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  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  next few weeks, I'll be highlighting one of my classes in each entry. This week, I'll start off with one of my most popular classes, 2.007, Design and Manufacturing I. The basic goal of the class is to design and

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  So this past Saturday, I set out on the open road with some of my friends for a little fun outside of the city. Step One: Acquire vehicle ... minivan or a sports utility vehicle. It was a strange hybrid of sorts, but

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Summary

  

  Today was the last day of 2.670. I had wanted to make a really cool ... that you want on a 3D CAD program like Solidworks (see image below of a ... engines and ran them at the same time: [] Here are some examples of pretty

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

  The Coin Is Found! The Mystery Hunt ends after 36 hours.

  

  What Bomb at Midnight in a refridgerator in the basement of E18. It was a great 36 hours of hunting! I'll post some fun puzzles in my next ... captained by my friend Dan '03. Way to go! Dan '03 of The Evil Midnight

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 15, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  IAP, and trivia answers IAP begins tomorrow.

  

  Tomorrow is the beginning of MIT's Independent Activities Period (IAP)! IAP is one of the most fun times of the year. It is a time where students have lots of freedom and unique opportunities. Some students will do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.

  

  name of the fictitious character who often takes responsibility for mysterious things that happen at the Institute during the middle of the night. My clever little paragraph up there is just a cute way of saying that a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• 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 / Admissions

  Waiting (is the hardest part)

  

  no more than 30% of our class during early action. We feel that the ... that by leaving only a very small number of spaces for regular action ... classes, because of an increased yield (the percentage of admitted students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  On the hallowed grounds of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... forge enduring relationships and learn to acquire the tools of both his ... girls, and at first found kinship in the physical similarities of age

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Sunday night. There are many hundreds of thousands of women across the ... Aiken message boards, and hundreds of dollars on hotel rooms, tickets, shirts, buttons, dinners, posters,, CDs, etc. One of these citizens of P

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  To celebrate the anniversary of the first manned moon landing, Google ... , 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

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

  Meet the Admissions Officers With today's next post, I'll begin a summer-long occasional series introducing you to the MIT…

  

  of us you already know through the blogs and other means. Some of the ... couple months; I think you'll like them. Today, you can meet the first of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 28, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  , passionate people. Go figure - I just described the vast majority of the ... how/why decisions of other admissions officers - it would be impossible. Some of you seem determined to make this personal. I don't know how to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  In The Mail Well folks, the time has come. The letters are in the mail.

  

  exhausted (Amy)... All in all, we're relieved that this part of the journey is over. Have a great weekend everyone, and best of luck to each of you. :-)

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Stu Saves The Pact God bless Stu's hairy face.

  

  Just when I thought I couldn't make it through another minute of the agony of yesterday's events, I walked into our weekly staff meeting to ... Officer and Director of the Educational Council, has become my new bearded

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  Happy new year everyone! I've been out with the flu most of this week so I'm feeling horribly behind in most areas of life. Being sick just blows. Most of the time I can ignore it and power ahead, but the flu

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas with the McGanns

  

  ago we did our traditional decorating of the tree. Just 2.8 miles ... spend some quality time with my family... I hope many of you are taking advantage of your holiday time with family, too. Happy holidays! =)

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Stress

  

  's own Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones) Speaking of parents: to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Events

  President Susan Hockfield

  

    To: "All Members of the MIT Community" From: "Kathryn A ... for Susan Hockfield   To all members of the MIT community:   ... Hockfield on her first day as president of MIT.   Monday, December 6

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  ? That's right -- the first completed folders of the year. The brown ... reading carefully every sheet of paper in your folder and summarizing the case on that summary card. Then, in a month, we'll bring all of the cases

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004