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  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  violently ill the night before. I don't know how or why it happened, but for ... -register for fall classes at the end of spring term, and pre-registration is open ... for me to get into the class if only I showed up for class on the first

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  the brush into a local classroom for about five weeks to see how ... look for colours," she says, "they did it spontaneously." "One kid would ... sources for the colour." Ryokai is critical of typical painting programmes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  Hockfield recently wrote an op-ed in the Boston Globe entitled A Model For ... of the energy challenge: Adding to the pressure for multiple approaches to this vast challenge, the time for initiating meaningful steps to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  class for the second time: it's standard practice for people to repeat ... a ton of content. When I took it for the first time last semester, I ... by just going for a mishmash look - I picked up some blue, purple, and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taste of the Middle Ages

  

  sorry I missed it -- it looks delicious. I'll have to settle for visiting the Met(ropolitan Museum of Art)'s Medieval Art collection --------

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Applicants should submit this form ASAP, by February 15th.

  

  Report. Note that there is also an option in the Report for students whose ... , except that we're only looking for current year courses and grades. And we're only looking for this from students with something to report -- so if you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT on the road Admissions officers are visiting cities across the United States.

  

  'll talk about what MIT looks for in an interview and give you some advice ... Beginning tomorrow through the middle of October, my Admissions ... . This year, the first meetings are in the northeast: Massachusetts

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 11, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  This weekend, I headed down to Washington, DC, for the Rally to ... for the record that this is the first time in my four years I’ve been ... the fare gates. It didn’t quite work that way, because for the umpteenth

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) to the 2020 MIT Protofrosh

  

  . Chicken Soup for the Soul authors received 140 rejections before selling their ... Penny for Your Thoughts by Erick P. '17 The Pretender by Erick P. '17 ... ’s going to be ok by The Oatmeal An Invocation for Beginnings by ze frank

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  first day of class, we talk about the goals for the class, safety, and ... , and the air pistol is pretty much made for that. The trigger is light ... to show what the sights looked like when aligned. Sight alignment is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for November Reflect, rewrite, repeat

  

  App essays, or gearing up for the MIT regular deadline. Wherever you are ... A lot of the people reading this have probably spent the past two ... note="Congrats! You made it!"]meet the early action deadline

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  you for several reasons. The first (and, sadly, primary reason) is that ... dwindling rapidly (for a variety of reasons) and blogging is one of the few ... sale for $409.00 and I pulled the trigger. It's a Canon XS and my first

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  2020 Admitted Student Gatherings Get a vision of your future at MIT

  

  year it looks like the lingering winter weather has finally left us…but don’t quote me on that. For all the newly admitted students out there, we hope you are pumped for what the next few months have in store

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  : Collect 60 free t-shirts - ~40% complete. For whatever reason, the free t ... intend for this to happen this year; I applied to MISTI Japan with the full ... of the foundational course 6 classes. MIT is hard, and for me, it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind” ...the cow jumped over the moon....

  

  , you can see what the moon is made of ;-) (thanks to diana for pointing ... To celebrate the anniversary of the first manned moon landing, Google ... astronaut, Jeffrey Hoffman. MIT has also produced the most astronauts than any

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Study Abroad Fair Learn about opportunities to study in another country (8 pictures)

  

  ) Take a look at the countless academic and cultural prospects that over 25 ... at once. We look forward to seeing you at the Fair! ---------- You can't really read it, but the white banner in this picture is for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Postcard From The Green Building postmarked july 5th

  

  recognizable for once as the Hacker's Map. Even Stata finally made visual ... photo we took looked like HDR. As night fell, the apocalypse began ... Yesterday I took photos from the top of the Green Building. MIT

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  A couple weeks ago someone asked what I did to pass the time while I was waiting for early action decisions. I know there's no real way you can get it off your mind completely; after all, you're on the MIT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BASICNESS!!!!! a major major update

  

  /business degree of the STEM world. BUT! Let me provide my justification for choosing ... I come today as the bearer of some un-chic news. It is not only a ... it time to release the news publicly. Last year, I posted a crisis

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 30, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  tier-listing all the classes i’ve taken at mit and some other things

  

  for a MIT student (compared to the required 8 classes), but it’s mainly ... without. For the bottom tiers, I want to add a disclaimer that I don ... new appreciation for the sheer complexity of modern computing, and 2

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 24, 2026