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  Lobby 7 Gotta love it

  

  coffee cup in hand, along with a horde of students and tourists, and I climb the iconic front steps and glance up at William Barton Rogers’ name ... in the morning and smiled at the many, many tourists with cameras

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  Angry Birds Fly at MIT Students construct trubuchets, catapults, and air cannons to take out the dastardly pigs on Killian…

  

  On Friday afternoon, the students and staff of the senior capstone ... each develop a prototype of a product that can (and in many cases does ... course at MIT, and I need no further proof than to note that the class was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Early Action: Deferred A forum.

  

  We had a record number of Early Action applicants this year, and unfortunately we could not take all of them. If your decision was deferred, then ... 'll have some additional advice and instructions for Deferred students

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  Can you believe... it’s already the middle of August ??? ...and we ... leave for FPOPs, orientation, and the like! I was just thinking about ... cover … and flipped to the Burton-Conner page (which is where I live now

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  Congratulations on being accepted to MIT! You're amazing! And your ... memory and how it's divided into various type (conceptual short term memory, working memory and the visuospatial sketchpad, long term memory, etc.), and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Food Truck Song What do food trucks dream of?

  

  many food options as some of the other parts of Cambridge, and so the area has recently become home to several food trucks - from quick and ... Gooseberry's to the newest of the crowd, the fully vegetarian and MIT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  T Minus One. BRASS RAT BRASS RAT BRASS RAT.

  

  shape and the prominent beaver on its bezel, but the specific details of ... in designing the class ring (and plan Ring Delivery, but first things ... entries about the Brass Rat and Premiere/Delivery, but I think I'm just

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 11, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  . This past weekend, I attended the Founder's Reception and Kickoff Event on behalf of MIT Admissions. I'll explain how FIRST and KC are ... for For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to my home Feel free to chill in here

  

  . I had an 18.023 (Calc w/ Applications) and 8.02 (Physics II) exam last week, 14.02 (Macroeconomics) this week, and 15.501 (Accounting) the next ... take a nice long nap. My room this year faces the Charles River, and we

  • by Celena C. '12
  • October 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  what to expect when you get to MIT. Floatillas, Liquid Nitrogen, and peak internet use at 3a.m. every night. But what about after you graduate and ... while they were in school, and so they tend to continue doing really cool

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Events

  What now suckas!? That's right. I have a brass rat. What.

  

  have had to wait patiently, doing PSETS, taking tests, and generally ... VERY long three months. But, last night it was over, and it was time for ... and you see somebody with a brass rat on then you know they went to MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  This week in verse There's a song that describes exactly what I'm feeling right now.

  

  the devil in the eye and said, "You're looking well." The devil looked right back at him and said, "Why visit me? You've been through Hell

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 30, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Building 56 It's really boring. You may not even want to bother reading it.

  

  /innovative architecture. Stata, Kresge, Building 66, the Green Building, the Brain and Cog ... colleges, like Harvard and CalTech, strive for uniform and regal architecture ... and there's also some doors that lead to Stata or the Green Building

  • by Snively '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  taking my keys out of my pocket and looking at my recently ... and silver and black MIT lanyard; on it are the words MIT Engineers, a ... (abstractly represented by cardinal-colored ripples), and a mass of keys about

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5th of November, Remembered Bonfire Night celebrations in Cambridge.

  

  and feel obligated to write about 5th of November/Guy Fawkes ... . But I found out all about Guy Fawkes and Bonfire Night during my Chinese ... going! The streets were so packed with people that cars and bikes had a

  • by Cambridge
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  And I'm back! I'm determined to make up for not posting at all in the ... from any class, and I don't have any clever terms to describe how I ... electronics will find parts of it boring, and those of you that don't will find

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Fireworks over MIT’s Great Dome Fireworks and music and Dome, oh my.

  

  As I noted two entries ago, MIT has a front row seat for Boston's 4th of July celebration -- one of the biggest and best fireworks shows around. And now, you can watch a excerpt of the fireworks over the Dome

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  : "Oh, and in later chapters, please include the being alone without family/friends aspect and making new friends =)" Moving away to college for me was something that I looked forward to and feared at the same

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Comics for IAP Doonesbury takes on the 6.270 Autonomous Robot Design Competition.

  

  , and Charm School). Read on... (and if you like comics, or movies

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Video: Friendly Robots! Professor Cynthia Breazeal shows off her interactive robots.

  

  not only her robotic "children" like Leonardo and Kismet but also her human children: sons Ryan and Nathan. This one, I think, is definitely

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2006