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  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  screen, you can tell that it'll be memorable. Now if you were to take a guess, what would you think I was describing? Watching Avatar in IMAX 3D ... 's acoustics. From one lateral end to the other, all you can see are rows of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cute! an MIT mood meter – Are you smiling today?

  

  I saw this installation in the Infinite Corridor. (You can see me ... First off, I hope everyone who came here for CPW had a great timeeeee ... through can look up to a screen and see if there's a hysterical green face

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 16, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  overwhelmedness – but I also find a lot of solace in kind, honest words. So that's what I can offer, because that's what has helped me most this semester ... pushing that into the future. I've tried, and it's not pretty. I can

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  ) bush has been popular in the United States since the 70s for its ... receptors of the tongue and activates them in response to acid, making sour ... approved by the FDA as a sweetener or food additive, but is mass-produced in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT XC, looking sharp In which Maggie unveils the most awesome flowchart ever!

  

  ’s flowchart comes in-it takes all the worry out of pre-meet packing. You can ... Now, I know I’ve had a tendency to bury the lede a bit, (although I ... today I’m going to shake things up and show you what I’ve got up front

  • by Alina G. '11
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  Johnson Rink, was the Fall Career Fair. I missed in-person career fairs ... years, we get two student holidays in the fall, in accordance to Rules and ... additional vacation periods: — A Friday in September on or after the 15th

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW rawr.

  

  ZOMG...CPW BEGINS TOMORROW!! AHHH! Aren't you super excited?!?!? I ... current student hosts. (If your host hasn't been in touch with you, don ... 't gotten back to him/her yet, do so ASAP so you can work out living

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: A Guide for the Hopeless and Drenched thoughts from mark '15

  

  out on studying for a quiz. I cannot stress enough how fortunate you are ... organically in the form of a hobby, or perhaps an inspiring book. Others may ... in a wood cabin. As the raindrops patter on the window, you seek

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  that I guess is on a lot of people's minds: Q. So how do you pee in space? A. Up in space we use a vacuum. I always tell kids it's not something ... 11 landed on the Moon. And because of MIT's significant role in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…

  

  I participated in the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program ... experience (my roommate proceeded to whisper "Oh my God, Melis, I can't believe ... attend a one-week session where we work in small groups, along with a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And here I am!

  

  Well, I'm back in the States. I thoroughly enjoyed everything but I ... five thousand miles of fishing line and a solid hook? :-) I've long maintained that one learns more in a week of travel than in a month of high

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  am awake is spent going back and forth from the building in which I ... . I've worked around equations in loops that bring me back to where I ... we had in mind starting out, but we will find some point C that we can

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Live from MYSTERY HUNT Live from Mystery Hunt

  

  hours so teams can continue to call in answers and meet with us. If you ... Now blogging live from Mystery Hunt: FRIDAY [12:17 PM] Meet in Lobby 7 to begin the hunt [12:48 PM] Now in Baker starting to solve the

  • by Bryan
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  wish I had a better justification than this, but in 9.00 (intro to ... for thirty years, and how helpful it had been to science, and then I was ... Even though I am rarely directly asked this question, I know it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  A Monday in the Life So many to-do’s, so little time.

  

  Hello, world. It’s been awhile. Mostly because I’ve been swamped. It ... writing about my life, I'll do a little show-and-tell.   Half of getting anything done is really just remembering to actually do it, and I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ‘13 The second in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  drugs, I have to use drugs, show them that you can be smart." Lynnor ... Heads To M.I.T By Fraendy Clervaud WJBF News Channel 6 Reporter June 4 ... school and to get accepted into a great college. Sometimes this dream can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Events

  MIT’s Once-a-Century Party

  

  , but boy does MIT know how to throw a party - I'm told the weekend was a ... If you were in Boston sometime these past few nights and glanced ... :   ...or giant bobblehead figures of esteemed MIT alumni brawling in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist MIT admitted some applicants from the waitlist today.

  

  At approximately 4:30pm today, we did something we haven't done in 4 ... determine how many students we could take at this time, and which students to admit. It was extremely difficult! I had thought we were done with tough

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  the day of the final review. I left several hours in the morning to draw ... . Panic. Panic. But I remembered a general lesson I learned in the past ... ’m pretty much committing a presentation sin, but if that’s the only way I can

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  euthanized sometime in the next few days. (Insert me pretending that I'm not actually sad here.) In their honor, today I'm going to talk about one of the ... connects other types of proteins. (I made that figure myself, in Paint

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005