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  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  the privilege to interact with the new cool kids on the block. Can ... range of events you can attend at MIT. A New Hobby! I have a new hobby ... travel on my own. I guess those aren’t tiny, as the title of the sketch

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Class Projects

  Angry Birds Fly at MIT Students construct trubuchets, catapults, and air cannons to take out the dastardly pigs on Killian…

  

  On Friday afternoon, the students and staff of the senior capstone ... was fast and furious! The awards ceremony took place of the steps ... each develop a prototype of a product that can (and in many cases does

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  of them. But I’m extremely averse to dropping classes later on in the ... class.  I started a new novel. For the last month or so of term, I’d go ... .678 also has weekly labs. I learned a lot of new content and really enjoyed

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my ... scavenge the town dump (the social center of some New Hampshire towns) for ... Hello Internet! It's been a while. I last blogged on EA Decision Day

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  molds for the plastic pieces of our yo-yo. I’ll make a blog on the yo ... of my favorite lecturers in MechE, but on that day, I could barely stay ... showed me lots of new engineering skills, including using a wood CNC. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  You can now read this blog on the Morningside Academy of Design (MAD ... part of DesignPlus, and it’s had a big impact on our MIT experiences so ... of the shop managers, trained me on various tools and machines

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Almost Famous You probably think this entry is about me.

  

  of The Tech since the marathon, so of course they decided to cover it, focusing on both the overall winners and the performances of MIT runners. Now, they could have used this picture on the front page... ...which depicts

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  the pace of life, the thirst for knowledge and the search for new ideas ... every single day. There`s a fire raging in Cambridge (on one side of ... relied on strangers to pick me up and give me rides, the vast majority of

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Ringing in the second half of MIT The Class of 2019 gets their brass rats...at last

  

  . This year, ring delivery was held at the State Room on the 33rd floor of ... whole new batch of brass rats! Each year, the Brass Rat has a slightly ... 's the real ring  And the designs on both sides Some of the unique

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 23, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We’re #1! What's the emoticon for oversize foam hand?

  

  on our website you're really just not trying. That's more of an opinion ... few theories as to why we elbowed our way to the top of the list: OpenCourseWare: MIT courses for free on the web. What's not to love about

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 29, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  voicemail on my way out of some indie movie in the middle of summer, "Wah wah ... . Rolls upon rolls of film have been burned on these two, but I'll spare you. Just a couple here. On the drive up to MIT: In bexley: Some of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  -shared set of experiences and friends (quantifiable on Facebook) so it makes it ... a single blog by a student five years ago, at the dawn of the Facebook era." Let me share with you an anecdotal history of blogging, what I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  the biggest perks of being an Arts Scholar is getting to go on an all-expenses paid day trip to New York every February! Each year, the events of the ... didn't get to go on the New York trip that year, but we did every year

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  large masses of land, where cows on drives are common, and the state ... from a rural or small town?". This is an iteration of one of the most ... consider {insert town name I have never heard of} a small town in their

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  update you on at this point. We work towards solidifying our early action ... 've been told that sarcasm isn't funny this time of the year. I'm sorry about that.] I hope you'll find those really cool juniors (members of the high

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  social hierarchy on top of academics in college, which are already ... Ayomide F. ‘18 from the Pi Day video is president of, btw) was bringing on a ... students. Any organization on campus--a cultural club, a floor of a dormitory

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  I spent this morning sitting in 1369 Coffee on Mass Ave writing new ... campus (which I did on day one of Spring Break College Trip Extravaganza ... was so hung up on this B that she dedicated one of her 250-word

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  on a client-facing team building a brand new feature for the Play ... inside perspective on what it looks like to work as part of a software team ... Francisco. Aside from one of those double-decker tour buses, I’d never spent

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  on behalf of the global academic community, gave President Hockfield a ... Just got back from the inauguration of MIT's sixteenth president, Susan Hockfield. Both of the office cameras were checked out by others, so

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  . Instead of spending my nights catching up on readings and lecture notes, I was catching up on sleep. Tuesday night was the first night of ... control. On the day of my first exam of the week, feeling as if I had not

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014