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  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  initiatives within both MIT and the broader community. On Monday, WAE hosted ... Red Bull staff, but aerobatics is evaluated by a panel of judges on the basis of creativity, aesthetics, performance, and so on. 12 national

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  . (Yes, all of them. I tried.) Slush blooms like grey wildflowers on ... path by factoring large integers on a quantum computer in polynomial time ... Random Hall and into pika on Monday. The purest of all unimportant joys

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  Exam” on Friday morning, my challenger played the familiar “Long, Hideous ... out the Lagrangian Formulation (on an introductory E&M exam!) and ... I used the Lagrangian on a test in the vain hope that this would amuse

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  tend to have study breaks and go on trips mostly with your floor. Because ... becoming great friends with their neighbors early on in their MIT experience ... nagging scientific questions above? Battle on, reader. 1. Do people swim

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  digital clock on my laptop says that I have twelve minutes till I get to see ... still remember getting a whopping 34 on my first midterm at MIT. I ... 've grown, I looked to the past. I put on my oxygen mask and took a deep dive

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  On today, Ben Jones's last day at MIT (no!), let's take a look back ... design stuff, I format stuff, I code stuff. I try to keep my finger on the ... period, culminating with a ceremonious shave on mailing day in March. Only

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  , and one-time workshops, I threw on the wheel for an average of eight hours a week. Every weekend, I would walk 35 minutes or so past Fenway, a ... , sat right next to St. Mary’s stop on the green line, across the street

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  don’t have anything coherent to say on the topic as a whole. This is a ... mouth of a 5’ 3” tall girl, particularly if I exclaim it while standing on ... insincerely. My thoughts on this are really best explained by the following

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  I landed in Boston on a cloudy day about a week ago, and...it sure ... Zoom University. On top of setting stuff up in my apartment (unpacking ... : [annotation note="introductory biology with a focus on modern trending topics

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  to South Korea for two weeks to work on a project. In the words of one ... opportunity to go on that trip, and to help make connections and friendships ... business class tickets for employees who are going on company business trips

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  ," said Boyd. Some say he's a genius. He doesn't think so, but plans on ... folks. But moving to another country? That's an adjustment on a whole ... on," Garay said. "It made me lonely, and I just closed up." In the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  . ------------------------------------- question for matt wrote, "Would AdCom ever do external research on an ... Before I go off on vacation today, I wanted to answer as many ... project I have worked on in my graphic design classes, such as a poster

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  , and found myself about 10 minutes ahead of the people I intended to meet ... closing in on me as they laughed and pointed. My initial instinct was to ... simply stop and stare with his camera in hand. This went on until the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  friends objected. “Don’t people drive on the left side of the street in ... on the process. My fall semester classes perfectly aligned such that I ... markings indicated only a single lane. And don't even get me started on how

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  This past Sunday, at 4 AM on the side of U.S. Highway 1 on Badger ... first steps on a 63-mile walk from Maine to Next House, an Odyssey which ... Maine for about 20 minutes, but I still think it counts."]three states

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  during this IAP started on January 4th. When do my friends at other schools ... us as well. So on my more cynical days, here’s what I see: MIT gives us ... ’m trying to not put too much pressure on myself though, because if I do that

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  learning that's been weighing on me a lot since I came to MIT. I often times ... difficult problem, they don't ask for help after ten minutes of trying or even ... have the credibility to comment on it. Perhaps recent events have caused

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  with a prefrosh that fit their profile, and everyone was super excited on ... have to be honest to the prefrosh - many of you were stalked on facebook ... lunch about once a month to catch up on things, Jake lives down the hall

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  fun! I went on a ride that looks like this*. then when I got home I con ... projectile motion, above everyone's heads, before smashing on the floor by my ... screenshot and e-mailed it to him. He was so amused that he put it on Facebook

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  on your four-dimensional worm and think about how much you've grown ... more and more. I got to use my thoughts on math and philosophy and ... time to reflect, for even just a minute, about how much you've changed

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022