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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Acting, Writing, and Roleplaying: A Match Made in Heaven [by Susan Shepherd '11] Guild members have infiltrated the KGB, made first contact with aliens,…

  

  costumes, the Guild is also a great place to show off your latest masterpiece ... -playing. The players are essentially actors, doing their best to act out the ... place to hide and c) get out of New York altogether. But your character

  • by ARTalk
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  may not have much 'deeper meaning', it is still a way to express your ... This is the first in a series of a couple of posts I wanted to do on ... first move in, one of the first steps in making East Campus your home is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  is the best thing you can do for yourself. But I can see the ways I ... during finals week, you don't have to drag your snot to the exam room and ... 's like trying to pop a pimple, where you'd poke and prod at the pimple for

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Help@MIT welcome to student resources

  

  MIT, where the education is likened to drinking from a firehose.  As one ... might need more than the incredibly awesome How to Get Around MIT guide ... you about just a few of the abundant resources around campus - and is by

  • by Piper '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  This post is brought to you by the 20 hours of sleep I got this ... use the provided parts to make air cannon to get a ping pong ball to ... believe that the idea of engineers consistently not getting sleep is false

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule ... : Talk to people, prefrosh and current students alike. I think the best part of CPW for me was talking to other prefrosh getting to know the

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s All Work Together Easier Said Than Done

  

  persuade people to get the job done. And practice makes perfect. The Final Product: This is a picture of our final plan that I had to pitch to the ... ! Best of luck to all the GEL applicants!

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  time helping to set expectations for the weekend. Because CPW is such a ... about your needs for the weekend, the help that you'd like, and to what ... in to the weekend, I think you can learn a lot. That being said, CPW is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Sweet Transvestite "Round of applause for the man in stilettos! I can only run like that when…

  

  getting back from Harvard Square, we decided it'd be best to bike. But it's usually not best to bike wearing this: So yeah, luckily the wind was was ... mirror off of somebody's car on the way down. Still, he was determined to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  the homework like? Is it hard to get an internship during the summer? Is ... hands down the best way to prepare for the exams -- usually 3 or 4 -- that ... 's definitely not hard to get an internship for the summer. First, there are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  so far. I have absolutely no idea when the third one is going to arrive ... try my best. I say hello to people I see in the halls and in the food ... to not be at your best. It doesn’t diminish your worth.” i'd recommend

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  rejection letter. And the best way I can think of to calm your nerves right ... -in-their-pants jitteriness they felt - we (and by "we" I mean "I") try to maintain the little ... not to get too attached to this school. I had the state Science Olympiad

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  nutritious meals up my sleeve. If all else fails and the hosage monster gets me ... less intimidating, and having the audio-visual element to guide me while ... that you're making specific recipes (not required). The template tells

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  behind that is fairly simple. You get to write about yourself! You're not ... the best of you. The college essay is the time to shamelessly (but ... sometime tomorrow (check Matt's post for the details) to get your essays in

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  years here. Ming says that doing research is the best way to learn and ... walk in the same way that humans do. Ming says, "The idea is that babies ... work in the Seung Lab at MIT to develop the mechanical design of an

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk ... University of Pennsylvania: "Not wanting to break stride is the American way ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  meeting for my UROP (the turkey one) just to get free apple pie 2. discussed the finer points of Food Network with Alicia '06, who actually gets to ... Network is actually the thing I'm second-most excited about with regard to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  GTLs is a great way to explore teaching – you get to try teaching very ... things to love about the MIT student community, and one of them is that we ... the many other (see #17) ways to teach,* you are most definitely coming

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  into the New Year, I want to wish all of you the best of luck on your ... tell you something: when you get to college, change is neither slow nor ... to take the test knowing I had prepared as best I could. For the next

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  is picked and you have 1 minute to calibrate your robot. The robot then ... official description of the class is: 6.270 is a hands-on, learn-by ... the students is to design a machine that will be able to navigate its

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008