Snowy Birthday Party

Snowy Birthday Party Friday January 7th marked the beginning of MIT’s 150th birthday celebration. Alumni and community from all over are making trips to Cambridge to see and remember all the great things that have come out of our beloved MIT in the past century and a half. There are a ton of activities lined up for the next few months. The committee has been working for months now to gather all the history and artifacts they can muster to make sure that everything about the last 150 years is represented. I got the chance to go to the opening of the special exhibit at the MIT Museum. They have ten themes that display every aspect of life here. I was shocked at how many inventions and creations came out of the research that both students and professors are doing. These were the themes and objects they have in the exhibit: Academic MIT 2.70/2.007 MIT’s Most Famous Class Formula SAE Racecar Independent Activities Period Lantern Slides from MIT’s Faculty Physical Sciences Study Committee Scratch UROP Analog/Digital MIT Computer Time-Sharing Differential Analyzer GNU Manifesto Google App Inventor HP-35 Calculator “Man-Computer Symbiosis” MIT Project Athena Slide Rules Spacewar! Theseus Maze TX-0 Computer Whirlwind Computer Artistic MIT Analog Music Synthesizer Bavicchi’s Festival Symphony Calder’s La Grande Voile Centerbeam Copeland’s Canticle of Freedom Digital Holography Goldring’s Decent Harbison’s Flight Into Egypt Janney’s Soundstair Kepes’ Flame Orchard Leacock’s November Actions LeWitt’s Bars of Color Within Squares MIT Architectural Student Drawings MIT Glass Lab Parker’s Plasma Sculpture Piene’s Fleurs du Mal The Computer Generation White’s Capitol Reef Woodbury’s The Blue Wave Bionic MIT Artificial “Skin” Boston Arm H.M.’s Brain “Minsky Arm” PowerFoot One Prosthetic Foot Prescription Eyeglasses Lens Fabricator Stair-Climbing Wheelchair Strain Gage Denture Tenderometer MIT’s Boston Boston Chinatown Master Plan Boston Wind Tunnel Studies Boston’s Central Artery/Tunnel Plan Charles River as Research Lab Ellen S. Richards’ Research Notes Perceptual Form of the City Weather Radar Research William O. Crosby’s Geology Studies Broadcasting MIT Cambridge Campus Dedication Compton Lecture Series MIT Press’ Most Influential Works MIT Science Reporter MIT World’s Fair Albums MIT’s Mid-Century Convocation OpenCourseWare Stereo Views of “Boston Tech” WMBR 88.1 Radio Station Entrepreneurial MIT American Research Development Corp. Arthur D. Little’s “Silk Purse” MIT $100K Competition MIT Sloan Fellows MIT Spinoffs MIT’s First Patent Policy One Laptop Per Child Perfect Cup of Coffee Research SR-4 Strain Gage Technicolor Film Camera Pioneering MIT Adaptive Optics Apollo GNC System Simulator Athelstan Spilhaus’s Bathythermograph Atomichron Atomic Clock Brookhaven National Laboratory Chomsky’s Elements of Linguistic Structure Civil Engineering Surveying Classes Despradelle’s Beacon of Progress Discovery of tRNA’s Structure Edgerton’s High-Speed Motion Pictures Feynman Diagrams Francis Bitter’s First Electromagnet Hydrothermal Vent Samples MIT Neurosciences Research Program MIT Spectroscopy Laboratory MIT’s Accomplished Graduates MIT’s Distinguished Faculty MIT’s First Wind Tunnel Monsanto House of the Future Norbert Wiener Meets Albert Einstein Numerically Controlled Milling Machine Pioneering Maser/Laser Technologies R/V Atlantis Ray and Maria Stata Center RLE Brainwave Correlator Computer Sea Squirt Van de Graaff Generators Visible Language Worshop Voyager Plasma Science Experiment Whitehead Human Genome Project Problem-Solving MIT Cancer Research Carlisle Solar House Cavity Magnetron CityCar Electric Vehicle Copenhagen Wheel Expert Testimony Fluid Bed Catalytic Cracking Mark 14 Gunsight MIT Nuclear Research reactor Nuclear Medicine Presidential Science Advisors Project SAGE Protein Folding SS M.I.T. Victory Christening Bottle Virus Battery Uniquely MIT Baker House Piano Drop Dirk Struik Indictment Papers Grateful Dead at MIT Hacking â€" The Smoot IHTFP MIT Class of 2011 Brass Rat Richard C. Maclaurin’s Death Mask Sharpies Photo Mural Status of Women Faculty in Science (P.S. I got this list from the map of the exhibit There is also a ton more info about the exhibit here) When I left the museum, it was SNOOOWWWIIINNNNGGG! Now I know that this whole snow phenomenon is not as exciting to anyone who grew up around it. But for me, coming from the deep south, this is a unique occurrence. So unique, in fact, that it happened again the next week! We were graced with 18-24 inches of glorious, fluffy snow bunnies! The best part about it is, the #IAParty2011 is just beginning!