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  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  weight of 4.66 pounds balanced out by our excellent mission score (in fact ... On Sunday morning the Design/Build/Fly team rolled out of bed at 6:30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  the face of tragic events, giving those who observe from afar a word for what others should do in the face of tragedy. Whether thinking about Oklahoma City, the events of September 11th or Virginia Tech, the closure

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  like to call it) for all of high school, and we’ve been twins, well, our entire lives. Lots of people find it hard to tell us apart (and that ... new person together, they almost always asks us at least one of the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  time flies by, and the impression I had of MIT vs now, I remembered with ... and got cracking. Hours flew by. Page after page of paper fell to the ... academic way of saying "homework", and the answer to what you'll be doing on

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  Sometimes, when life at MIT gets too tough, this is what I think of ... percent skill, fifteen percent concentrated power of will, five percent ... . October was a month of fun - work, yes, but also fun. iHouse had a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  What I Did on Registration Day I registered.

  

  in fear of getting belittled by my peers for repetitive word choice ... exchange student by the unlikely name of Nimrod, who remarked, “Wow! It ... 10:51 PM, on the farewell eve of Infinite Activities Period: School

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Home Warning: Graphics Intensive.

  

  about you, but I remembered the first half of my senior year flew by in no ... Welcome to 2008! 2008. In equivalent terms, Class of 2012. Congratulations to all of you that pressed the submit button yesterday and others

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  I can write some sort of blazingly exotic blog entry full of exclamation points and intruige. But alas, my life is full of the same sorts of ... class here. But it's kind of nice to know that I can until almost three

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Nothing beats a wet beaver! Except, in this case, a wet Iona. Pictures!

  

  Hahn 1999) of hardcore text, I thought you'd like to look at some pictures of the band too. These were taken at last Saturday's men's water polo game against Iona. I mean, it's kind of hard to take pictures at 1

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  for the past few months, Nashua conjures images of flatness and tranquility, of quiet car rides punctuated only by the soft hum of the engine as ... students determine where they want to live by going to a ton of crazy events

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  rankings by those sketchy university ranking websites. I guess a lot of ... style of reasoning that isn’t provided by the humanities. One of the ... already be familiar with my experience of choosing a major. In summary, I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  of free time thinking about possible experiments and troubleshooting ... has an incredible amount of passion for research and loves that at MIT ... Whitehead Institute, Mike works under the auspices of Prof. Harvey Lodish and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  conglomerates (PRO) Efforts by the government to regulate content of social ... Attention Span Documentary taught by Vivek Bald Focuses on the production of ... societies? This course introduces students to the field of sociology. By

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  backing vocals, the opening chords of Bohemian Rhapsody are sung entirely by ... still life painted by Jan Brueghel, but forgot to take a picture of it ... collection of work by Peter Paul Reubens in the world. Apparently he really

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  robust hook, fortified by years of [annotation note="Rather, what I thought ... stitch a certain length of stitches by a certain width of stitches. Then ... logistics of crocheting at MIT. How will I pack all my yarn? What project

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  to no longer be among the 'babies' of the school, to be replaced by the ... 's "We Didn't Start the Fire") by Maita '13. (Warning: some knowledge of ... When I walked out of my last final, all I felt was a huge sensation

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The CPW LiveBlogging Project A big experiment.

  

  variety of prefrosh guest bloggers during CPW. This has been done in the ... 's entries! I've decided to add to the CPW coverage by creating a CPW tumblr account. For those of you who are unfamiliar with tumblr, it's a great site

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick hello from Albuquerque I'm in New Mexico for ISEF.

  

  talked of making a "left turn at Albuquerque") (No sign of the High School ... ISEF finalists who are members of the MIT Class of 2011, then I'll get to ... . I'll post more news about the waitlist when things are official (as of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  interrupted by herdlike groups of tourists each morning, I thought it would be a ... refer to rooms within buildings by their numbers. It's kind of bewildering ... irregular pentagon of land bordered by Ames Street on the east, Memorial Drive

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  "The mother of all adventures, the Mongol Rally is an 8000 mile dash across пњљпњљ of the earth's surface in cars that most people consider underpowered for doing the shopping. We have no entourage of support vehicles

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006