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  Introducing… Maker Portfolios! Making the world better, one portfolio at a time

  

  everything that I saw. But often I found myself asking questions. "Cool! How ... -mount components like that?" "How did you make that cake levitate?" I'm an engineer by training (MIT-educated in Course 2) so I wanted to know all the

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a spectacle-r weekend exploring the Boston Harbor Islands

  

  ferry leaves at 5, so I'm not sure why anyone would want to spend only an ... boyfriend: "I don't know, but I wish I could ride in a boat that's being towed ... " Anyways, as we approached the island, I started to notice how tiny it is. It

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  early last Wednesday morning. In these last five days, I feel like I ... , I have to say that that probably takes great moral fortitude in its ... also exist likewise in all MIT dorms. However, I feel except for diehard

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  how deeply I love the place, and at this critical moment in its history ... don't really know how to write it. There are so many things I want to ... years here, I'm going to be leaving MIT in July. I'll also be leaving

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  in, i also read through all the course materials for a few other classes i was interested in but didn’t have time to take. one of those was ... capabilities in creative ways that i’d for the most part never considered before

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  tl;dr Today I’ll be answering your questions about MIT portfolios in the comment section below. To tide you over before questions come in, I ... ? Yes! Instructions on how to request a fee waiver are detailed in the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  -optimal thing. But now I’m back, with a little less self promotion, to join in ... well. So sometimes I sit in a cubicle 9-5 by myself without speaking to another human being, and sometimes I am in a single-occupancy bathroom with

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  how, until I realize that this is the same world where  “the waitress ... future. 2. when sapphics say love is in the air when i am with you,  we ... away, where  to come out is to stay in  your arms   i want my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Events

  A Morning With Sir Tim Berners-Lee This morning I attended a lecture in Stata, given by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the guy…

  

  This morning I attended a lecture in Stata, given by Sir Tim Berners ... people understand each other." Sometimes I think the best ideas in the ... awesome. But I digress.) Tim was pretty fascinating, so I checked out his

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  in Beijing called Linked Hybrid. Of course I had to see Simmons' sister in Beijing before I left, so I looked up the coordinates on Google ... , shuffling through options in my head - I could go back to the bus station, go

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  *Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.* Although I'm back in Boston for the moment ... 'm still supposed to be leaving for Maine in 25 minutes. I haven't decided

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  September 11th, 2001. I was a freshman at a new school in a new town in a new state; in fact, I was still living in an extended stay hotel with my ... make sense of them again. I watched TDS nearly every night in high

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  's technicalities. Okay, can I perform in the class? Honestly, I'm grossly unprepared ... . Do I really want to major in 6-9 or 11-6, or am I actually just interested in 9 or 11? Do I feel called to Course 6, or do I feel required to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  echoed in my bones. As I looked around, I saw others marching along ... difficult to follow, too hard to keep in time with. Erratic. Flighty. I stumbled as I walked, tripping over my feet a couple of times. In a panic, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)

  

  fancy. But in my case, I mostly ran around and took pictures (as displayed ... would be me in a year. Well, this is that me ^^^ from left to right and ... nights that turned into early mornings. It marks two.. whole… years… I can

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 27, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  do some aerial stunts (I had no idea you could do loops in a Cub!) and ... Castle in the Air, and the ever-shifting cloud castle.) The one plane I ... production mechanisms. (I'm a physics nerd; not gonna apologize for that

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Snowsical The blizzard of February 13th

  

  .♪ ♫Close up of the red thing in front of a building that's orange, Oh how I ... When I woke up this morning, I checked my Facebook (as any good ... around our house in New Jersey:     Oh boy, it looks real bad in NJ.  The

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ‘Twas the Night before Finals Likely the highlight of my literary career. And some words of advice to EA.

  

  . “I’m going to fail physics!” I saw one frosh yell. “Is torque in or out ... am in bed. In just a few hours, fiziks will be done, And I will have ... , and all through the ‘tute, You would think that the students had all

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  7:39 PM: It's Sunday night. I have four exams in the next week. Hey ... that I have four exams in the next week. Like the Goldberg Variations or ... potato farmer in Idaho. I digress. Here's my schedule for the week, which

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 04 What I took way back when

  

  neither performing. In how many ways can the trio be chosen? I know, I ... In numerical order, this term, I am taking: 4.614; 7.012; 14.02; 14.30; 21A.453 In alphabetical order, this term, I am taking: Anthropology

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 23, 2004