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• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  it's good enough to take the place of all your future gifts. :-) I was ... The little that is completed vanishes from the sight of one who looks ... . They posted photos of the envelopes in mail bins and I was monitoring Ben

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Live from the Glass Lab! it's...tuesday afternoon??

  

  One of my favorite MIT organizations is the Glass Lab, where students ... they sent out the following blast: Dear Glass Lab followers, One of the ... scheduled, we have, thanks to the labors of Erik and Marty Demaine, installed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  IAP stands for Independent Activities Period. For the month of ... styles and also learn about the history of Chinese calligraphy. you make ... didn't want to miss too much of the class and ended up dropping 2

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  The Abominable Snowman If you can't see the Yeti, make the Yeti.

  

  possible. We build snowmen so large that they require the use of ramps, ice ... entry in the works, for those of you who are sick of hearing about it ... the midst of a multi-part snow battle. The first two battles involved

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Tofu corndogs and low-fat ice cream

  

  Today marks the tenth day of my ill-conceived diet, and all I want ... of flexibility in making food that tastes good but is also healthy. (I ... a quick elevator trip to the junk food of my wildest dreams. The

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See your name among the stars… Forget having your name written in lights, get it written on a spacecraft!

  

  unmanned spacecraft in 2010. "Choose a location on the outside of the ... 'll return to you the actual piece of spacecraft hardware which carried your ... on a spacecraft! The MIT Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program is selling

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  The blogs turn 10 and all the bloggers get e-mails saying "Write something fun for the 10-year blog birthday!" so, of course, I say yes.  It ... top of my game.  Maybe that's good, maybe it's a sign that I'm slowly

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Wahoo! MIT takes over Doonesbury! Alex Doonesbury is coming to a campus near you.

  

  For those of you who are closely following the Doonesbury comic strip ... June, here are some excerpts: Alex Doonesbury, the daughter of the main ... Cornell. When the poll closed at midnight on May 22, MIT had 48 percent of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  calendar was a solid block of commitments from ~8-8, and the remaining hours ... adventure to see all. of. the. pretty. trees. Through a combination of biking ... , looking for any and all signs of fall. My only directive was to maximize the

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Freshman App Questions We're happy to help.

  

  Application section of the site. I am happy to answer your questions (that ... Ahoy! I hope you arrr having a great September. As you know, the MIT Freshman Application is available at MyMIT. The Early Action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Piece of my Heart Hey, look, a Turkish internet cafe.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The proliferation of "standing cafes" in Germany was ... understanding of the language. For example if somebody at the bank says "blah blah ... , until the lady got tired with how incredibly stupid I was and started

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  End of May updates More waitlist admits, no ARML, Bollywood in Boston, technical theater at MIT.

  

  previous entry: I am no longer able to make it to the Penn State site of the ... Boston. Now, after a lull in posting over the holiday and during yesterday ... students from the waitlist on Friday. I don't know if we'll take more people

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  year for the past four years, just out of my mom and I's pure love for ... prone to headaches and nausea (aka, me.) Yet, the quiet drone of the engine outside, the lack of wifi (unless you're on a fancy flight or just

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  just taken a leave of absence. Taking a break from the Institute is not ... worthwhile questions, they shouldn't overshadow the most important question of ... worth it if you spent the years unhappily toiling through a course of

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2020 Hacks Back

  

  Class of 2020, we enclosed the following note in the tube:     Yesterday, the Class of 2020 responded with a hacked eye-chart of ... for the pictures)  I strongly suspect the Class of 2020 is trying to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  Boston and going to the good ol’ institvte, and I told myself sure, I can ... half of those people identify as male, you dwindle down the pool of available men. Factoring in the percentage of the student body that you

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MIT and other summer programs Juniors may want to start thinking about summer programs including MITES, RSI, and WTP.

  

  to one of these programs, don't procrastinate! The MIT programs are ... school juniors can consider. All of the below are national ... chose for the majority of my summers in high school. Reading, doing sports

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2008
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Koch Institute?

  Institute (NCI) designated Cancer Center, is a state-of-the-art cancer research facility as well as the hub of cancer research on the MIT campus ... -faceted group of investigators is at the core of the Koch Institute’s mission to
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  thing mattered.  It was the first year of the MIT Blogs, after all, and I ... as proud of you the same way, ever again.  You won’t know how this ... in the driver’s seat in many areas of life including the ability to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  . Mmmm chocolate. PooF To GO TO (Points for the Good of the Order) When it ... Gregor, which had a beautiful view of the rain pummeling the Charles River and ... , double-canopy umbrella. It was, according to Amazon, the BMW of umbrellas

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012