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• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  : every year, in January, a star-studded team of engineers on the Game Design Committee unveil that year's game to the 37,000+ students on 3 ... , before most students now applying to MIT were even born. The goal of FIRST

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  put on the spot enough times that I will (hopefully) never be caught off ... threefold. One: do an activity that doesn't require participants to be put on the spot, so they can opt in (or not) on their own time and comfort

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  kitchen makes people stop on the way to their room and chat about their day ... make a salad or some pan-fried vegetables to go with it. For the second ... over the grill. From weekly family dinners, to Pancake Sunday with my

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  into one grand chain reaction. The event was held in Rockwell Cage on ... on display at the MIT Museum. His machines are incredible feats of ... repeatable. * Test your chain reaction before bringing it to the event. * Make

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  because there were many classes I wanted to take. The second college night ... ." There are a variety of ways to take these courses. Each of the science ... . Many students will join Freshman Learning Communities to take much of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  to difficult problems on the fly. It was cool to meet real ... presumptuous. There's still enough going on for the next couple months to keep ... DIII Tournament, which is pretty cool because it's the second time ever

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  definitely more focused on the 8.01 exam, so there's not much to say except ... going to get canceled for the almost two years I had it planned, and the ... people and even wrote college essays on the topic. Tragically, I am here

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  . The Rime of the Ancient Mariner can be sung to the tune of the "Gilligan ... " but "Friderick." 3. The male emperor penguin must hike 80 miles to the ... 's Mom's and my favorite movie of the last decade, Galaxy Quest was on the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  about college — how to live on your own, all the minutiae about academics ... 'm procrastinating on these decisions, delaying the inevitable, or leaving it all up to ... This year, I’m volunteering with the MIT Educational Council to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving and a Small Hack Quick updates from tropical Boston

  

  , magic happened: Poor Professor Minicozzi didn’t even get to finish the ... responsible, but it was executed perfectly and was a great way to end the last ... together in the Porter room, an ancient ex-dining-hall-turned-common-space on

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  experience, or just to talk about the process. We'd prefer to take phone calls ... in, we will not be able to tell you "the reason" why you were deferred ... to see from the comments that most of you, while understandably

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  . Next week, we move on to worldbuilding. As part of the storytelling ... to video game The Last of Us, and is now working on a fantasy trilogy ... about that instead. To introduce the rad thing, I present to you Exhibit

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  are supposed to be on vacation, but whatever. The exhibits were pretty ... concert. As promised, the second part of a picture entry. Check out ... . Somebody remarked that it was impossible to get by the Brandenburger Tor

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  work. Here's a link to that snowflake. If you view the snowflake on the ... survived the death of Flash by migrating to HTML5, it hasn't lost any data ... gets an arrow pointing to it saying it's new. I think the design

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  week that I didn’t find the time (or the energy) to step away from it all ... HIV/AIDs at its core, the course took us to KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa ... having conversations with women affected by the epidemic to being

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  practically fused with a shelf due to all the liquid on it, a Tupperware of ... grade for the second midterm. cue instant panic and regret mode...and let ... to vibe with them is the reason my semester was even remotely tolerable

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  blossoming grief in my chest had worn off, [/annotation]I began to focus on the ... tube. I like to sit on the rocks near the Charles, crouch down so I ... ’t have the words to explain it, but this poem has such a power to evoke

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  on the way to the study space, and those shelves do look interesting ... the way to the east of campus (not as far as it would be if I lived on ... and cool! It's on the second floor of building 7 (the staircase are

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  sacrificed my best chapstick to the Copenhell gods. It fell out of my pocket on ... . I met with a female coworker on the second day, and said, whatever ... . Strangers offer to put you on their shoulders when you can’t see over the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  temporary effect on taste. The berry’s miraculin glycoprotein (3.42 kilodaltons of carbohydrate, 21.2 kilodaltons of protein) binds to the sweetness receptors of the tongue and activates them in response to acid, making sour

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011