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  More Notes A quick update.

  

  'd" banners, festive for the season. The "uncapped" banner will return after the ... I can. I was talking to a guidance counselor over the phone today ... from two actual members of the MIT Class of 2010! Thanks for stopping by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  CAKE! Me: Um...are you going to be in here for a while? Like...for the ... Spoilers: there's a picture of an awesome cake at the end of this ... a mental list of all the things that had to be accomplished between 7

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  students did for fun, also in the late 1800s. For some of you, this post ... women were respected for the work that they did: And the 1896 yearbook ... is to talk about what the students did for fun. And to start, I'd like

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Lip Sync ‘08 Because I want . . . you . . . back

  

  am!" I settled down and waited for the show to start. Since Melis is a ... Sorry for not having posted recently. It's gotten to the point where ... the bustle had died down (except for "Banned in Boston" which had taken

  • by Snively '11
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Art & Science in Paris

  

  -school aged students from around the world converged at Labo for a week to ...  inspired by the possibilities for the future of accessible drinking water and centered on a sculpture by the architect Ciro Najle. This internship

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

  Special Edition! Speaking of Valentine's Cards . . .

  

  "Special Edition" cards, adding a little something extra to a few of the ... , and here's what I did: 38 of the cards have a number underneath my name ... "random" button a bunch on the XKCD website and wrote the number down

  • by Snively '11
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  for a conference our group had organized. The idea was to aggregate all ... peered into the chasm once more and, for the first time, caught a glimpse ... project—and college—thinking there were just a few big problems in the world

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  : Yes. For every point in $\pi_x(A)$, we can draw the corresponding line ... point of $A$ for any $z$! Therefore, when the RHS is zero, the LHS must be ... WAAYYY overkill (for a more technical statement, see the analogous 2

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  for the future, and providing a method of income generation.” Alia also ... The MIT Public Service Center provides fellowships for students to ... towards the advancement of underserved communities. Alia Whitney-Johnson, a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The New MIT Viewbook! Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton of work) we saw…

  

  year - you're in for a serious treat. I honestly think this is one of the ... of work) we saw the first proofs for the final book. I was blown away ... - including you guys, who gave some great feedback in the original post from a

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT vs. Chuck Norris Ever wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?

  

  . - Nothing can escape the gravity of a black hole, except for Chuck Norris ... noticed an article about a commercial that Chuck Norris filmed for ... that I may have missed. - When taking the SAT, write "Chuck Norris" for

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  the LOLriocart's G-force simulations backwards in a seat designed for ... for not having purchased better life insurance into the humid ... leaning against the back doorway of a warehouse in a cigarette-break tableau

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  the privilege of serving as the Department Head for EECS. EECS is the ... deal with the faculty and fellow students a few at a time, in your ... amazing range of opportunities for our students. The mantra of the

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  for a year or so, fun fact) sporting the classic tube-card-card pose ... minutes, you have missed your chance for a moment of fame on the MITty blogs ... fame on the MIT Admissions Blogs- send me a picture of you and your card

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T. for short) is producing the opera ... introduce us to the story of Simon Powers, a wealthy entrepreneur and inventor ... the Powers like robots in a Japanese hospital. And then there is the

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic

  

  for a brief run-in with Hurricane Ernesto on our second to last day. The ... Hola amigos! I just got back yesterday from a week of R&R in the ... 's beautiful Zesiger Center (a.k.a. the Z Center) or by Memorial Drive. Of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc guest post by Sharon L. '21

  

  *written by Sharon L. '21 as a part of the 8,726,500 Seconds of ... this summer is tackling. Tulip, a spin-off from the MIT Media Lab Lumin ... the gateways. I’ve been at the company for three weeks now, and every

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  help them reach their destination. For a long time, the Radio Society ... , and they took me on a tour so that I could tell you about all the super ... me inside the two radomes (yes, that giant sphere is a thing you can

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  for those of you who don’t know, i’m part of the mit ohms, a south ... a part for each voice group (which, in the case of the ohms, means ... arrangements. the pros are that learning new music for each concert is a lot of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  a key component for much of the rest of the scavenger hunt. This is ... a penchant for closing on you at exactly the wrong time. CJ: If you ... floorplans did provide me with a couple ideas for new projects. In the next two

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021