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  Math Women Rock k + 8 = awesome

  

  Happy International Women's Day! I've talked before about how MIT Women Rock, but let's broaden the pool of rockstars a bit. The Math Prize ... , including a $25,000 first place prize. PBS recently put together a short

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where do Trees Come From?

  

  In my continuing quest to obtain a teaching certificate through MIT ... talked a little bit about trees. As you know, they grow from seeds, much ... course if you wait a few years they get quite large... Photo courtesy of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Meditation Mondays Achieving inner peace, just in time for my 14.05 pset

  

  meditation and an experience of guided visualization, a simple, nonsectarian ... This was a fantastic session, short enough to appeal to beginners, but long enough to achieve a little harmony and inner peace. If you're on

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Wahoo! MIT takes over Doonesbury! Alex Doonesbury is coming to a campus near you.

  

  . Basically, a hacker from Baker wrote up a script in Flash ActionScript in 15

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  World Cup Challenge Results The answers and winners of the World CUp Challenge of MIT international admissions.

  

  The World Cup Challenge was a lot of fun! No one got a perfect score, but on the whole, people did pretty well. Below are the results, with ... freshman applications this past year in bold. Group A: Costa Rica, Ecuador

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  He Zigs, He Zags MIT's new video podcast.

  

  four episodes into its trial run, "ZigZag is a periodic video magazine ... ! Hosting is harder than it looks! I have a newfound respect for Jon Stewart, Katie Couric, Dan Patrick, and anyone else who talks into a camera

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Come to AXO Lip Sync! Come to AXO Lip Sync tonight to see some of your friends... "remember when????"

  

  talents? Do you long for opportunities to support a good cause while being entertained? If you answered yes to any or all of the questions above, buy a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT hacks Caltech

  

  decided to have a little fun with Caltech. You see, Caltech has this famous ... Building. There was a pretty plaque to go with the cannon. As you can see ... website. :) In honor of the cannon's transport, it was given a class of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on DesigNerds DesigNerds: Product Design TV

  

  So after getting a few questions and comments about DesigNerds, I ... the show on the 2.009 webpage, a class where Barry was the TA. Side ... Discovery Channel. Barry also teaches a class on toy design in the spring

  • by Bryan
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  On Broadway My first few days of fun in NYC

  

  accomplished my IAP goal of seeing a celebrity, since Jai Rodrigez of Queer Eye ... row A, I really saw him. The past two nights, I've been working pretty late, but this weekend I hope to see Avenue Q with a certain

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So we’re actually *identical* twins which is surprising to absolutely ... no one

  

  , is that we learned that Elizabeth’s “mistake” was actually not a ... to a study: They found that 191 couples — 14.7 percent — were ... told they were identical. Here is a diagram to sum up the relationship

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 27, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

    Earlier this month, here at ETH, we had our spring break a ... embarked on a journey to warmer, sunnier lands down south. Two weeks before, however, my exchange friends and I did a pre-Spring Break weekend trip in

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Funny pictures of me I wear a New Year's party hat. That's funny, right?

  

  having something of a get-together. It was just my aunt's family, a couple of her friends, and their kids (which turned out to be a surprising ... !). I ate way too much food and tried to tone down my age a bit by putting

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  , there's a story on the John Bates Clark Medal being awarded to MIT ... to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant ... during a tumultuous period of economic crises and political unrest, when

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  may have complicated feelings that you don’t know how to name; that

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  feelings that you don't know how to name; that's okay, too. For now, just

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / CPW

  Hottest ever CPW ouch global warming

  

  it's raining and thin if it isn't, and blocks are also colored

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2023
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• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: the app is live for freshman

  

  between things you can control and things you can't, and that where you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Town Cambridge: university and city.

  

  Like MIT, Cambridge also gets its share of tourists and visitors. I must say though, Cambridge actually has pretty places to take pictures of. After reading Chris' entry about Taiwan, I realized that there hasn't been

  • by Cambridge
  • February 8, 2008