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  Reek Week Updated 8/3 to include pictures of Gilroy garlic ice cream.

  

  fries. I feel really bad for the stands that were *selling* garlic ... for free. The happiest (and stinkiest) I've been in years. Eating ... good as Costco at lunch. Why these people are dressed like this, I do

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Puzzled need a quick fix for your boredom? try this puzzle on for size.

  

  course of one weekend. Freshman year, some friends and I decided to ... prepare one another. This is the one I came up with. I'll be posting puzzles ... couple days later, I'll post the solution. Maybe you can join our team

  • by Bryan
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  She came in through the bathroom window. The greatest construction project in the history of MIT--yes, even greater than Simmons Hall.

  

  the meantime, they have this sign up. Can you imagine what I looked ... , sorry, I just really like this door... and need a picture of it. Right now. Go ahead by!" I did receive applause from two self-identified "women

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 Numbers

  

  In a recent post, I wrote, "Our yield was even higher than we ... (though preliminarily there are a few numbers I'm very excited about ... , "Hmm...I know you can't tell us yet, but when you do, can you let

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ethicist

  

  As many of you know, I'm an avid reader of the New York Times ... times of the year, I'll do the crossword in the Magazine. Also in the ... recommendation. Ethical? Of course, the answer was "Not ethical." But I wonder what

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision letters mailed

  

  envelope sizes, since I've received a number of questions about this, I can ... other FAQ I've been getting is, why so few EA admits? 200220032004 EA ... prime number (though I'm sure you'd prefer a different prime number, maybe

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 04 What I took way back when

  

  In numerical order, this term, I am taking: 4.614; 7.012; 14.02; 14.30; 21A.453 In alphabetical order, this term, I am taking: Anthropology ... classes. I'm a genius, I know.) Okay, here go some descriptions: (Note

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 23, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  If I had a nickel for every time my final project for an MIT class was themed around cats, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird pretty awesome that it happened twice. This semester, I took 6

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  Over IAP, I had the opportunity to participate in one of MIT's IAP programs in Madrid. I enrolled in 21L.590 Global Literature (although on ... taken Spanish Conversation and Composition in the fall semester, I thought

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  good title. Oh well, that's life. I'll start off by saying that I ... have missed. I've been reading these comments for a year and half now and ... entries question about admissions (I have a _ _ _ math and _ _ _ verbal

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  Hello! It’s about 3,000 days since I graduated from MIT, and three ... newborn.  In the 3,000 days, I moved to Washington, D.C. (for a fellowship ... for five years, reconnected with a friend I met on the first day of CPW

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  , face possible criticism, to realize your full potential. In my case, I ... ’s the email I pored over for so long. [caption id="attachment_107005 ... this[/caption] I ordered a 64 pack of chalk, which would definitely be

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  -below temperatures seeps into your bones. I can still recall the breath of the cows and ... that I am at MIT, I have found that winter in Boston may be the same ... Wyoming wilderness, I find myself navigating the narrow streets and bustling

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  than usual. I am holding pallets of bright green, yellow, and purple ... , fast forward all the way from 1958 to 2023. How did I end up here on this bridge? Not even an hour earlier, I was minding my own business

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  [annotation note="I may be wrong about this estimate because I’ve never been on ... months before the sale. When I first learned about this fact, it raised ... about it! After all, I’ve made… counts on fingers… two whole glass

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  at the beginning of the semester i wrote a post where i mentioned that i was taking the class nanotechnology: from atoms to systems (6 ... classes i’ve taken at mit, along with molecular basis of infectious disease

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Watch this year’s 2.s009 final presentations designing kindness during a time of covid

  

  the competing teams; I also expect you will learn how one of MIT ... you're waiting for the show to start. I'm too busy reading applications to 'attend,' alas, but I can't wait to watch the archived footage later!

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Fall 2020 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live may the 4th be with you

  

  we could not. As a former transfer student myself, I know that this ... : welcome to MIT. For those who weren't: keep on trucking. I transferred, but if I hadn't, things would have been fine. Whatever happens, we wish you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  I'm away from campus at IMO, but I heard from my colleagues on the ... prompts for the forthcoming cycle, so I'm posting them. I want to be clear ... begin thinking and planning in advance, which I respect and value (one of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  and pedagogy together for effective learning. I blogged an overview of the Festival last year here. This year, I wanted to be more involved ... must pull at least a dozen others with you.” I wish I’d heard these words

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018