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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  do is the front standard and attach the back to the focusing rack. Once ... definitely requires a fume hood and a lab, so I’ll need to work that out ... sides to it: the metal side and the wood side. This is the wood side. In

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Maker Faire 2012 the Dean is going - are you?

  

  the Internet) went to Maker Faire out in CA last year and wrote a blog ... around chilling, and there will be a 6,500 sq/ft 50,000 lbs life size ... be there! Oh yeah, its got everything. In addition to all of the

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  figure it out, y'all. It's not a journey that is over now, and probably ... Whether I like it or not, my senior year at MIT is coming to a close ... , very sure that i’ll throw up a blog every now or then as an alum, and of

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  to choose a major, and i said something about taking the one that fits ... looking at all the games on that shelf earlier, when i wanted to play a ... difficulty for that to actually matter. also, i think shadows is the best

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  much more than the material that is directly taught to you. If you’re a ... only the slightest amount — maybe even a bit that wasn’t important to the ... (this semester), and it was a wonderful reminder that despite going on to

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Meeting FAQ The answers to the FAQs at our Central Meetings.

  

  applied 1,495 admitted We use the exact same criteria to evaluate and ... than 700 [CDS]. In the end, it is being a good fit & match with MIT that ... will give you credit changes year to year (this is set by the faculty and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  cool thing about MIT is that they understand this and that there are all ... things that they show you or ask you to listen to something and follow a ... students who call alumni and solicit donations to the institute. A third of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  The other day my roommate and I decided that there was a flaw in the ... 'm taking in two weeks to give a presentation at Mainz Universitat (that's a whole other blog) and if this course is to be believed, the Germans spend

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  , and happens quite often. Usually the reason is that there's something on ... FINALLY came over the loudspeaker and told us that there had been some ... , sat down next to a kindly elderly British woman with a posh accent…and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Sunday night is the deadline for Early Action (EA) Here are some things we want you to know

  

  November 1. (There is a small amount of grace period for students having ... MIT. Most importantly, be sure to register for a MyMIT account and ... application fee, just check off the box for a fee waiver. You will have to

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  Today I got an email from MIT that directed me to a website which ... that we are not offering you admission to MIT in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. The number of applicants for admission to the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  shopping there And when I was about to buy soap, I Reached for the three ... But of soap, and its importance to me There's much more to soap than it ... that one! There is no reason why. Here, take this, fourteen-bar pack of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  celebrate! If not, I hope this blog, the same virtual mug of tea, and a ... right after decisions. Moreso, there was the realization that I’d have to ... . But there’s a crucial difference between that and less

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint liveblog] finding the BALANCE with 2.009 watching the 2.009 annual showcase (with Kayode D. '27)

  

  .] (janet would like to clarify that she did NOT say that and kayode is the ... " "that was a quarter and a half of a second"... the suspense.. HE DID IT ... -scenes for the capstone projects themselves, and this blog is instead about the

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  essays? The trick is that there isn't a trick to it. I can tell you what ... . This is where you try to connect with the readers and show them who you ... ; Fast forward to today, and I can point to every misconception in the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Go Sox!

  

  Titans, and they only moved there when I was 11. In the past, I've only ... or a floor lounge to find 10+ people anxiously watching everything, and ... when the Sox won, a massive crowd of people left Burton 3rd and went down

  • by Evan B. '10
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  . There's no denying that MIT is hard, and I'd be lying if I tried to hide ... compare it to that physics demo. The institute is the speaker, sending waves ... , the question of how to best distribute bodily mass on sleds is a

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  can do that, look! The record is only 14, and you get an hour and a half ... . We got there and I strode up to the counter, slapped down a $50 bill ... . That'd be me, I'm the boy, and I'm used to eating massive amounts of food

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  For the past almost four and a half years, which is just under a ... this semester and was at that moment just starting to TA.      The ... lived in one room. There isn’t a typical Randomite and there isn’t a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  . Past the roller coaster there was a two-story fort, and beyond that (and ... all drank as much as we wanted to, there wouldn’t be enough. The result was a limitation on the size of the cups we could use to drink apple

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010