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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch is one of my favorite events at MIT. It is annual, put on by the MIT Glass Lab (the people who make the ... should also look at Andrea Silverman '05's photo essay on the Glass Lab

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  -or-treating. The day started off like most Fridays, with 20.110 at 10am, followed by a 5.13 at 11am. As we entered the 5.13 lecture hall, our costumed TA ... greeted us at the front of the lecture hall: Professor Buchwald dressed

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My new job @ admissions like nick saban, but for nerds

  

  most we take on here at MIT, it's a easy one to solve. As many of you ... : next on my calendar is the Siemens Regional Finals, hosted here at MIT by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  When MIT Gets Tough, CAAAATTTT Everything was terrible, and then I cat

  

  I GOT CAT I GOT CAT I GOT CAT I GOT CAT I GOT CAT I GOT CAT This past weekend, I rushed my mom and sister to come visit me at MIT because I was feeling particularly stressed out and at a loss for how to deal

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  can’t go eat at Flour Bakery literally every day. I want to eat ... dancing, and I told him that I liked it, but I wasn’t very good at it. He looked at me and laughed. “I noticed.” (But really, FAP was fun. Do FAP

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  – they're not great – but as the blogs already have four years of Keri-is-not-good-at ... first day of school in the United States, at the start of third grade, was less than stellar. I sat in my assigned seat at a table next to Jennifer

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Faculty Dinner We invited our favorite faculty and staff to our hall for an awesome dinner!

  

  , we had a greeter at the door to welcome them to our hall. Most of us ... , he didn't get to eat any Angel Food Cake. He only got to look at six

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file? Well, now you can--thanks to a HackMIT project.

  

  about hackathons at MIT and how amazing they are in the amount of ... ) at HackMIT last October. Then called "ImagesAsText," he took home

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  by your accomplishments, whether academic, athletic, or at home ... mind: “At the end of his wits, his mind reeling from all of the bad news

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans

  

  to present my research at AAS conferences, and membership turns out to ... solar astrophysicist at Harvard. The AAS has a whole website on how to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  Meeting Of The Year. I woke up at 8:30 to my alarm, turned it off, and *actually* woke up at 9:30, this time to the aroma of cinnamon rolls. One of ... of finishing all my requirements at the last minute like that has been

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  locally at MyMIT. One of the differences between the Common App and the ... know what you want to major in, which department or program at MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  have such great concentration skills. We used to be a varsity sport at ... the team! The competition was at West Point Military Academy, and we ... weekend, and I know that we'll do awesome.   Caving At the beginning

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  ? Organized by senior Brendan Deveney, the snow war started Saturday at 4:05pm ... magical power of mailing lists (how everything gets done at MIT) a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exploring the Outdoors! In Kresge that is...

  

  At the end of fall semester, I look forward to one thing. No, it's not finals (Common, who enjoys those?). It's the 2.009 presentations ... during the presentations. They usually play songs that hint at what the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Infinite Corridor, set alight or, why dozens of people were crammed into a tiny stairwell at 4:19:53 PM EST

  

  predictions of the event. And so, on November 10th 2012 at 04:19:53 PM EST, a ... after being yelled at" - it was quite an event. If you missed

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  . The first, sent at 9:29am, was from Chris, saying that Emad and I had ... event tickets. At 10:00am and 11:28am respectively, an e-mail came in from Emad. The first - an expression of celebration at our respective ticket

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cats!! I love where I live!!

  

  East Campus is the best home I could have ever asked for. Dorms at MIT are kind of different from most other colleges. Each dorm has its ... can see, he is very derpy. Derp Cat is not smart. He is not smart at

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  during the school year. But those seven days at the end of the summer ... the Maine mountains, at a Renaissance Fair, and roaming Boston with two ... for; he lives in Maine, and invited friends to go visit at the end of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  at that moment, I had no idea what I was arguing for, what my project ... everything I loved, hated, and learned while being an architecture student at ... long time for me to admit that, because at MIT, the work really does

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012