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  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  you spent last Friday and Saturday eagerly awaiting the unveiling of the ... Admissions Stu Schmill took it with Woodie back in the 80s; one of his classmates, Megan Smith is now the current Chief Technology Officer of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How MIT students are trying to change education by biking across America.

  

  necessary! Science! (a sample of classes: “The Algorithmic Beauty of ... from Turner, a fellow resident of my floor Burton 1, and the one who ... should be fun and positive. The idea of biking popped into being while my

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  entry "Our Friends," in memory of two special members of the MIT community ... 's Boston Globe had the news of the passing of another special member of our ... Jimmy and Howard Brown. The part of the article that most touched me was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  had come to $3.14, the monetary equivalent of the ratio between a circle ... jokes (out of pity). It is currently the first day of school’s eve, more ... did not say it was impossible.) Glamour shot of the East Campus

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mikey Yang ‘05 Name: Mikey Yang; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Troy, MI

  

  city is so diverse and you can find almost any kind of food all over the place - fooood is gooood. And, of course, THE SOX.Favorite movies: The ... : The people. Hands down. The people at MIT are not what I expected them

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  : pass, get a D, or fail). You learn the basics of amateur astronomical ... Observatory. There, I sat outside in the snow, huddling in six layers of ... sincere when I say that those were seven of the happiest, most peaceful

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Enrolled 09’s: Watch Your Mailbox I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM®). Here's the…

  

  I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM ... and will continue to do so over the next week or two. By the middle of May, the majority of you should have received them, but don't worry if

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  π Day

  

  Albert Einstein Memorial at the National Academy of Sciences, I set up my ... the National Academy of Sciences? I was there for the public exhibition of the finalist projects of the Intel Science Talent Search. I got to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  . Breathe. Your time at MIT isn't defined by the number of units you're taking. If you're the kind of person who can maintain your sanity or enjoys the light chaos of taking tons of classes, go for it, but the number of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taste of the Middle Ages

  

  the Met(ropolitan Museum of Art)'s Medieval Art collection -------- ... My 21H.927: Economic History of Work and Family teacher, Professor Anne McCants, ran an IAP event entitled "Old Food: Ancient and Medieval

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  , it's not...that great. But I digress. I actually wrote the bulk of ... . A ray caster, if you care, is one of the most basic conceptual layers ... almost from scratch. After collapsing, exhausted, at the end of the long

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Beacon St. and Marlborough St. Rooftops and flowers on two streets in Boston.

  

  Over the past few years, toward the end of my full-time undergrad and ... .                The above are my two favorite photos of this blog post. They are from ... Boston, and Somerville—the vines and flowers and old brick against

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…

  

  behavior. As a maintainer of linux.mit.edu, the SIPB Linux dialup server ... filesystem, which is one of the major filesystems used on Linux today. Here ... This is partially a plug for a friend of mine, but it's also a really

  • by Evan B. '10
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Stu Schmill ‘86 named Dean of Admissions Exciting news!

  

  and the rest of the administration have in me," he told the MIT News ... vibrancy and energy with them, and I respect the importance of the role the ... senior associate director of admissions and director of the Educational

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist News Within the next week, we plan to admit approximately 35 students from the waitlist.

  

  students from the waitlist. As such, it isn't ethical to keep all of those people on the waitlist at this point, so we will notify hundreds of ... the best of luck at the college they've chosen. We also will keep some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…

  

  -scale method of dismantling prions, the proteins that cause mad cow disease ... spread via the common American practice of feeding rendered animal parts ... ? To see the rest of the article, you'll have to subscribe to Discover

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  BBQ in the history of the universe. I should warn you that I saw Le ... the moment. Here is the location of the BBQ. It reminds me of the ... me souviens. We needed lemons for the greatest marinade this side of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Review of “Shopgirl”

  

  MIT arise from accidentally hitting on your TA or forgetting the name of ... with the introduction of Ray, a 60 year-old logician who made a fortune in the computer industry, comes a whole new level of strangeness

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  wonderful result, reflecting on the midpoint of a journey through MIT as well ... went to the end of a T line was when some of my podmates and I went out ... ’ve tried in college. The number of MIT students I have met feels incredibly

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  next year, they won't; every year, we sort of reassess the questions ... many different types (and amounts) of essay questions, ranging from the very close ended to the very open ended: before my time, in the days of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014