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  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  account! The contest was hosted by OnStar, GM’s in-vehicle operator, which ... Innovation & Design (EID), a class in the GEL program, together last fall ... , Blade Kotelly, mentioned it in class. A few months passed and then Sarah

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP Deadlines and Openings The deadline for Fall Direct Funding is September 15, so hurry up and find yourself…

  

  , preservation and restoration of early films, and (c) produce a website to draw in ... : Thursday, Thursday September 15, 2005. Keep in mind that there are three ... UROP students pursing research in the School of Science. It's pretty easy

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  their website, but I'm not good at this kind of thing anyway. Anyhoo, four hours of karaoke country music later, I was in New York's Chinatown. There ... 't already have high school friend coing to college in NYC, you're bound to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  hallway. Whether it’s two people who spaced themselves out in the worst ... don’t need to have a “We’re off to see the wizard” moment in the middle ... bus the most. It's like every bus in the general area is conspiring

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Projects Some examples of some projects you might see in MIT writing classes

  

  taken, and the projects I've done in them.   21W.750: Experimental ... letter is in every word) poem: Giving giant assignments surrounding ... strings to form odd or funny sentences, lined them up in a creative way, and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  his mom, when he won second place in a local filmmaking competition for ... identity in the not too distant past. And it’s also, at the same time, about ... majority ethnicity for one- and the Institute really believes in a person

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What it’s like being back

  

  School is back in session, and I know the question burning in the ... and their effect in the English language would have you believe, I ... , since my last post about my time in California for LiveScribe, I've flown

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  also play a tremendous role in creating, encouraging, and preserving the ... 's faculty - and what's actually here on the website is only a small sample of ... small) contribution to this research through my UROP in the Langer Lab. In

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Financial aid news & more MIT announces costs & aid for the 2007-2008 school year.

  

  who qualify for admission has been unfaltering. This year, as in seven ... factor greater than the increase in tuition. The result: The net price an ... need-based financial aid. In 2006-2007, 23 percent of undergraduates pay

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  ? Preparing for the influx of summer visitors. Beginning in a few weeks, crowds ... into a larger space in the MIT Student Center. Also, during the summer we ... Cambridge to Honolulu. Now, we're arranging our itineraries, finding rooms in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  As I mentioned in my last entry, Change.org is running a competition ... . In Round 1, people came up with 7,783 ideas. Only 87 (about 1%) made it ... a message, loud and clear, that we don't need to rely on dishonest

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  bowlers in high school, Protobowl is the website that trivia nerds use to ... on this website apropos of nothing, we were in fact practicing for a ... A few weeks ago, in a true callback to our high school days, Paolo

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  more closely with students as a college counselor in a high school setting. There is a great deal that I enjoyed about engaging in one ... ,” and I suspect that I will share some of them in due time.  However, as I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  buy lunch, and work on my problem set in the lounge at our floor. Head ... to lecture. Buy lunch. Work on my pset in the lounge. Head to ... The rhythm sets in. It’s a steady rhythm. Roll out of bed at ten in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  there would be like. REX is already in full swing at Random, and this is ... Sirius Black while enjoying some of the treats you may find in Hogsmeade ... Tichu Build a Dominion in Puerto Rico comprised of Seven Wonders, then

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  . The website tells you what MIT is looking for and how to get here, in as ... and shouldn’t be used in essays). This post is addressed to all ... Applicants plus at least 30 more from hopefuls in grades 8-11, and I don't

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  inbox surprisingly clear. So I asked Dylan to put me in papurgatory, an ... papers for [annotation note="seminar in advanced undergraduate research"]6 ... floor in despair and baking cookies for my [annotation note

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  's triangle. this single figure, in isolation, looks like pacman facing downward. but in a group of three, it gives the impression of a triangle overlaid on three black circles. in particular, the triangle can look even

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  /Build/Fly competition, and as hats flew and hair rippled in 30+ mph wind, it became clear ... we arrived to the competition site, a brisk wind decided to settle in and loiter in the airfield for a day or two. Let's be clear--wind is bad

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  until very, very late in the game. I first started researching colleges to build my list in August of my senior year. We had done the campus ... weird. I liked it a lot because it stood out in its rejection of the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008