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  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  Suction Tube for Reverse Axial Withdrawal, or STRAW. It's a clear send-up of Jony Ive's breathless product launches, complete with pictures of ...             ｃｏｎｆｉｒｍｅｄ     That is, of course, an MIT class ring, or so

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  -intentionally resolving to “nap” a bunch of times, creating a period of essentially no schedule at all, and then trying to fix that by listening to the advice of ... yourself of society and Vitamin D and disrupting your circadian rhythms, not

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  ever joining the group on an adventure through the woods of New Hampshire during the fall semester. What is Tetazoo? Tetazoo is the name of the third floor of the East Parallel of East Campus, which is currently (and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  classes for junior fall. One of the classes I'm in this semester is 6 ... because of cyclical reinforcing feelings that math became uninteresting and ... ". If any of those words gave you a giddy feeling, you should absolutely

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  's perception of science is changing. I was wondering if you could spend a few minutes talking about how scientists' perception of outreach is changing ... lot of the people watching his programs thought that HE was the one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Answering Your Questions: EA Deadline Week How can we be helpful?

  

  submitted by 11:59pm Eastern Time on November 1. There is some amount of grace ... of the deadline. Your school/teachers may submit their materials ... processing of all submitted materials.  If something was submitted for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Independence Day Fireworks in Boston Hobbits watch beautiful fireworks from comfort of dorm lounge.

  

  dancing on roof decks of frat houses. Last summer I watched the fireworks ... floor. The rest of B entry had gone out to Memorial Drive to watch the ... crowded, possibly one of the best views on the Cambridge side of the river

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Tim Is So Beautiful to me

  

  Earlier this month we launched one of our new admissions videos called MIT Imagination. A lot of work went into that video. Elizabeth and ... , drooly, adorable video is something that we love and are very proud of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  impending school year; the end of August is coming up soon (how is this possible? Did July even happen?) and that will mark the end of my 19th summer ... went around to a bunch of different stations (math, language, reading

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...

  

  past couple of weeks. As we head into the last couple weeks of the ... /lounges/libraries/other favorite study spot to ready themselves for the barrage of final projects and ... wonderful (but extremely intense) four years of your life. I was talking to a

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cute! an MIT mood meter – Are you smiling today?

  

  Infinite and tracking the intensity of smiles passing by. Students walking ... face. This mood meter is part of the MIT150 Festival of Arts, Sciences, and Technology (FAST) and is one of four mood meters installed by the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  whole bunch of other responsibilities, it's tempting to just veg out on ... summer! You can resist. You have many more options of things to do with your time than you realize! One of the things that I have learned about

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stand Back! I'm going to try . . . well, you know the rest.

  

  much just going nuts. For our final (9th) lab of the semester, we were ... chamber with some microphones and a tweeter with some tanks of various gases ... impulse with various levels of damping, etc. The lab setup my partner Pall

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorms The closest I'll get to an entry about the different dorms

  

  . Even if I described my own dorm, a lot of people would probably disagree ... the author of Beaver Scope Almost a year ago I stumbled upon an impressively precise description of MIT's external IPs. Naturally, I saved and

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Inherent Asymmetry Around.

  

  alignment with the 8:30am start time of the exam. And, of course, relearning ... knowledge of a broad range of topics, it will be unlike any test you've taken ... , since I've got plenty of time before I actually need to use this score

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions Don't stress out!

  

  could take your mind off of things for a while? Just in time, the blogs ... video game nerds. Order of the Stick D&D comes to life, basically ... distraction, right? TVtropes One of the most addicting and hilarious sites I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  The MIT Admissions blogs started for several reasons. One of the reasons was the extremely dull, lackluster nature of the old admissions ... of the school that the admissions office wants you to see. MIT, like

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions Statistics 2008 We've updated the stats page.

  

  my class, the MIT Class of 2000, when we were admitted in 1996? [answer at the end of the entry] Probably the most popular questions asked at ... folks to our website, where we offer a plethora of numbers for any

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer’s End To everything there is a season.

  

  -checked all my saved strains of yeast, handed my notebook to my post-doc, had a ... sense of finality, of completion - of fulfillment. Today, I head back to South Bend - home, or one of them. I'll spend some time with my family

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Updates, Previews, and My Successor

  

  issue of the MIT International Review at http ... , Paul and Karen, are among the authors. Here's a picture of the cover so that you can get a sneak preview: Next, a hearty round of

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 10, 2008