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  MIT Mini Maker Faire Celebrating STEAM and creativity

  

  Last Saturday was the first ever MIT Mini Maker Faire, and (at least ... the event justice in this blog because of my general inexperience with STEM maker culture (although I’ve had plenty of immersion with the arts

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  We Eat At Food Trucks A few may even start their own

  

  Last Thursday, I went to “Food Truck 101: The Conference”, a 4-hour ... planning to go to the Nate Silver event the same evening -- but that’s okay, because Michael covered it fantastically. That's the outside of Clover Food

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 6, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  At the start of the semester a close friend of mine gave me her loft ... , the height of a loft—evaporated within hours. When I moved my head, my room to my right swayed with me, and so did the world four stories down

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MyMIT is live we're ready for you to begin

  

  Good news!  You can now log onto MyMIT to access the application ... silver packet in the mail recently. This is our official MIT Application ... . Once you register on MyMIT, you will be ready to begin the application

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s like finding candy in your pocket… MIT in the media - Always a treat.

  

  MIT is incredibly wired; wi-fi all over the campus. Students are likewise very into the Internet as you may have guessed, and as it should be ... hours to the Internet - aka procrastination. But is it me or are we all

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  a lot of Star Wars books. I wore a fanny pack in the front with extra ... grade science reports on, say, baking powder volcanos, I did mine on The ... to enter the 6th grade, my mom got a flier for something called the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy! REALLY don't even think about bringing a car to MIT - sans elephants.

  

  wonderful font, if one of you readers or eager beavers already done with the ... staying awake while on the road, so he would stop at the Wellesley MA rest town around exit 16 to buy soft ice cream and mountain dew from the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  Every so often, during the Q&A portion of an MIT information session, I am asked a question like this: Is it true that MIT has the highest suicide rate? The answer to that question is: No, this is not true

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  Stanford pen because I really liked the campus but staying here over CPW I ... like it here despite the weather. MIT rules!!" -actual '14 testimonial ... happens every year). Starting from meeting a couple dozen of you at the i

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  students declare their major at the end of their first year; however, each December, the registrar sends out letters to some freshmen, offering them Early Sophomore Standing. The freshmen who choose to accept this are, as

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  A “World Record Attempt” We can do it!

  

  bazillions of froshies, eager and excited to start the MIT experience. Going ... dad asked me this morning "Do you think the freshmen are scared about ... scared right now. Be excited. Orientation is one of the craziest weeks you

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie Part II My schedule

  

  As I've mentioned before, each semester the bloggers all get a ... are Wednesdays with that gap in the middle, but the rest is pretty full ... .004 = Dynamics and Controls II. In this class we enter the magical Laplace domain

  • by Snively '11
  • February 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  So the other day, I was totally out of food. Like, completely. I ... crackers one night, it was time to own up to the fact that I was going to have to order out. Thank God for credit cards and the internet. Within a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Halloween, Part 2 Sometimes it's fun to be somebody you're not.

  

  costume. So, here I am as a duke: Note the plume in my hat. Hats with ... my friends in Senior Haus. Note the mural of Death (from Neil Gaiman's Sandman) in the background, which is one of my favorites, out of all the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Brief Taste of Orgo Basically, Sam Maurer is a prophet.

  

  couldn't help but chuckle when I picked up the notes outlining the topics scheduled to be covered in the discussion. The list went something like this ... Dihydroxylation Ozonolysis The Chemistry of Free Radicals Addition of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  of the day)EVERYONE I KNOW: There are elephants being marched down Mass ... true; you only know us. ME: Oh, right. Every year in October, the circus comes to town, and the only way to get the elephants from the train

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Yay CPW! I'm just trying to see how many blog entries we can get in the RSS…

  

  getting to meet a lot of you, but it was exhausting- I lived in the Burton ... minute nap on one of the couches down there (during which time I dreamed about all of the things that needed to be done in the next x hours) and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  during the day, and although I wore a hat and drank lots of water I got tired quickly. We walked all the way from there to the Lusaka Post Office, and along the way stopped at three different bookstores looking for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter one Reporting on location from Fort Worth.

  

  !) This week, I drove about 1200 miles from my house in Arizona to the Fort Worth, Texas area, where I'll be spending all of IAP (and the summer) interning at the headquarters of North America's second-largest railroad, BNSF

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Food? What? I may weigh approximately two pounds, but I eat as much as everyone else. All…

  

  lack the ability to cook food in small amounts and nearly all of my ... hall solely because I was really just that bad in the kitchen. Well, I ... . (No, not everything can be considered food by adding the term "flambé

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006