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  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  to afford. A major challenge for many people is finding fuel, usually ... a method of producing charcoal bricks out of natural waste materials ... projects that really do help people, which I think is a fantastic thing to be

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  leadership training is probably somewhere at the top of that list, but that's a ... has a lot to do with my appreciation for the tradition and dignity of ... around a rifle (even if it has been decommissioned) is just flat

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  Hi folks! Wow - just noticed that my last entry was published over a month ago. Sorry guys, I apparently thought I was Nance for a second there ... my travels over the last month, I just want to take a minute to thank

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  Yikes. It seems like I may have gotten Wenhao into a bit more trouble ... admit "anything" with 2 X-chromosomes. Wenhao posted a different comment ... numbers is a little odd [27% acceptance rate females, 12% males], and I find

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Wangoballwime?” C'mon. You know what this entry is about. Check out the title!

  

  all know, today was the premiere of a much-anticipated movie. What movie ... afternoon about a month ago, there was a knock on my door. When I opened it, Akash asked, "Hey Laura, do you have any bread?" Now I'm a friendly kid

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Three cheers for the MIT Marching Band Is the band ready? You bet they are.

  

  MIT had a football game this afternoon against Worcester State. The ... was also my first football game as a member of the world ... . Here are 10 things I remember: 1. Taking a good two minutse to cram four

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Varied states of the basement A roundabout trek to an underground level of Building 7 leads me into areas very…

  

  to poke around a bit before heading over to 7-012 (a room I pass on a ... that window shade! I don't know why a printer cable is dangling from ... a picture for you. Various areas of Building 6's basement are under

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  Today - or I guess, now yesterday - was a special day on 5th East ... birthday. Clayton decided that we would celebrate in style with a "Gentlemen ... hadn't worn a skirt or dress since I was junior in high school. I doubt

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  The Associated Press has a nice story about "Gap Years" that has been ... [of deferring admission for a year or two]. While cautioning that a "gap ... submit a proposal beyond "lying on the beach," but often little more is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  being from a small-town or rural community.   As part of our commitment to ... College Network, 32 institutions across the country, including MIT (a ... STARS Ambassadors, Vaneeza—a current MIT student who played a key role in

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  will describe to you in painful detail in a later post."]my three-month internship in Seattle,[/annotation] a group of intern friends and I decided that we were going to visit Vancouver for a weekend. We drove up, crossed

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  drawing [annotation note="there was a lot of… naruto though"]all sorts of ... elementary school, and for a long while I would draw things by hand on paper, scan them, and then painstakingly line them using a computer mouse so I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  applications, sitting on the admissions committee, or [annotation note="In a ... student packages, and producing a slew of miscellaneous materials ... ..."]laser-etched wooden challenge coins.[/annotation] A major part of being a designer of

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  fact that it’s possible, that you didn’t need a company and dozens of weeks, that a couple of undergrads working together could cobble one up. This year, for REX, one of the things being built was a fort

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  It's been a stressful last few weeks. The weekend before Thanksgiving ... Kansas City, I had a 6.006 (Intro to Algorithms) midterm later that day. Can't really take it while I'm skating in North Carolina? Here's a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  . Actually, I take that back. Two of those days were taken up by a wedding ... . During the school year, my calendar looks, to quote my friend: "like a ... the Maine mountains, at a Renaissance Fair, and roaming Boston with two

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  Once a year, a different US city hosts the annual National Poetry Slam, a week-long, no-holds-barred celebration of poetry that's part ... one event at the Stata Center, which featured - you guessed it - a nerd

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  Well, that was a crazy week. If you've been reading the blogs a long time, you may have noticed a few trends. Every year, each blogger gets ... 't remember ever seeing it advertised as such, but that's what it is. It's not a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  cost-neutral meaning I got a stipend (to eat and live), flights covered ... Tbilisi, Georgia, and 1 to Tokyo, Japan. This upcoming summer, I’m doing a ... went to a rather STEM-heavy school like MIT. I think I took enough

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  If I had a nickel for every time my final project for an MIT class was themed around cats, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it ... .2050 (Digital Systems Laboratory, previously known as 6.111) – a class about using

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023