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  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  MIT is really cool. MIT has a glassblowing class. I took the ... lol). This blog post is about my journey into the art of glass. :) Class 1: All about glassblowing, safety, and collecting the glass. The

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  the OnStar Student Developer Challenge with their speech ... descriptions, directions, ratings, and reservations. It can also let the user send a text message to invite friends or post to the user’s Twitter

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  I absolutely love the design process. Everything from coming up with ... we could do to change up the Chocolate City lounge space, I absolutely jumped at the idea of creating a new sign for our wall.   For

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  This post contains minor spoilers for the structure of MIT Mystery ... . I’m not sure what people think about this. Do people actually read the ... ; I’m interested. Anyway, here’s the contents. If you’re not interested

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  decision. 22 days after the first application submission. 40 days until the ... mattered. Friday, December 13, Early Action decision day, was to be “the day my life will never be the same.” The prospect sent me into shivers and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  In the middle of an already-packed IAP, I received an email: I’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to ... , searching the empty cavities of my skull for words.  I was busy and not

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done

  

  With the school year coming back around, it only feels necessary to ... accomplish by the end of the school year knowing that 90% of the items on this ... challenge myself with:   Visit 15 new places to eat in the Cambridge

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)

  

  you all. When I left MIT in 2018, I "graduated" with the first class I ... college counselor to give the same advice I loved to give on the blogs. Each of my students heard about finding their puzzle piece and the magic

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  come up with the perfect thing to write. Something that would garner nothing but praise and applause. Something that would ring through the halls ... about across the shores of Valhalla. Then, after writing a slew of blogs

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Events

  I went outside! *inhales, belts 'for the first time in forever' at the top of lungs*

  

  the MIT bubble, and I didn't really think about how little I actually ... doing the unforeseeable and Going Outside! (It's also because I took a ... something called the MIT Outing Club. Most of what they do is organize trips

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  The Festival of Learning is an annual event organized by the MIT Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology ... the Festival last year here. This year, I wanted to be more involved

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  it's that time of year folks, the time of year that I don't even have the strength to capitalize properly no more (nor the energy to invest in proper grammar standardized english). It's the time of year (midterms

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

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  a haircut at this place my brother recommended--the guy there said he was booked all morning so i scheduled an appointment at 3:15 in the afternoon. then i walked down newbury street from mass ave to the library and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Fantasy Feast Fantasy foods and costumed friends.

  

  . Below are some of my beautiful costumed friends and some of the food they prepared, photographed by the amazing YQ ‘16. The foods highlighted in the ... cake, deviled eggs, onigiri, and pork stew. The strawberry kiwi punch is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our homework is to go camping on a school night...!

  

  this semester has been especially fun and out-of-the-ordinary. So two weeks ago - …the assignment was to construct a bamboo-and-canvas shelter to be erected on the lawn of the Endicott House - MIT's private mansion

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  This post is about the classes I'm taking - and is a case in xkcd ... to some speakers, and turned up the volume (I covered my ears) until it ... Who characterized by baldness and tentacles sprouting from the face

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Admitted Students

  

  This was the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute, and you are one of the very few applicants to whom we offered admission. Congratulations and welcome to the Class of 2015! Feel free to

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Bill Gates It looks like you're trying to inspire philanthropy...

  

  Bill Gates was on campus today to speak about the need for innovation ... to look at the work of the D-LAB, Jameel Poverty Action Lab, One Laptop ... examples of how MIT students are already involved in making the world a

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Large Format Photography [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Please, please let there be no light-leaks.

  

  a marathon. Why? I’m now the owner of an 8x10 view camera. In my last post, I mentioned that I was in the process of building an 8x10 camera at the MIT Hobby Shop. After months designing and building this

  • by ARTalk
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How Do You Mic A Stripper? [by Harrison Bralower '11] It's a great question when you really think about it.

  

  interviewed to be the Sound Designer for the Musical Theater Guild's (MTG) spring production of The Full Monty. It's a great question when you really ... the small of your back, if you know what I mean. MTG (and MIT's other

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2008