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  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  ’ contraption for the MIT Museum sponsored Friday After Thanksgiving (F ... Friday, Nov. 24.” I can’t believe I missed an opportunity to build ... joined MIT’s Hobby Shop to try my hand at kinetic sculpture, but I haven

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  , where a national musical act performs on campus. The headliners for this ... 's pretty exciting to have an awesome concert a minute from your dorm ... classes can be added to your schedule in the first 5 weeks of the term, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Scootah Hockey a sport of tradition, friendship, and raw athleticism

  

  big plastic horn thing we have for some reason. Those who came to ... in this way for five nights, and then the final bracket was revealed to ... game to play. Each team has three to four players on at a time, each of

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tour de Frat house tours of pbe, dke, and sig chi!

  

  thought it would be fun to show what Greek life is like for them. (You can ... only a few seconds for us to be greeted by one of our next tour guides ... Welcome back to another tour – and I hope you're excited, because

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 28, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified

  

  for reasons to stay, all I found was emptiness. A yearning for somewhere to call home, a place that'd last, not like the city I'd move out of ... 'm attached to: when you graduate from MIT, you die in real life. Implicit is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  'm so excited to work on my 6.005 final project for probably the next ... --which brings me to the 2.009 presentations! The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can ... industry, could be ready to present, pitch, or develop into real products

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

  Hackapult Sieges The Dome

  

  to pranks of years past".   I stood outside admiring the hack for ... river to — past the giant catapult.    Yes, there was a hack - a hackapult, to be more precise. According to the IHTFP Hack Gallery: In an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  experimental, part-edX class called Creating Digital Learning Materials for Biology, 7.S390, through the summer@future program, which allowed me to live in East Campus for free, bond with Ceri R. ‘16, who was also taking 7.S

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  consequently her books include countless references to Boston, including MIT ... sponsored by the MIT Literary Society. I literally jhumped for joy (ouch, yea ... MIT) that ends at 6:30 pm. I knew I wasn’t likely to get a good

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Noam Chomsky Talk in 26-100 i still have to send these pictures to amnesty

  

  for 4 months doing isn't all that exciting to prospective students :P ... series, hosted Noam Chomsky, an MIT Professor of Linguistics, to talk on ... means to be truly unbiased, and our responsibility in wearing the mark of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Energy Forum Come drink from the solar-paneled firehose. ("Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren…

  

  President Hockfield formed the Energy Research Council to "assess the scope of MIT energy research, explore how to best match MIT expertise with global needs and produce a plan for a cohesive initiative to tackle the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Questions What questions can I help answer about the application process?

  

  at MIT for 9 years.  Over that time, I've periodically opened up the comments to your questions, and then tried to answer them (this ... a long, philosophcal answer are not ideal for this format

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day!!! 3.14159!

  

  .14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510..................... How many digits do you know? More to come later today about how MIT ... or not" contest There's also free pie for everyone! And, you can pick ... its diameter? A: Pumpkin pi. Don't forget to celebrate Pi Day (3

  • by Bryan
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Update from selection We're working through the weekend towards admitting the Class of 2011.

  

  . We'll be working throughout the week, making decisions and preparing to ... , there would have been no need for the winter jackets, or any jacket whatsoever. According to the National Weather Service, we had nearly record

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  On Broadway My first few days of fun in NYC

  

  for the student rush tickets -- thanks, guys! I have weakly ... for the Straight Guy performed in the show... and since I was seated in ... pretty late, but this weekend I hope to see Avenue Q with a certain

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

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  November through late February (for this problem we'll say November 1 through ... January, and 1 in February. All else being equal - for applications for ... Salvador read a given application before Amy? First person to answer

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Odds & Ends Concerts (on & off campus), doors (on campus), and lectures (also on campus).

  

  Omnibus, so it's time for more odds & ends... The band Hot Hot Heat will play a concert at MIT (for MIT students only, sorry) on Friday night ... (December 15), among others. (Death Cab for Cutie was here last week, Rob

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BASICNESS!!!!! a major major update

  

  frankly boring, overdone announcement, but a regression to my previous self, a negative evolution. Nonetheless, it is true to my soul, and I found it time to release the news publicly. Last year, I posted a crisis

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 30, 2026
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  about it, it makes sense. Students come to MIT for the greatest possible ... task—no, my duty—to finally say what needs to be said: MIT is a jock school. Yes, that MIT. The one that has swept the Putnam competition for

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  .) and various sensors (accelerometers, capacitive sensing, etc.) to create fun new interfaces for musical expression. Professor Ian Hattwick encourages us to go wild with our imaginations, as long as the end product

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024