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• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections Some thoughts on the admissions process, both to those who were admitted and those who…

  

  , you will thrive wherever you wind up. For those who will come to MIT, I ... your applications, I know how much energy and care you put into them. For ... staff, I want to say thank you for your interest in MIT, and for sharing

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics Kickoff Things go into Overdrive at a reception at Dean Kamen's house.

  

  applications, I grabbed a Zipcar Prius and set a course for New Hampshire. After ... Mina '03 (who is now working for Kamen's company, DEKA), and JKim ... amazing, the real star of the night was WestWind itself. Coming up the long

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  class. I was in for quite a surprise when I showed up on performance day ... was the music for "All In Green Went My Love Riding," my final project for 21M.303: Writing in Tonal Forms 1. The class is traditionally taught

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  'll rust. Your kid will wrinkle up if left in the bathtub for a couple hours ... , The World According to Garp by John Irving. 6. Gearing up for the ... . My entire lab flew all-expenses-paid down to Colorado for the week to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken with my head cut off What I've been up to since last Friday. In case you want the Cliff's Notes…

  

  wrapped up within the next few months so we can write it up for publication ... bottom, mind you!) -- didn't mean I got out of writing essays for the two ... textbooks for all my classes. I read three papers from the scientific

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Party of One A fun day trip idea when you're getting tired of homework.

  

  weekend, I woke up early, packed some physics notes, and headed to Boston's North Station where I would board an Amtrak train for the day. Amtrak ... schedule is advantageous and allows for many day trip opportunities

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regional Meetings begin Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida are first up.

  

  -to-face and to set up a time for their interview. We will always finish with an ... RSVP here. On Wednesday, I will fly to Florida in preparation for my ... you can pick up as well. The meeting itself will last no longer than 90

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  to really like it, for a few reasons. Certainly, it is a swiping of the nomenclature of a certain telecaster's forum. Now I don't care much for that ... recall how the topic came up, but as we were talking, I was applying

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  our lord 2022 -- many people have made fun of me for this, but it's like a fidget toy for me at this point -- as well as baking banana bread ... Jepsen. For some reason, the [annotation note="because for some other

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  about how I was going to make my dress for senior prom. I had never used a ... their crusty career fair t-shirts for suits and gowns.  As I prepared to ... making longer stitches, which would be required for a fancy dress, I tried

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  beignets for breakfast. We then packed up all of our stuff, checked out, and ... considered, then discarded for one reason or another"]Miami.[/annotation] Instead, we came up with a somewhat unorthodox plan: we'd fly to New Orleans

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  in my head. I was experimenting with large format for the first time ... thought of buying my own 8x10 view camera burst as soon as I looked up the price range for a field camera with decent movements. The bellows alone

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the Scenes of MIT Gala liveblog - how a fashion show is made!

  

  music for the runway portion of Gala, is starting to set up their ... Over the past three years, I’ve been on the organizing board for MIT ... the launch event for Infinite Magazine, the annual event has since spun

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • April 27, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

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

  

  :30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We ... ) 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

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

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  title of this entry. If you haven't thrown up yet, hang on. My friends from high school are starting to come back to Boston for the summer, and ... rest of this worse. Before I get fired for writing a blog post

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Arts Party 2010! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Now that I'm about to graduate, it's time for some fun…

  

  was in the mood for milk.) ABOVE: Pouring myself a nice big glass of 2 ... community. I've been sitting in on meetings, just for fun, and it's been a great experience. We've come up with a logo to represent Arts at MIT

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  examples: Maddie '11, after staying up until 5ish studying for 2.001, gets ... . Many different acronyms have been invented for the word "finals," most of ... the legwork up to you) but all center around never having actually

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  What can I say, it grew on me . . . (Guest Entry) Now I'm a beaver believer!

  

  worth it. The campus tour that my dad lined up for us the following ... managing to stay up all night long, I left East Campus for Logan airport ... financial aid appointment, I met back up with Becca and Tim and we went to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus According to Joel '10 from New House, we eat your babies.

  

  Sharpie along the corner, since that apparently makes up for my laziness. It ... Some of you asked for pictures of a Senior House dorm room, and I ... , right now this picture is entirely misleading for a couple of reasons: a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  , but I'm going to hook you up with something better for the same price ... hopefully I've cleared those two things up a bit. (Thanks mom for the feedback ... to Budget where my rental car was supposed to be waiting for me. I

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005