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

  

  Ever wanted to sculpt a masterpiece out of butter?  Make a city out ... carving blocks and faces and buildings out of butter. I tried to make a ... they could come up with. To celebrate the start of the weekend, a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  've been a firm practitioner of estaloam and have had the opportunity to ... facilitators. This is a great opportunity for first-year students to get away ... fried pants for dinner. I was really excited to have found a great

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  Today, MIT dedicated a memorial to Officer Sean Collier, who was ... read a description of the memorial written by Professor J. Meejin Yoon ... -way stone vault, each block supporting the other to create a central covered

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  calls it the Brass Rat). Basically, every class gets to choose a committee to design the class' ring. For such a small piece of jewelry, it has so ... . Thus on the Boston Skyline, you can see a Delorean making it's appearance

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate

  

  being a second semester senior. I don’t quite know what to do with myself ... bored easily. Details to follow. I am also TAing a class, but that time ... about this class, but I am starting to realize it is because it is a

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  selection buttons that don’t always light up, and they all make a confusing ... hear her whir to life and go straight to you like a personal chauffeur. I ... friendship would be a bit toxic and codependent <3 Needless to say, she’s my

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  that was how it should be, and I wasn't sure how to make a decision to ... a few hours. I had an evening class, but I skipped it to make myself ... about 18.022; I'd like to elaborate a little on my experiences in that

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  ?'” (DFW went on to deliver a timeless and celebrated address that is well ... people, including those who apply to MIT, have a difficult time thinking ... salient, and most likely to swing an admission decision in a highly

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Above MIT The sky's the limit.

  

  Admissions blogger. If you want to read a little bit about me, you can check out my bio here. If you want to find out a little more about me, feel ... blogging act, I would like to show you a completely new way to look at MIT

  • by Piper '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  and my voice. I decided to make the three posts different in some ways ... third, which was maybe a mix of both.  The thought was always to create ... frequency of my blogs. I do not have to force-write posts if I am in a writer

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  like this. It was a bad week.) Needless to say, I am not about to walk ... promise to drop off the pants at Baker when I get a chance. Fast forward to ... asleep before I make it back to baker. Will return your genes later tonight

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  events and is a great way to join an artistic community at MIT!  One of ... difficult to describe, but essentially it was a very moving, for lack of a ... , watching these dioramas pass by your face as you are listening to this

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  considered a gap year in pre-covid times would have been to give myself a break ... and kinda freaking out because I felt like I had forgotten how to make ... ’t happen. 2020 was the year when I took a break, and I want 2021 to be the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  locked it up for me, after which we took the bus to Harvard to see a comedy ... was press a button to lock your car and you were good to go? Parking a ... like I am stealing, since I'm only unlocking a lock that is locked to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  Bexley may have to make a YouTube video out of it. Right, so that's the ... remove it until we'd had a chance to talk about it, and he graciously ... going to become a heated debate between current students and other current

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Preview Of My Summer Project Screenshots of the new admissions site.

  

  automatically pull all blog entries related to a given topic into the left ... more to tell, but I have to go play a show at the middle east. Look for ... So here's a sneak peek at what I've been working on all summer... the

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  quarter of a million people were packed shoulder-to-shoulder by the Thames ... silent, he cued Elder McKinley, who asked us to join the cast in a ... knew it was a guy by his voice). Eventually, I stopped someone and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Latest Updates Updates about MyMIT and the EA interview deadline.

  

  your application in advance of the deadline. Now is also a good time to ... So, MyMIT is back up, and things are back to normal around here. (Or ... deadline by which Early Action applicants should contact their Educational

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  addition to his major in Physics, Riess also picked up a minor in History. According to a Johns Hopkins Magazine story, capped off his history minor by ... -accelerating rate. The discovery came as a complete surprise even to the Laureates

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  to organize everything properly so that my postdoc can do a few final ... pictures of neurons. 2. Starting to plan a really important party for next ... stalker I have -- and apparently I have a few -- to effectively google me

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006