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  I designed a marching band drill for MIT and I didn't even need experience

  

  me to choreograph a piece for MIT. The app is surprisingly easy to use, even though I've never been in a marching band (or any kind of band). The ... — Made up the "T" in MIT 100 Trombones — Seen at the left side of the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 15, 2026
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  MIT-Now in Español!

  

  video, featuring members of the Spanish-speaking community at MIT, we are ... have translated the history and mission of MIT so students can help their ... . And we want everyone to gain a deeper understanding of the friendly and

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • July 16, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Review Photos from the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair.

  

  , I went out to dinner with a dozen of the 20+ MIT 2010s at Intel ISEF ... Thursday morning, I got to visit many of the finalists and their projects. Anneke '10 at her project, with her sign, which became a hit of the fair

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Moved Off Campus A story told by cat gifs

  

  think I'm special, in a way. The kind of way where life threw a lot of ... -and-a-half room apartment on the northern tip of Cambridge, not too far from MIT ... Last year, I made a HUGE decision. I decided to move off of MIT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  quote into an outline of a shape. That is probably the worst explanation ... until that fated time, but it will be. I tried to think of what high ... felt about my MIT application, and here's the post I wrote for decision

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  . As I walked her around the myriad of different labs that serve host to ... video of it. I think it's a pretty good peak into the sorts of things a ... A friend of mine ended up studying lit at a nearby college here in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  part of the winning team last year. Here's an excerpt: A puzzlehunt is a ... combining the answers of several puzzles. Often, these metas are also combined ... of a hidden coin. I'm [annotation note="I am on the same team as Shuli

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  Longtime readers may recall that I am a big fan of the His Dark ... think my entire theory of the blogs, and what we try to do with them, is inspired by a line from the Amber Spyglass, as the ghost of an old woman

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  weeks of the term. Like an F grade, an O grade carries no credit for the subject, but the O grade can be converted to a grade of OX” and OX ... undergraduate education in the case of an undergraduate student or by the dean for

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  in. This is one of the best parts of summer in my mind. Whether you actually get to the beach or not, don’t miss out on the last few weeks of ... that I find left out for the taking on a table in lobby 10. Emperor of

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Going On Some of the 600+ Campus Preview Weekend events.

  

  Important note: the weather forecast has a 70%+ chance of rain Friday ... the MIT admitted class of 2012. It's going to be a fun weekend. In total, there are 600+ published events over the course of CPW (wow!). Here

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship for future engineers Chance to win $2,000

  

  amount of $2000. The deadline is May 30, 2008. For more information: http ... Are any of you high school seniors who are Massachusetts residents? Want to be an engineer? Then consider applying for the 2008 Future

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ah, TV… A super-sized value meal for the mind, not the body.

  

  As you know, we are hunkered down reviewing all of the MIT Regular ... of the idea of technological blowback? In other words, machines ... their creators? What do you think of the religious overtures of BSG

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks ... on Monday about the importance of small farms 4. Brigitte Madrian (Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management at the Kennedy

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MIT Graduation Webcast You can watch MIT's Commencement live and online.

  

  , including the Commencement Address by Ben Bernanke PhD '79, Chairman of the ... Webcast here The webcast begins at 8:20 am Eastern Daylight Time with a special "pregame show" hosted by Dean of Admissions Marilee Jones. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I, Robot "Turn it, leave it, stop- format it. Technologic." IAP Robotics competitions wrap up.

  

  Today, most of the IAP robotics competitions begin to wrap up ... .370: Robocraft Now the one I'm most familiar with is Robocraft since my roommate has been staying up until all hours of the night trying to refine his

  • by Bryan
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  and repeat the above, iterated over all of the different subcommittees ... mail all of the letters together in the same batch; we hope to mail by ... With a difficult day and a half of selection behind me, I'm looking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  flurry of moths, freed from the beacon that had attracted them, flew off ... middle of the woods in Vermont (yes, I wear flannel and do square dancing), and I started photographing the moths at my home. By the end of high

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part four) senior trinkets

  

  This is the fourth and final installment of our sentimental objects ... usually include a picture of the ceramic mushroom itself in these posts. But ... time to do so before we left campus in what was the craziest week of our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  that the paper was well outside my normal field of study. So while I ... for the project. So I sort of threw something together and spent a bunch of time running crash simulations and plotting the results. I had no

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009