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• Blog / Events

  Trick or Treat! Smashing pumpkins, and no I don't mean the band.

  

  and I drop it off the Green Building which is 295 ft, how far will the chunks go in the radial direction when it crashes to the ground? Answer ... . Now I must admit by the end of the evening, I did have a slight crick in

  • by Bryan
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  : This is what it used to take to get in to MIT-definitely a lot less work ... Like Bellamy’s young hero, I too am back in Boston. Except its been ... into a socialist utopia. But, prior to leaving for home for spring break

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admission Interview Tick tock!

  

  , hopefully two-way, where the EC gets to know you: what drives you, interests ... have asked them, haven’t you?), our ECs can be busy. Getting in touch ... in MyMIT that they intend to apply EA. For those of you who haven

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising and freshman formalities

  

  happened this week. - Thanks to a freight derailment in Idaho, I spent most of Tuesday on a bus from Montana to Washington state. - Last night, my ... three or four times this year, and it's a good way to get to know your

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t Miss the Battle of the Bands Watch Ben Jones's band, Tremulant, perform with Marilee Jones at Battle of the Bands this…

  

  , listen to awesome music, get free Anna's Taqueria burritos, Ben & Jerry ... really amazing... guaranteed to blow your mind or your money back (ok, the ... Jones (check out the picture of Ben rocking-->)! Come and see how

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  not all dorms are limited to singles and doubles. In Baker, there are ... ugly campus. And, in general, I tend to agree, in the sense that the ... "pretty", I think there's a lot of beauty if you know where and how to find

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Holiday Stories Here's mine. What are some of yours?

  

  to have an after-work event at which parents would construct gingerbread houses for their children to decorate in school the following day ... to date have been answered in the last entry.)

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  ended up getting drenched in an unexpected deluge of rain. Yes, you read ... picturesque, and fun to play with (or in), it even can serve as a metaphor for ... room, not to mention three (count 'em) umbrellas. In case you're curious

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i walk through campus and say stuff i cannot vlog to save my life

  

  Behold. I attempted to vlog. https://www ... tour typically lasts around 75 to 90 minutes, and it pays pretty well. I haven’t actually given an admissions tour in a long time. I ended up

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  events in each section, bullet points even to the paragraph and sentence ... to study somewhere else, but this isn't it. in a stroke of ... harder, with no benefits in exchange; the intent is that you just get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  Jalapeño Bacon Mac and Cheese for the Homeless starting a campaign larger than myself

  

  shelter to donate the proceeds to and, in less than two weeks, enough ... sharing similar stories helped me realize how we're all struggling. But more ... the daily struggle of MIT, I wanted to take time out of my day to do

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Intermission Summer job: just kickin' it. And working at Pixar, too.

  

  pronounce as "Ra-to-lee" even though the logo has the built-in pronounciation ... Sometimes taking a little time to recharge is really all you need. I've been spending hours in used bookstores and swimming and taking deep

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 7, 2007
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What is the MIT QuestBridge Supplement?

  MIT will be contacted directly about how to access the MIT Quest ... Bridge application to apply for our Regular Action cycle, but you must let us know in ... Our MIT QuestBridge Supplement is a way for us to gather some
• Blog / Events

  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  In Ancient Greece, the word “symposium” referred to a gathering of ... -sensing contact lens that has a little patch of color that changes in response to ... myself back in the auditorium listening to the final round of presentations

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  some sort of physics lab tour, and I stopped in between only to get ... when you have to get off in Florida 80-degree weather and will sweat ... CPW last year in your shoes. Well, I had never been to Boston before, so

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Rain is evil There's only one kind of good snow, and rain isn't it.

  

  's Ring Premiere to get an idea of what I'm talking about. There are some ... misfortune to be around me the last few weeks. All I do is complain about the weather. Granted, the weather is not all that different in New Jersey

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  got that right), AND I'm trying to do more new things in college ... other homework and trying to get this up before midnight, which prevented ... also get cold and rainy and cause n00bish vloggers to wince at the camera

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  not to get too attached to this school. I had the state Science Olympiad competition on pi day and didn't get to check my MyMIT account until several ... other kids from my school had gotten in (to have one would have been crazy

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I don’t like SPAM! Technology to the rescue!

  

  I know you’re already thinking to yourself, “Where is Dave going to ... with Bacon!*)? Perhaps a photo of SPAM carved to resemble some bit of ... joke about Scrapple? What devious pun lies in wait? The suspense is too

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  surface of high-temperature superconductors in an attempt to understand how ... project, he had the opportunity to spend a couple of weeks in a Japanese ... Researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005