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

  

  case is to learn a lot about the design process and what it takes to be a ... .007, Design and Manufacturing I. The basic goal of the class is to design and build a car to complete a specific task or set of tasks and score as many

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  was a little confused. Why not just “leadership?” Is this a leadership program designed specifically for engineers, or is there really a difference ... leader, chats up a student at the GEL Career Fair boothThe Career Fair is

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”

  

  . (Not only is he super humble and friendly, but he also came to a lot of ... inner pony!” or, “This part is when the baby stands up and takes his first ... we play and suggestions on how to do it. Several months ago, I joined

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 1, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  . When this is a choice, more students give $0, and some students steal up ... , and reserves a lecture for the economics of prostitution. The story is ... founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  Every fall at MIT has felt like a new beginning. My freshman fall ... "]in-major classes,[/annotation] which was a big adjustment for me, and I moved entries ... different. Junior fall, I became a blogger, and had just changed my major, so

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  My favorite room is a well-kept secret. I won't reveal the location ... , reconnection to friends, and eagerness for a fresh academic term is a permeating ... bustle, sit down, and zone in. Right below this room is a similar room

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  !.. (three years ago! ahem..) Working at Pixar is kind of like working at a ... and is around to answer your questions as well, or a seminar, in which ... . REX is a very good thing for people like Keri, who for a brief moment in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FASAP [by Maggie Liu ‘12] T-ride + thought-provoking art piece + yummy free dinner afterwards.

  

  bloodsucking creature with fangs is associated with a political ideology ... Tea Stop. It seemed like a typical FASAP weekend—the formula is as ... advising is further divided into Traditional and Seminar Advising. Seminar

  • by ARTalk
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  how 18.01 is a prereq and 18.02 is a co-requsitie for 8.02. Since I ... a sufficiently embarassing comment ("this is soooooo cute!") and ... out there is called Lowell Court, and it's a small lawn that branches

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  to Software Engineering in Java 6.178 is a six-unit class offered only ... 、私は日本語の勉強をはじめました。韓国語をもう話します。日本語はすごく面白くて、もっと勉強したいです。ゆっくり日本語が上手になりました。来年「MISTI Japan」に行くつもりです。 Japanese is a difficult language, even as a fluent ... across a Japanese phrase that is difficult to translate into English yet

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  a modern twist. This post is a very meta post about why I haven’t been posting--or for a more dramatic flair, The 7 Capital Vices I Have Oft ... . Partial Production, Partial Passion There is a literal folder in my google

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…

  

  , Honolulu, Hawaii, is a senior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... about Jenn: 1. She is a really good pianist. In 2009, she played Gershwin ... concert So sad. The best I can do is a photo from the concert: 2. Did you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2006 announced

  

  Mystery Hunt 2006. What is Mystery Hunt? Mystery Hunt is one of IAP's most exciting activities. In short, the Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT ... ultimate goal of finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  conferences. I personally think that doing MUN is a very welcome break from the torrent of science that is present everyday. =D --- In other news, I'm a ... exam and received either a 4 or a 5 (this is THE one instance where a 4

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ We've been getting a lot of questions about our testing requirements; here are the answers.

  

  calling with questions. In an effort to answer these questions, here is a ... SAT writing section be considered? A. The SAT writing section is ... TOEFL? A. TOEFL is the one test for which we have minimum scores. They

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  admissions, then all I can remind you is that success is not always a straight ... page. And I hope his story, as he told it, is both a solace and an ... elsewhere, and who write me, years later, to tell me how things worked out for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  wouldn’t write a letter for me. Ugh, Abigail is such a selfish jerk ... growth. It’s a gripping narrative of how abuse can affect someone so ... SCP universe. The SCP Wiki is a collaborative writing website about the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  for years, like how I felt trapped between the dichotomy of being a “girly-girl” and a “tomboy”, and how boys got to be multifaceted but girls ... dried that I realized being a professional writer is very different from

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  finishing my major (which is surreal), but it's also a mindset change that ... 'm not looking forward to! Which is also a first for me. There was always at least ... because a meat blob full of electricity and chemicals is telling me to do it

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  courtyard and the subsequent feast. The following description is courtesy of a ... is traditionally lit by a flaming roll of toilet paper sent from five ... is what you were all waiting for anyway): SO MUCH MEAT. MEAT MEAT

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008