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  2.670 Summary

  

  Today was the last day of 2.670. I had wanted to make a really cool modification to my engine by making it a generator, but I didn't have enough time ... engines by using the water jet or CNC mill to etch designs into their

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Bernanke to speak at Commencement!

  

  by President Bush to succeed Alan Greenspan as Chairman of the Federal ... history of the MIT Department of Economics and its graduates. MIT

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind” ...the cow jumped over the moon....

  

  , you can see what the moon is made of ;-) (thanks to diana for pointing this out) Freshman year, one of my classes was actually taught by former ... To celebrate the anniversary of the first manned moon landing, Google

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Movies Emeritus out with the old, in with the older

  

  hundreds of thousands of dollars and was produced entirely by a major Madison ... Band composed by Andrew Kazdin. Courtesy of the MIT Museum. MIT ... , which offers us a marvelous vintage tour of the Institute, was produced by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I started a joke… ...that started the whole world crying.

  

  find the roots." "So, similarilarily, we have to complete the square of this puppy by adding 25 to both sides." "Let's do a rigorous proof of the ... Actually, I didn't start this joke. It was started by my 8th grade

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  snapshot of the last two weeks picture of my brain

  

  unaware of it - the 1975 MUSICAL: the last five years - jason robert brown ... civic media THING I SAW: data visualization by web du bois THING I MADE ... learning is like money laundering for tech - by maciej ceglowski "We should

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 1, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  to reach the end of the line. Every once in a while, a train passes by ... attend a performance of Handel's Messiah by Boston Baroque, and I think ... [annotation note="By yesterday I mean Thursday. I was hoping I could

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Show your creativity: the Year of the Pig While we continue reading applications full time, another mini-contest.

  

  the Year of the Dog. The celebration featured my favorite dog and admissions mascot, Evie Cummings. This initial photoshopping of Evie spawned a mini-contest, initiated by Ben: As you know if you follow Matt

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Halloween, Part 2 Sometimes it's fun to be somebody you're not.

  

  plumes make everything cooler. This particular photo was taken by some of ... by the 2011 Class Council. What's your favorite costume out of this ... Last week, I promised you guys an update with photos of my Halloween

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Introduction To MIT World ...and my blog's first feature: Akamai, Clever and Cool!

  

  has changed the world, told by one of the founders of the company. Check ... My first blog entry! Let me begin by introducing you to MIT World, a ... collection of almost 400 videos in its online collection (you can also find it

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  established Davidson Academy, coming to Nevada residents courtesy of the folks ... anything earth-shattering -- it draws from models established previously by some of the nation's most successful magnet schools -- but I am glad that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  said something along the lines of:  look at the sandwich you’re eating ... ingredients to the restaurant, and you didn’t cook any of them yourself. you ... people had to do all of those things for you you know how in ‘avatar

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  in swim class, our instructor emphasizes the importance of relaxing. "you're in the water and your body tenses up. why? it's because of the ... muscles will help you float. but it doesn't. you've got to let go of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

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

  

  same sort of packed, nervous atmosphere that a hackathon has, but with ... checkerboard airplanes. One airplane even had a shining coat of red ... -natured conversations about preferred manufacturing processes, questions about materials

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  - and was enamored by the possibility of doing research that bridged ... by studying genetic groups of mice in the UK, that are also found "not ... predicted, by searching through the writing of 104 Medieval historical

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  's drinking song is being proudly sung by a pack of ever so slightly inebriated ... closely watched over by my Director of Studies (DoS). My DoS will then ... there is plenty of room at MIT to be intimidated by the freshman taking

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  include: bananas that were completely black and surrounded by a pool of grey ... each of the first two psets so i didn't stress about it until i saw my ... grade...or the stress of finding a job amidst all this academic pressure

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  on the edge of the eclipse, caused by rugged craters on the moon ... of others, I traveled to northern New England to see the total solar ... will be posting their experiences soon. But a number of alum bloggers did

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  part of a scavenger hunt held by Student Cable, MIT’s video club. We ... greater independence. I’m a big fan of data. It can reduce complicated phenomena (like my transition to college) into comfortingly simple sets of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  tall and narrow, and she curled the ends of her letters so that each word ... my lecture notes, there is a mixture of 1) abbreviated content (normal ... fact that the kid in front of me is taking notes rapidly in LaTeX and it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013