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  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  MIT’s campus that brings over 250 students together to hack, make, and ... a hacker might need to prototype and develop their ideas: Raspberry Pi’s ... and down and across the top of the stag’s head and ears. 2:53 PM – A

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  ISEF! #winning pic.twitter.com/gK4jS2D8iY — Society for Science (@Society4Science ... hall, saying hi to some of the admitted 2020s who were there and ... Engineering Fair in California Rishi S. '20, "A Novel Method of Reverse

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

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  remains under your control is your essays. What’s important in an essay ... about your passions.” So you try to do exactly that. But it’s hard to go ... long it’s like a reflex and you no longer actively feel excited about it

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  computer and more actually doing things (“things” being a very broad term, it’s ... , namely Ring Dings or a different brand of Hostess Ding Dongs. Now it’s an ...  embarrassed. Nametag? While volunteering at the Seattle Children’s Hospital with my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  , I think it’s also important to say that there is absolutely nothing ... some much needed rest. Go home. Be with your family. Have some fun. It’s ... Connections which is MIT’s alumni association website, via which students can

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  . Well, Sang’s Canadian now. But he grew up and went to university in South ... worked at TMK IPSCO’s R&D Center. It was really nice, and since we ... soccer game to watch the Dynamo’s play Washington DC. The Dynamo’s won in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  Cambridge.) SIGH. I will look like a zombie for 2 months ☹ But it’s okay ... , class of 2011. Both of us are members of Sigma Kappa sorority and that’s ... . Anyway, here are Sabah’s epic summer experiences! “Some of my fondest memories

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

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  vary year to year, and to be perfectly honest, 2013's admit rate could be less than 2012's. I can tell you how to maximize the strength of your ... Mississippi, using a kind stranger’s mobile after the call box stole his change

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  bus onto MIT’s campus, I looked around hoping to spot someone I "know ... favorite part about the welcome was definitely the MIT Logarhythms, MIT’s all ... the process. That’s ok though because otherwise I wouldn’t have been

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Holy Grail of Hacks Returns and everything it took to get there

  

  It’s nearing 10 PM on the last night of  [annotation note ... Apple plays. It’s clear when the realization sets—just a few bars in, you ... brief appetizer for what’s ahead. The star of the show is, of course, the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 3, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  another day of fall when canvas went down and made me think about internet and people and the seasons

  

  nature’s own canvas, but it is a sad fact that you must accept. To do well ... world in not-hyper-optimized ways and fail in ways that I am glad to."]Petey’s ... have to fight to get my attention back. There’s something else tucked

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  my friend Amee S. '25: Strawberry French Toast Cereal Ingredients ... below (also suggested by Amee S. '25): Dunkin' At Home Ingredients ... post, Amee S. '25 suggested yet another... recipe(?) to include. It's so

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  Hi! Remember me? It’s only been 14 years since my last MIT Admissions ... 2010s cypherpunk movement, learning to program by contributing open ... million websites by launching Let’s Encrypt, finding a vulnerability that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  some Latin dances at CPW. He mentioned he was going to his club’s Casino ... Team’s team match event, where members of the ballroom dance team were ... new friend, a new community, or maybe I won’t. But that’s alright

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  ; Ella Fitzgerald versions a lot.']Summertime and the livin’s easy ... everyone who’s already swung by and everyone else to come. If you also want ... awhile and feel bad about it. There’s much I want to share, but words are

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  I didn’t know how to do half of them. There were days I got three S^3 ... just did right? Well, it’s called the sophomore stupid, not the first ... , but that’s a whole lot more effort. Though I'm still not entirely sure

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  dyed over it with red and of course, that’s refused to wash out for the ... 'm always here. [...] It’s November again & most of us are still alive ... outside & a black flock of birds erupts into something that’s never

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  close friends. When I write semester summaries, I feel this deeply.  It’s ... frequency of my blogs. I do not have to force-write posts if I am in a writer’s ... class because Alan Z. '23 and Tooba S. '21 recommended it to me. I was

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  white powder. It was both my and Paige’s first time visiting Dear Annie ... was when we ordered it, so in case you don’t either, here’s the ... ="aligncenter" width="500"] assembled![/caption] That’s it for this post. All in all, it

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  project is to compose a movement of a string quartet, and it’s cool because ... ’t very hard - there’s just a checklist of requirements your music has to ... surreal experience. here’s a link to the recording and a pic from class

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021