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  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  'm talking about the MIT 150 convocation! The subject of several recent entries ... 'm a little less excited about the art as a whole because every piece of ... hand: the circus! My way of saying that ceremonial robes look silly

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things That Are 20 DID YOU KNOW? 1988 was a leap year.

  

  . * Super Mario Brothers 3. * The death of Richard Feynman (abdominal cancer). * The time it took for Billy Mitchell, father of three and president of a ... . * The image of a benzene ring. * "Price is Right" model Janice Pennington

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Normalville

  

  Fellowship Of The Duck Cookie Monster Dogs Playing Poker An Ax to Grind ... to start solving the puzzles...   We had a wall full of ... ? The honor and privilege of writing Mystery Hunt 2006. I hope to see you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  lived. The grad students had inhabited this dorm at the corner of Massachusetts Ave and Memorial Drive since the beginning of time (i.e. 1938 when MIT bought the Riverbank Court Hotel from the City of Cambridge). There

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  The way we interact in our three-dimensional world is frankly kind of ... dimension, I refer to the number of independent directions on your space. The most clear understanding of this may be through the directions on Earth

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  with the colors of a tree: from green, to orange, to white, to pink, and ... less the image of seasons that exists in my head. When it comes to summer ... sandy beach, or scarlet leaves caught in their moment of descent, or the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  /her life" doesn't work. Of course, if you have the right amount of ... 'd share with you some pictures of the waterpark I work at. I mean, I know ... , Runaway Rapids Waterpark: This is the kiddie section. It's full of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  down a ramp that winds straight into the lushest pad of greenery ever ... dismembered chickens, nor whatever other non-greenery mars the verdantness of ... willows echo the curves of smoothly arching bridges and cyclists have the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Course Lounges press F to pay respects to the entirety of course 21 and CMS

  

  tl;dr: the google map of course lounges is here Here at MIT ... note="Neither does the entirety of Course 21, including all of its ... majors and I put the idea of having our own course lounge into the CMS

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  Update: this list is no longer accurate as of 8/18/2015. But the ... , as readers of this blog likely know, MIT does not use the Common App ... locally at MyMIT. One of the differences between the Common App and the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vote for Ksplice! MIT's spirit of entrepreneurship and collaboration in action.

  

  " Competition!) One of the aspects of MIT culture I most enjoy is the Institute ... to make the world a better place. Another cornerstone of MIT culture ... the spirit of entrepreneurship and collaboration, I'm doing something I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  Like many of you, I stayed up quite late watching the election ... , including the Tremulant concert at TT the Bear's Place (one of the many, many awesome live music venues within a short walk of MIT), the Kerry goings on

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

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  - helped call the Early Action pre-frosh. Yes, all 522 of you! I'm not sure if we were lured by the idea of talking to prospective students or the ... showing of support. Most of the callers were freshmen, like myself, though I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  concert. As promised, the second part of a picture entry. Check out ... , like the one in Prague. This is actually a field of huge stones, and you ... moving of all was seeing this, the hotel that Michael Jackson dangled his

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Real, live MIT students * IN HD* A look inside the world of MIT Admissions Interns

  

  Hey you! Yes, you, the one reading this sentence right now! How would you like to have a glimpse into the life of current, MIT students and ... , check out the page. They work on a lot of great projects in the office

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  Television MIT on TV.

  

  Tonight's episode of MythBusters on the Discovery Channel will show ... ," which included such classics as the "Winnebago of Science" and the "Flammschmeisser." And, of course, you can catch Ankur '03 on Beauty and the Geek 2

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  Welcome to the first of the many blogs I have meant to write but just ... -years could participate in, and I immediately did the online portion of the ... DO NOT put your hand inside the laser cutter. The second part of the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  made the room burn. Whatever manifestations of worry there are, I felt ... of APs to the warm spreading feeling of “but I’ve taken X number of APs ... ? Defining my senior year by the future of "college." I can’t tell my past

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The famous Pioneer Zephyr trains of the 1940's were ... professors. During the first week of my product design and development class ... 't. Granted, most of it probably has to do with the sweet beard that I've grown

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

                                                Oudenaarden The pre-8.03 reaction: my level of awe and wonder is inversely ... back and forth, which in turn pushed air out in the form of sound waves ... glass to fall apart from each other are the same vibrations of a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011