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  Introducing… Maker Portfolios! Making the world better, one portfolio at a time

  

  this RIGHT NOW, but please be patient. As it says on our website, all of ... working on in their spare time. Maybe it was a really amazing new computer ... project that we've been working on for a while. It's a Maker Portfolio, and

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  on their final projects, which they showcase and present at the end of ... basics of Scratch and the last two weeks were dedicated to working on their ... was still so on top of things. She would keep up with all the labs, ask

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  lot of questions about the new Maker Portfolio supplement on the MIT ... This post has been updated as of October 2018 to reflect new ... information about all of our supplements and portfolios on the MIT Admissions

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  of religious fasting, so it’s really nice to find a nice vegan place ... of spelling out the amount on one line, I wrote out MIT. Live and learn ... group I spent most of my freshman year with. On top of that, most of my

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See your name among the stars… Forget having your name written in lights, get it written on a spacecraft!

  

  unmanned spacecraft in 2010. "Choose a location on the outside of the spacecraft and get pictures of your content photographed in space. Choose a ... on a spacecraft! The MIT Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program is selling

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  the operation of the trains -- and new space is opening up where those ... One of my five classes this term is sponsored by RATP, the metropolitan transit authority of Paris. It's a graduate design workshop in the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  drove up to Portland the next morning to pick up my new car. 5 months of ... completion my real estate agent swung by to check on the progress.  She was ... this!" she said. She was wrong, of course.  I could definitely not

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to PNR First semester in review

  

  under the big dome. Reflecting on the fast-moving, yet slow-ticking of the ... and tried miserably to do it all, Getting new emails by the hundreds, on ... ’ll end with a picture of a beautiful sunrise on the Boston skyline, A

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  The debate over nature versus nurture has raged on for decades, but ... Khademhosseini has utilized cutting-edge techniques to mimic the microenvironment ... Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  Guerre. The score of the wild Couprin piece made a strong impression on me ... classical music-loving group. My neighbors are members of concert choir and ... lot of exposure to music composed between 1600-1800. I've listened to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Special Edition! Speaking of Valentine's Cards . . .

  

  "random" button a bunch on the XKCD website and wrote the number down ... hulu.com) 1 of the cards says "It's a brand new day!" another reference ... Hey, so as Shannon just mentioned, all of the EA admits got V

  • by Snively '11
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  , I’m also now embarking on the project of redesigning our website to ... the library or signing up on a website, did two or three lesssons, then ... '17. It really helped me get a sense of how much coding I knew based on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s the word for

  

  span of moments in which you’re not quite ready to accept the fact that ... friend that you’ve just met understanding only half of what someone just said, and piecing together the other half based on context, or visual

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Puzzled Solution i think the lack of comments on my last entry might mean my puzzle stinks.

  

  't normally short) if you take the index of each of the clue answers, you get ... . Let me know what you think of the puzzle. Too hard, too easy, too short, too long? And later tonight, get the exciting story of how I braved

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  commander of the protagonists sees this and shouts “keep on the lookout ... lightest semester in terms of courseload, and everything was on pass ... well. you notice late because, after taking on new commitments, the full

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Guest Entry: Leadership @ MIT You can become a leader on the MIT campus. Here's how...

  

  By Chun Li MIT students have often heard of the bitter joke that ... needs. What is leadership? Some say that it’s being the president of a ... group processes…The description for a good leader can go on and on, but in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Seemingly Stressful Survey The Tech publishes about stress at the institute

  

  one night a week in our office on the 4th floor of the student center ... comes in on time, writing last minute stories, and essentially making sure that there’s stuff to go on the front page. It falls on the shoulders of

  • by Stanley G.
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  on their old website. There was something about the vibe of the ... into some websites and blogs on this very site, I started really liking the free-spiritedness of the dorms on the east side of campus

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  the index finger of his right hand. All 17 of his grandkids knew what ... on your criteria of what's important in a college. This whole process ... got tired of listening to us complain about a particular topic, he

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  "]books,[/annotation] learning to cook and bake and exercise and take care of myself. Fast forward ... slacked off on some other things (courtesy of [annotation note="the grading ... having a great time exploring a new city. I felt tired at the end of it all

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021