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• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  So, in my dorm, there seems to be this really close, almost familial ... , a little frustrated by being the only boy and by being the proverbial middle child and by having red hair, so he compensates by acting out a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  't about to settle for an official camping site. We parked outside the first ... reminded us to string up our food away from our tents, in case it drew ... when it's to protect their young. Right on cue, shortly after we hopped

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Now An Option for RBA Freshmen Next House's freshmen, starting with the class of 2012, can now participate in REX. !!!!!!!!

  

  to make their voices heard. Not only for the '12 freshmen, but also ... choice to move out. So there you have it: MIT students, making a ... getting to the drive-in window where the lady says, "Here's your Big Mac

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  by after my internship to watch the presentations. I missed ... way we make decisions by letting us visualize and explore data in VR ... using "playful technologies". By playful technologies, they mean using new

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  just eat some food and joke around.” As you might be able to tell by ... -filled hours, serving as a miracle antidote to zoom fatigue. It’s helped make ... like 1+1 is starting to seem like a challenge. Day 1 of September rang

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  to essays (see, e.g., this post by me, this one by Krystal, this one by ... prompts for the forthcoming cycle, so I'm posting them. I want to be clear that there's no reason to start on them now, but some people like to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Sherden, worked hard to make classes deep and engaging. Zinser took weight ... cement his desire to help low-income people by working to develop ... . Career plans: Wants to be a chemical engineer working to make breakthroughs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  makes me feel like I’ve exercised enough to last a lifetime, though. On ... every time, it makes more and more sense to me. Because the school had a ... manufactured by Merck. The lady seemed eager for all of us to apply to Merck as

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  since you could often make nerdy references to really niche indie games or ... search. To recap, here's how my internship hunt went: Rejected by ... successful MIT semester I've had to date. I've gone through a series of ups and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  intend to use it on the admissions site. (If we can trust Laura to make the ... In years past, we've asked folks to let us know in August if they wish to be considered for an admissions blogging position, and we've made

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  -- "my" class -- carries a lot of people who taught me how to care, how to think, and how to be a good friend, mostly by being good friends to me ... friend or by fighting hard for broader change or simply by making sure that

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  improvement, she redesigned a program with graphics such as turtles to make it ... ," he said. "It's essential that we get solutions to making our routing ... To follow up on my recent entry about women in engineering: did you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  right moment to drop some sodium acetate into his drink to make any tool ... meant to show us what can go wrong so we can fix mistakes before we make ... I love going to the MIT Media Lab. Being part of the MAS Freshman

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  with. The traits that make you whole. Does that sound scary? To me it ... essay so many times that, by submission time, it did not even make sense ... them, haven't you? Do the stats and titles make you want to be their

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  difficult for students to make plans). But even so, MIT is home to us, and I ... trying to find joy where we can. Spending time with our friends, making our ... will not be allowed to return to campus after Spring Break. Classes are

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  .008 is a manufacturing class where you're required to make a large batch of ... course 2 use those machines or at least get someone to make what they need ... efforts to document all of them, I split the entry into 2 parts

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  does lead to a lot of clay that doesn’t make it in. So if I started with ... ] My second goal was to make some bowls! The steps for a bowl versus a ... to make a teeny espresso cup or ring dish :). Do the first few pulls

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  to share this play-by-play to make a point: This was a good day for me ... stay on the phone with her.   1:30 PM: I make my way to the ... speed-walk back to East Campus, change my clothes, and make a peanut

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT vs. Chuck Norris Ever wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?

  

  to business. Find below the best 23 Chuck Norris MIT appropriate jokes. I hate the number 23 so I threw in 2 of my favorites to get us to 25, a number I like much better. Feel free to add any Chuck Norris facts

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  comics is foreign to me, so I knew the best way to make myself begin was to ... sometimes I get to unleash it. The professor makes sure to highlight the ... have all semester to CAD our designs, CNC molds for them, injection mold

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023