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  Beta CPW laser mazes and deep frying

  

  deep fried Bertucci’s Pizza? We will have a selection of the finest local ... read our inaugural Deep Fried Taste of Kenmore Square event hosted by my ... event at our machine shop. Saturday night we put on our signature CPW

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  All Applicants Can Now Apply For Either Early or Regular Action MIT Admissions announces a policy change allowing international students access to either Early or Regular…

  

  I wanted to let you know of a change in the admissions process for ... restriction on international students applying early will end. All students, regardless of citizenship or location, will be able to apply for either

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Discovering Product Design through Photography Beautiful photos taken by DPD 2013 freshmen

  

  at the beginning of the year, I think the photographs that our freshmen ... five day program, we introduce the freshman to the world of product design through a variety of interactive lectures, awesome design projects

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  take. 12.409: Hands-On Astronomy. It's a 6-unit P/D/F (your options are: pass, get a D, or fail). You learn the basics of amateur astronomical ... up on the roof (using a telescope to find Comet Pan-STARRS as the sun

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Toy Design Update How couldn't you enjoy building toys?

  

  much about what we're working on, I'd like to share some pictures of what ... sitting on them. I was in charge of demoing our toys so I put on the lab ... . Luckily all of the time commitments are fun so I'm enjoying it. Toy design

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weather Sensitive I know you think that I don't care, but I really do.

  

  always rain here. But I'm usually out of my room on gorgeous sunny days ... 're walking through forty degrees of nitrogen, oxygen, and ice cubes, but that's about it. This concept of leaves falling off trees? Yeah. Completely

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  July 4th Pictorial FIREWORKS!

  

  . Generic picture of the boats lined up on the Charles River for the fireworks ... on TV, part of the barge actually went up in flames. Remember, you saw ... barbecue. I don't like taking pictures of myself while eating, but I don

  • by Bryan
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Your CPW Host The host assignment meeting was tonight.

  

  . Take a look at the schedule -- the bulk of events are put on by student ... Tonight, as MIT's Spring Break was wrapping up, we gathered up all of the student hosts who have returned from vacation (hundreds of them

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  lies This is the dawning of the rest of our lives On holiday [annotation ... on my bullshit. I can be commanding and confident. Outside of East ... the curated series of memes playing out on the screen. I'm tipsy and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  going on! Not everything is all that interesting (in fact, most of it is ... note="For more information on this, see the third section of this post ... It's finals week. However, there's a lot going on besides final exams

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  poem, when it works, is an action of the mind captured on a page, and the ... of the Rice Chest” by Monica Youn My friend Alec attended the L.A. Times Festival of Books recently and heard Monica Youn read this poem

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  response because I was subsequently asked to rate the pie on a scale of 1 to ... Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from ... might expect, I was inevitably asked about my assessment of said pie. I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  tuition based on the number of credit-hours you take. Everyone pays the same ... tl;dr: MIT lets you drop subjects basically at the end of the ... Atlanta to attempt to fly back to Boston since essentially all of the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Hacks

  Hackapult Sieges The Dome

  

  dome, a multi-part hack appeared on the morning of September 4, 2015 ... facilities took some selfies on the dome.     Most of it was down ... On Friday, September 4th, I arrived in my office shortly after 7AM

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Wheel To Rule Them All one small step for boy, one large step for nerdkind

  

  on the turf of knowledge, or begin life as blindly wandering, major ... after he built a motorized, self-balancing unicycle that a slew of tech aggregators instantly pounced on and reblogged. His own blog (incidentally, a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Where You’re Going, Where I’ve Been CPW! YEEAAAH!

  

  major news on my end since the last time we caught up is that I got my EMT training and have started working on the MIT-EMS ambulance. On your end: CPW ... prefrosh, I couldn't make it to CPW, but I visited on my own about a month

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC: A Brief Summary [by Ashley Nash '11] Who wouldn’t want to join?

  

  [by Ashley Nash '11] I am a member of LSC, the Lecture Series Committee. It's one of the larger student groups at MIT bringing films and ... now and then there will be a free showing of a movie that is either in

  • by ARTalk
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  focusing on the play, but the work is certainly there. For those of you who ... of image concerning my life at MIT: While true some of the time, I'd say that just as much of my time is spent feeling like this: ^^This

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline November 1 is the Early Action deadline.

  

  everyone doing? Not too stressed out, I hope? While you're working on finishing the application, we're working on filing the applications. Today ... 't much of a party, but the title at least made the task of opening

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading.

  

  Boston on Thanksgiving morning, research changes the world. So to those of ... Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading. :-) I know there are a lot of questions in the comments and I'll definitely get to

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 26, 2005