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  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  balloons to be amorphous or irregular     I had to first ... chocolate step was going to be difficult. I tried fishnets- I needed to cut ... syrup, which is way hotter than melted chocolate. The trick to keeping the

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fraternities @ MIT They're quite a Rush.

  

  like this: "You can tell what we care about by the way we introduce ... , fraternity brothers will go out of their way to insure that interested freshmen ... made that year, and how they continue to affect my life today. Without a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  the way to Allston (about 40-50 minutes away by bike) to go to a Vegan ... - lessons learned at IAP. #1 - Cambridge and Boston are meant to be explored ... ! This is on our way to the Valley of Fire, named as such because of rocks

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  be any winter! But if there's one thing to describe Boston's weather ... !) so there's no way I can sneak off to the mountains for a few runs ... people are excited by that, because the cold, bleak winter is a tough time

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Going On Some of the 600+ Campus Preview Weekend events.

  

  by Astronaut/Professor Jeffrey Hoffman (I'd like to be an "Astronaut ... /or waterproof footwear! (Thursday looks to be beautiful, though) It's after ... the MIT admitted class of 2012. It's going to be a fun weekend. In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2017 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today May the Fourth, and also your transfer decisions, be with you

  

  applicants, receive decisions via email from our office to the address listed on their application. The emails will be sent late afternoon today, May ... students applied to transfer, and we have admitted 24. And as usual, we are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today May the Fourth, and also your transfer decisions, be with you

  

  applicants, receive decisions via email from our office to the address listed on their application. The emails will be sent late afternoon today, May ... students applied to transfer, and we have admitted 22. And as usual, we are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  .0001. I found each problem set to be challenging in its own way, and they ... that useful. Now, I love to find ways to use it. I think of it as an additional way to interact with those who use my programs. Enhanced Debugging

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  sprint by Raphael, we managed to catch a cab back to the hostel. R ... recommend attempting to summit a volcano at 15,700 ft with only one day of altitude acclimation. - It's Sunday. We were woken up at 6:30am by very

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  in comparison to Tetazoo. I quickly abandoned this thought when I ... ."]stabsies,[/annotation] Putzens yell "seat check." To say Putzens are pacifists would not be fully ... morning with what I understand to be [annotation note="the Green Building

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  that it frequently seems to be part of a continuous feedback loop. Allow ... . All too often students are lauded for being admitted to places like MIT ... applicant less awesome. It just means that they need to be awesome somewhere

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  , so this doesn’t have to be a particularly difficult project. but if you ... you closer to the desired sound. or put another way, musical complexity ... be sightreading, so i tried to write a slow/gentle piece and avoided

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  week, but I think what I learned can be best illustrated by what I saw ... person meetings had already proven themselves to be sparsely attended, so ... the story out, we all had to invoke these traits in some way because we

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  proof that a post could be hazardous to your mental health. If you walk ... awesome time to be in, at, and around MIT. There's all kinds of art ... MIT150 art around campus seems to be in white. Could we have had some

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  yourself?” The contrast in the title is a catchy way to describe the ... dichotomy... because 1) it doesn't have to be one or the other, and 2) it ... I want?” What do I want to be, to do, to give attention to? It sounds

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  decided a better course of action for my life would be to leave MIT and ... thing I would say to this is be careful; it is so, so easy to burn out ... road that I'd been working towards for so long. I'll be the first to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  key. The tube was by my front door. I missed it on my way in to find the ... the admissions process ourselves. We don't forget what it's like to be ... My introduction to most of the MIT Admissions staff - aside from my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  :  "Success is to be measured not so much by the positions that one has ... ” by Ceri R. ‘16   You're going to be okay. It may ... about EA decisions being released next week. And I wanted to check in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Start shaping up in January! I like.

  

  by suites. So what’s going to be my plan for this challenge? According ... ’m in love with IAP. The recurring theme seems to be: Things get thrown your way...and you go with it, because there’s nothing to wake up for

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW! The greatest shopping list ever.

  

  . Other CPW notes! Stop by BC and say hi! I'll be here all weekend, like for serious, and I'd love to meet you guys. =) I'll also be at the Reg ... don't have a chance to read this anyway, but just in case- stop by and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 12, 2007