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  Pumpkin Drop Trick-or-treating is not enough.

  

  54, was built on stilts in 1964 to circumvent Cambridge’s height limit ... pumpkin meet the ground in McDermott Court? How much time, in seconds, does the airborne pumpkin have to come to terms with its identity* before

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT salutes Harry Potter ...the best way we know how, with hacks!

  

  building were relabeled to represent rooms in Hogwarts. (The number "9 ... in Boston, the two biggest movie theaters, the Boston Common 19 and ... first book back in the late 1990s. During the Harry Potter era, MIT has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Econ Prof Wins Nobel Prize (with video) A pretty exciting week as Peter Diamond PhD '63 is the latest MIT professor to…

  

  's historic World Series win in 2004. In responding, he made reference to the ... D '63 was awarded the Nobel memorial prize in Economics. For MIT, this ... Nobel Prize in Economics (more have won for Medicine, Physics, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Rudolph Family Weekend Better late than never, right?

  

  everyone's... but mine. In mathspeak, for all MIT students not equal to Kate ... in 32-123? Thanks to Uncle Jim and Aunt Maura for the super-cute video. ... weekend, but those people are from Connecticut or New York. The trip to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 24, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  No Pain, No Gain I wish it weren't so.

  

  stretcher grace. A special thanks to Vidya '12, who came in when she wasn ... -related education :) Also - a thanks to all of you EA Admits who participated in the ... is coming up in just over a week, I've spent the past few days cycling

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 5, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  last thursday night was pretty stressful, trying to finish the ... 'd even started the lab early this semester, even gone to office hours. it ... 'd done perhaps 70% of the lab at this point, but due to the way this lab

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  exciting ten day family vacation in Japan and Hong Kong (highlights include ... ramen in one night), I’ve been spending virtually all of my IAP at home ... three weeks leading up to that date poring over a complete set of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  Here in America, our vaunted exceptionalism takes many forms ... -DD-YY[/annotation] means that in America today is 9/10/19, which reversed reads the same, and is thus a palindromic date. It is, in fact, the first palindromic date

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Good Luck Jo-Jo!

  

  competition, and went on to compete in Miss America. You can read all about ... as Freshman Class Vice President. After graduating in 2003 with a degree in Electrical Engineering, Joanne now works as a management

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  . In my life, I've applied to nine graduate programs. I've been admitted ... . As hard as it may be, try to keep all that in mind, and no matter what ... It's Pi Day. I woke up at 5:38AM (a nod to Nate Silver) and walked to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  . From the website: In 2.009, Product Engineering Processes, [150] students work in large teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and build ... 2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7:15PM ET!

  

  . From the website: In 2.009, Product Engineering Processes, [150] students work in large teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and build ... 2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello, Seattle i am a mountaineer...

  

  I'm spending the summer in Seattle, interning at Amazon, and I've decided I'm in love with this place. A few thoughts about Seattle after my first week here. People are in general really nice and the food, so far

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 14, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  clueless is normal. We are beginners in everything we do, from reading, to ... intended to major in here at MIT. [annotation note="Of course, it makes sense ... like it was silly to limit what sorts of classes and activities I did in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.

  

  defect in the game: The visible numbers turned out to reveal essential information about the digits hidden under the latex coating. Nothing needed to ... own consulting company in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. One day, the story

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  interest in learning how to make forceful arguments in written form. Studies ... those has got to go. I will probably keep drumming if I make it in ... to know in terms of practical linear algebra after the quantum sequence

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  “we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:

  

  When I say that snow was a statistically significant factor in my choice of MIT, I mean it. I'm on a mission to spread the New England winter propaganda, and that means more snow shenanigans! This time brought to you by

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Important Information about your Financial Aid Application Track your status on MyMIT

  

  logging in to MyMIT. Students who have completed their applications by ... because we’ll be in committee making decisions about Regular Action applicants and the comments will be closed. But we did want you to know a few

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  If I Try Really Hard, I Can Resemble Ernest Borgnine First stop on the tour: London.

  

  falling down? It really was sinking into the River Thames, so in 1968, the city of London put it up for sale to make way for a new bridge. Oil and ... ,460,000, and the London Bridge was dismantled block by block and moved to remote

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Beautiful Day

  

  It's really nice in Boston today. I've just returned from a walk ... "bridge circuit"), and lots of sailboats in today's gusting wind. It made me really miss sailing. Sailing, in my opinion, is the best PE Class you can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005