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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  : There! Now you've got some cool MIT-ish stuff to see, and I can clear a ... " - sophomore Gabriel Blanchet is taking a semester off to hike 2,179 miles. USA ... childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  ! (for concerned parents, I can pretty much guarantee you there will be no ... ! (you can tell it's mysterious because every other letter is capitalized). Plus, I heard a certain Tim Beaver is planning on being there to get his

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  Well, that was a crazy week. If you've been reading the blogs a long time, you may have noticed a few trends. Every year, each blogger gets two freebie posts; for fall and spring semester, you can write about

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] Choosing a set of colleges to apply to can be ... there are more (many, many more) in storage. Since it is hard to visualize how many books there are until you see them, here are some pictures to

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  Honestly, I think if you ask anyone at MIT, there is something of a ... yourself there is no reason you can’t work 24/7 without stopping. There is ... you can enjoy that!). No one can move from living in a house to on their

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does my school submit recommendation letters and transcripts?

  profile, and a letter of recommendation). MIT's recommendations process is ... competitive applicants will provide one from a math/science teacher, and one from a humanities, social science, or language teacher. We also require
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To the future! and beyond?

  

  Life after college is scary.  I can't believe the time has come when ... beans and tomatillos in there. The reason this is all on my mind is ... for my company's intern jamboree.  Basically it is a week meant for all

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  Caitlin '15 If you haven't been to a Renaissance Fair, no words can really ... clown threw up on it." You get the idea. There are classes and clubs and ... Manhattan apartment. My grandma is awesome. She is a retired math professor

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  , test scores, etc. They want to learn about you as a person. This is your ... that the interview is not only a way for us to get to know you better ... interview is simply a chance to talk about what interests you and the things

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  you can move your part around on a table (like an etch-a-sketch) and then when you pull a lever you can lower a drill bit into it (like a drill press). The main difference is that you can move the part around

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  -making is a skill. Like many skills, there's a body of knowledge, scattered in ... choosing where to go to college. Like many skills, there's a gap between ... up stairs, and you take a step, expecting there to be more staircase

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  !) so there's no way I can sneak off to the mountains for a few runs ... people are excited by that, because the cold, bleak winter is a tough time ... I have a real-ish job I can spend more time out in the mountains that

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  dresser door!) and have a looped design that you can hang pants on ... BC bathrooms where you can store some of your toiletries, but you still ... email from BC Desk (that isn't this one) notifying you of a package

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field D-Lab students Chelsie, Miho and Nina report from Honduras

  

  the communities face and how we can better help them. Miramontes has a ... . There´s not much that we can do about the machine, but we are ... pieces can sell for more on the market) and creating a heat sealer to help

  • by OEL
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  heard before, there's a decent chance I can figure out what it means ... can have a gut feeling about what a word you've never heard before in ... . Somewhere in that scrapbook in the kitchen closet there's a newspaper clipping

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  can play it, and you could set the buttons to play certain notes in a key, literally anyone can play a (simple) set of chords and solos! I ... like a MIDI keyboard or something else. The idea was that anyone can play

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  get weird. for integers, you can add two large positive integers on a computer and get a large negative one. for fractional values, you can get a ... reveals the truth—if you look hard enough.  and a part of me is convinced

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  Period--the month of January where students can do as they please (take a ... played before, being forced to start with "this is how you hit a ball" was ... . These can be earned in various ways: Classes: A typical PE class

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  hand size. you can have more than seven cards but at the end of a turn ... more than i will on the things i've learned for 6.854. one. there is a ... seven. in magic the gathering, a player's hand size is seven cards

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Here’s a Plan let's burn off the pi(e)

  

  little workout. Stress-exercising is a coping mechanism for me and one ... since you’re physically exhausted, you can’t mentally exhaust yourself by ... up for a class because then you’re obligated to attend sessions and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • March 9, 2019