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  that time of year… ...when every day feels like 48 hours instead of 24. When's summer?

  

  on a loop:   You are in the front yard of your aunt's house ... noisier and quieter than the city. Here, the sounds of birds and insects ... again, thousands of miles away from where you normally live and go to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  feeling of distance and to give something more than my fundraising letter ... language barrier and recalls discovering the power of non-verbal communication. “Somehow we were able to sit around and make jokes and make fun of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT Mini Maker Faire Celebrating STEAM and creativity

  

  the video) and she helped me understand why some of these machines ... articles, feel free to ask and I can do my best to share more of my ... Last Saturday was the first ever MIT Mini Maker Faire, and (at least

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  on the forefront of digital and project-based education. Technological ... and pedagogy together for effective learning. I blogged an overview of ... . Flowers is the co-founder of the FIRST Robotics Competition and MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  parties I've typically blogged about in the middle of October? And the exams ... on my birthday, because now I know that it's a sense of responsibility ... . There was also that time when one of our professors turned us loose on the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  's always a TON of things going on. Since it's my senior year and I have this intense fear of missing out, I've definitely made an effort to get out and ... Transfer and Chocolate." One lovely October day, Jasmine and I hopped on the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft

  

  on the front and a funny nickname and number on the back"]Bomber shirt ... villagers, a cow DJ, and hordes of rampant pigs. The villagers immediately ... orange 3rd that was filled with 1000 pounds of loose sand and placed in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  hello, after six years

  

  i have been here and there, the last six years. i think a lot of ... the thought a good home in my body. one of these thoughts is the idea ... ? who do you take care of and allow to take care of you? these are the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Resolved: MIT Rocks Even the Senate thinks so

  

  Senate Resolution 195. "Mr. BROWN of Massachusetts (for himself and Mr ... ; Whereas the commitment of MIT to innovation and the entrepreneurial spirit ... sales of approximately $164,000,000,000 and represent 26 percent of total

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  State of the Mail We're processing a lot of mail.

  

  largest volume of mail you've ever seen. There is a lot of mail to be opened, sorted, entered into the database, filed, and reviewed. My advice to you is to please be patient as you watch the application tracking system on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where do Trees Come From?

  

  .125 focuses more on theory and 11.131 focuses on practical issues. For instance ... like this one. Photo courtesy of publicdomainpictures.net And of ... some class at MIT as an impartial observer and take notes on how the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  on about “third-degree burns”, I gazed around the room and crafted a ... a few of these mysterious confections. Lo and behold, my dietary ... someone noticed and swatted it out of my hand and onto the floor, shattering

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  lives. And then there's me! I don't have any of those kinds of ideas, but ... doing this kind of stuff, but I quickly got the hang of it again and was ... 23, 10:00 pm I ran into some of my teachers from MIT and a few friends

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  to focus on biology or chemistry) Physics: -1 year of physics with lab ... regrettably true. Medical schools pay a lot of attention to your GPA and MIT ... -working, successful, and can handle the rigors of their program, and MIT has a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Castle, a Jack, and a Beanstalk hacking culture @ MIT

  

  community (and sometimes even the rest of the world!).” On the sunny Saturday of Family Weekend 2014, a castle appeared on the skybridge connecting ... extended a beanstalk. On it, hung Jack, all packed and ready for adventure

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Awesome Autobiography in rage comic form

  

  to me, and on to you. It is pretty awesome, and another piece of data ... about the perspective of an 86 year old veteran and videogamer on life in ... part of the Internet - though culturally close and easily accessible via

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures of me

  

  pictures of myself. I don't have that many pictures of myself, and most of ... . But I'll put some on here anyway. Some of them have appeared on here ... rate), and the debate is one of the few parts of the process that I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  16.810 Rapid Design and Prototyping 8 days to build an airplane. Intrigued?

  

  !). Birthdays and Christmas were the only days of the year on which we'd actually ... robots (and that I'm in now- more on that later). As part of our final ... model RC airplane called the Parkzone Radian. And instead of my basement

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Combining the Arts and the Sciences Some of the best science writing is happening at MIT. Find out how to get…

  

  . Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may ... where the speakers shared their insights about the ins and outs of being a ... , French, German, Japanese, Spanish), History, History of Art and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 21, 2007
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s happening at the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies?

   protection and survivability capabilities. Team members collaborate on basic research to create new materials, devices, processes, and systems, and on ... useful to the soldier. Army members of Team ISN also give guidance on