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  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7PM ET! the premier product design class at MIT

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my ... engineering experience.   The effort spans the early phases of ... management, consensus building, and the value of communication.  The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  abandoned in the midnight heat, and only the steady murmur of the Charles ... surroundings. Or when the exhaustion of a dozen sleepless nights brought me down ... chocolate, and take a walk. I assured myself that the lack of motivation was

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Close up shot of Pluto. (Image Credit: NASA) On Jan 19, 2006, the New ... the inspiration of that human spirit of exploration the insatiable curiosity we have as a species I hope that gets into the minds and hearts of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  From Charlottesville to Cambridge photos from a gathering for solidarity

  

  publicize their misconceptions in broad daylight. The people of Cambridge ... Thornhill of First Holiness Church and the Cambridge YWCA     ... ; the crowd outside of city hall  

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Events

  #WeAreMIT SMASH helped jumpstart an intense conversation between students and administration

  

  information about student mental health by the beginning of next semester, which I plan on presenting in the form of a Tech Article, a Powerpoint ... were great. The Chancellor and President of MIT showed up for the first

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  . Afterwards, basking in the glow of good conversation and satiety, I talked ... moments. And there's a really cool map someboy painted of the fictional ... audience of like-minded housemates. Photo credits to Harini Suresh, the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Randomness

  

  composition due in nine hours that has me adopting the identity of someone ... Well, as Laura said in her latest entry, tonight was the "telethon" event. I probably called fifty or more people, though many of those calls

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  elephants what I've been up to

  

  of this. But this blog post is about the elephant in the room (read ... . a virgin door closeup on the flair featuring two years worth of door ... I've been pretty busy lately doing stuff like this a little of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 27, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three from MIT! Three MIT Young Futurists

  

  of 25 African American students under the age of 21 who are making extraordinary contributions in a variety of areas. When I was skimming through the student profiles, I realized that THREE of the young people featured are

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  celebrate completing half of our undergraduate journey through hell the ... harness out of elastic bands and O rings:  Making the harness required ... length of a forearm and the height of two mugs.”  Tulle was kind of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nerdin’ Out algorithms are too cool

  

  Algorithms), one of the classes I'm taking the semester. We have a test coming up this Thursday ( O.O ahh ), and in the process of studying for it, I ... screenshot of class notes; it describes the concept of interval partitioning

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  .007, Design and Manufacturing I. The basic goal of the class is to design and ... friend, Mark Cote, won the competition and he and a few of the other top ... ...antastically pass (IHTFP)" Basically, the table this year has a set of bins of

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  zookeeper described as being the size of a stick of butter. Like a number of ... , delighting a contingent of residents who'd spent the past year campaigning for ... Maseeh and Burton Conner, to have one on the premises. In honor of

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2005 Economics Nobel MIT's intellectual monopoly over game theory knowledge continues. (~9 pictures)

  

  . Schelling. The Nobel website has a nice summary of their work on "conflict and cooperation through the lens of game theory." Aumann actually is an MIT alum ... -worthy rendering of the E52-383 office cluster. In the first office is Professor

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  amazed, out of my suite kitchen one night, the sound of a cadre of people ... √©mon approximation of Tim the Beaver. WRONG.However, I digress. What I really meant to ... last thing you’d probably expect to find while roaming the halls of

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  stumbles over my roommates' chairs, I was out of the door of my fraternity ... across the Harvard Bridge, and I sat down in front of the international phones of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center by 0615; just in time to catch

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate Can MIT brainpower, with the help of the LHC, finally put the matter to rest?

  

  -100 in a quest to solve one of the greatest conundrums of our time: latke ... that have long divided the world, being the source of almost every battle, economic downturn, and cataclysmic natural event (including the extinction of

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  array (a mapping from keys to values).” One of the functions that we had ... all the words in that file and their respective frequencies of ... ”, 2)] After we submitted the lab, we thought about the power of this

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  pleasure of competing in dormspam-the-game! Run by [annotation note="I plan ... -game was a series of 5 games played over 5 weeks. The first-place winners of ... involved "wits, skill, and the teensiest amount of luck," to quote the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Missy Cummings on The Colbert Report At the end of the interview, she and Stephen face off in Rock 'Em Sock…

  

  The Colbert Report. Professor Cummings was one of the US Navy's first ... Director of the Humans and Automation Lab, which hosts many Aero/Astro UROPs ... Colbert Report: it's important to understand the context of the program and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2011