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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  I had lunch at Harvard today, on the stone steps of a building like ... and ate the blackberries and apple and cheese I brought from home, and the kids trudged past to their classes, and I wondered how I would have

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  . Essentially, MIT students get the month of January off to do whatever we please ... Raymond's website and you can find the original post here. Part 1 ... designing the model, Raymond knew he wanted a turntable for easily maneuvering

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  sometime around 3 am, sharing food on the sofa of our freshman year suite and ... , like, the best room ever."  "Oh not just any double, THE double."    And thus, The Double was born. The inception of this idea sent us

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  been thinking about. one, the witness, which is about the meaningless ... , everything, which the author intended as a "feel good" game about interconnectedness, arguing against the alienation of self from the rest of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  -speaking. Whenever I tell people I'm a theater minor at MIT, there are the occasional ... something. GEL has taught me that this can mean the difference between killing ... is what led Tony Eng, a course VI senior lecturer, to organize the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: the creative process for Pi day videos

  

  The blogs have been quiet lately. Summer is ending, freshman are ... officers are preparing for the admissions cycle (sort of like preparing for ... by the Video4Colleges podcast about the drone delivery video from Pi

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  explanations... The Beard. As you've probably noticed in the picture above, I'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind this: I challenged the other admissions officers to a "no-shave" reading

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat the heat in the Z Center Pictures of the MIT gym

  

  house and I decided that I really missed the Charles River and the Zesiger Center. A few of you were curious about the facilities, so I thought I'd post some pictures. Plus, you can use the Z Center for free during the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  tomorrow and it's all for you. For four days MIT crams all the awesome stuff we do throughout the year into one gigantic weekend extravaganza with ... the people I polled about CPW, the one event they said meant more than

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 1 Two MIT students were chosen as Glamour's Top 10 College Women

  

  Glamorous moments, in the traditional sense, are fleeting at MIT. There are the occasional formal dances and student runway shows, but it ... the night before, or knowing that you will be spending the rest of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Pennyslvania leads the country in mushroom production, supplying 45% of the nation's mushrooms. California, in second place, provides ... , but I'd rather blame Google Maps for getting me lost on the way to my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Christy ‘13 The first in a series of articles about students coming to MIT in the fall.

  

  I'm frequently asked about the students that are admitted to MIT. Who ... mostly come from local newspapers. The stories are pretty inspirational, and the students are going to be great members of the MIT community. A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  's the 8 page draft paper that was due today. Or the 6.004 lab where I have to program a Turing machine - it's due Thursday. Or the revision of my ... design I'm going to write up). Or either of the psets in my other two

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  Prologue “Guess what, gang?” Fred Harris – the director of the MIT ... a dozen speakers hidden around Kresge auditorium while the stage transformed into an impromptu dance floor. That Friday, we performed in the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  i’d like to write a happy post a sestina

  

  I've been gone from the blogs for a little while, since this semester has been quite a difficult one and I haven't really had the headspace to write. I'm hoping to come back soon, but, in the meantime, please accept

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Stuff that happened on Pi Day (besides decisions) pastries and pie-ings from around the institute

  

  . Since the blogs were mostly focused on decisions, I figured I'd follow up a few days later with some of the other stuff that happened on Monday. Pie Kits from Clover To celebrate all the hard work done by the whole

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 16, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  socially aware hacking, part 2 this time, it's personal ((last time it was also personal))

  

  I wrote a little while ago about a hack on the Dot raising awareness ... companies which are, uh, potentially accelerating the doom of our species not doing great on the climate change front. Here's another one by the same

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Beacon St. and Marlborough St. Rooftops and flowers on two streets in Boston.

  

  Over the past few years, toward the end of my full-time undergrad and ... Boston, and Somerville—the vines and flowers and old brick against ... pillars, grey roofs, green and red walls, rust, and vines. I still feel the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

        On the evening of June 6, 2012, a satellite with its camera pointed toward the sun sent the first 500 GB of its daily report back to base. Clouds covered the world thousands of miles below

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  TELETHONNNNN brought to you by Domino's

  

  After my kickboxing class today I ran to the Bush Room and just finished a three hour shift of the Admissions Telethon, calling to ... Iwasjustcallingtocongratulateyouonyourearlyadmissionanddoyouhaveanyquestions?" The first few calls were just as surprising for me as they were for the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 1, 2012