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  MIT Imagination there is no place i know...

  

  showed the candy store side of things. Soon I'll post up more on the making of MIT Imagination, along with some b-roll and a montage of mascot ... of love by many people at MIT. CREDITS: Written and directed by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Art & Science in Paris

  

   inspired by the possibilities for the future of accessible drinking water and ... , a cloud-like form made entirely of crochet and developed by the ... "the future of water:" how can we conserve it? How can we ensure

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Lobby 7 Gotta love it

  

  coffee cup in hand, along with a horde of students and tourists, and I ... kind of things that happen in this lobby every week. I’ve walked through ... taking pictures in front of the seal. I’ve stopped to watch the practice

  • 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 ... : Finally, the day of the competition arrived.  I'm told that MIT President

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  What all started as a blatant rip-off of Kris's post on summer ... started exploding into a bunch of craziness and hoohah) that I had no ... bunch of music that I've been listening to this summer." Thus, I had to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  Once I was at a fancy banquet-type event, one of the ones where they ... , sparkling peach, a couple of berries, a needle-thin stick with a pale green flower attached... it must have been made of something sweet, chocolate or

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Stress Management @ The MITstitvte What's a student to do when school gets rough?

  

  A couple of days before a physics test, my friend Chacha'14 posted on Facebook asking how to deal with stress, and got a massive influx of suggestions. This is by no means a complete enumeration of activities that MIT

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Toys II Using household items to save the world

  

  , one of the MIT students who in September launched a $150 camera balloon ... level of detail that exceeds what satellites can provide. Working with ... the impacts of the oil spill to dissipate, he said. "If we do it now

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 6, 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…

  

  .65 (Cognitive Development) class, we've been talking a lot about the nature of ... memories of an emportant emotional experience, a phenomenon called "flashbulb ... dark ages of 2006 (in my day, I read my acceptance letter by candle

  • 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 ... Gooseberry's to the newest of the crowd, the fully vegetarian and MIT ... with this little ditty, to the tune of Ed Helms's "Tyson's Tiger Song

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  was hard. We're talking miserable hard. It was a test of will, to be sure. For example, on my first test of the year I got two standard ... second test wasn't much better (9/20) but was within a point of average

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on my mind *insert witty caption here*

  

  as I can remember, I've found that writing things down is one of my ways of decompressing - imposing order on chaos, as it were. So I figured ... UROP investigating the genetics of tuberculosis at the Broad Institute

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 24, 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 ... of a pset), the situation isn’t any different. It’s a brand new, red ... picture of black-colored beaver swimming gracefully through water

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  all about The Month of March. Not that it's over. But it's pretty much over. Kind of. I don't know about y'all, but these were the longest three weeks of my LIFE. Okay, so, I'm not going to talk about the fact

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  (CONGRATULATIONS, Class of 2012! I'm way excited to meet all of you ... swear). The point of this entry is that my friend Liz '11 and I recently got elected social chairs of Burton 1, and to celebrate that we had a Pi

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  , beating out Army, Navy, Coast Guard, and a slew of other teams. Geeks with ... ://web.mit.edu/pistol/www/). *************** From the Hotel *************** We had our first round of shooting this ... discovered is that a combination of hearing protection and iPod headphones

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Some CPW Thoughts The latest on CPW planning from the Admissions Office.

  

  matching you with an MIT student host for CPW. With a record number of you expected for CPW, and a large portion of the campus hoping to serve as a host ... saving time didn't help me leave the office before dark. Most of you should

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Laundry Lists And other things. Okay, so just the list.

  

  Tuesdays and Thursdays) after a term of never having to get up before ten is ... complaints, they are still present. -Watching Dramashop's performance of Suzan ... of term. -Because it is due tomorrow afternoon. -Yes, this is insane

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 9, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  of "tickets" to be able to do the thing you want to do, you have to ... age of 53 for work he did at the age of 21, while a graduate student at ... "how is it possible to construct heavy objects out of things that don

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  project done for one of my classes, 2.671, Measurement and Instrumentation. Basically, the project was designed to have us develop some type of scientific ... of course, everything in science is easier said than done. Now for my

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006