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  Cue the montage music

  

  Ten years ago when I was a high school senior, a long-haired friendly ... Talent Search public session and gave me an MIT frisbee. A year later, he offered me a blog and the task of writing about my life at MIT and the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  told is actually bad for the computer, but whatever - Ineedtobeliterallyandfigurativelypluggedin (typing without spaces is another idiosyncracy). My left [shift ... . AND ONE THING I REALLY HATE IS USING SPACE ON MY COMPUTER - via you know

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  waking up at 7:30am on weekdays (this is hard for a college student. really ... 's Headquarters happen to be right here in Boston! (This is not a very widely ... world. One other thing many people do during IAP is get an internship. So

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Turn around and pretend it wasn’t you Words of Wisdom

  

  published some instructions I made on how to build a loft. ANFSCD This last ... 't attend as a college student, I was there for Livescribe, demoing and ... blogger guy?" a couple of times. But, I mean really, who wouldn't recognize

  • by Snively '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2024 i3 videos megapost

  

  like a glimpse into how MIT students describe their own communities to ... As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising ... ://youtu.be/XRH7mEQzFtA?feature=shared https://youtu.be/pt35x6I8R7M

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 12, 2024
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  pull you down just like a sinking shipFloating is getting harderBut tread ... A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Another FAPtatsic Start we're juniors?!

  

  location) Here is a picture:  Once the froshlings arrived, who we referred ... reveal *everything* here. Instead, here is a hodge podge of photos from the ... held)! This is a personality picture if there ever was one

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  NSBE MUSE Colloquium my first video

  

  Chapter at the Black Students Union on campus. NSBE is a wonderful ... Mtingwa, kicked off the event by sharing a bit about his research in physics. I made a little video of the event. Here are the highlights. Enjoy

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Got Questions? I have answers.

  

  . Specifically: finding a UROP for the summer (I'll be working in the Lang Lab ... during CPW writing a live-action roleplaying game for the Assassins ... robots in 6.01 and writing about riboswitches in 20.111 ...and probably a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photo Contest, Round 2 The Boston skyline at night.

  

  the Longfellow Bridge over the Charles River (if you panned a bit more ... captures the Boston skyline from a different vantage point than Arya's photo ... 's Museum of Science, which features a lightning show by the world's largest

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2006
• FAQ / Transfer

  What does MIT consider for transfer admission?

  minimum required GPA; however, competitive applicants typically have a 3 ... more engineering than science courses. Fortunately, each decision is made on a case-by-case basis and depends on your course of study and
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy! REALLY don't even think about bringing a car to MIT - sans elephants.

  

  This post is sans elephants. Elephant Sans, however, would make for a ... reason why you shouldn't think about bringing a car to MIT! Once upon a time, in a land far far away (from all you non-local blog readers), a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  the more common questions: Is there a nanotechnology major at MIT? Not ... movement is to get a UROP at one of the many laboratories conducting nanotech ... Have you seen this adorable video? Patrick Bennett, a Berkeley

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Nadal, Federer, Helfant ‘85 Adam Helfant '85 is the new boss of professional men's tennis.

  

  one thing that strikes me is that there are a lot of MIT applicants who like tennis, both playing and watching it. Thus, I'd guess a lot of the ... , Helfant lived in Burton-Conner, the same dorm that currently is home to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  ’m under 21. Welp. Everyone else I know is staying at the official hotel a 20 ... like a plan. My room is beautiful! But then I realize I haven’t had ... Subway, and I get a 6-inch sketchy meatball marinara. Food is food. I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  . Building a loft is an elaborate project that involves several people, so ... 1 AM. Also, Megan's room is pretty small and she was building a ... I've been on campus for over a week now, which basically means that I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 Robot Competition 2016 robots dump (replica) tea bags in the (replica) Boston harbor

  

  "No innovation without fabrication!" This is the motto of 2.007, a ... robot-related tasks, each year with a different theme. The year's theme ... like ejecting a mini robot to complete a subtask. Aside from the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three from MIT! Three MIT Young Futurists

  

  present Dorian and Ben. Khalea's video is also in a link on her profile page ... Yesterday morning I was quite surprised and VERY excited to see a ... magazine site that I visit daily called "The Root". The article was a feature

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things That Are 20 DID YOU KNOW? 1988 was a leap year.

  

  . * The image of a benzene ring. * "Price is Right" model Janice Pennington ... regime in Czechoslovakia. * Sub Pop Records, a Seattle record label known ... ). * The time it took for Billy Mitchell, father of three and president of a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  nth Annual Concert in Bad Taste We are the mooninites..

  

  airplanes and toilet paper into a lecture hall? ... Well, it starts with one ... toilet paper across 10-250. Why in the world would someone do such a thing? Well, that's a good question. Each year, the MIT Chorollaries host the

  • by Bryan
  • March 10, 2007