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  I, Robot "Turn it, leave it, stop- format it. Technologic." IAP Robotics competitions wrap up.

  

  Today, most of the IAP robotics competitions begin to wrap up. They include: 6.186: MasLab 6.270: Autonomous Robot Design Competition 6 ... has been staying up until all hours of the night trying to refine his

  • by Bryan
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Stirling Engine Spinoff The 2.670 competition is tomorrow!

  

  Join Us For The Eleventh Annual 2.670 Spinoff!! Friday, January 20 in the Pappalardo Lab (Basement of Bldg. 3) 3:30-4:00 pm- Craftsmanship ... 'll post lots of pictures!

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  I'm sure most of you are enjoying the holiday season with your ... of the burdens of adjustment and culture shock. I've been busy ... various personal and professional goals. And I've been getting a lot of rest

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  A Very McGann Christmas Happy holidays.

  

  spend some quality time with my family... I hope many of you are taking advantage of your holiday time with family, too. Happy holidays! =)

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Energized Watching the sun rise signals that it's time for bed.

  

  design project for one of my classes, 2.005, where we had to design a ... equations in Latex. 20 pages of chicken scratch later and a solid 1.5 weeks ... report where I derived equations about the natural oscillation, center of

  • by Bryan
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  hopefully none of my professors themselves will ever hit the blog when they ... of the day is that I got to eat lunch with MIT President Hockfield ... this is very cool in and of itself -- there are not too many schools in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named Returns Butterless popcorn and a little magic.

  

  waited for the bus, but it was kind of cold so we did the group huddle. My review of the movie: TWO THUMBS UP.

  • by Bryan
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey look, I’m famous…or something

  

  column earlier today. One of whom I don't think I've ever met before. Does ... where I find it sort of exciting to be in the Tech, assuming that I'm not ... and Interpretation of Computer Programs) test in 20 minutes and was not

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  surface of high-temperature superconductors in an attempt to understand how ... years under the guidance of Dr. Eric Hudson. Scanning tunneling ... -powered sound system to test the acoustic properties of their vibration isolation

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More humanities than a humanities major Bitter complaining and fond reminiscing. Can't beat that with a stick.

  

  friend of a friend of Sam's Mom Because I am a fool, I also bought the ... moments before our departure. That should be stress-free. The moral of the ... -dollar fall retreat at a cabin in New Hampshire with the dorm, both of which

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Afternoon Props Props to ten people/committees/inanimate objects that deserve props.

  

  improving my quality of life over the past 48 hours. 1. The Burton ... of over 100 freshman across nine floors, rarely needing to sink below ... . J. P. Licks, the ice cream store of choice of many MIT bloggers, for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  So you've heard of Socrates and Archimedes. But did you hear about the Greek father of vegetables? His name was Crudites. ;-) (Yes, it ... Eurostar train through the Channel Tunnel, referred to by some as one of the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The summer begins…

  

  and housing lottery preferences. With most of this behind me, it feels ... this weekend to explore some of Europe by rail, and I promise to post

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist

  

  I'm currently out of the office, but back in Cambridge, it has been announced that unfortunately, for the third consecutive year, and despite all ... higher than we had expected. More news on the yield and makeup of the class

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Blog Links If you have a blog, share the URL in this thread!

  

  I haven't disappeared, really! Just haven't had a ton of things to post about this week. That will change next week when I post pictures ... - it's an awesome collection of clarifications & advice for first

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Hosts

  

  good part of this week matching MIT student hosts with prefrosh [prefrosh ... . Many of you will receive a call or email from your host in the next few ... the available hosts, and ultimately we were happy with all of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  get a written form of that lecture by Prof. Franc Wilczec, it seems so ... an audible file." I don't know of a transcript of his talk, but there is a transcript of his Nobel lecture in Oslo here (sadly, a PDF file

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And Then There Was One Juan Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor.

  

  catch the tears that would otherwise run with the ink of your applications ... been answered at the end of it.)

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Late Night Thoughts On You Guys & This Whole Process Each of you is going to make the world a better place, whether or not…

  

  't take the MIT admissions decision as any indication of your potential. You are all superstars, truly. And each of you is going to make the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 11, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  With a difficult day and a half of selection behind me, I'm looking ... summaries of your applications, and now we take those summaries and work from them. We do selection in subcommittees, usually of three people -- I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004