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  Be a Blogger 2021!

  

  For the last six years now, I have started this post with a jaunty ... inside my house now. i love it, but fear for when it a w a k e n s a colorful new new MIT welcome center will soon be ready for you to see! more

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  list are invariably awesome, and we hope to find a space for them in our ... best decision for them once MIT announced its plans for the fall. On July ... -year students to request a gap year up until this past Monday. When those results

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  APPLE BAKE channeling midterm stress into baking, sculpting, and completely destroying apples for decades

  

  traditional ingredient used in your recipe for a healthier choice (you will have ... addition to a set of custom-designed Apple Bake mugs for the top five winners in each category. There were also prizes for the entries that won Best

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  doesn't wrap up until the 31st of August. You're probably thinking, what ... , or UROPs. For the 6 courses I'm taking this semester, I have 1 End ... -August. 2 of my courses are project-based. For those 2 classes, my project

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  ’s MIT-speak for “undergraduate research”), I work with a team of awesome ... , econ, poli sci and others– for consideration and the top 100 finalists ... compete for some serious national recognition and prizes. In our first year

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  flocked to HackMIT to crowd themselves into a gym for 30 hours and make ... hallway lined with air mattresses for catnappers, and throw in a bunch of ... ...all sandboxes for building castles. Put them all together, slap on a deadline, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 3 A Valentine's Day surprise

  

  't take my Eyes Off You by Frankie Valli 3. Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick ... advertisement: In other words, there's something for everyone. - From 10:30am ... Virus by Professor Mnookin, for example, or The Field Guide to Science

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  went up last week and now it’s on-to-the-next one for me. Plans really ... slew of internships I applied for, a strange idea popped into my mind ... ’m working for the organization that was responsible for teaching me English

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  the Student Center (a building otherwise know as W20). It feels odd for ... . It was an interesting thing to watch. For, as you see, we have made ... decided that for our purposes that the long essay is obsolete... When you

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  Following up on JKim's entry about excitement for the unveiling of ... officially gathers three times -- once, at the beginning, for the freshman picture; once, at the end, for graduation; and once, halfway through, for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  deadlines coming up quickly. All three are open exclusively to high school ... enrichment summer program for promising high school juniors who are interested ... entrepreneurship. The Research Science Institute (RSI), sponsored by the Center for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  all. Do not feel that you need to "clean up" your existing blog for us ... wish to be considered for an admissions blogging position, and we've made ... considered.) While the traditional schedule will remain true for this year

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  . Sure, I could accept responsibility for my own poor sense of direction, but I'd rather blame Google Maps for getting me lost on the way to my ... train for the 15-or-so passengers making the connection. So, I guess I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  garden insulates the building and offers a quiet haven for residents ... National Real Estate Investor reports that "a green building can pay for ... -filled apartments is quite steep. For $3000-4000 per month, you too can live in a one

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  include great textbooks for gifted math students, an active and interactive forum (merged with MathLinks) for discussions of math and math problems ... students for the purpose of exploring math. On the Saturday morning that I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  ridiculously detailed records of my life... I guess you could say I was born for ... 'm planning to go to graduate school, get my PhD, then hole myself up in a lab for the rest of eternity. There are two things I consider to be the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  . that i make time for like 6 hours of DnD every week. that i've taken up ... mean time. i'm in the united kingdom for the first time! i just came back ... enjoy the leftovers for many meals this week. [caption id

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  -speed telecommunications. I signed up for the class because I really enjoyed its ... If I had a nickel for every time my final project for an MIT class ... field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to build digital circuits for all

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  process, a guest lecturer, and lab time to test out the process for ... background, and he delivered lectures on joinery, finishing, and casting. For ... time but not pick up many new skills, since I already had experience with

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  like much, but consider that turnover for a dorm is only four years long ... . for burton-conner, that class year was the 2023s. and there are lots of ... who lived in burton-conner only lived there for a semester and a half

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021