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  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  touch. MIT Hopeful wrote, "I believe in an earlier post Mr. McGann had ... , "is there any sense in applying next year (again as freshman) If I am ... Admissions website. I don't know exact statistics but usually we see hundreds

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

  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 / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  (mechanical engineering) with a focus on learning machines. I live in Next House ... spectroscopy. This summer, I had the chance to live in an apartment in Cambridge while I was doing research in a robotics lab on campus. Specifically, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  paintings Edward Hopper made in his lifetime. So, when I learned that the ... ; listen to it on the Whitney website (scroll down)) “...located in the ... /social sense and in a literal climate change sense. I particularly liked the work

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I love musicals! Wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  the most colleges in the country. I love how “wicked” already feels like ... worry not: there are no Wicked spoilers in this blog Last Friday, I ... , and I found out about Wicked in November of 2014.']LITERALLY 10 YEARS

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 29, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  poor. I am sure that i would recieve a very good score in this sat ... material? And how does that assist you all in making a decision? I mean, if ... wondering if I sent in my transcript, would you guys look at it just to see my

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  for everything we'd done in the past three days. I'm pretty sure I got ... of the prettiest I've ever seen. we spent a while being idiots in the ... my ears could handle it, I saw a bunch of people buy earplugs so they

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  -poms, and testing how far I could reasonably chuck various mini beaver ... more and more people filed in. At some point, I poked my head out to ... your class all gathered in one place, and I knew this, but it was still

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  , and D&D sword and throne room in another building. I got to stay in ... store so I could buy some good cheese. And everyone was so nice and ... a real hip club in downtown Boston. It was louder than I expected. The

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  -da! (Oh, all photos in this entry are courtesy of my Mac's webcam since I ... to walk how we want it to. At the end of the month I'll try to write a ... Well, my two weeks of no IAP agenda have come to a close and I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  Methods In Aerospace Engineering" but I think a more appropriate name would ... in the universe, death, taxes, and MIT students complaining about how much work they have to do. I guarantee you that one day will not go by in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  test in high school, I would have received a 120% and possibly a card on ... all around. In fact, I couldn't even tell you the frictional coefficient ... diagrams at 2 AM in the morning*. I went to the office hours of multiple TA

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  to see how much I've grown In brainpower and stamina for sleepless ... shopping there And when I was about to buy soap, I Reached for the three ... introduction to the city that I lived in for 15 years - Kaohsiung, Taiwan

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  people. I'd talked with Ellen about being women in STEM, and how we'd found ... , I was telling my sister about hunting for a place in Boston, and she ... so grateful for my lab. This blog is about how I found my UROP and what

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  /when I turn 80, how much money would I give up to have the memories and ... it, but I managed to convince him that it would be worth at least $100 ... When I was younger, one of my favorite board games to play with my

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  —we live here in the day-to-day.” mit and the cube I would be remiss not to ... in bits all around the website. I do feel funny clarifying this, but if ... , achievable goal. This helps me stay off my phone in the morning, too. I sought

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  they didn't let me in at the border? How would I carry my suitcases all ... ' tv show record scratch* OK, so you're probably wondering how I got here ... semester, my parents and I both agreed it would be better if I could avoid

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  't about being boy-crazy. First of all, this was me in high school. I think ... that I always get carded when I buy beer. I went to the Massachusetts RMV ... pretty well-known for the performing arts, and I was heavily involved in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  in which these quotes were said (and I am the genesis of at least a few ... shoes." "I'm going to be really annoyed if I have to buy a dominatrix ... ” "I was listening, until you shit on capitalism" I...don't know how to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  needed decisions: how answers would be called in, the hint system, and the ... the website to put their phone number in the queue, and then HQ would ... on the website, and then a few minutes later someone in HQ would call

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021