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  Jenny Hu- Adapting to Artifical Gravity Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can…

  

  gravity. Without the presence of artificial gravity, astronauts would endure ... the effects of head turns in artificial gravity on the neurovestibular system, which is the inner ear structure that creates a sense of balance

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting the new bloggers! With a new school year approaching, it's time to pick the next set of bloggers.

  

  Perhaps the second most exciting time of the year (after selecting the incoming class) is the selection of the new bloggers. And now, with ... the single most important part of your application.While you do not need

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  tens of thousands of dollars of payload into the emptiness of space just ... . You see, one of the things I want most to get out of freshman year is to ... . But one of the things I learned to do in Design/Build/Fly was soldering

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  , despite the small number of comments from parents, there is a large population out there of parents who are readers of the blog. While most of ... a reflection on the worth of your child. Most often, rejections are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  more context (the "real" story, if you will). One of our close friends ... . I met Chambers. You might've heard of him. He's that guy from the Duolingo thing. He challenged me to a game of chess. Aidan Chambers, the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  (just kidding! I did my share of the work! Promise!) and taking pictures of LEGOs. But do I actually do any work? The answer, surprisingly, is ... named him one of the 100 most influential people of our time. That

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  's a half-solar double that faces the river and has two walls of continuous windows (yay Next House! All the rooms on the 2nd floor have tons of ... . Good thing I saw straight through him. One of the views: My litter

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a not-so-cruel summer this one's for the girlies

  

  uniqueness and strangeness // acknowledging the complexities of motherhood ... it is the hot girl summer //   went to The Eras Tour and over-thought, over-analyzed, over-felt every moment of it // dyed my hair purple

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Psetting on Campus ft. an updated mapping system

  

  access. Click on the name of a location on the sidebar to see pictures and information about it! Some of the pictures aren't working, but I'll try to get ... mapping service and used a terrible one instead so I redid the map with

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 4, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leslie Jones Was Here and I Saw Her can't believe I haven't posted about this yet

  

  pics for proof At the end of her show (which was great, as expected), she came down in the audience and made fun of people for about twenty minutes. Probably the best part of the show.     (@leslie if

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye, for now

  

  philosophies for some time.  (Regular friends are well aware of this, and are also sick of me talking about it.  By the way, have you seen the latest ... during this time (2) I will not be blogging about any of the work I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Transfer App Is Live For current college students hoping to enter MIT in the Spring of 2013

  

  Spring Semester of 2013. (See the Academic Calendar.) This deadline is ... entry in the Fall of 2013. To enter MIT as a transfer student, you ... many of your questions can be found on the Transfer Admissions section of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Conclusion Rock the vote!

  

  Speaking of deadlines coming up really soon, the blogging scholarship ... . This week was pretty crazy - due the combination of the some illness and ... more of this to come later, but for now, thank you so much for the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 27, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Circus School Mitra flies like a trapeze artist; fruit flies like a peach.

  

  I am a very lucky duck, and was treated to an afternoon at the San Francisco School of Circus Arts. After some short training on the ground ... jump! Wheeeee The goal of our session was to get our legs over the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You Heard It Here First Short Skirt, Long Jacket

  

  where they have a bunch of bands come bring down the house at the lovely cost of $0 for all the students. This year's lineup included: Chicken ... become the greatest band of all time (well, not quite) but they did make a

  • by Bryan
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Engineering Hero One of the coolest professors at MIT

  

  So two weeks ago, I had a lecture from one of the oldest people at MIT. ...This might have also been possibly one of the best lectures I ... kid, I've always been intrigued by invention and design to the point of

  • by Bryan
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  For the past three days, I was at the conference of the National Association of College Admission Counseling (NACAC). NACAC is the primary ... many ideas, and having learned something new. This year, some of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Kendra

  

  of the chemistry department and Jamie Lewis Keith of the Environmental Programs Office, received an EPA grant of $30,000. Read the whole article here Great job to Kendra, who "developed much of the project content

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 11, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  naturally, I set out for the nearest and most convenient source of soda ... any of the vending machines at MIT were, so we wound up walking up the ... are unfortunately not placed on the same tier of importance, even though

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bio? My sort-of bio, but not the Course 7 kind.

  

  frequent flyer miles like nobody's business. Those are probably some of the ... stings, when I'm feeling sad, Arial (the font), the spelling of the word ... : The odds of achieving this are a little greater when you attend MIT

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 5, 2006