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  MIT wins the Putnam ...for the third year in a row!

  

  The results of the 2015 Putnam Competition were recently released ... of Mark Sellke '18, Bobby Shen '17, and David Yang '17. The Putnam ... of the Putnam--but for those who haven't, it is a six-hour proof

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentations Live Webcast Project Engineering Processes aka The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can Have Without Their…

  

  It's that time of year again! Final Projects Time! Finals Time ... will say, the best part of final projects is when you are done with them ... 've created something really cool, and gradually, those moments of I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  **Edit: tagline no longer accurate as of 11/16/2015. Whoops! I don ... on making yummy food, and making a lot of it. Cooking is a social event ... been a mini-celebration of the good things in life. Good food brings a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When September Ends on career fair, life, and other occurrences

  

  folder of resumes in the hopes of getting a dream job. There are always plenty of dreams in attendance. Check your “most visited” website stats ... clipboards that are definitely over capacity. Some of those resumes will yield

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  while I was cleaning things out for the new semester, a gentle reminder of ... .310, we were allowed to fill one 8.5” X 11 sheet of paper, front and back ... between the size of my handwriting and my grade point average, a fact that

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  , I'm reminded of the times I said 'UROP' and my grandparents thought I was mispronouncing the name of a continent, or the way I refused to call ... away. There's a whole region of the pika basement called Reuse, where

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  #WeAreMIT SMASH helped jumpstart an intense conversation between students and administration

  

  take away was what everyone on every side of student health on campus is ... communication gaps are largest. I spoke with Dean Randall, Director of Student Support Services at MIT, and Dr. Alan Siegel, Chief of Mental Health

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pilot The first video in a vlogging experiment

  

  seriously. In an ideal world, I'll post one of these videos every Sunday night and then continue blogging regularly once every couple of weeks. Hopefully I'll be able to keep up this schedule (hooray for end-of

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • August 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  Emab Plaza is a busy shopping mall located in the heart of Nigeria ... its own life. There’s always a crawl of congested traffic at its ... made up of shops that look onto the streets, small shops always abuzz

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  't know any seniors. This year, however, I knew tons of seniors, so there were plenty of people I could root for as they walked down the aisle proudly holding their diplomas for the rest of the undergrads to envy

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 2 TableTop, Net Neutrality, Complexity Theory And More

  

  - Subreddit The concept is simple, users ask the question "What if x piece of ... a few of my favorite questions. "How would modern American football ... by the United Front and the Taliban regime continued to conquer all of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

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

  

  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 ... heavy winds of Saturday showed no signs of dying down, and Corn Dog was a

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

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  representatives (some of whom tried to disguise the fact that they were representing graduate schools, some of whom said "you applied to our graduate program ... of Ecuador. Theories about why I was in Ecuador? Study

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  could aid the transport of vaccines in remote areas. KoolPool, an ... children. Elika, an artistic, aesthetic, foldable coffee table made of ... but with… …a rendition of What Does the Fox Say by a live band

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Becoming a Princess the making of a Halloween costume [+many pictures of ponies]

  

  going to class as a princess. Let me explain. I'm a fan of the TV show My Little Pony. That makes me solidly a member of that group of fans called ... , etc.) of the My Little Pony show or franchise. They typically do not

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  achievements of your friends, current/future classmates, professors, or even ... the slight urge to huddle under a blanket with a warm cup of tea and ... moment occurs as soon as you arrive on campus. Or in the middle of your

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • September 13, 2013
• 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 within the last couple of hours. As emails flooded my inbox around 10 ... going on. The idea of a shooting occurring on campus was impossible in my

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

  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  Chapter 1: A Formal Account of a Fancy Feast in February. Location ... green house on Chestnut Street has a porch light on. This is pika, one of ... eclectic assortment of MIT undergrad, two cats, and a brood of hens. Every

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  late at night after watching a couple episodes of my favorite TV show and curling up with a cup of tea, I sometimes like to just sit around and reflect on things. If you do any sort of leadership training program, much

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  This post is brought to you by the 20 hours of sleep I got this weekend! Wait, that’s a normal amount of sleep to get? Missed that ... ’t sleep, but I am not one of those. None of my close friends are, and I

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012