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  Pumpkin Drop Trick-or-treating is not enough.

  

      If a 5-kg pumpkin is tossed through a snowstorm such ... the Green Building, which is 90 meters tall, with what velocity does the pumpkin meet the ground in McDermott Court? How much time, in seconds, does

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Fondue: fun and done A break from admissions at the Fondue party.

  

  usually said "A-Kai-Oh") sorority's annual Fondue party. AXO Fondue is ... is, of course, chocolate. Lots of it. Including a yummy chocolate ... [see also: Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory] Last night, after a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  meetings in the ready room, a room next to the shooting range itself. On the ... practice to always keep the muzzle pointed at a safe direction. In the range ... in order to shoot a pellet; another part of safety was to keep your

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Reaching for the STARS* *Small Town And Rural Students

  

  Town and Rural Students) College Network, a collaborative effort of a ... communities.  While the initiative is new, the concern for these students is not.  The partnership, initiated with significant philanthropic support, is

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  bustle, sit down, and zone in. Right below this room is a similar room ... . ____________________________ This post is the first in what I hope is a series of live one-hour slices ... My favorite room is a well-kept secret. I won't reveal the location

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble This ain't your AP English class's Shakespeare.

  

  't beat that.) Dirty Hands is, first and foremost, a political drama about ... . Essentially, the play is a framed narrative where Hugo, the idealistic assassin ... , the audience delves deeper and deeper into Hugo's mind (which is not a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  MIT, this is a problem I wrestled for a while.  And I've learned that it ... staying warm on a budget is that it's all about layering. Not only does this ... investing a bit more money in upfront. A cheap sweater that pills and falls

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Fantasy Feast Fantasy foods and costumed friends.

  

  Yesterday evening Random Hall residents prepared a CPW fantasy feast ... prepared, photographed by the amazing YQ ‘16. The foods highlighted in the ... cake, deviled eggs, onigiri, and pork stew. The strawberry kiwi punch is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ecosystems And Web Sites A science question & general check-in.

  

  ? I told you guys - I'm not a science kid. Hook me up. In other news, I ... This is really, really cool. (Link stolen shamelessly from Riley ... site is going to be so awesome. Just you wait and see. :-) How's summer

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 15, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas with the McGanns

  

  The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. Two nights ago we did our traditional decorating of the tree. Just 2.8 miles from my house (according to Yahoo! Maps) is the famous Big Duck, which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  As I mentioned in my last entry, Change.org is running a competition ... , though, it could serve as a powerful tool in the fight against every global ... .org as a registered user. – Click on the "Ideas" icon in the top

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  of blog is going to be a mix between text and images, in stream ... of Conner 2 sitting in the floor lounge, eating Hsin Hsin (a great ... the hall, put a sign on it that says Reuse (the sign is actually

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  cheerleader, I a member of a group that is shockingly underrepresented in ... , I think, is what you really want in an undergrad school -- a place ... my AP's were in science! That's a true story.) I was ranked 11th in my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Off to Southeast Asia Even Admissions Officers get to take a vacation sometimes.

  

  Today, I leave for three weeks of vacation in Southeast Asia. Nominally, the purpose of the trip is to be in Malaysia for a (Malay) friend ... 'm pretty excited about all of those places. Should be a great trip. While I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Sloan MBA Adetayo Akisanya works at Volaris, a Mexican airline, on their Commercial Strategy team “I really gained a new perspective on the airline industry, on commercial strategy, on competition,…

  

  thought I was a good manager, and wanted to give it a try in a highly ... a list of things I didn’t learn!" Volaris From the ... airplane tires stacked on top of each other and covered in glass. Meeting

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  International Selection Day 1

  

  international students.   I wore a tie today, which might clue you in to ... ) Executive Committee. ISA is a terrific support network for our international ... . Tomorrow is a new day, and a new tie. I'm very much looking forward to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  : Walking to work. I walked a lot this summer. Living in a place where public ... is actually run by a bunch of zombies. Since the original plan of ... ever. Living in Boston. I lived at Phi Delta Theta this summer for a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  -Photorealistic Rendering or NPR is a technique in computer graphics used to render 3D models ... , physically based simulation, ray tracing, and real-time rendering. There is a ... .youtube.com/watch?v=dDeEmtCrhdc[/embed] Ray Tracing Ray tracing is a technique to render 3D scenes by shooting

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  offer. Of course, with P-Sets and all, it is easy to get caught up in your ... simply enjoy life. For those who don’t l know, I come from a town in ... personal book challenge that I’ll blog about in a few weeks!) snacks, my

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  is "I make friends with the people in APO, the Assassins' Guild, the UA ... . In APO, the tradition is that Bigs are supposed to let their Littles ... alums, and which I hadn't been to before. When we walked in, a guy I had

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006