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  Bienvenidos a Miami Updates from South Florida.

  

  Yesterday, I held a Central Meeting in South Miami, Florida. We were ... helpful to you. We had a great crowd in Miami. The Miami meeting was one ... have never wept in front of a crowd before, but yesterday I did get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  suddenly remember how to breathe. I got a 68 on that take-home exam. (Learn ... Remember that epic pset I told you about? Well, a few days after that pset was due, we had our only exam in that class (Sustainable Energy). I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  Product Design Lab Wakka wakka wakka

  

  is a drill press, belt sander, and band saw at each table We also have a little alcove that is home to a laser cutter and a 3D printer (I ... toy? Our assignment in lab the next day was to build a pull toy. You

  • by Snively '11
  • March 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? We're still processing many, many documents. Don't worry, be thankful.

  

  have a special envelope opening machine that is pretty awesome; non ... after the document is entered into the system, it will show up in the ... admissions folder. We have 10,000+ applications in a small space, so the filing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Exponential Decay This entry probably isn't about what you think it is.

  

  months now. One thing I've noticed about this site in the past year is that most individual entries have a relatively short half-life - that is, the ... features of the Admissions website as a whole, because it shows how the blogs

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  're interested in neuroscience..." It turned out that he had a niece doing ... , Sandia is in Albuquerque, New Mexico - five thousand miles away from home. Um. The street? A sleeping bag in the lab? I would be happy sleeping on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  in Lausanne, Switzerland, supported by a research fellowship from the ... lived in a boarding house in downtown Lausanne. There was a lot of ... . Lausanne is a very Olympics-oriented city. The IOC is headquartered there

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  -filled apartments is quite steep. For $3000-4000 per month, you too can live in a one ... conservation in office equipment and lighting, while Leon Glicksman is using a ... is situated in Tribeca, right on the Hudson River. It is pretty

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  actually happened a few years ago, which is why the rule was implemented in ... speeches for Persuasion and Debate or learning a full year of Latin in three weeks. In short, I am a glorified counselor at nerd camp. I do, however

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / Events

  My Kind Of Party Consider this your first frat party.

  

  semester, our chef, Karen, who is a trained pastry chef, makes some of the ... think wild and crazy kids in togas. If by togas you mean suits and ties, then you're correct. So this past weekend, my fraternity hosted a party

  • by Bryan
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  . It's a good deal, right? They give everyone quite a show (how else ... them in!) ALL MY EMAILS YESTERDAY (interspersed throughout random times ... true; you only know us. ME: Oh, right. Every year in October, the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  about the Hunt, one of my favorite events of the year. In short, Mystery Hunt is a weekend-long competition at MIT where people team up to solve ... 2007 Mystery Hunt will begin! I'm going to try today's entry as a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  real science. I had forgotten just how awesome chemistry is. And the best ... 2008 to do something about it: this is a problem waiting to be solved ... I'm back in Boston now with five Central Meetings under my belt: Long

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  For many years I have written these blog posts from a cubicle in room ... ="Overlooking...Chipotle."]new office,[/annotation] on the second floor of a new building, E38, which is ... [annotation note='The MIT Museum is scheduled to open in spring 2022.']new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  , what you have before you, folks, is a punt puzzle. I don’t know how easy or difficult it is, but I expect that—whether you're a casual reader ... puzzle is—that’s pretty straightforward. A punt is more intricate, and is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Open Sesame…Ring. RFID magic + a ring = wearable CharlieCards

  

  much better. (In fact, I liked the idea so much that I ordered a custom ... 're RFID-enabled rings that you can use to pretty much punch your way into a ... and other delays in MBTA service, having a pass that functions both as a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  wanted people to discover how cool square dancing is. i wanted to give ... did years ago when he lived in floorpi. i tell him about how the culture ... doing things when it won't make a difference to me in a year? some part

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  would have actually worked out really well for me because Adam is in his sixth year of German, whereas I'm in my sixth week of German. He had a ... (how the heck was I supposed to know what Ihrer meant? it's in some crazy

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Happy Things Yay!

  

  ties and give persuasive speeches ;), and since I participated in a few ... 're having a party called Yeast Roast, which is exactly what is sounds like ... This is what MIT felt like when I first arrived: Sunny, warm, people

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Everybody LOVES a math joke Math jokes for a Monday chuckle!

  

  Could Lie Tangent To Your Curves!" with 42,000 members, everybody loves a math joke. My roommate, a math major, is especially into them ... mathematician were sitting in a street café watching the crowd. Across the street

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 6, 2006