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  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  ://www.arthurganson.com/) Arthur Ganson is an “artist-in-residence” at MIT and some of his pieces are ... picture from an event called Friday After Thanksgiving (F.A.T.), sponsored ... ’ contraption for the MIT Museum sponsored Friday After Thanksgiving (F

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  away from my family for the first time. The next fall, during my ... requirements to mostly [annotation note="these were course 6 classes at the time"]in-major classes,[/annotation] which was a big adjustment for me, and I moved entries

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  website.   Faith spoke to us for about an hour, and then we had ... an extremely low night, but instead of wallowing in that extreme ... taking the class with Ceri R. ’16, two people who live on my floor in

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  community and collaboration. In 2012, iGEM spun out of MIT and became an ... ! Even before I arrived in Boston, Kristjan Eerik Kaseniit ’14 made an ... since I arrived in Boston. I have been up to my ears in work, dance

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  , where I'm giving a talk about maker portfolios in our admissions process at 1:30PM on Saturday at the center stage in zone 7. It will be a similar talk those I've given at Maker Faires in the past, but new to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  Salut! A look at Grenoble

  

  , Annecy, and Brugge (an idyllic town in northwestern Belgium). I spent last ... éel at CNRS Salut! I'm spending my summer in Grenoble, France, at the Institut Néel, a world-famous magnetism research center situated in

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m still reading applications 5 years later...

  

  -1800s American West. “A year and an instant are equivalent in a ... steps wide. In the throes of the pandemic, I spent every day inside my cozy 600-square-foot one-bedroom apartment in Cambridge, measuring my

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  grand master list of links for any and all of you going to any college at ... also concern elephant-in-the-room topics--drinking, sexual encounters, etc. I feel that it’s important to have knowledge on how to be safe in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  making moving forward. In this respect MIT intends for its future to be as ... President Obama has proclaimed today National Day of Making, an ... celebration, the President is hosting an inaugural White House Maker Faire

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  bothers me. In the beginning, Facebook essentially served as a platform for ... useful. So this blog post is an open thread for your thoughts on the ... we be doing as an office in Facebook and/or Google Plus? What is the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  CK '10 with a welcome ceremony for all our campers, in which counselors ... Kesem 2010 is over and I'm back in the Real World - which sadly doesn ... that I would soon have a six-year-old in my arms, crying about how hard

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  -student-friends for suggestions, and I’m too lazy to format this in any coherent way, so ... Thing; it was in the movies and people talked about paying for it. And I ... had to wait for a natural break in the traffic before you step on a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  August 23, it means: Um...yeah, year is almost over. Might as well start in ... HAS ITS OWN GRAVITATIONAL PULL!!!! HELP, I'M BEING SUCKED IN! AAAAARGH ... notwithstanding. For the even slightly sentimental, there might be this feeling

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  data diaries inspired by Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec's "Dear Data"

  

  in a crowded coffee shop for a few hours. Conclusion: As expected ... Star Market haul in the freezer, I rushed to office hours for [annotation ... Assumption 3. Notable events in chronological order Winnie and I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  I am currently a ball of feelings. Some people might call me an emotional wreck, but I think it’s just something that comes with being in a ... old me. There’s change in the air too, and with every breath I take

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  what you paid for, you'll have to eat a certain number of meals in the ... everything in bulk (which comes out pretty cheap when scaled for 27 people.) It ... places (in fact, all of them, as far as I know) also have options for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  could run in parallel to the course material. For example, I took 2 ... after the A or B in the course; instead, I went for understanding the ... successful in the world. MIT is just another place where we come together for

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  classes is that in an environment where you're supposed to be learning ... I've sort of been implying this on the blogs for a while now, but I ... . This semester, I have been feeling what I can only describe as an

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Happy Birthday, ‘Murica! (Even though Boston celebrated Independence Day Eve)

  

  Charles. As for me, a group of people who normally live in B Entry packed ... ordered for an emergency evacuation of the area. Speakers were collapsed ... still wandering about outside. People screamed in surprise and ran for

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  for vacationing in Europe, learn some .NET, and put these four weeks to ... work for my brother I guess. So this morning I decided it was about time ... . '15 were instrumental in sparking. In my pre-college days the range of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013