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  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  build a car to complete a specific task or set of tasks and score as many ... scorers won a free trip to Japan to compete in an even larger design ... case is to learn a lot about the design process and what it takes to be a

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Top Ten of All Time; 2024 Edition ft. Barack Obama aka Minesweeper Monday EP 2

  

  'congratulations' at the end. i tried to make it a caption but yo no se. "]Note[/annotation]. ... In this episode, which was most certainly posted on a Monday, I talk about making a pizza, and how Simmons hall doesn't have a sheet pan in any

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See your name among the stars… Forget having your name written in lights, get it written on a spacecraft!

  

  For $35 to $250 per square centimeter, you can have your name written on a spacecraft! The MIT Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program is selling the ads to fund their project to launch a student-designed small

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  TBP Dinner Sex@MIT is the most-watched video on CNN.com! (but it's not pornography!)

  

  a Tau Beta Pi (National Engineering Honors Society) dinner (courtesy of Sam '07, a nationally honored engineer) to hear a musicologist (rastrologist?) deliver a speech on economics. And in other news, Mollie '06

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  to get a driver's permit a few weeks ago, and the lady said, "You have to have a co-signer if you're under 18." I was like, "I AM TWENTY ... for the show I had to wear stilettos and a backless slinky gown and sing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  the program, we spent two days presenting our research to a panel of ... a booth right next to Boris'. Despite spending more than fourteen ... 's just that smart. When I sat down with Boris a few weeks ago to hear

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  , you could answer in a multitude of ways and I wouldn’t be able to say ... were a professor asking this difficult question to a group of incoming MIT freshmen for them to answer in a single semester: “How would you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a ... go for delayed gratification; it's easier to work work work for a few ... actually a very good case for an entry with the title "How to do everything

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  watched, clutching a clipboard to my chest. Exam Room 1 is not a normal ... to do something else for a while. You know, take a break from homework ... track. From 1+1 to the derivative of a sine function, they had cruised

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  the IAP acronym, and then spending a quarter of an hour trying to come ... more ways to jump over, onto, and off various objects! I'm taking 18.02A ... master of div, grad, AND curl!!!...which is to say, I'm having a real good

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  what i ate in a week* living the influencer life (clickbait included)

  

  just tried to write a blog as fast as possible. this is not very high quality as a result and thus i would like to say that this is not ... now i’ve decided to take this less seriously and i was going to do a

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Next steps Relax, guys. I'm still going to be around.

  

  to celebrate his birthday and my graduation. Adam still has a year to ... that as a graduation present, they will foot the bill for Adam and me to go on a vacation to the Bahamas (yessss). Adam is less excited about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  they don’t want to? it takes a certain amount of trust in someone to ... around them and buzz internally like a fly, wondering whether to do ... i’ve learned that people here rely on each other. in a greuling

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  I wanted to write a comprehensive post on my experience with being a ... fact, I didn't even know where to start. My resume was honestly kind of a ... experience." Essentially, the career fair was a slight bust due to my lack of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  Maxwell's Equations in a Vacuum. Certain events, however, tend to stick out ... -cramming. Par example: one of MIT's best A capella groups decided to have a ... biology notes in a sleepthirsty stupor and was preparing to dive into

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  that I headed back to the student center, talked to a bunch of Alpha Phi ... , which proved to be highly entertaining. The first act was a group of ... and fun to watch.(Sorry about the picture quality. I have a horrible

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  You don't need MIT to be a success. Don't get me wrong -- I think MIT ... Gillespie applied to MIT from a relatively small public school in Georgia. He was the first applicant from his school to MIT in a long time, perhaps

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  on the dot with the blast of a vuvuzela. Thanks to Facebook and the ... early dinner. A beautiful end to a snowy day. Although it's back ... The blizzard helped me and Liz run out of things to do incredibly

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  class (21M.460), open to just about anyone with some sense of rhythm and a ... Senegal: One thing I forgot to mention - Lamine is actually a total ... the greatest benefits of coming to a university like MIT is that it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  's a salute to my top five favorite MIT all-nighters over the past two ... lyrics to "What is a Youth?" in Romeo and Juliet were nearly identical to ... Thanksgiving vacation last fall, I pulled three consecutive all-nighters due to a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005