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  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  rent for the few weeks we are here. Yes, I am one of them—I got to campus ... good 20 trashbags full of them, enough for a 4-foot by 8-foot ballpit, a ... job of designing and constructing a 4 by 8 foot pit, too! Someone

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  rehearsal and class. The energy and eloquence that I bring to the stage as an ... . And even more-so, so many of the skills in GEL ... practice & growth opportunity. This fall I am directing The Importance of

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch the “Wild” 2023 Final Presentations for 2.009: Product Engineering Processes something to watch while awaiting decisions

  

  good question by the look of surprise and horror on the face of my ... 2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  by the end of sophomore year anyway. As for differences between ... regard to our engagement. If you are a person who likes this sort of thing ... 've been saving pictures of things I like and sticking them in there for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  here, only short on time. Sometimes the energy of inspiration is enough ... artists here, among students and faculty. And there are incredible resources ... Scholars outside of the Metropolitan Opera     ...and before

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  ) then how much CO2 is produced by burning one kilogram of coal? I had a ... This semester I'm taking a class called "Sustainable Energy," and so far, it's pretty awesome. It's one of the few classes where I really

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  application process. When I got off the phone I was struck by how little he knew ... -6 weeks of deliberations. If you attended college, the process has changed ... Applicants, if you're reading this, I hope that MIT is one of the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  process of figuring out where you want to go to college (I assume you ... weird gene expression with varying degrees of histone packing and… actually, on second thought, I had a lot of good doodles from this lecture. I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  lot of us tend to let ourselves be absorbed in our own lives. keeping up ... more about here, one of my weekly assignments is to prepare news briefs to present to my peers, the rationale for this being the intensity of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  process of making my peace with that. I can tell you so many things that are ... [annotation note="Quick loft backstory: East Campus gives us a lot of furniture ... week of school, and then write about it. And here we are, in the fourth

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  [by Sadie Scheffer '10] College? It's about classes and professors ... about life outside of their parents' houses. Everything from how to clean ... totally new experience for college freshmen. One of the most important

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  and impressive extracurriculars. Sure, I enjoyed the process of ... passions. I don't feel the need to lie to myself by claiming this was out of ... large part of me also wanted the approval of my peers and parents by

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  of my friends and I rented an apartment in Central Square, Cambridge ... six months, I would have four dollars. For a net decrease of ... of making money. Besides, I don’t know of any such program that gives

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  kind of renewed energy. It was like I was dreaming again, simulating what ... the process, I changed the entire story arc of the first half of the ... had paid off. Looking back at the end of the writing process, I realized

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  aimed to take full advantage of these resources by prioritizing taking ... 6.7800 (Inference and Information, the subject of the exam and by far ... example, 6.3020 (Fundamentals of Music Processing) satisfies two

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  process of admissions. When I invited Stephan'13 to come volunteer at the EA ... trumpet-playing jazz orchestra leader by night, crazy in only the best of ... roomful of Institvte phones to individually congratulate and chat with each

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Over Spring Break A flattering video of MIT Women's Tennis derping around California

  

  ). This year, we rented out a huge house for all 16 of us to share, complete ... California for 7 days, playing 4 matches and spending the rest of the time ... '17 made this wonderful video for MIT's DAPER (Department of Athletics

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 11, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  about my college application process mostly because of a lack of accurate ... about the college process with all of you. I'm incredibly excited to join ... hated science at the back of every one of my classes?" And, well... he

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  ) winterbells, a game of bunnies, bells, and distraction true facts about… by ze ... music and a breeze of spring from the courtyard. i’m talking to a classmate about the class of 2019, and we agree that college acceptances have

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  February updates Midyear grades and more.

  

  processing of midyear grades, calling to check on the status of your midyear ... admissions process. We have received approximately 15,600 applications for ... page, this represents an increase of more than 2,000 applications; this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2009