in tons of ... was also a lot of C++ compiler wankery to deal with, because we built it ... to fifteen hours to finish. When we emerge from our cyclic periods of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  is MIT's flagship junior year abroad program, allowing MIT students to ... -MIT exchange is a great reason to go to MIT, whether or not you plan on studying ... , "I would never do a program like that. I would hate to leave MIT for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  it got unusable. Every time I took it out of my bag to try and draw, I’d have to charge it for half an hour, and by then I would have had another ... to make me try drawing with MS Paint, and it was the second to worst

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  like Oprah's novelist of the month right now. Here it is: every sentence ... wish: to pluck the wings of a fleeting moment, spread it out in the ... Dear reader: It's time that I confess one of the most soul

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Rush and Hall Rush

  

  it was an official event and we weren't allowed to use the moat around ... this hammock thing was, but it was fun to try to crawl around in ... . Believe it or not, that red blur is a swinging freshman in a red shirt. And

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Remember, Remember the Fifth of November Celebrating Guy Fawkes Day as only MIT can.

  

  is the best. Holler boys, holler boys, salute to the Smoot. Holler boys ... Just over 400 years ago, a group of Englishmen attempted to blow up ... the history of England, largely thanks to the catchy verses that were

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating Defiance @ the Media Lab a prize for responsible, ethical disobedience

  

  art and protest, and it challenges those of us in academia to use our ... talk, but I'll link to one if it arises, and in the meantime, I'll update ... Last July, the MIT Media Lab created a $250,000 award to recognize

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Admissions Decisions Available Online MIT Regular Action admissions decisions are now available at https://decisions.mit.edu.

  

  task is to choose from these many, many excellent applicants to bring ... use to log into your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you should be sure you are ready to receive your decision online before logging

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  for other people to cook better food and deliver it to them). Much of ... CPW is officially over! The CPW weather machine ended up pulling through, and it's a sunny Fahrenheit 63 as I type this on Sunday afternoon

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  how it is humanly possible to skip meals; I am hungry, hear me roar), I ... wondering, "what is a Hell Week anyway?" Excellent question. According to ... ’m qualified to use that phrase to its fullest extent, especially considering how

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings

  

  MIT account for the most up to date information and RSVP if requested. There is ... applications, I’m excited to start meeting all of you! Kim was kind enough to let me guest post on her blog to let you know about some exciting

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Regular Action Decisions: Saturday 3/14 We will post RA decisions online on Saturday at 2pm... or probably a minute before.

  

  may use our automated system to reset it. Simply visit my.mit.edu and ... We are pleased to announce that MIT Regular Action admissions ... . What is the process for receiving my admissions decision? Receiving your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re Not Alone Even if you think you are.

  

  third because it conflicts with my 9 AM class) 11:00 - 12:00 AM: Integrated Chemical Engineering 12:00 - 1:00 PM: Lunch/Time to breathe 1:00 - 2 ... : Astronomy Lab Last Monday (actually it was Tuesday morning) I was on my way

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • October 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  creative collaboration. It is a good balance to the 19th-century image of the ... , but it would be a mistake to imagine these "classics" have retained ... Today after the admissions info session in Kresge (where it also took

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  . Moreover, if law enforcement is given unfettered access to this data, they can ... obtain the transportation patterns of individuals, perhaps using it to ... be traced to individuals; that it be secure; and that police get a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  LGBTQ+ human rights movement, the flux of international refugees. It is ... Association (BGSA). It was validating to vent to the President of MIT about ... to action: “Is there any way you can send me a list of things I can

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July illustrated

  

  confusion into tomorrow, despite our efforts to organize it away. So we will ... time. Not that you weren’t before, but it’s just that this time ... wrong. But we learned from the mistakes and are prepared to do better when

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  (and then scale it up to other technical universities). Companies would ... companies which have engineering challenges to capable engineers. It's free ... January is IAP (Independent Activities Period) here at MIT

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012