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• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Challenge I hope Chris Peterson doesn't fire me for too many prefrosh stealing his nametag...

  

  awesome events and have had a chance to collapse and sleep for the first ... and/or destroy something Meet a professor in the department you might ... (capture the flag counts) For EXTRA BONUS POINTS: track me down! (Hint: I

  • by Kate R. '14
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  fantastic because i got to see a lot of teams perform for the first time in ... photoshoots infinite magazine — i was in a graphic tee photoshoot for the ... burgers for the entire weekend, so i did not feel great when i got home

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch the “Wild” 2023 Final Presentations for 2.009: Product Engineering Processes something to watch while awaiting decisions

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my ... . Check out the "build challenge," which is used as a big collaboration activity ... inspired by a very broad product theme. This year's theme was Wild! and the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  we could use for the walls, but I decided we needed a floor, too ... basement, and after hosing them off for a while we deposited them in the ... sorted on the tools table, but here and there is a drill, a crescent wrench

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Festival

  

  . Undergraduate Association President Harel Williams deals the cards for a fierce ... currently at MIT for Campus Preview Weekend (this post is dedicated to the ... event... And this is the "after" picture, a half hour into the event

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  backend for our app. We ended up crashing in the hackers’ lounge for only a ... ’all. It made such an impact on me, I even set a scene there for my novel. Since my novel comes out in 2022, I’ll have to change the setting for that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  follows the same schedule, here is a look back on last Friday. 8:37 - My ... overshot the :35 that I was going for, and I was too impatient to go back and ... cooking for myself this month. I bought a lot of soup. A tad too much most

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Who is the President of MIT?

  Sally A. Kornbluth is the 18th President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kornbluth follows L. Rafael Reif, who led MIT for a decade and stepped down as president at the end of 2022.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ana Posada: Improving the production of an HIV medication Ana Posada, who just graduated from MIT, spent a year and half of her undergraduate…

  

  , one of the few MIT microbiology labs, for one and a half years. She says ... , GA, will head off to Dartmouth for a Ph.D program next year. As an ... species that will allow the bacteria to produce a major intermediate of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  a ton of content. When I took it for the first time last semester, I ... with a bubble in the middle, meaning that it's a good shape for learning ... make, and although mine is nowhere near as good as the pros', for a first

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Party of One A fun day trip idea when you're getting tired of homework.

  

  for you, a la sub sandwich shop) on my way to the T. Descending the ... 's North Station where I would board an Amtrak train for the day. Amtrak ... get a meal here at one of many eateries in either the surrounding area

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!

  

  . I'll have time to watch TV. This is a big deal, guys. Be excited for ... on the other side of Thanksgiving; a couple sleepless nights in the ... out the "What do you like to do for fun?" portion of my MIT application

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 24, 2009
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How can I get a course catalog?

  MIT has an online course catalog called the Bulletin that provides details about MIT, the campus, and undergraduate programs, including requirements and course descriptions for majors/minors.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opera No, not the browser

  

  . And hey, while we're all waiting for the Opera to show up a little ... One of my housemates here in Boston is a grad student at the MIT ... 'm working on a shorter, catchier title). Aside from the brilliantly practical

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  has been priceless for me. Not the same few colleges: Texas A ... awesome live music venues within a short walk of MIT), the Kerry goings on ... , I hopped in a Zipcar and went out to the suburbs to a party at the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Class Projects

  Angry Birds Fly at MIT Students construct trubuchets, catapults, and air cannons to take out the dastardly pigs on Killian…

  

  dressed up for the occasion The students have been working on their siege weapons this week in preparation for the pig battle ... The weapons set up in Killian Court The "pigs" and their defenses A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  schedule to take a physics course! But the metaphor holds for so many MIT ... cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for ... the semester by breaking a glass. A lot of people compare at MIT

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Useful items to bring for dorm room

  

  your room, but save that for a towel or the occasional shirt that needs a ... useful for their room. I'm not a subscriber to the whiteboard ... A couple people have asked about suggestions for useful items with

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Rainbow Lounge Where the LGBT kids hang out.

  

  strive to: - provide a safe space for the MIT LBGTQ community, including ... -friendly!), and me (I grabbed a copy for my dorm room door while in the Rainbow ... Back in the day (TM) when I was a prefrosh participating in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  in the special sauce that makes MIT such a mecca of talent, but it ... with a degree in Brain and Cognitive Science, he entered the Harvard ... the Boston skyline, it seems that life is good for Berry and he admits

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007