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  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Pluto for 35 years and helped design the New Horizon's spacecraft. “Just ... Pluto passing directly between Earth and a distant star. The way Pluto ... called albedo - between 1985 and 1995 when Pluto and Charon where regularly

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  dropped a pillow onto the floor and left four hairs on the bed. For the next ... , smoothing the fabric and sucking up skin cells and water and oils from between ... , or at least they were smooth enough for human eyes and neat enough for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  explaining that gap between rich and poor nations recently helped him win the ... to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge. Of the 29 Clark medalists to date

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  ): Took 18.02A for 12 units. Re-learned to ice skate. Practiced intensively ... cat shelters and fixing bikes for poor kids with Alpha Phi Omega. Took a ... , various SIPB classes, and 2.670. I've been at MIT for three years. Some

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  class. And in between terms, we get 6 weeks off, which is pretty amazing ... breaks for tea. Everything in the building stops and everyone from the ... for is the World Cup. And finally, Cambridge is strangely full of Harry

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  shipped off to the Bay Area for a super-incredibly-fun-mind-blowing-unbelievable-and ... out in Alameda, CA, I worked for and with some of the smartest people I ... problems and having a blast doing it. I could go on for a while as to what

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  -the-potential-value-of-a-random-reciept-sentimental-types. We’ve always kind of been like this, and it wasn’t a problem in high ... ^TM, we knew we’d eventually have to solve the issue ourselves. Lucky for us ... and decided to give us a bag of things she no longer needed, but thought

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  and pseting, I get an email reminding me to sign up for Career Fair and ... my calendar. I have class from 10-12 and then the 18.02 exam from 2 ... , study for the exam, and/or go to Career Fair. "Is it worth?" I ask

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  report the rest of the decision servers are healthy and well.   Between ... . Thank you for sharing your aspirations and inspirations with us in the ... concentrate conversation in the open threads for admitted, waitlisted, and not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello world. All your blog are belong to me.

  

  , and I am nothing if not Serious - is Admissions Counselor for Web ... digital conversations between MIT and its latent global community. If I ... community for some of the best and brightest students in the world.

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  story. A really long story. So since C3 is halfway between C2 and C4, so I ... Saturday night (ok, so it was actually really early Sunday morning) and sleep through until 9 AM Monday, when I have to get up to get ready for my first

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  asked some of my friends for feedback. And they told me that it was good ... truly been my privilege and honor to work for and with you over the last ... Association Vice-President, or UAVP, of MIT. In March, I ran for president, with

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  " between high school and college isn't for everyone -- and that just goofing ... to study), and I bet you’re really eager to come – not just for Campus ... college? And besides, what else would you do to prepare for that promising

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Stepping Up MIT brings the best out of people (in between psets of course)

  

  &D challenge, a call for dormitories, independent living groups, and Greek ... drive that raised $15,000 and collected more than 12,000 pounds of food ... promoting child advocacy, and even relief efforts for the tsunami and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  , and I’ll probably read another book after finals. For now, here are the ... . Learning and understanding my faith was one of my goals for the year, and ... English and Amharic, so it was nice for me to review a little bit of my

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exhibitions@MIT [by Leah Brunetto '12] Something different amidst displays of scientific progress.

  

  programs and activities, for-credit visual arts/music/theater arts classes, non-credit Student Art Association classes, and opportunities for cross ... Media Lab) for the Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  blast, press play and watch for the signals to start dancing. 3. Ghosts ... Sweet! I've got my mp3, my dance moves, and a location, it's time for some ... . Yesterday morning Sara '12 and I headed into Boston, video camera in hand

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  choreography for DanceTroupe, and after we ate and cleaned up dinner and dessert ... 153 minutes before the deadline to sign up for the Simmons Retreat, I ... place over our student holiday, from Saturday, October 12th to Monday

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  compatible. :) This was your weekend, and we're curious how it went for you ... the decision process smoother between now and May 1 ... , TX, FL, SC, NC, VA, PA, OR, WA, Korea, and Switzerland prefrosh that I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? Prelude.

  

  element of surprise, alas, but I'll try to make up for it in thoroughness. Seeing as how I have two weeks of free time between now and graduation, and ... -quarters-ways done with MIT posts that have been popping up left and right and the all

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 24, 2009