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  Pick My Halloween Costume! Mm, crowdsourcing.

  

  feel like finding a new costume. Fortunately, I already have a bunch of ... ! Prospective MIT students and blog readers of the world, your mission (if you choose to accept it) is to pick my Halloween costume. Voting will last

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  must pay $1.10 a gallon to get rid of this oil, which is used to deep ... On Wednesday, 70 degree weather spurred MIT students to sport cute ... , with accumulations of 5 to 8 inches of snow expected. Meanwhile crude oil

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  in  IAP?”, “do I also get to Dance in a lion, or a kaleidoscope ... recs in Bawston (a nearby town to MIT), new Pi day celebration ideas, CPW ... ’s hard to go through the semester without seeing him, from a poster in the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  . :)So, I officially arrived at MIT on Thursday, only to be greeted by my ... visited the Coop. There I found this:Do you get it? :)Then I went back to ... up to give a talk, and embarrassed a couple kids by bringing them up to

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Happy Birthday, ‘Murica! (Even though Boston celebrated Independence Day Eve)

  

  Declaration of Independence (not the signing; get your facts straight, kids ... back to MacGregor, a thunderstorm hit. And by hit, I mean a torrent of ... appears to be passing by Boston with only a moderate amount of wind and rain

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  starting my 5.60 pset (due Friday), and c) brightening your lives, many of which are probably consumed by watching for your friendly neighborhood ... It is 2:30 and I already stained my neurons and nail-polished them to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  the situation all wrong. I tried to make a second story by lofting a ... accumulate after your first three trips to Shaw’s (our local grocery store ... in your mouth. Beanbag When I first came to MIT I bought a butterfly

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The CPW LiveBlogging Project A big experiment.

  

  's entries! I've decided to add to the CPW coverage by creating a CPW tumblr ... 'll need to confirm that you're really who you say you are, of course, so if ... you used to register for your MyMIT account so I can verify it

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Grads Design the Jolt Sensor to help high school athletes detect concussions better

  

  creating new things inspires others to create new things themselves, like MIT ... a mechanical engineer, decided to address this issue by designing a ... has to go through an experience like mine, and, by recognizing injuries

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  by the direct funding deadline (we've all been there). When my soon-to ... was able to communicate with the girls and get around in the city in a ... ! _,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,_ Monterrey, Nueva León, México-   After finals, I decided to immediately

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  that the selected blogger post their answer to the essay question. Seeing ... -and-white television screen bolted to the wall.) POLK: (covers the mouthpiece; jerks ... made the jokes that will inevitably follow) Yes, sir. PIERCE: Your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  Working for Veterans Affairs It’s 7am on a Tuesday, and I need to get ... and public health, taught by the research team’s leader, and wanted to ... are paid in summer housing and get a budget to organize on- and off

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  get one. I put on a light jacket, text a friend who wants to meet at ... have the wrong place. We try a different route, and I get my phone out to ... bubble I've been this semester. Lots of new faces. I talk to many of them

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week MIT: It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver.

  

  , it's actually really hard to answer, for two reasons. First, MIT is ... interests, it's really hard to classify anything as "typical." Academically, I ... . From bhangra dancing to fighting poverty, from helping improve MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  reading assignments? We will make a summary of your responses to the ... !* So I get to class on Tuesday and see this: "Interesting, that should ... announces that we're going to do a demo. "Snively, you're going to do this

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  i’m gonna keep this short so i can get to posting real content again ... in writing Last semester I tried to get all my writing requirements out ... ’d have to charge it for half an hour, and by then I would have had another

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Shelby’s Amazing CPW Adventure A CPW Guest Entry by Shelby '13

  

  getting settled in my host's dorm at New House 2, I was pumped and ready to ... time to chat in the Office of Minority education, where I was able to get ... research headed by Dr. Robert Weinberg. It was interesting to know that our

  • by Snively '11
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  [by Emily LaVerriere '15] First of all, I need to second Miren ... will be performed in January in New York. So, if anyone happens to be around New York during IAP and happens to hear of it, I’d highly recommend

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admission Interview Tick tock!

  

  application process that should be at the top of your To Do list: the interview ... , hopefully two-way, where the EC gets to know you: what drives you, interests ... ’t told us about your EA plans, or for those who haven’t visited MyMIT to

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Just a Little Patience The latest word.

  

  us at this time to check on the status of your application or to see if ... to process all of your documents so that we can begin to read your ... three minutes (shouldn't you be in class?), we're trying our best to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 11, 2006