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  MIT TechFair THINK Competition A national science competition "intended to motivate high school students to think about problems related…

  

  celebrating innovative technology by bringing in companies to showcase their ... related to human lives and how we might mitigate or combat them with science ... Catherine Huang '10 just sent me this announcement and asked me to

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Spring 07 Ending MIT with a literary bang. Can you hear it?

  

  appeared in The New Yorker in 1978. You can read the 650-word story (which I ... indispensable instrument for representing modern life, in the hands of such ... delayed her trip to the hospital to give birth because she was so engrossed

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline & Taking Questions Advice for RA applicants; I'll answer questions Thursday.

  

  quick vacation to celebrate the new year (and then starting the regular ... students applying for regular action admission to MIT. This means that you ... strongly discourage procrastination. The closer you send in your application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Sweet Transvestite "Round of applause for the man in stilettos! I can only run like that when…

  

  get to Harvard in those 4-inch bright red heels or not to get there at ... getting back from Harvard Square, we decided it'd be best to bike. But it ... can get up to Boston on a Saturday night. Basically, the company gives

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  ! You just might be the lucky one who gets to join in on our late night ... . (I mean, I...) Phillippe wonders: When do freshman get to see the ... to partake in. All of the dorms have their own unique feeling to it, so

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  hereby invite you to partake in this multi-course meal: a curated selection ... to school for lunch most days, and I figured I’d try doing that in ... just. Too lazy. In fact, I have yet to even touch this lunch bag… Ah

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  to be people, in which case I would whole-heartedly agree that one of ... understand his tendency to just stay in his room most of the time. Often you ... awkward animal I see myself in you. ~ I also wanted to mention Rupert even

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  A few weeks ago, in a true callback to our high school days, Paolo ... bowlers in high school, Protobowl is the website that trivia nerds use to ... reminder of how much I had forgotten since coming to MIT. Around this time

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  . In the end, it came down to A Mighty Wind and Hebrew Hammer, with ... and if you ever stole anything in your life, you should confess now ... and she won't admit unrepentant thieves to MIT. So, anyway, we wanted

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  . Brian came to MIT from California as an undergrad.  He majored in Mechanical Engineering but decided to do some research in the Math department ... .  He helped to figure out a longstanding mystery in fluid mechanics about

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  this cool one MIT student and get to know them and blah blah blah ... ). CPW is a chance for you to meet people in your grade and go to once-in ... scary? So what! Live a little, get over here (I live in EC, and I don

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I am a bad example but only for about twelve seconds.

  

  thing to my mom for even longer, as she is one of maybe three people in ... could give to a teenage girl." (I do not think the series is well ... currently in print.) "I just think it's not very empowering, you know? It

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  engineers may use in their career in order to measure certain properties, such ... did not get an in-class demo of this, but it was fairly awesome if I say ... So today we're going to take a little trip to 3-370 for some

  • by Bryan
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  it nearly impossible for me to type anything at all ever. Getting ... just spent an hour making, I'm sitting in a chair listening to Pandora ... Oshima (Director of the Artist-in-Residence Program), and I went to the MFA

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  rusty old bike is 19 mph; I wonder how fast I'd be able to go on a sleek ... window, but my daily schedule forces me to face the elements. In the early ... 's update rate. I don't know if what I'm seeing in the Charles is also due to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorms The closest I'll get to an entry about the different dorms

  

  bit in that regard. Allow me to introduce, Beaver Scope! According to ... I know enough to stay away from trying to describe the different ... . This isn't to say I won't tell you if you ask, but I'll avoid typing it

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  focuses on using technology to solve problems in developing nations. We ... forward to the next step: Put the carbonized material in a plastic bag ... (in sunny weather, it takes a couple of days) and then they're ready to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  : N/A   Ok. Now let’s get to the juicy stuff.   21W.755 ... effort in, but for some of the units I couldn’t do well no matter how hard ... first experience working on a pset for 10+ hours only to get a 50% is just

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  For the next two weeks we will all use fewer words here

  

  students who went to this school in the past and used to write for us, could write only in words besides the words that most people in this place use ... It is a New Year now and I hope it is good for you. Ten years ago

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 15, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  π Day

  

  hope to see some of you there! More details as the date draws nearer. In ... Happy Pi Day! I'm in Washington DC. Seeing as yesterday (Pi Day, 3/14) was also Einstein's birthday, and seeing as I was right next to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005