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  DME SoccerBot Championships 2006 (Or, How Does Justin Timberlake Live With Himself?) All we are saying is give Pluto a chance.

  

    It was an epic battle, a tournament to the death. Tens of ... rounds). If they lost this match, they would be out of the tournament and ... thus named in honor of the poisonous organisms in the Charles River, the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 30, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  drop it 3/4ths of the way through the semester). One of the assignments ... tool, or a visualization of some dataset.  We had the choice to make ... [annotation note="To send an email out to all of the dorm mailing lists on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  , my suitemate and I had gotten into the habit of it. We ... basement of Senior Haus every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Very few of the ... person who would come as we were finishing. In the quiet of the building

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  off because of the negative audience reaction to her. I think if you ... that the aggressiveness was sort-of how she wanted to be perceived with ... doesn't necessarily mean the viewers did. First of all, she killed Shannon

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  Stepping Up MIT brings the best out of people (in between psets of course)

  

  enjoyable and meaningful way," said Amanda. Over the span of five weeks, that ... weeks of the challenge, Eric had a harder time narrowing down volunteers ... trying out more engaging initiatives brought the best out of their

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  Application, I included as one of the optional essays the following prompt: You ... excerpted on the entry announcing new bloggers: The smell of decomposing ... voice. The Gods of Metal replied by raining down utter carnage. Lightning

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  decorating the Sukkah in the most fantastic of ways (think Pimp My Ride meets ... university where "Chang" takes up two entire pages of the campus phone ... much about it. Then one fine afternoon I was in the middle of Mastering

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  rendition of Auld Lang Syne. And then the whole theater had linked arms and ... people in watching the broadcast of another rendition of Auld Lang Syne ... quarter of a million people were packed shoulder-to-shoulder by the Thames

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Beacon St. and Marlborough St. Rooftops and flowers on two streets in Boston.

  

  Over the past few years, toward the end of my full-time undergrad and ... .                The above are my two favorite photos of this blog post. They are from ... Boston, and Somerville—the vines and flowers and old brick against

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…

  

  behavior. As a maintainer of linux.mit.edu, the SIPB Linux dialup server ... filesystem, which is one of the major filesystems used on Linux today. Here ... This is partially a plug for a friend of mine, but it's also a really

  • by Evan B. '10
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  taking a look at it. Here’s the statement. But I think one of the best things about MIT is that we are not part of the common application, which ... our application completely independent of all the other common app

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stayin’ Classy Workworkworkworkworkwork *deep breath* workworkworkwork.

  

  It's been 13 days since the school year began, and already, many of us are gasping for a break. There's a definite pick-up in the amount of ... is by Konrad Lorenz on the behavior of jackdaws. I know that sounds dry

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope ... many things to-do. The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master. [caption ... , working faster: psets, labs, and readings each week new. The art of being

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  a big window in our house and i sat on the couch in front of it and ... carried all the boxes i'd packed into storage up five flights of stairs, and ... catching up with old friends and easing back into the rhythms of mit. i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  over 24 hours working on one of the problem sets, 15 (hours) of which ... ’s nighttime when my eyes open, and the middle of the day when I go to bed. In ... .m., making my way through the sixth season of Sons of Anarchy in the Destiny

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Toys II Using household items to save the world

  

  , one of the MIT students who in September launched a $150 camera balloon ... the impacts of the oil spill to dissipate, he said. "If we do it now ... the fun of it. "It's the first time we're working together as kind of a

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  , super biology queen Mollie says, "I'm sure at least some of the foam is due to proteins and oils sloughed off the skin of the people on the ... 'm sure that a bunch of people going to the beach isn't enough to supply the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT’s Newest Nobel Laureate Can you autograph my problem set?

  

  Nobel prize for his "for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis." Courtesy of the MIT News Office: Schrock was cited by ... .012 and her TA was Frank Wilczek, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  you know what I mean when I say that I was kind of like the walking dead when I got home, only minus the drool. And when I’m tired, I have kind of ... night’s kind of took the cake, though, because I think my subconscious is

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  event. The challenge is actually a game- two alliances of three robots ... goals on the ground as well as goals high in the air (hence the name of ... that are parked on a small ramp at the end of the match. Teams get 6 jam

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006