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  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  strange object was placed on the facade of lobby 7. I'm not really sure ... Ideas, so I approve. East Campus has been buzzing and punting for the ... effects of the madness all over the courtyard and even in the basement. I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exploring the Outdoors! In Kresge that is...

  

  At the end of fall semester, I look forward to one thing. No, it ... bicyclists (One thing I really think is cool about 2.009 are the little demo ... would allow kegs to be more safely and easily transported down stairs (I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Freshman App Questions We're happy to help.

  

  Ahoy! I hope you arrr having a great September. As you know, the MIT Freshman Application is available at MyMIT. The Early Action ... Application section of the site. I am happy to answer your questions (that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Salut! A look at Grenoble

  

  éel at CNRS Salut! I'm spending my summer in Grenoble, France, at the ... I get to work with liquid helium every day! It's very cool (...see what I did there? The French don't quite understand my puns, so you

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 26, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bibliophiles assemble! When life gives you books...

  

  A few weeks ago, I had the best weekend in recent history. Of course ... detail was the MIT Press Loading Dock Sale. And I lied - I KNEW it was ... ...you name it. I tried very hard to tame my hoarder instincts. My friend walked

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kickstart My Art highest form of expression

  

  , and I'm currently a freshman studying Computer Science and Philosophy. When I'm not doing homework, I'm writing programs and taking pictures of objects and places around me. I need your help: I'm striving to create a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  dedicated to LEGOs. I have three brothers, so we racked up quite a few LEGO ... creative. I remember building color coded Transformers, Pokemen, countless spaceships, and even Ironman himself. Then 8 years passed. Three weeks ago, I

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

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  If there’s one thing I’ve learned during my first semester at MIT is ... , and a rhetorical question. If I asked you what the meaning of life was, you could answer in a multitude of ways and I wouldn’t be able to say

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  about hacking at MIT." Julie: "I've been looking to write a musical! If you decide to do that, I will totally write music for you." *Cue lots of ... . I'll let a quick excerpt speak for itself (from the song: There's More

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  Just the other day, I joined a handful of parents at my 15-yr ... program changed their life. Nobody had to convince me. I spent most of the ... my mouth as I listened. In my son”s case, I already knew that a

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Life On Mars and by "Mars" I actually mean "3AB, Simmons Hall."

  

  House, iHouse, soon-to-be Maseeh, Random, Burton-Connor... ...and then ... . And while we're nice, we're... *gasp*... allegedly-boring. Personally, I love Simmons. I like being able to come "home" at the end of the day and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snowpeople & a hammershark more post-blizzard sights around campus --

  

  A couple days after the blizzard, I walked around campus and took some quick shots of all the snowpeople-and-other-things in sight. They ... : -- <3! (full credit to whoever built these!) -- P.S. I'm currently

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Do You Like “Like”? What to do about social sharing.

  

  Almost a year ago I wrote Going Social about adding the "Share" button to blogs so that they could be easily shared via Facebook. As I said ... who might otherwise never have seen it. I hope all of you found this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  scary? So what! Live a little, get over here (I live in EC, and I don't bite). Your host tell you West Campus is full of jocks? I know firsthand that's not true, and I also know firsthand that even those 'jocks' can be

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  with nerds from the future here at MIT). As I'm sure you already know ... , then you are who I'm talking to right now. There's just one thing you ... I love being at the most (a good thing since I spend most of my waking

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vote for Ksplice! MIT's spirit of entrepreneurship and collaboration in action.

  

  " Competition!) One of the aspects of MIT culture I most enjoy is the Institute ... the spirit of entrepreneurship and collaboration, I'm doing something I don't normally do on my blog. I'd like to ask you all to do me a big

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  dear to civilization. No matter how gingerly, how mildly I tug it open ... seconds to spell “hierarchy” successfully, but it's summer after all and I've had a harsh life. Why complain? I can afford the luxury of reattaching

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Explanation I always end up writing about underwear!

  

  Several years ago (I believe it was 3 but it may have been 2) there ... . Undergraduate uhh, he is graduating, right? and graduating people, i presume, won ... true, i admire [name]'s heroism for taking time out of his busy final

  • by Snively '11
  • April 30, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  Every so often I am begged to write a blog entry about a specific ... hot topic among applying students. I think back and I realize that I've gotten asked about bathrooms before and during most of my dorm tours I end

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Rainbow Lounge Where the LGBT kids hang out.

  

  Back in the day (TM) when I was a prefrosh participating in the awesomeness that is Campus Preview Weekend, I noticed an event in my 500 page calendar called "Rainbow Lounge Open House." I had no idea what that meant

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 23, 2009