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  Pics or it didn’t happen? It happened!

  

  As I mentioned last week, MIT is a place for talkin’. Looking at the ... in our stories. The contestants, from top to bottom, left to ... ; It was incredible to hear how 15 different MIT students interpreted the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who you gonna call? The Mythbusters @ MIT!

  

  Not these guys, I hope. Hopefully, instead you'll call these two ... to describe some of their work and how they get inspiration for what they do. I've never seen a more packed Kresge. Not even for a Logs

  • by Bryan
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For love of Baxter A story of love, loss, and catnapping on Burton 1, as documented by my cell…

  

  back home, and I would like to thank everyone who helped in the effort to ... EST To: baxterthieves Cc: burton1 We have the cake, as requested, in ... they want) (it's pretty much the most amazing cake i've ever seen) From

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 27, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  January 12 Hostel Colonial House, Quito In retrospect, I do not ... with his head in his hands. Alarmed, I stopped some French backpackers ... several-month homestay, which I imagine will be an adventure. The hike

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• FAQ / Testing

  How does MIT consider test scores? Does MIT Superscore?

  highest score achieved in each section. We do this in order to consider all applicants in their best light. Students should report official full sittings ... exams taken, and MIT will consider the super-score in our review process.
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  change the world. With that in mind I started thinking about The Universe ... I was thinking recently about the mixed messages that come through ... Laureate Frank Wilczek. Wilczek won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 at the

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  This fall, I moved from my [annotation note="There's a running joke that my friends and I are in a sitcom. We refer to every school term as ... house in the Boston Cambridge area. Here, I'm renting a 2 bedroom/2

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Math = Broken Whatchu know about math?

  

  figured out how to do it though." Me: "How?" Jon: "Here, look what I did ... -night delirious whims of posting. Oh well. So, it's late (3:00 AM) and I just finished most of a Diff Eq. PSET (I started at 10:45 PM, it's been a long day

  • by Snively '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  a thing! In the past couple days, I've spent 40+ hours in lab helping ... build cool things and truly embraces MIT's Mens et Manus mentality. I don ... that it looks like we only have fun in the class, 2.009 is HARD WORK

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  guess, what would you think I was describing? Watching Avatar in IMAX 3D ... get glasses. They look like this: Unfortunately, I was deliberately ... double rainbows! - but a few that appear in a star-like pattern and radiate

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  experience. (As some others of you may also be dimly aware, I was in the ... about this, since (as stated above) I was in band in high school. The band ... I realized the other day that, despite the fact that most of you are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Recap: wearables, games, and other SUPER products

  

  Last week, I posted the webcast of the final presentations for 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes), a capstone product design course in Course 2 (MechE). As promised, I wanted to follow up with a recap blog post this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  Going Home We're halfway through MIT? o____o

  

  about my semester once I'm back in sunny Taiwan and has caught up on sleep ... so that the chicken legs are 3/4 submerged in the water. 7. Place ... evaporate until you begin to see crater-like indentations in your rice about

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  -over study guides, that I asked aloud, “What is 7 times 47?” In the space of ... , procrastinatory research project that I adopted in the dwindling time before my ... three methods: *i.e., everyone likewise procrastinating in one of Random

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  audition for a play, something I hadn’t done in over ten years. It worked out well, because I did get two parts in said play, The Vagina Monologues. I ... beginning of the semester, I encountered my former Harvard TA in one of my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Events

  A Faculty Dinner We invited our favorite faculty and staff to our hall for an awesome dinner!

  

  they are terrible. HOW CAN YOU HATE THIS FACE, PETEY!? All in all, the ... lounge for the occasion, and we spent the whole day cooking in the kitchen ... . '16 and Jake I. '16 Garden Salad by Me! Strawberry Salad by

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Letting the days go by Fish finders, the Apprentice, and techie fashion.

  

  that you were involved in? Randal Pinkett: Almost as important as what I learned when I was at MIT was the way that MIT taught me how to learn. We ... the potential to become obsolete. The material I learned in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  remove it :) How come so many people know about Jack Florey? I lived one ... comments, so I thought I'd help her out. Dionysian said: "Why are you guys ... hacking is exploring the hidden ins and outs of computer systems and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  in Comparative Media Studies, class of 2013, whaddup), I'm always ... sciences with the rest of MIT. I’ll discuss the history of how one ... Are you interested in any of: making governments work better

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  . As I hinted at in my last entry, the GEL program had a hands-on hour ... to the requirements specified." Now I mentioned before how GEL ... pressure. The better the bridge design, the more "vehicles" (or in this case

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011