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  “The Flying Luxury Hotel of Tomorrow” The luxury cruise of tomorrow is sweet!

  

  up or ease its descent. This two-football-fields-long concept airship ... Sci.comexternal link) -- This is not a Blimp. It's a sort of flying Queen Mary 2 that could change the way you think about air travel. It's the Aeroscraft, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  ! Please excuse the lolcat/EECS reference, it was a necessary evil. Surprise ... hopefully you're up for it. As you may or may not already know, it's kind of cold at MIT right now (13 degrees). What does cold mean? Cold means snow

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  recevied such harsh but simultaneously useful feedback. It was also lovely to ... reflected by others. We were learning how to make our own work better by ... workshops where it felt difficult to address flaws directly, for fear of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Top Ten of All Time; 2024 Edition ft. Barack Obama aka Minesweeper Monday EP 2

  

  In this episode, which was most certainly posted on a Monday, I talk about making a pizza, and how Simmons hall doesn't have a sheet pan in any ... 'congratulations' at the end. i tried to make it a caption but yo no se. "]Note[/annotation].

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 7, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  front of friends and family. the ceremony was long and tedious, but it was ... less sense. and meeting page requirements is difficult as it is, but trimming findings to meet page limits is its own special beast; sometimes, no

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  all say how everything is easier after MIT. It prepares you for whatever ... the season last night. I went because it wasn’t just any last football game, it was DeRon Brown’s last football game. I was drawn to it as if it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  awkward pause. It was fun, but the band definitely required more practice ... battle session, it was almost dawn, so we decided to watch the sunrise ... day, I was pleased to note that it was 6 am, and a whole day lay ahead

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  see what it usually entails =p) and the DTYD party - just shows how ... , you can't write that down You know I tool, it's there in black and white ... ya'll who committed (if you haven't - seriously - just do it. One small

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  Olympiad the summer after ninth grade. It’s easy to forget how smart he is ... Kyler at the time, but it isn’t intelligence I’m looking for. It’s curiosity. When I ask Chris how he got into chemistry, he tells me about

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  it still felt inadequate. Career Fair came and went in a blink. I ... backburner. It wasn’t necessarily feeling like I couldn’t land an internship. A ... evening, I received an e-mail about a talk Google was having on campus. It

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Amazin’ The Mets clinched the NL East. *happy dance*

  

  stuff. As its number may imply, it's the first Mechanical Engineering class, and you pretty much just sum forces all day long. The sum of the forces always equals zero, or else you did it wrong and life is unhappy

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We now interrupt our regularly-scheduled programming… I tried getting ahead on my reading assignments but that only lasted so long.

  

  should not only blog it but illustrate it scene by scene" (how am I so good ... it. This morning I got to go to class as it rained ice (yes, ICE ... . Speaking of 7.05 (how am I so good at these segues?), I told Chris P. about

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  , collaboration, and collective intelligence. It questions the old approach: Why ... school for as long as they want. The fastest student graduated in a year ... colleagues make it clear that 42 is about cutting-edge innovation rather than

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  sleeping from 6am to noon for the past month so I wasn't sure how my body ... Pad but in the shape of a sphere and it goes on top of your car". Towards ... , but there's no developed market for it. You have to create a need before

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  , my phone alarm played the following song: I snoozed it twice, and I ... met with a counselor to talk about life. It's a nice break to go there and talk about things, and how to cope with the pressure that is MIT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  learning English, and now - ten years later - I can't imagine how I would ... " - and who cares about the future, as long as I get yummy sticky rice and REAL bubble tea everyday? So it really hit me when I logged on to the MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  canceled. If it does then I may be stuck in Boston for Christmas because the ... It's over. Dear god, that was rough. Seriously. Freshman year I thought MIT was tough, and it was. But that's all it was, it was tough. It

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  . My professor wound the timer, said “go” - and it began. I described how ... A week ago today, I turned 20. It occurs to me that something weird ... fantastic amount of energy to create a universe.” ^ I'd give it an 8. Maybe

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  “It’s just so effortless!” Apples and ziti and pies, oh my!

  

  insane about AppleBake. We're so into it that our floor shirt has this cute ... whole lot of food: Teamwork at its finest! April browns the meat, Rick ... mixed, it was time to bake it. Hence the name "baked ziti." I grabbed a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  Period, but I think "It's Awesome Pterodactyl" is much more descriptive ... having it's annual "Winter School". Winter School is a series of lectures ... gear, it should be no surprise that I'm thrilled to be back just in time

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012