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  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  good to breathe. As much as I love MIT, it was a relief to get away. I ... The night of daylight savings, I tried my best to ensure that I would be on time for my 8:10am flight. I asked the hotel to give me a wake

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcome our new bloggers! Huzzah!

  

  summer, we are happy to announce our new bloggers! Please give a warm welcome to: Hala K. ‘29 from Michigan, who built not only robots but ... Carolina, who went on a quest to find a Pink Lemonade Celsius near her

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a most beautiful camping trip it's always good to get back to nature <3

  

  us more than half an hour to get to Porter Square!!!) to Franconia ... It's pretty common at MIT for living groups to take advantage of the ... luxury!!) to go on fun trips and retreats. On Friday, my floor, Putz

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Seatbelts, Everyone! Interrupting Radio Silence...

  

  said "Take chances! Make mistakes! Get messy." I'll add to that only ... speaks the truth. (for those confused, i must point you to the wikipedia ... a week ago, I feel compelled to at least pretend I have some salient

  • by Alina G. '11
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stand Back! I'm going to try . . . well, you know the rest.

  

  to MIT, you get to do this. ... setup, another has a beam that is wired up to record its response to an ... , each team of two people was given a setup and allowed to come up with

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / Events

  It’s not every day… lunch with a celebrity

  

  ...that you get invited to have lunch with the president of MIT ... available to join her as part of the next group on Friday, November 18 at noon ... , and then walk over together to the Forbes Cafe at Stata. I do hope that

  • by Bryan
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  factoring polynomials and calculating the area of circles? I'm trying to get ... Just thought I'd reiterate, for anyone who's applying to MIT this ... ), that I feel your pain on the application deal. I'm applying to graduate

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Highlights From The Past Week A post on birthdays and bad (but oh so good) TV.

  

  particularly awesome this week 4) We had our first followup meeting to my proposal and it went really well - I think we're going to be able to ... last week... the new Alias season began. In general I don't have time to

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 14, 2005
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Will I receive AP/IB college credit?

  final before the class begins. If you do well you get to keep your grade ... MIT doesn't require applicants to take advanced courses beyond what ... soups of advanced academic programs. We like to see that students have
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  was created by Jason '09, one of MIT's terrific origami artists. Count ... enthusiasts. We have an active origami club, OrigaMIT. It is currently run by ... February 21). I expect to see some nice entries; I'll post them when the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  music and would like to be a part of the music community at MIT, you may ... recent, unedited, contrasting samples of your best work for evaluation by ... bring to this process and your talents can be considered with your other

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT students launch Camp Kesem Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children whose parents have had cancer.

  

  expanded to 22 campuses in 14 states. Camp Kesem at MIT, founded by Caroline ... opportunity to just have fun. Students at MIT have launched Camp Kesem, or Camp ... . The program is open to all children ages 6-13 in the Boston area. I will

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 1, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  from chipotle with the app, i will have enough points to get a free ... ), just listening to the soundtrack or watching other people play it talking to a friend with more sense than me, which, as it happens, is most

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  :30 - normally, I end up getting to campus a half-hour or fifteen minutes early. My ... weekly PSet for my two courses. I try to get at least a problem done while ... fastest descent that can basically get from point A to point B in the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  before I moved to Houston, Texas this summer to start my internship at TMK ... 'm meeting.  I'm from MIT, and I'm expected to perform and function like an MIT ... of my red hair. It's really strange being away from home and getting

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  to get you in MIT or keep you out. So think about something else :P ... , installing software and things. 100 MBs?? 4.1 GBs?? GET. OUT. Yeah, it’s pretty irrational - computers are meant to be used, aren’t they. But still

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  don't really know how to write it. There are so many things I want to say, and yet so many of them don't attach well to words - only to strong ... to really process all of this. In a nutshell: after four incredible

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  description: There is often a tendency to consider technical systems as 'purely' technical, designed and built by technical people for technical reasons. But ... shaped not only by technical standards, but by the often utopian

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  venue. (Photo by CST) The Central Square Theater, home to two theater ... [by Ken Haggerty '11] As I walked into the main stage of the Central ... 't quite sure what to expect. The show, Truth Values, billed itself as "one

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  ≧◡≦ , my name is River. Just like most people, I had dreamed of coming to this university since childhood. And now I am about to enter my sophomore ... it really came true. I never expected to be the person who I am now

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024