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  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  how you have those little oxygen masks that pop down from the ceiling in ... -threatening but faaaar more common than losing cabin pressure is having a flight delayed indefinitely. Even in the rare event that the airline is giving out

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  IAΠ wherein another blogger deposits her January photos (but this time it's in late February)

  

  For a good portion of my first ever IAP, I explored ancient sites in ... actually surprised at how disassembled a lot of things were here   ... ; you're not a real theatre kid if you don't know what this is  

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 22, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  Rome So my spring break trip began in a sudden blur of things. My day ... barrier. I get thirsty very easily, so in the airport, I wanted to get a soda. At a little place in the airport, I saw a brown colored Fanta

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW, via Video Experience (or relive) Campus Preview Weekend through online videos.

  

  For those of you who couldn't make it to campus for CPW, here is a video recap of much that occurred! I hope this is helpful =) And for those ... offered activities ranging from 2x4 Jenga to big screen DDR to a liquid

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  SNOW!" Haha, I guess this is what happens when you come from a tropical ... Physics book from some corner in the room* Me: Uhh, the chapter is about ... ... law ... is ... confusing ....." 8:28:30 Me: One and a half minutes

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  'm really unsure how to deal with it. I think part of it is because I'm a ... Hi, hello. How are you doing? I haven't been in the writing mood as ... there's such a spark and pep in my voice when I write, a passion and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  /O Brush is a project by Kimiko Ryokai in the Tangible Media Group at the Media Lab. Her site describes the invention: I/O Brush is a new drawing ... leaves me in awe. This time, it is the I/O Brush: [I just realized that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Removing a hack This is too cool

  

  Ok, this is cool. Schmiedl was invited up to film the hack removal ... gives a great look into a machine room right inside, a trench around the great dome, and a peek at what the dome looks like up close. I'm not aware

  • by Snively '11
  • May 22, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  task is to choose a username for yourself. Yes, MIT believes in letting ... last name is uncommon and 8 letters or fewer, that's often a good choice ... something wacky, check with your friends to ensure it is truly a good idea

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Toy Design Update How couldn't you enjoy building toys?

  

  concentration in product development. Toy design was a huge factor in this, I ... !), and an interview I got package in the mail. I opened it up and found a ... a typical day in Toy Lab looks like. Step 1: Melt Green Gummy Bears

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  Gramophone Hall of Fame, has won a gazillion awards, is in the Royal Swedish ... is a tradition in Venezuela, where Dudamel is from. According to the ... Late in February, my friend Ashley '12 forwarded me a notice titled

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  Hi, I am Cadet O'Brien. I am a Junior at MIT majoring in course 3 ... here at MIT. AROTC allows you to be pretty flexible in how involved you ... , and I want to show you how awesome that can be. Once a semester we go

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  suppose what I’m trying to say is that, in the past two and a half years of ... . In retrospect, such a statement is obviously silly. The reason that ... , in a sense, it is what I would answer to the questions “what is the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  Jalapeño Bacon Mac and Cheese for the Homeless starting a campaign larger than myself

  

  homeless people in Boston this Thanksgiving. We partnered with a homeless ... is now donating 30 jackets if we hit $3,000. We have raised $2,733 in ... If you read my last post, I've had a pretty hard October. However

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 10, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  our new freshmen, Sarah '17, is amazing and cooked a few batches for the ... three classes in some "coherent unit": I've taken a whole bunch of lit ... advisor's office, Concentration Proposal Form wrapped up like a scroll in my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what we’ve been up to recently a short list about winter break

  

  attempt to not fall off the face of the blogs, here is a list, in no ... friend’s, who left the theater in a trance, repeatedly saying “what the f ... We haven’t been blogging as much as we’d like to. Senior fall and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Mocktails happy new year new you

  

  break, let's share a celebratory non-alcoholic drink to ring in the new ... sounds like. Fun fact: This is a real thing!   her smile and ... is a dark soda. My personal favorite. Fun opinion: It tastes like

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  being a good friend. Describe one way in which you have contributed to ... past: People often ask me, "How do I stand out in an essay?" or something ... friend you hadn't spoken to in awhile had asked the question, not a college

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  Borderline is a club at MIT that started in Spring of 2017 (our ... of projects, and is now a community of people interested in the intersection of art and technology. CPW is something we, as a club, were really

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  recently, i have been having a lot of thoughts about the ways in ... terribly wrong and i feel nervous about the future and mit is a minefield of ... themes of the season, and in the middle of episode 6 there is this

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017