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  Puzzled need a quick fix for your boredom? try this puzzle on for size.

  

  hopes to find a coin hidden somewhere on MIT's campus typically over the ... participate, and we had a blast. We've been participating ever since then, and ... created by the entire team every so often for you all to try, and then a

  • by Bryan
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Saturday

  

  awesome folks at the East Campus dormitory built a giant hammock ... top of a lounging student's head. A touch football game broke out on ... doubleheader. Inside the Stata Center, the parents attended a panel on student

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2005
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  How do I apply to the Women’s Technology Program?

  WTP is a women-focused program aimed at empowering students from groups that are historically underrepresented in engineering by providing a rigorous four-week summer academic experience that introduces 20 high school
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  couple weeks.  Wish me luck!  I have been studying a lot and I really hope ... EMT exams, I am trying to take a less stressful courseload, and so far ... microstructural scale.  I am still a bit confused about what we are learning and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is the key to their culture; there was a big difference between my General ... and my Hispanic friend’s quinceaneras. There was a realness, a distinct

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 Robot Competition 2016 robots dump (replica) tea bags in the (replica) Boston harbor

  

  "No innovation without fabrication!" This is the motto of 2.007, a ... robot-related tasks, each year with a different theme. The year's theme ... like ejecting a mini robot to complete a subtask. Aside from the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  cpw at pika a continuing experiment in cooperative campus-previewing

  

  independent living group, that means: Improv, meditation, DIY sushi, a jam ... , hair dying, Italian dinner, forkapple*, shoeblade**, a tea party, and ... *** and hot chocolate on Saturday ...and a healthy breakfast Sunday morning

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  My Talk @ Maker Faire a bit about how we see, select, and support makers

  

  We've had makers on the mind here for a little while. Earlier this ... wrote a white paper for the White House about technically creative ... Portfolio at a small conference in California. Last year, before we launched

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 3 Independent Video Games, X-Men, and Interstellar

  

  reconsider sales we missed. With summer vacation being a short 2-3 weeks away it's a good time to stock up on cheap games! The Boston Festival of ... a lot of people have been asking what movies are still canon. X-Men 3

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 18, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three from MIT! Three MIT Young Futurists

  

  Yesterday morning I was quite surprised and VERY excited to see a ... magazine site that I visit daily called "The Root". The article was a feature ... extraordinary contributions in a variety of areas. When I was skimming through the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack or Treat A time for tricks.

  

  To celebrate the spirit of All Hallow's Eve, MIT hackers left a special treat (or perhaps a trick) near the Great Dome. I saw the hack ... , sadly, it had made like a ghost and vanished by early afternoon

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 31, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  nth Annual Concert in Bad Taste We are the mooninites..

  

  airplanes and toilet paper into a lecture hall? ... Well, it starts with one ... toilet paper across 10-250. Why in the world would someone do such a thing? Well, that's a good question. Each year, the MIT Chorollaries host the

  • by Bryan
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Take Your Blog to School Day Vol. 1 Standing waves and FIRE!

  

  So today we're going to take a little trip to 3-370 for some Measurement and Instrumentation. Basically, this is a lab class where we learn ... as velocity profiles in a pipe or internal pressure of a soda can

  • by Bryan
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2006 Day 1 Campus Preview Weekend has begun! [photos]

  

  : Registration began at 9am with a huge influx of people. It was great to see so ... concluded with a huge Festival, which included... Liquid nitrogen ice cream! A resident of Random Hall prepares a dry ice (!) drink for me. TEP

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Engineering Hero One of the coolest professors at MIT

  

  So two weeks ago, I had a lecture from one of the oldest people at ... the Mechanical Engineering Department. Now ever since I was a young ... electric shock at times when I tried to power a robot by plugging a wire

  • by Bryan
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Some Notes Misc. fun stuff.

  

  with a 7-1 record [read more: MITAthletics] So, Summer got a 2300 on ... , regardless of who else is applying from a particular school. Dressing like a ... quoted in a recent Bloomberg News article on stress & college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Forum Monday Let's make a list of questions that you feel you REALLY need answers to ASAP.

  

  Today's post is a bit different from my regular posts. As we get ... incline. As a way to help with your tension headaches, I propose the following: instead of me posting a topic and you responding, let's make a list

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Want To Play Music @ MIT? (informally, that is.)

  

  in auditoriums, as part of a band in various bars & clubs. I sang in an a cappella group for most of college as well as college choir ... -up-of-instruments that occurred late at night in the dorms - a guitar here, a drum here, a

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 3

  

  Office followed, making for a fun Admissions Dance Party of sorts (which is just what one would expect to see at 11:30am on a Sunday in the MIT Student Center). It was good relaxation during a serious time of year. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 6, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  is thus a palindromic date. It is, in fact, the first palindromic date of a week-and-a-half of them, running from 9/10/19 to 9/19/19. While ... noting on a blog read by students aspiring to study at a school fascinated

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019