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• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  figure out how I would constrain the balloon. I tried thin strips of duct ... together. I found this video on how to make balloon bowls using sugar ... so she keeps live worms in her room. I really wanted to see them burrow

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Glimpses Of My Messy World I know, I know - all of you are concerned with your Early Action status,…

  

  staples I've learned to look before I sit: Finally, in picture 3 you can ... a far better job than I could of keeping the masses in the know about ... -programming. Behold in Awesome Wonderment the pace from which I execute MIT Admissions

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  that is happening in the philippines too, even now. and yeah, sure, i ... its own indigenous people just feels weird. in other news, i am overdue ... as in enclosed spaces for extended periods of time, so this year i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  ’m improving so much!! I can get almost every shot in the black area of a target ... ! This really meant a lot to me, and I can’t wait to spend the next year on ... miles at least once every day for four weeks. I started to feel pain in my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  ! It's hard but totally doable! I could actually be ok in this place!" I ... . That class is the most information intensive class I've ever seen in my ... :00 in the morning I was absolutely exhausted. We're talking tired. It was

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a bachelor of science and a master of engineering. In which I make a Voltaire reference and the soup is a metaphor but luckily…

  

  whatever). Put them all in a pot except for the potatoes, cook for two ... something very, very satisfying in garnishing soup with plants from your own

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 21, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  of the tiger, I was in sixth grade. Nicki Minaj was on the radio ... has been twelve years. I am so very old. A lot has happened in the last ... in my mid-thirties. Maybe I will be married with children. Maybe I will

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  hands to pull in the rope. But you can NEVER LET GO of the rudder! So I ... Tonight I was in an MIT admissions webcast, which was targeted ... everyone my sailing story over and over because I can tell it to everyone

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

  ZBT Soiree A part with many desserts and friends... fortunately, I left before the karaoke part. (9…

  

  event.) For dinner, I went to India Quality, in Kenmore Square. After dinner, I hopped on the Boston West SafeRide and went to Zeta Beta Tau (ZBT) for their dessert soiree. I'm not usually the shortest person

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 29, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Television Show Decisions Three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on television each…

  

  Tivo, bless you) means I can watch these four shows in about three hours ... 's where you come in. The contenders: LOST I've been an addict for ... episode. I finally got sucked in this year - it's really good.  

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  first snow it snowed on campus

  

  England snowfall surprised me. I was not prepared for how long the snowy ... in Cambridge, MA. Wherever you are in the world, please take a moment ... outside my own dorm window[/caption] It doesn't snow too often in my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection begins Picking the Class of 2010.

  

  , undoubtedly, make selection even more difficult this year. I can tell already ... for in MIT students, we can usually reach consensus after a bit of ... occasion where we can't reach consensus, we put the application back in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  little free library while I was living in my van. I wrote a poem here and ... called it — and I thought, why not? We met on Sundays at 10 pm for me in ... . There are many strengths to poetry, but in particular I love the ability

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Psetting on Campus ft. an updated mapping system

  

  EDIT: this post is back bois I didn't know Google had a shareable mapping service and used a terrible one instead so I redid the map with Google Last year during freshman fall, I made a couple of guides to random

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 4, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2020 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  all the 2020 i3 videos below in case you would like a glimpse into how ... Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life and culture of their residence halls.In the ’90s and early ’00s, these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  anything I ever dreamed of encountering in high school. But that, I can ... . Sometimes, that may take more effort than others. But you can do it. In every ... 'clock last night, with some breaks for sleeping and eating, I have spent most

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  in her dress, you marvel at how green the material of her outfit is ... This past semester I took Intro Psychology at MIT with Professor ... of the most interesting and fun lectures I've ever had at MIT. As a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Interview Deadline Approaching! It's time for applicants to contact their local MIT representative.

  

  recommendations for the interview, which I think are pretty good: Review the ways in ... application and what you can tell us in the essays. Think about why you are ... are conducted in your home area (not on MIT's campus) by an MIT alum, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  deadline, you should still contact your interviewer ASAP in case your EC can ... in mid-December. I hope this is helpful. Best wishes as you finish ... ) deadline, November 1. I'd like to use this entry to answer some of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  there so much they moved in early to hang out with you guys!  They can tell you stories of what living in McCormick is really like because it ... ?  That event is probably a sneak peak into how the residents have fun with

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019