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• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  engineering gets, from the initial design brainstorming to the hours of mixing ... year--two years ago, the mission requirement was to carry 2 liters of water to a 100-meter altitude and then dump it out of the airplane like an

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  create classes in everything from "Alebgra 1" to "The Atomic Science of Space Weapons" and everything in between. You can check out some of the interesting offerings in this year's Spalsh course catalogue. Well, a couple of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  happens to be the official name of the course. The class has been offered ... Hi, everyone! Sorry that I vanished off the face of the earth. That ... -known class around the Institvte. As many of you know, 6.001 was a class

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  and Notes Form. Because of the competitiveness of our pool, we have ... rest of your college applications this cycle. The balance of the ... . Thank you. Again, congratulations to the newest members of the Class of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  the sense I got from friends on social media was a general consensus of ... terrorism were one of several dark pockmarks on the face of the bygone year ... arbitrary demarcation of time, removed from the actual content of our lives

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Of Orange Juice and Animal Hats. How the Flintstones failed me.

  

  week since I got here with some mild case of the plague or another. That ... just wrapping up last Thursday has contributed to the lack of bloggage ... ’t called in a week. I’ve been kind of hosed. Mom: Are you sick again? You

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  lot. i helped design an airplane in 16.82, one of the capstone options for the aero/astro degree. here is a part of that airplane (i worked on ... lot of time with my a cappella group, the toons. we went candlepin

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The sun is out but why is it so cold outside?

  

  of my toothpaste and finally confronted the task of getting a new tube ... expensive, it's just that time of the semester. Any MIT student will tell you ... class. Rhetoric is not a HASS I recommend for the particularly faint of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Under the Dome A full day of free fun at MIT

  

  FREE activities as part of its day long Open House (also the kick-off event to the Cambridge Science Festival) What kind of free things you ask ... 's 150th anniversary by members of the National Puzzlers' League Or an

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2020 are now ... . Because of the competitiveness of our pool, we have already informed 2 ... deep breath, shake it off, and go crush the rest of your college

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  The MIT Club of Great Britain invited us to cream tea recently. Here ... tea was when I went to this event. But the president of the club kindly ... doing very well. One of the alum in attendance is from Hong Kong and just

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  of the content and a deeper appreciation for the creators. But even if ... to be SO interesting. Perhaps one day I’ll join the ranks of video ... the cuddly plush that many of us know and love. Blahaj’s wide pink smile

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  campus culture we have all come to know and love. The traditional image of a college professor is, I think, something along the lines of an ... 's actually just one of the many, many completely amazing professors and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  sundresses, flip-flops and shorts. Today, we are in the midst of a winter storm ... control. A small group of MIT undergraduates forming the group Biodiesel@MIT chose the latter option, and they were awarded the grand prize of $25

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taste ai has no taste.

  

  [judgment] is in brackets, meaning it isn’t part of the original quote. From ... exposure to develop your own taste, so you may mimic the taste of those ... the corpus of human society, and presumably since society has deemed

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 20, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  this institution and the work of admissions has meant to me, is too ... mark the passage of time. When people ask me how I got my start in ... into the teeth of the Great Recession, I applied to 63 jobs that spring

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  cloudless and the temperature was 73 degrees Fahrenheit. I had only two ... beautiful spring day... ...when pushed off the roof of a 7-story dormitory ... should have tossed the upright piano onto the baby grand instead of the

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  Putting the definition of punt at the end of my last entry got me skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT ... students and alums, you should learn a bunch of the jargon that we MIT folks

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Science is Delicious! Zen and the art of hot chocolate

  

  admissions veterans were probably speaking in the IHTFP tone: that mix of dread ... 't know that I'm at the "embrace" stage of my MIT evolution (I think I ... Chocolate Science has come to the rescue! The Lab offers free hot chocolate in

  • by Dave McOwen
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  It's Sunday, and the beginning of the second full week of June ... college degree (whenever I'm not lazy) instead of making millions of dollars ... . But hey, don't get me wrong - you can do a lot of other things in the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011