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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  , and on weekends I went places, but for the most part I stuck to the ... Europe to be farmed for fur, and when the furs went out of style the nutria ... they needed to be. Now, on this airplane with ink-stains all over my

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  principles: I wanted to compensate artists for their time. I had no idea ... , others take a few weeks of incremental progress. I forgot to account for ... bad, it's just life. This is also something I forgot to account for when

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  . On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like ... , trying to write a blog post. And on these days, I get constantly distracted ... Messenger. I work for an hour, and then I’m lying on bed scrolling through my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  (VIDEO) THINGS on campus, from MITx to TAing the ESG educational video course to becoming a Educational Media/Multimedia Fellow for the MIT+K12 ... why, exactly, was I on an epic quest for a specialized candy product

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ways for exploring ideas. It’s not cheap to have such a big focus ... hours to oversee; Josh B. and Sally M., working on the tech review model ... transitions so well that there will be no need for presenters to change slides

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the ... all saw posted on Tuesday. For those of you that aren’t Xtreme Nerds ... he’d already contacted him again to ask him to come aboard for this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  when I left for college, which had been laying on a shelf since August ... dangling in the air, wondering what it’d be like to walk on the ceiling ... be a good week. I’m going to bed. No, really. Really, for real this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  designs. The original plan was for students to submit pictures to be etched ... wanted to take a picture and turn it into a full-on solar cell. Creating ... -and-forth emailing with Jorg, I settled on simple vertical stripes to collect the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  restaurants in Boston; decisions about when to turn off the heating for spring ... discover, staircases that lead to different places depending on when you take ... , So try me on and I will tell you Where they ought to be. My

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  population because: 1) I've never learned to code* at MIT (requirement for all ... Circuit, it's basically a loop for you to get the feel of your cart/bike and ... loops on a highway of rainbows. There is no way to uniformly describe how

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  oscillators that it seemed only right to become one. For a driving force, we ... snowing heavily. Boston's gift to me: the first time I've seen snow on my ... Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  For most of high school, the US was just a vague blip on the radar of ... sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to ... ’re looking for! We encourage you to seriously consider applying to Penn.” It

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  very [annotation note="First years are already on campus for orientation ... partners in crime for the week. I was on the orange PRC team, and it was ... sorority life in general. Be prepared for some long days! You will talk to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  break. Luckily (?) for me, my floormates on Burton 1 have lots of ... Say hello to the holidays and winter break!!! Now, sitting at home in ... -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  bravado the dorm likes to put on for fun when we act as a unit: you'll see ... -turning Rush shirts for a while. I don't want to make the Admissions Blogs all ... , but over time that was changed to align with the social cohesion on each

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  culture, and while there is clearly no objective way for one to claim one ... with balloons and herd everyone into the room to wait for you to come ... floors - from Burton 1 to Burton 5, and from Conner 2 to Conner 5 (Conner 1

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  captured. And then, if you try to build a model based on these incomplete ... likely to score an 800 on the math SAT than a 740. But if we take an IMO ... medalist, who also happened to get an 800! The same goes for people who are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  moving on to the more important parts of the application -- that is, who ... that she has a 760 on the Math SAT. As I was about to tell her that her ... to have a picnic on that Saturday. Because to us, a 760 math is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  they’re rocks on a riverbed. The memory of my dad teaching me how to ... Minor on the guitar seems to connect every stage of my life, creating a ... I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  technology, about the possibilities for research to improve society, make the ... The reading continues, almost non-stop here... for another perspective on the reading, go on over and visit Ben. Shahab commented with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004