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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  blog name? So I went to "High Tech High School," and we all kind of ... almost forgot that I had pictures from the last few days of the semester to ... minds, right? OK. Yesterday was the first day of IAP. What am I doing

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Engineers Assemble! It's not a double-post, it's a franchise

  

  Slocum, MIT Professor of Mechanical Engineering (and 2.007 Design and ... 's golf ball plan to stop the oil leak off the coast of Louisiana? He said ... assistance. Chu, in turn, has assembled a team of five “extraordinarily

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  . They've covered, among other things, the design of X Windows, the structure of the UNIX time-sharing system, and the design of the Ethernet. 6 ... the land of mines so that people can inhabit it safely. We design

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Thanksgiving! Holiday wishes and fun stuff.

  

  project of the MIT-alumni company Squid Labs), where there's a DIY ... ? recirculating fountains of food seemed like the obvious escalation. a custom peristaltic pump design powered by an electric drill provided a gushing torrent

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See your name among the stars… Forget having your name written in lights, get it written on a spacecraft!

  

  the ads to fund their project to launch a student-designed small unmanned spacecraft in 2010. "Choose a location on the outside of the spacecraft and get pictures of your content photographed in space. Choose a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.

  

  Reading a seven-month-old issue of People, I discovered this week that Gwen Stefani, in addition to designing a bizarre new line of clothing, has now taken to paying an entourage of four Japanese girls to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Igor Stravinsky has a star on the Hollywood Walk of ... creator of an appropriate dispostion--the article was indeed about ... possibility of incorporating a formic acid fuel cell into a handheld cell phone

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  Yesterday morning, I woke up half-dreaming of the scriptural nuisances of airport security, circa Holiday Season, post-2001 A.D. At 7 AM after a night of post-finals merrymaking (i.e, a plate of brussels sprouts

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? An Italian defender once said of Pele, after the 1970 World Cup finals, "I told myself before the game, he's made of skin and ... comes as some sort of great disillusionment to you, but you don't always

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  Olympiad! Every IAP, we bring ~1000 high school students to campus for one of ... catch up with some of my friends still in high school. Visiting the ... This is a guest post by one of my friends, Heidi Z. '27, one of the

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  James Grimmelmann of New York Law School. Grimmelmann is flat-out one of ... organizations. While some people curl up at night with a copy of Sports Illustrated, or Cosmo, or even Wine Spectator (if you're a special kind of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  blog tab of the school website, not even bothering to look at other tabs ... much more of a special place. The school really cares about the student ... about the breakdown of it. The structure of the word entices you to wonder

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  proposed or tried before, and to learn about different mainstream schools of ... Finally, finally, I’m in my last semester of undergrad. I need three ... school. All my classes are remote, and I don’t have campus access, so I can

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  to list out all of their high school courses and grades, but we really ... virtues of procrastination, as long as you meet the deadline, it really ... adversely impact our review. I have highlighted a handful of my least

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  now the proud owner of a Brass Rat! The ring's design, which I covered previously, was carefully put together by these guys, the Class of 2014 Ring ... position right now to a lot of people: my past teachers, my professors, my

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / Events

  What can I say, it grew on me . . . (Guest Entry) Now I'm a beaver believer!

  

  bus: Yep, THE Stata Center. Designed by The Frank Gehry that I learned about in school. Later, I met The Snively and The Ben Jones at ... staying on The 5th floor of The West parallel. And, I was at The MIT. It

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  of writing in one collective voice, as we have done for our past blogs ... 's also how most of our conversations for the past two weeks have started ... : These “I dont know” conversations have been about both of our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Take Your Blog to School Day Vol. 1 Standing waves and FIRE!

  

  about some of the measurement and instrumentation tools that mechanical ... as velocity profiles in a pipe or internal pressure of a soda can ... part of MIT's DARPA Urban Challenge Team. So today's lecture focused

  • by Bryan
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  Dives! This trip, we're trekking to all corners of campus, trying the all-you-can-eat dinners that each of the five dining halls have to offer. Which dining hall ... variety of food Maseeh offers. As someone who observes a halal-diet, my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  . This sort of sentence has been one I've had trouble saying throughout my ... the number of rough ones about equals the number of purely good ones, which is honestly an okay ratio in my opinion. Especially at a school

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022