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  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  ). Here is a photo of Arlene S’20 making necklines in her glass. (sorry its ... ) One cool design in ornaments is a Witch Ball. A Witch Ball includes ... MIT is really cool. MIT has a glassblowing class. I took the

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.

  

  work in a short week, professors seem to believe that it is perfectly reasonable to assign the same amount of work in a short week and just make it ... -Thanksgiving dinner last night. We had two turkeys! In this picture, everybody is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  4th of July Celebrations Boston, and the MIT campus, are great places to celebrate the 4th of July.

  

  much with Photoshop, but you can see the barge is right in front of MIT ... arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has a front row seat. Each year on July 4th, a concert by the Boston Pops is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Back From The West Coast ...with thoughts and conclusions on the recent serious posts.

  

  Hi everyone, I am back in town after a crazy day of traveling across the country with a pregnant wife and a toddler (good times). Sorry to be ... such as my blog is not the place to have a discussion on highly serious

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  number is not 100% set in stone. I am not yet sure how many bloggers will ... solidified. (While previous blogging experience is paramount in our selection ... : Provide a link to your "portfolio" - in other words, your current blog. If

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2020!

  

  summer in Cambridge, it is still true that: my neighbor's adorable and ... REX, or UROP, or decide how to pick your classes, or a really cool new ... communicate what being a student at MIT is like. You should interpret this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  . Which means! That 4.111 is the first studio in a sequence of studios I ... , some more in 7th grade, for a whole year in 9th (including some intense ... biology. 18.01A-18.02A psets were definitely nothing like what we had in AP

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Mid-May Update Q&A: Athena tips and hints

  

  software site is a fully-licensed copy of Windows XP Professional -- I ... registrar database.) d) MIT is piloting a Jabber IM installation, and you can ... -and-drop Windows tool. f) Want to put a period after your middle initial in the MIT

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  often inter-connected. At first, I was a bit worried about how I’d fare in ... , which we'll come back to in a followup piece, suppose I gave you a list of ... ? 6.046 is the kind of class that teaches you how to use this broken

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  First Blogiversary One year ago today, "McGann's Factors" began.

  

  blogs MIT Admissions would launch in 2004. Now, with more than a dozen ... . Over the past year, I've learned a lot about blogging and how to best ... criticism, or any other helpful comments about how I can be a better blogger

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  . If you want a summary of what 2.009 is about, Chris made a post. 140 ... to know, this is a really great blog post), I wanted to give a recap of ... space-themed climbing game for kids There's a shift in arcade games

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  class in MIT's programming sequence, which is also, in fact, not 6.0002. I ... destroyed, and I found myself with unexpected free time in the second half of ... ahead of my peers, so this came as a disappointment. I resolved to take 6

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Think Pink 2011 [By Cory Hernandez, '14] G@MIT, the SAO, and Residential Life present a guide to living…

  

  straight allies who have difficulty finding a place that is in line with ... how accepting a specific living group is towards LGBTQ people. It tells ... thing in particular—how accepting would that group be of my sexual

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  that I guess is on a lot of people's minds: Q. So how do you pee in space? A. Up in space we use a vacuum. I always tell kids it's not something ... Cady Coleman: She graduated MIT with a bachelor's degree in Chemistry

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  selected for GEL learn how to best tackle working in a group and take ... I am not your typical MIT student. In high school, I never built a ... MIT student. Truth is, I’m still a theater geek/runner/newspaper junkie

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  The other day my roommate and I decided that there was a flaw in the ... taking a crash course in conversational German in preparation for a trip I'm taking in two weeks to give a presentation at Mainz Universitat (that's a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  I am double majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Biology, with a ... ? Reality check: There are only 24 hours in a day, and 7 days in a week. When ... who thinks that the only way to learn a lot is to take a lot of classes

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  pride that I had a fantastic time devouring four enormous cups of boba in ... bill is a monthly flat rate, we have the luxury of leaving the fans on ... flaws. MIT is only a 15 minute walk across the Harvard bridge and the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  officially a "Medievalist"; he is versed in Old English, Latin, Old French, Old ... "special": this is a chance to read Medieval texts - significant, milestone-in ... so far: "Ye knowe ek that in forme of speche is chaunge Withinne a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  the value in this. “I am a firm believer in the quote, ‘as the twig is ... lot to sort out, and this project is a work in progress--he wants to ... Emmanuel A. ‘18 is a member of my own class year (as is Pelkins A ‘18

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018