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  My Talk @ Maker Faire a bit about how we see, select, and support makers

  

  Portfolio at a small conference in California. Last year, before we launched the Maker Portfolio, Dawn gave a talk at Maker Faire Bay Area about how technically creative students ought to pitch their projects to colleges. Last

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Graduations

  

  I'm on my way now to my brother's graduation in Pennsylvania. I'm not really sure how it will go, or how it will compare to MIT's Commencement ... Commencement speakers, with a link to their speech: 2004, Elias Zerhouni

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays! Pictures from our recent holiday party.

  

  Happy holidays from the admissions office! I'll be leaving in a bit ... wonderful holiday vacations, and here's to a great 2007! I'll leave you with ... LImelight. (I challenge any other admissions office to a Karaoke competition

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 21, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  me in a rigorous academic environment and my need to be really, really ... on David Bowie's "Space Oddity." Everyone in the room sang along to the ... important to this story.) Someone called us about thirty seconds in and said

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  that I can tailor them to my needs. I might also get a minor in ... couches in the lounge Friday evening. I’m used to the cycle of work and then ... magical in the mundane, to see the extraordinary in the habitual. Here goes

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Infinite] Quarter Mile quarters + packing tape + sore knees == help cure MS

  

  is also the site of other activities, which, in that MIT way, manage to ... site of random tomfoolery. For example, MITHenge, which, according to Wikipedia, is when: On several days each year, the sun sets in alignment with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Picture is Worth a Thousand Balloons Literally. One thousand. Like, a one with 3 zeros. One times ten to the third.…

  

  bought at Target operated on a 12 volt car battery, so he had to get ... stuff, Ruth ‘07 spent a week in New Orleans, so we, her floormates, decided to welcome her return with a nice poster:   And a few ballons

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding Online Decisions A brief update.

  

  juncture. I'm hesitant to post this because I don't want to get your hopes up ... I am excited to let you know that things are looking fairly good for ... blog comments about it in the last month, so I figured it was a hot topic

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  IM sports totally rock

  

  glowing. Really, IM sports are the coolest thing ever! It's a great way to build community, to have fun, to stay in shape. I could not imagine MIT ... 'll have to take a picture of it and post it), and I'm so proud of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 3

  

  Center to play some Dance Dance Revolution (DDR 4th Mix Plus, in this case ... just what one would expect to see at 11:30am on a Sunday in the MIT ... Selection can be pretty mentally taxing, so luckily the days tend to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 6, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  joint letter to President Obama from more than 150 colleges describing how ... understanding. I learned that when William Barton Rogers founded MIT in order to ... to join the party. If you don't know how to do something there

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Blending In (Guest Entry) Of singing, eating, and shopping (sorta)

  

  community was quite closeknit in many aspects. I was just so glad to see that ... student'. Sad to leave but eager to come back to Boston in the fall! And ... had come to MIT CPW with excitement but also deeply rooted stereotypes

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

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  the best decisions I've made in my life. Also - we're getting a new ... for this day to come, for this year to end. But now, a large part of me ... to no longer be among the 'babies' of the school, to be replaced by the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Events

  150. We're in the news!

  

  need to check in for my flight home in six hours. My one-week-old brass ... how quickly these past two years have flown by... Around this time last ... shared a few pictures with you guys in her entry, but I'm adding a few of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  pursue a career in advertising, then you might be able to find someplace ... to feel like some "other" major (I'm in such a major!). That said, the ... hands on work or theoretical studies? You'll want to figure out how MIT

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

  East Campus Hall Rush: 1E So many packing peanuts

  

  brings me to hall rush! Each hall in East Campus has a different culture ... convince the freshmen that their hall is a good place to live in. We bought ... Hi friends! I'm Jamie and I'm a new blogger. I'm a senior in 2A-4

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • September 14, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  who seem too preoccupied with aesthetic, because aesthetic can get in ... else does. Not every moment in life needs to be intellectualized, and I have a tendency to overthink everything. The summer I was in Paris, I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  . Most everyone resolved to get some work done on these couple of days, but ... are realizing what it means to be in the center of all this vibrant ... to see the world and take in the fresh air and ride that bike and surf

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  incredible this experience is, and how grateful I am to live in a place this ... how I can help people, and I've had so many great ideas about how to ... I am sitting in the coolest little corner of our courtyard I've ever

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Application is now available! You can now access the MIT freshman application at MyMIT.

  

  You can now log onto MyMIT to access the application for freshman admission to MIT. Your MyMIT page includes interview information, personalized MIT recommendation forms and cover sheets, and the ability to track the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010