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

  

  get a start on the college exploration process. For that later group I ... I have heard the term “Shoulder Season” to characterize the time ... vice versa). I am, however, going to co-op the term to also apply to the

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

  We have nice things on the walls And I have pictures.

  

  own bubble wrap to it. This is on a wall in the same part of the house ... kindergartener painted it. Get over it.) and her FPOP counselors made her a sign ... +/- 3 beds (too sleepy to think harder about it); two are doubles, and the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  There’s a lot of things that happen to us that we simply don’t think ... ’re arranged in order. ( by the way, ‘random’ is a Python module that helps with ... , during my trip to work on the Muti Water Project (see the blog post "A

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  watched a series of videos (x, x, x) to help me get more acquainted with i3 ... of a fear that I wouldn't do it "right" or I wasn't "smart enough" to ... minor, it's a really big character development for me. To start off, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  to MIT 3 years ago, I made a choice. And then I kept making choices ... life down in the sunlight of a suburb. I chose to do this exchange ... . And I chose to go to a city nearby and taste that heavenly sweet potato

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  him at "Casa Verdi," a resting home for retired musicians built by one ... Parma Conservatory. Me and a large likeness of Arrigo (to give you an ... and Emilia-Romagna regions. Interestingly enough, a deep foundation in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Hackapult Sieges The Dome

  

  river to — past the giant catapult.    Yes, there was a hack - a ... . One of the lovely things about my office is that I have a window under the Great Dome, overlooking Killian Court. It's a beautiful view

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5th of November, Remembered Bonfire Night celebrations in Cambridge.

  

  to Midsummer Commons along with a sea of people. I was worried that I won't know how to get there but no worries because everyone else was ... and feel obligated to write about 5th of November/Guy Fawkes

  • by Cambridge
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  accepted, I will be travelling with a group of about 30 students to Detroit ... suggest that you try to as well. Hopefully a short description of my ... . A pretty common question for people to ask me is where I’m going next

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics Kickoff Things go into Overdrive at a reception at Dean Kamen's house.

  

  ...Heliport? Heliport? Did I read that correctly? Yes, Kamen has, in addition to a garage (for his cars), a heliport (for his two helicopters). In addition to a ... Last night, after a day of reading the first batch of regular action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  nth Annual Concert in Bad Taste We are the mooninites..

  

  dedicated to Facebook, which is probably the reasons I get less sleep than I ... airplanes and toilet paper into a lecture hall? ... Well, it starts with one ... toilet paper across 10-250. Why in the world would someone do such a thing

  • by Bryan
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Random notes A little bit of this, a little bit of that.

  

  Hiro Nakamura on the NBC series Heroes, has signed on to the film 21, a ... it in all the pre-deadline craziness, but a recent entry by Melis ... A few random notes: Thanks for all the mini-contest entries! I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer restaurant recommendations Some of my favorite restaurants.

  

  MIT iGEM team, was on his way to eat with some friends at a new (for him) restaurant. Summer is a time where students find even more time to explore ... visitors!) to try. They're many of my favorite places! Cafe Baraka: A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Notes and Updates Form every applicant needs to do this

  

  admitted or deferred in Early Action), and is to be completed by you, the ... from students with something to report. If you're in a school that ... . I know that’s not a lot, but do your best to be concise

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  the MIT dorm kitchens and subjected on campus students to a dining hall ... virus. Gastronomy seemed to be sacrificed in exchange for a sense of ... dorm cooking is comparable to a three-Michelin-starred restaurant. With

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  telling me to look up. The moon, jupiter, and venus in a right triangle. Over Kresge. I hope you got to see this, it's a pretty incredible sight ... . Also, that night I attended a physics faculty dinner hosted by the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  asked them to animate and score a Pi Day video…even though they had almost no animation experience. This led to the Secret Team growing by three ... [/annotation], now seemed like as good a time as any to add to [annotation note

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tech is Hell we are happy, tech is hell

  

  The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the ... down in a few moments toward the lower world whence he will have to push ... . It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily springs from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 13, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates from Admissions The latest from the home office in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

  

  Philadelphia. On our way to the venue, we saw a rainbow (just a single rainbow). We'll be doing more travel together as a group to meet with prospective ... FIRST Championship. FIRST is a pretty cool organization, co-founded by MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  take up most of my time during the day, and I also needed to finish a ... enough time to get my fill of goofing around before the hell of spring ... . And though I had no idea where to host my event, or where to get the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025