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  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  , each charged with making a new product on a budget of $6500 and a 3-month ... running. I began screaming. At first, it might have been a scream of joy ... with several considerations in mind. His dimensions fit those of a new

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  don't write travel brochures.) After a brief eternity of staring at ... McDonald's where a group of high schoolers laughed at me and my intro ... On the first night of my mandatory vacation, I walked to the beach

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello? Pick up your phones!!

  

  't remember...) are offered for anyone who wants to place out of introductory ... so of you, although I spoke more with answering machines than actual ... :) Based on yesterday alone, I feel safe in saying that the MIT Class of 2014

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of School Fall term classes began today at MIT.

  

  Today was the first day of classes at MIT. Once again, the Infinite Corridor was abuzz with activity, people excited for the new year of classes ... vaguely remember my first day of classes at MIT back in the Fall of 1996. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  So many of you are starting off with college applications trying to ... million extracurriculars I was involved in. A word of advice: Take a deep ... mom in a frenzy exclaiming that I'm not going to get into any of the

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  wedged itself at the back of my head: that I had never actually Done ... . At the end of the summer, my project wasn't really "finished" -- I ... , at any of the research institutions I'd been accepted to I asked a lot

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7PM ET! the premier product design class at MIT

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products ... build working alpha prototypes of new products. Students learn about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  government (of which, yes, I was once president). Small world. Back at MIT ... see the earliest possible matinee, which was the noon showing at the ... was done, I decided I'd drive through Tacoma and get a sense of the town

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  matter how attractive you are, there are plenty of people at MIT who are ... bellow at the football team or anything. But we are certainly proud of our ... it around Cambridge (outside of MIT?) I used to eat at the (dinner

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  bloggers) have said this is one of the best classes they've taken at MIT ... time I've dropped a class at MIT because 1) the amount of information ... to hire me." A whole month of school has already passed, people suited

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Pumpkin Drop Trick-or-treating is not enough.

  

  know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now. ... that it reaches the peak of its trajectory one meter above the roof of ... landing? You may neglect wind, viscous drag, and the altered aerodynamics of

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

  Flowers in your hair

  

  come see it! Come join us at the 2006 production of The Vagina Monologues ... , also available at the booth ------ Both my dorm and the Class of 2007 ... :30pm Kresge Auditorium - MIT - FREE In celebration of Black History

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  class.  I started a new novel. For the last month or so of term, I’d go ... had devoted more time to the class, because it offered a lot of great ... .678 also has weekly labs. I learned a lot of new content and really enjoyed

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  at the beginning of every game, but would use something called "Rooie ... ended up having boba and chilling. Saturday - 9/18 I got out of bed at 1 ... of at first but it was pretty good (I was still very much craving my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  Plus 2011 conference at Yale University. IvyPlus is an every-couple-of ... from at other schools. And it turns out that, though all of our offices ... out, all of the IvyPlus schools had cut at all of those layers to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  being and took the hint, offering us lodging for the night on his couch at ... things as those at MIT. Ursinus students apparently slide down some of ... sitting by the fountain at the Tomb of the Unknown American Revolutionary

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  , though, since I ran one unofficial marathon at the height of the pandemic (when I was at an athletic peak, letting running fill the place of so many ... group with fellow walker Tañon. The three of us used the restroom at a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Visit YouTube to Participate in the World Economic Forum! Have world leaders watch and respond to your video at this year's World Economic Forum!

  

  website offers five tips for increasing the likelihood of your video's being ... ://web.mit.edu/mitir/) to spread awareness of an unprecedented opportunity: You can ... ://www.youtube.com/thedavosquestion and post a video response of no more than three minutes to the following

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  critiquing our deceptions, to our own selves and also to others; at the end of ... deception lubricates the societal wheels of Ferrante's universe and make it ... aspects of an affair that novels were concerned with, like whether or not

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  at MIT, I chased all sorts of side adventures, determined to make the ... this exploration, in the midst of all these new experiences, I side ... I enjoy painting & drawing. As the semesters passed at MIT, this

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025