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  bump MIT students design products

  

  gigantic balloon tower... design elements for a stunt show.... create specifications for fruit... or break things apart to learn. Despite the fact ... easier while juggling their child and groceries. For our technical review

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My new job @ admissions like nick saban, but for nerds

  

  the blogs, for the office. And I'm still helping Kris out with them and ... duties for many years before then. Essentially, my job is to find some of ... , or Olympiads, or Maker Faire. So what does this change for any of you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 9, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  Note: The following is adapted from an article I wrote for CMS.350 ... too :-) It's three in the morning and MIT's campus is, for once ... day, it's the main artery for foot traffic among academic buildings, but

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Staying Organized In which I look exhausted and talk about my notebooks

  

  Apologies for the video length/quality this week. MIT has me sufficiently hosed this weekend, following an already-stressful week. Such is life. Hopefully you're able to decipher my rambling in this video! If

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog

  

  First off: I apologize for the shakiness of this video. For some ... laptop from exploding overheating while it was processing videos for ... a more postive note, in a mad search for video stabilizing techniques

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  for CityLab. Yet it feels as though I’ve lost (at least part of) my ... ’ve forgotten how to share thoughts and information...without latent concerns for ... famous for "thinking out loud" on his corner of the web.) In that moment, I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2014!

  

  3) TURN DOWN FOR BLOGS   Loading...

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  I Suppose It Was Inevitable That We Have An Office Instagram a list of some other places you can find the blogs (and the bloggers)

  

  other way than navigating to or searching for MITAdmissions.org. Of course ... distinction between what bloggers post for us and their "personal accounts" on other platforms intended for other audiences. However, when we were

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  ) for three laps around the course in as short a time as possible. We knew ... little worse for wear after yesterday's heavy flying. The time to beat was ... . Adam (who we are forever and ever indebted to for his amazing flying, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  browser of choice >:] CPW just happened at MIT, which for all involved ... [email protected] if you would like more As for more Qs. How will ... requirement for this program, and I landed in Milan’s Linate airport on January

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  awesome. I woke up early this morning, 8am, for EMS drills, and although I ... . In other news, like I mentioned in my last post, the theme for East ... new hall is responsible for providing some sort of food substance for

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  loud, very grand church bells, then couldn't find anything for breakfast ... just over 15,700 ft (~4.8 km). Feyi joined us for the cable car ride ... to head back into the city and catch her flight. She's off for a

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

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  picture. For a person who grew up in very arid parts of the west coast, I ... stuck at home for 6 (yes, for real, thanks mister snow storm) extra days ... you. The reason I’m off campus is actually for a class that’s part of

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Notes and Updates Form every applicant needs to do this

  

  after grades are available for the fall semester or second quarter. (If ... available for classes you’ve taken in your current academic year. I am ... fill this form out? The form has fields for you to report your

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  Season 1 of Breaking Bad and napped for a couple of hours. Anyway, we all made it in one piece. This afternoon, I arrived at my hotel and for a few ... interrogated him. Turns out that this convention center is being used for a Music

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  This weekend marks the notable milestone where, for the first time in ... hands for a research job. I have a UROP (Undergraduate Research ... sciencey things and learning cooler sciencey things and getting paid for it

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  kitchen, there is a "sacrificial table" - "sac tab" for short. Any item placed on the sac tab is automatically up for grabs. This is usually food ... -- you never know what you'll find! 2) When you bake something for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  This weekend, in some order, I: 1. slept for twelve hours straight ... activity, if not necessarily for the content, then at least for the musical ... about Rocky Horror: for some reason, the showing started at midnight. More

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skies over MacGregor Views of campus, Boston, and the Charles River from ten stories up.

  

  spent a lot of my time in MacGregor, which is where Cory was living for ... between July 3rd and July 9th. Rollover for the time the photo was taken and click for larger versions. The first panorama has labels, just in case you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  . Instead, for a variety of reasons, we use our own application, hosted ... MIT application is that we don't prompt for a single, longform essay ... something you do simply for the pleasure of it. Although you may not yet

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013