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  Think YOUR research is crazy? Why doesn't spaghetti break in half? There is an answer, because someone has dedicated their…

  

  of the 20 Craziest Scientific Researches. Some of the Craziest ... Organization) It calculated the number of photographs you must take to (almost ... . «Fragmentation of Rods by Cascading Cracks: Why Spaghetti Does Not Break in Half

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  One of my UROPs this summer was exploring the history of immigrants and international students at MIT. The Institute has a long history of ... percentage of foreign students than Tech." At the time, one out of every 15

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Cancer Research The history and future of cancer research at MIT.

  

  school, for more than 30 years MIT has helped shape the field of cancer research, from the isolation of the first human cancer genes to the development of a technique for delivering chemotherapy directly to a tumor

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  "It has been calculated that if no accident prevented the hatching of ... the backs of cod." -Alexander Dumas, 1873, on the prolific reproduction of cod. "Our data highlight the societal consequences of an ongoing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  documentation more than a month ago. There are a bunch of long, thoughtful, well ... best of the blogs. As they used to tell us in grad school, done is better ... weeks. It's taking sort of list form because I'm a big fan of lists as

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  French class, our "final" consisting of a one-page composition in the past ... naturally at 8 a.m. on a daily basis and I've found a semblance of work ethic again. I also did a fair bit of reckoning, the fruits of which fed this

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MFA Boston A trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

  

  Last weekend, I went to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). All MIT ... last... This ship is part of the "Things I Love" collection, on loan ... 's website: "Founder of The Oxbow Group, one of the top 500 privately held

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cultura MIT students use online collaboration with their French counterparts to learn about each other's cultures.

  

  Gilberte Furstenberg (teacher of French III, a class we're both taking). The homework I'm doing right now is part of a unit called Cultura, where we ... staples of daily life. The French students do the same in their own language

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  issue of Newsweek about the future of America's global leadership. It ... environment? Newsweek asked 15 leaders in the fields of science, technology ... Rodney Brooks. Call me an idealist, but my favorite of the responses is

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Blogs A quick note on admissions blogging.

  

  This evening, as I sit reviewing some of the first early action applications of the year, I note that I'm getting a lot of new traffic to the ... . This reminds me that we haven't officially announced that all of the MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT Commencement On Friday, the MIT Class of 2005 graduated! It was a beautiful day on Killian…

  

  On Friday, the MIT Class of 2005 graduated! It was a beautiful day on ... would be your projected MIT Commencement dates: MIT Class of 2009: Friday, June 5, 2009 MIT Class of 2010: Friday, June 4, 2010 Things

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivery Potato martinis at the courthouse

  

  with the first half (2/4 years) of MIT. That is both an exhilirating and ... success, and over 700 members of our 1000-person class attended! Here are 10 of the 12 members of Ring Committee. This is the outside of the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Writer’s Bloc

  

  Canadian Club 5 MIT Alumni Club of Boston 0   (hey, they're Canadian ... , and one of the topics dealt with writing. It got me thinking about some of my old college friends who are writers, and two quick web searches

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home Away From Home Complete with Batman mask, kettle corn, and ticket stubs

  

  's zoom into some of the more interesting parts! On top we have a couple of props from my favorite movies/comics. The first shelf holds the crux of my media collection. It starts off with some classic newspaper

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  T Minus One. BRASS RAT BRASS RAT BRASS RAT.

  

  (Class of 2007's Ring) The Brass Rat is MIT's class ring, which is earned at the end of sophomore year but premiered early during spring semester. It's one of the most recognizable rings in the world, based on

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 11, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Fryday on Sunday If you're looking for more apples, do not click this.

  

  Tonight, I emerged from a coma of essay-writing and unglued my gaze from OpenOffice long enough to wander up two flights of stairs and ... in pendulous obligation to the slippery edge of a Sunday night that is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two Cool Projects

  

  In this second-to-last entry, I want to encourage all of you to check out two projects: (1) Sacha Yaku ("Jungle Water") The brainchild of Kendra Johnson '09, Sacha Yaku aims to empower the women of Santa Ana

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 31, 2008
• 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 ... kind of Wizard's Institute of Technology could engender such devotion ... success. Although some of my fellow MIT students view our exchange as

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Keep Holy the Month of IAP For It Is a Time of Rest

  

  (title taken from The Cathedral of Our Lady of the All-Night Tool) I keep a list in my head of what topics I want to blog about. But I think of it as a stack, as opposed to a queue - so I cover things that

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  to look right back at you in the eye. That's one longwinded way of ... myself really actually relaxing in the mountains of New Hampshire. Now, if you know even the slightest bit of me, you'd know that I really really

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019