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  I went outside! *inhales, belts 'for the first time in forever' at the top of lungs*

  

  records for the world's shortest camping trip, but we did get to go on a ... . It's a great way to escape the MIT bubble and get some (literal) fresh ... Seriously, this is a real occasion. People talk about never leaving

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  16.810 Rapid Design and Prototyping 8 days to build an airplane. Intrigued?

  

  dedicated to LEGOs. I have three brothers, so we racked up quite a few LEGO ... got to do the same thing! Except instead of LEGOs, we started with a ... presentation for 16.810, we made a short video. Here it is for you to enjoy

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cambridge Traditions and 5 Course Meals

  

  to a really nice dinner with the fellows (mostly professors) of the ... a chance to chat with students and professors in our major about ... Here in Cambridge, all new students must go through a matriculation

  • by Cambridge
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Family Weekend 2014 family weekend 2014, day 1 and how I had fun

  

  .01 lab to finish a 14.02 pset due Monday morning, and an 8.02 exam also on ... waaahmbulence for a bit, I got straight to work. I traded away sleep hours for ... with *DELICIOUS* clam chowder at a *REALLY NICE* place, I had to leave my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  we understood that cheating is bad and to bring a certain type of ... 18.02, 18.022, 18.023, 18.024, or 18.02A. If you want to review, you ... classes you're allowed to take. If you have a 5 on both, you can get 9 units

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• 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 ... alternative pasts, and still may have alternative futures.   To give you a ... , pp. 21-35, 67-71 (2008) Gillespie, "Engineering A Principle: 'End-to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  there enough air for everybody to breathe?" Just as I've never noticed a ... school in a small-to-medium-sized town in Ohio, and although I had my share ... why a girl would be interested in majoring in science. I'm going to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• 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 ... [/annotation], now seemed like as good a time as any to add to [annotation note ... shirts, to zoom backgrounds and cardboard cutouts, Wide Tim has become a

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  intended to write a week ago, between now and the party tonight! I don ... a guy offers to install Athena on your computer, he's hitting on you ... " hall (this turned out to be not nearly as big a problem as we'd expected

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  : Roll with the A Dogs The people of A invited prefrosh to meet residents ... Entry: A Night in the Lounge The first opportunity to chill and eat with ... sources tell me that D residents have a similar vibe to B and F, but that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks ... -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for a whole day until he flew down to New York City to appear on The

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  This was supposed to be a deeply philosophical entry on the wonders ... complement a delicate celery-green curtain she found, while I'm trying to ... sending your kids to a city college in Boston--apparently, MIT has hired

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Patriots’ Day Rejuvenated by a Reenactment

  

  some hot sustenance from a Dunkin' Donuts and biked back to Boston as the ... So, my last few weeks have been no fun. To put it lightly. My main ... suggested biking to see the Battle of Lexington, I was THRILLED! We woke at

  • by Kim D. '09
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  ADITL My wednesday.

  

  to Shaw's to buy sorbet On a side note, I am very excited to add this ... As promised, a detailed recount of Bryan's Wednesday. 7:45 AM: Alarm begins to buzz. Play hide and go seek with my alarm clock for twenty

  • by Bryan
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Updates Online & postal decisions, matching Pell Grants, and reading continues.

  

  addition to sending out admissions decisions via postal mail, also release ... much to add beyond what you've already read elsewhere, but I do want to strongly encourage you to use the verification functionality at decisions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  So I just submitted my first-ever RSVP to a wedding for people who ... 're two people who are my age, both of whom I love and mean a lot to me ... they seem like something I really want to sign up for.) It's a weird

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  to build my list in August of my senior year. We had done the campus visits—the Eastern seaboard trip to hit the Ivies, the midwest trip to hit the Chicago and St Louis schools. Nothing really stood out to me until

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  to the counter and checked them onto the flight. I'm not a very ... , which was covered in multiple layers of stickers. A woman who I assumed to ... us to Boston. I talked to the boy for a moment, running through the

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  was pitched to me as a "cute place with baklava pancakes that have a ... , which were both delicious. According to my sister and a few other East ... I've never had Uyghur cuisine, so this was a great restaurant to order

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  The Accidental Harvard Class It is possible to miss a class. Not in ... . Junior fall, I wanted to take a Harvard class. Philosophy of Education ... ’s a logistical thing to do before you start.” I was so excited for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017