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  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  between peak and off-peak travel seasons, and the fleetingly brief periods of time here in the Northeast between heating and cooling seasons (or ... utterly listenable 51 minutes.Recently, I had the privilege and pleasure of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  stuff and was equally weighted with the other exams. The final was last Thursday and the last day of classes was the Thursday before, so I had a week ... " has come to a close. And of course, it wouldn't be blogworthy unless

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  the morning and headed over to check-in. This is a three-hour shift of ... . Clearly everyone else knows what they are doing and learned all of the ... raise their hand and ask questions beyond the scope of the class and talk

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year of the Origami Dog A beautiful folded-paper version of Evie the dog.

  

  is the annual Student Origami Competition and Exhibit (deadline ... gift: an origami Evie. The most amazing thing about the piece is just how much it really looks like Evie. Check it out! The origami Evie

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  directly manipulate and assemble them. One of the few such tools is optical ... Research Fellowship (SURF) program at the National Institute of Standards of ... Devices and I worked in the Manufacturing Engineering Lab. So, see that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT this summer (part 1) It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of…

  

  that aren't on the tour, and, of course, some friendly advice. We can ... entries on how to visit MIT and Boston this summer. For those of you who ... to leave your advice on visiting MIT and Boston in the comments; I will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Birth Of My Third Child The new admissions web site finally launches! Report any bugs here.

  

  Hi folks, Well here you have it - the new-and-improved MIT ... to keep the other blog threads on topic (how often have you been in the middle of a discussion on Topic X when someone jumps in and posts "I got a

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  figured I'd say hello to all of you lovely folks in the style of Qiaochu Y. '12's post from the time of yore with an Ask Me Anything! If you ... answered, and I'll try to get to them quicker. Examples of questions you can

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  getting paid and doing two of my favorite things, and I felt like the luckiest person in the world, because one of those things is my career. And I ... hundreds of tech startups and fifty other colleges or whatever the statistic

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / CPW

  Hottest ever CPW ouch global warming

  

  temperature scales and wow is the difference visible. The CPW weather machine is broken, but in the other direction, oops global warming. (And if you're ... This chart first appeared in my CPW history post, but I wanted to

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

  Fireworks over MIT’s Great Dome Fireworks and music and Dome, oh my.

  

  of July celebration -- one of the biggest and best fireworks shows around. And now, you can watch a excerpt of the fireworks over the Dome, online. Click To Play   Thanks to MIT TechTV for posting the clip!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  superposition, the concept of linearity, the exponential shift law, and more. Yes ... of my time immersed in the intricacies of addition reactions to alkenes ... chemistry), not to mention the peculiarities of second-order ordinary

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Newest Member of Our Family What could possibly be more exciting than prefrosh?

  

  Game of Thrones. The little kitten is so cute! She jumps all around and ... . '15 drove Kerry N. '14, Jes P. '15 and I to the animal rescue place in ... adopted her kitty, and when the two siblings were together in the cage she

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  game. Each class taken unlocks branches of other exciting classes, and ... interesting and highly-rated classes while still hitting all the requirements ... information about the requirements for each major, when classes are offered, and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art in the Infinite, Vol. 2 MIT meets King Koopa.

  

  the good ol' days of Nintendo. The small dome with it's very own Mario ... is the last day of my 5th semester at MIT. Time flies when you're having fun. More photos of the rest of the day coming soon.

  • by Bryan
  • December 14, 2005
• 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 ... model RC airplane called the Parkzone Radian. And instead of my basement ... cutter and various other tools. We assembled the plane right out of the box

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Special Edition! Speaking of Valentine's Cards . . .

  

  , and perhaps some of the other bloggers, took some time to make some ... , and here's what I did: 38 of the cards have a number underneath my name ... Hey, so as Shannon just mentioned, all of the EA admits got V

  • by Snively '11
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  of this sort. You can do all of the parts of the MIT application in ... teacher is on the ball and sends in your recommendation in September, we'll hold on to it until the rest of your application comes in. The same goes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  In The Mail Well folks, the time has come. The letters are in the mail.

  

  exhausted (Amy)... All in all, we're relieved that this part of the journey is over. Have a great weekend everyone, and best of luck to each of you. :-) ... Well folks, the time has come. Note that the pic up top has changed

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  receives a stack of flyers and documents and charts and posters as soon as they set foot on campus. One of these papers is the famous list of "101 ... aware that some of the ones on my list are also on the official list. The

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020