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  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  more like MIT. The last item on that list was: ~something else~: that we’re conspiring on with our old friend Ceri R. ’16, that is not live yet, but which ... installation. For the blogs, I wanted to go into a little more detail on the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  Activities Midway or on Instagram. Arcturus is revving up recruitment this fall ... school year, we competed in RoboBoat 2022, and we’re excited to take on ... competition this year or the next will depend on the amount of manpower we get

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  wheels on them so you can roll them out into the lobby for visitors to see. Every week, I've been putting chalk art up on one of the boards, as well as writing a prompt on the other board that visitors can write answers

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  mainly in the Green Building, the tallest building on campus, and our undergrad lounge is my favorite place on campus. By the way, hi! I’m Juliana ... focus on geobiology, organic geochemistry, and astrobiology. Those are a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  to work on the hunt. so i was looking forward to it for quite a while ... on puzzles for a while that night, and there were good puzzles! great ... was leaving and i was hanging around with some other people left on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  resembling the quote (like, did these people spend even two minutes on fact ... tv shows about jobs and work, and so on. for better or worse, our ... that’s been on my mind the most lately is the pandemic — after getting

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  , silence- have profoundly shifted my perspective on them.   Petey ... collection of thoughts on the internet for a student figuring out how to make ... your passion. Someone should stitch this on a pillow, because these apply

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  ), you have undoubtedly seen endless bingo memes on people's instagram/facebook/snapchat stories. For the uninitiated, you will quickly pick up on how it works as ... completely silent store. “failed an exam”: I got a 12 on a 5.12 exam even after

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  average number of hours that students spend on this class a week, based on ... thousands on a wait list to get tickets. ~40,000 The number of people ... on-stage without a major catastrophe. And it's hardest of all to do

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  University. I am currently working on a number of blog posts that will be coming out on things like being a black person in China, language learning ... in day out until the day I die, that is what I want to work on and what

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  and one for my mom for when she comes and visits next month. I headed on ... to North Station. So, I get there, see my 10:20, On Time, train to ... The Alchemist, I run outside probably looking half mad, and I hop on the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  .” -a sophomore on the Trashion committee “It was all trash! Beautiful ... collection. On Friday night, models walked the runway with their were judged by ... judges on various criteria, including recyclability, wearability, and

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  car on the asphalt roads of Route 1 but also behind a waterfall and atop a glacier and in a cabin on the black sand beaches of Vík.  Here's a ... on Tuesday, we spent the first day driving along the Golden Circle, a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  entry by Elaine L. '18 This entry was originally published on Elaine's blog Food Parsed on August 31, 2015. Buying your own groceries can be ... ’s much easier to carry groceries on your back than in your arms. When

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Close up shot of Pluto. (Image Credit: NASA) On Jan 19, 2006, the New ... pick out details on Pluto as small as the ponds in New York City ... . Professor Richard Binzel - MIT EAPS professor. Co-investigator on the New

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  week has been really tough and really strange for everyone on campus, and ... is Piper. i live in East Campus, on second east. i’m a sophomore. i ... ; those things—they’re words on your laptop monitor, or on your phone. us EC

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2014…The Parent Edition Suggestions for getting the most out of CPW when you are a parent

  

  of our admitted students and those parents who are on campus as well ... (perhaps the CPW Welcome/Faculty Speaker event on Friday morning and the Closing Variety Show on Saturday evening) but mostly I hope you will

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  class, relative to how other friends were doing on exams and p-sets. I ... future application and someone else's on balancing scales. The cynical ... of my peers in AP courses rendered decisions on relative competence on

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  academic way of saying "homework", and the answer to what you'll be doing on a Thursday night. Generally speaking, there aren't many questions on a ... , but the only ones that end in "2" and "5" This went on for a while

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline MIT's regular action deadline is January 1.

  

  not accepting emails or answering phone calls (and I am on vacation!). The office will reopen on Monday, January 3rd. However, with the RA ... common deadline-time questions. There are many answers already here on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010