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  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  This is an entry I’ve been meaning to write for about a month because ... send a text message to invite friends or post to the user’s Twitter ... finalists for the contest, which meant a free trip to California to present

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  Well, my two weeks of no IAP agenda have come to a close and I ... anything else you might need. While a lot of people who decide to be ... competition to see whose engine ran the fastest. This year there is a new

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  things! So what exactly am I up to for the summer? Well a little bit of ... working on a new project, I'll "think inside the box" so to speak, and ... it'll have to remain a mystery for now. But I will say there's nothing

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT is “Hacked” Ultimatum

  

  ? Or even a prank? Let's put it this way. Dear Zug, You attempted to ... who saw it and that we expected better from a website who claims to be ... spectacular and actually blogworthy, we will be forced to show you what a real

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  distributed on a first-come, first-served basis to any student who lost out in ... doors for a second chance to participate in this extraordinarily popular ... May. What a way to decorate your room! Whoever said MIT students don

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  hope you all can hear us. The idea is for everyone to take a break from Tooling, to come out and join their fellow slugs for a hot mug of cocoa ... further from the truth. It really is a joy and a privilege to read

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  than by number. I am so fried right now that it took me a full minute to ... . And I'm trying not to get skin cancer.) A better picture of me ... to work hard. Well, happy and stressed. I think this is a pretty common

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  to fewer than a quarter of them. Next year, perhaps, MIT will have to ... not, I hope you'll drop me a line here on the blog to say hi. And if you ... to be a relatively quiet time for admissions officers now?? Thank you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are Too Many HASS Classes I Want To Take What’s a Boy to Do

  

  thing—what classes I’m going to take next! This is not because of a deep internal love of school or academia, nor a longing for summer to end and be ... love the first two weeks of class when I get to experience a new schedule

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 29, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  approaching the issues no one has dared to approach before.  We can take a hard ... January I wrote a post, “Colors”, detailing the MIT community’s response to ... ”. Chris Welch even offered to take a professional photo outside Killian

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Note To Prefrosh With Time Machines and/or Good Ideas Don't forget to show up for the Time Traveler Convention this saturday at 10PM EST.

  

  which enables women in poor communities to "get back the eight hours a ... are being transported to clinics in remote locations  ...and a ... Don't forget to show up for the Time Traveler Convention this

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  next few days. But I just want to say something. In a word, you guys are ... , MI, SC, GA, TX, MO, WA (just to name a few) and getting to know your ... volunteering to a passion for languages to butterfly collecting...it all had been

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  classmates a unique chance to gain valuable research experience and insight ... slipping into a lab coat. In high school I was fortunate enough to spend two ... whether I want to commit the next few years of my life to becoming a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  of my soon-to-be home: Simmons. Let's talk a bit about this lovable ... ’t. Once you get to the upper floors, A, B, and C towers are all separated ... visit my friend on the same floor, I had to go down a level, walk to the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  Laser Graffiti I found something cool on the way home.

  

  leapt onto a bench for a better view, trying to figure out which room in ... freshmen entered the room to take a turn, so we left to give them space. Who ... A Cosi smore-eating fest is a French House orientation tradition; we

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  of the Fae was used to grieve loved ones, ie a mother that died in childbirth would be said to have been taken by the fairies to nurse a fairy ... were to first discuss the strengths of the story, then address a list of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Learned This Week notes and lessons from new classes

  

  and analyze a bunch of different assays to prove different biological ... my brain just needs to watch a derivation that doesn't exist so I can ... American Fiction Tragically, I have to take a [annotation note

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  .091 = “three-oh-nine-one" There is no apparent logic to this. But when a group ... very close to classes. Anecdotal proof: --- For five years, I'd had a ... , sophomore year at MIT, my phone started talking to me in the middle of a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  ms paint sidequest by kayode and caleb on a monday night

  

  grip and switch a lever back and forth. It’s attached to a beam I’ll call ... two rubber bands to create a one-way door to catch hold onto the levers ... would be possible to make a program that could put any image into this

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oodles Of Doodles Chris Peterson once impersonated me as such: "Blah blah blah Irish people, cartoons blah blah…

  

  have a cold so that means it is the perfect time... TO BLOG. In honor of "Whoa 2010, way to peace out so fast like that" here are some doodles from ... he was just a program, but he was still GUTTAAGGGG!" to myself, a la

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 3, 2011