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  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  8:02 pm I'm here in 26-100 getting ready to watch the 2008 Latke Vs. Hamentashen debate. In essence, take a bunch of MIT professors and hundreds of ... for the Latke. 8:16 pm This is turning into a roast! I'm not sure they

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ice Bear it’s ice bear

  

  Due to popular demand, here’s a guest post from Ice Bear. If you haven’t heard of Ice Bear before, here’s a good introductory video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyPeDZ-I8pY Ice Bear wakes up. Ice Bear observes CJ do work. Ice Bear

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Hosed Exams=Cars, I'll show you how!

  

  = awesome. Exams in the same week = not). Now I have my own theories on why ... in different weeks so that you have one or two exams to take every two ... the scheduling for every exam and you get three exams in three days

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  boys do suck at dancing. In this case, however, I don't see the ... fastest (and most fun) way to get through problem sets is to do them in a ... . I mean, what good does it do you to be competitive? Nobody would help

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  to find the Beehive Cluster using a map (that I read in red lamplight ... . One evening, I had my head in the sky for SEVEN HOURS straight: one hour ... Observatory. There, I sat outside in the snow, huddling in six layers of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I take a summer session?

  During the regular Summer Session, MIT offers a limited selection of the subjects available in the academic year, as well as a few subjects designed for special interests and needs of MIT students. All classes are for
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  celebration to a puzzling punctuation in the calendar. Hmm! I say to the mirror, looking at nearly forty-year-old man in the mirror, where a bright ... this, and so much more?— When the blogs were created in 2004, the i

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Events

  It’s Almost Here! The sun? Orientation? Only time will tell.

  

  I think the last time I saw the sun was Saturday. In a strange turn ... encourages leadership development. Next week I have a personal UPOP meeting in ... well; I had just come back from FLP (Freshman Leadership Program), a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Pumpkin Drop Trick-or-treating is not enough.

  

      If a 5-kg pumpkin is tossed through a snowstorm such ... the Green Building, which is 90 meters tall, with what velocity does the pumpkin meet the ground in McDermott Court? How much time, in seconds, does

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Match Game

  

  to be a "good match" for MIT? What do we look for? Alignment with MIT ... applications. Unfortunately, I missed another classic IAP event last night: the ... .70/2.007 robotics competition, 6.270 throws in an interesting twist: the robots must

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Ich Spreche Kein Deutsch. Apparently that's how you say "I don't speak German"...not that I would know.

  

  curriculums we designed earlier this year. In just over a week, I'll be able to ... In general, it would be considered a good idea to know more than just ... said country, which in my case would be Germany. Too bad I don't know

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cancer on my mind Wait, shouldn’t that be Carolina?

  

  winning book on cancer, or maybe it's because I just took a tour of the Koch ... cancer from a truly innovative approach. But like all things at MIT, what ... definitely worth a visit. It was established to connect the community in

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlisted

  

  In the near future, we'll have some advice here on the blogs about being waitlisted. In the meantime, feel free to use this post's comments ... , check out Ben's latest post.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s the School of Science like?

  The six departments in the MIT School of Science are consistently rated among the best in the world. They include: Biology, Brain and ... questions: What is the nature of dark matter and dark energy, which make up 95
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  used to cling to regret—I wish I could go back in time and do MIT all ... ’m not sure what I’ll do after graduation, but I hope it’ll be full of ... college in less than four years—ask me why I’ve been around MIT for so long

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  as the club. I can see 50 cent or Alisha Keys using that floor in a new ... 't know what that means but I do know that their first year they made a ... Ideas Contest. Click around on there I don't think it's a secret. Two

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… The deadline has passed, but if you're an EA applicant who has not yet contacted…

  

  interviewers remains accurate). A description of the current interview process is ... your EC, you should still do so! Your EC will still conduct an interview with you, write a report, and submit it as part of your application. With

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  The past four weeks, in maps. 3 continents, 4 weeks, 11 planes, made comprehensible.

  

  my absence from the blogosphere explained, using a series of maps. I spent a substantial amount of time at each arrow tip. Where? In order ... Week 1: IAP Week 3: IAP Week 4: I spent a substantial amount of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Adventures in Time Travel (in the Library)

  

  Cory and I paused for about an hour and a half while looking for Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke in the Hayden library stacks this ... disease research, and a comparison of petroleum and coal in the same issue

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Technology Happens My computer is hiccoughing.

  

  So sometimes in a computer's life, it decides that it wants to enter eternal hibernation and refuse to function. As in like...today. Thank goodness there's Athena. Return I shall, and soon.

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2006