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  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  . Everyone at MIT is required to take one "HASS-A", or "arts" class as part of ... had asked me at the start of the semester what I hoped this class would ... it presented a lot of material, but at the same time left a lot of room

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Over Spring Break A flattering video of MIT Women's Tennis derping around California

  

  possible kind of way) and awesome people. I can't imagine being here at MIT without them. *At no point in time were we in danger of starving to death ... California for 7 days, playing 4 matches and spending the rest of the time

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 11, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch is one of my favorite events at MIT. It ... the course of the year in the Infinite Corridor basement, each pumpkin created by a team of about six artists. In this blog post, I want to convey

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My new job @ admissions like nick saban, but for nerds

  

  most we take on here at MIT, it's a easy one to solve. As many of you know, most of my career has been essentially doing "web stuff", including ... job as an assistant director of talented outreach, overseeing our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file? Well, now you can--thanks to a HackMIT project.

  

  Naptha trending the front page. I've blogged a couple of times already about hackathons at MIT and how amazing they are in the amount of experience, learning, and motivation they can give you in the space of ten or

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  being totally captivated. At the end of the performance, Jamie Bernstein ... told me that I should meet Ashley at MIT's Kresge Auditorium. The theater ... , according to the program bio, "Music Director of both the Simón Bolivar

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

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  magical power of mailing lists (how everything gets done at MIT) a ... The blizzard helped me and Liz run out of things to do incredibly quickly. On Friday we watched the first half hour of half a dozen movies

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Things got poopy in Beijing and edible.

  

  's just say, at the bottom of everything was a turd. That would be me and ... This past weekend, I went to dinner with a group of MIT and Johns ... other interns…as well the quirky side of Beijing. A few days ago, an

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  wonderful font, if one of you readers or eager beavers already done with the ... staying awake while on the road, so he would stop at the Wellesley MA rest ... fridge at his dad's house (yum, delicious). While this mountain dew

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Helicopter Flight Training [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] 500 feet above Boston with two MIT Deans.

  

  nothing short of incredible, so I jumped at the opportunity. Before I knew it I was 500 feet above Boston catching a glimpse of the Red Sox ... of Student Life Benedict and Dean of Undergraduate Education Hastings

  • by ROTC
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  $100 Laptop Unveiled Inspiring!

  

  I just took a break from reading to watch some of the webcast of ... unveiled the first working prototype of the $100 Laptop. [news story] This is one of the most inspirational projects I've ever seen. It makes me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Beautiful Day

  

  along the Charles River. Lots of people running along the river (doing a "bridge circuit"), and lots of sailboats in today's gusting wind. It made me ... take; I highly recommend it. MIT, btw, is the "birthplace of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  impact of Blahaj on people and communities can be seen and felt right at ... of the content and a deeper appreciation for the creators. But even if ... to be SO interesting. Perhaps one day I’ll join the ranks of video

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  A few days ago a young man posted a confession to the Class of 2016 ... actually smart enough to perform at this fabulous school with you amazing people!   In the comments some of his classmates shared similar

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  build stirling engines. At the end of 2.670 there would be a big ... plastic (other than the polycarb). At the end of it I had two of these ... to walk how we want it to. At the end of the month I'll try to write a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  'll get to experience a small slice of life at MIT to help make your ... I hear Early Action decisions went out. Congrats to those of you who got in. If you got deferred, don't take it too hard, plenty of people

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  this: I got a lot out of writing about my experience at MIT-- the ups and ... This IAP, I took part in a writing workshop at MIT known as Flipping ... ~5 minute (true and personal) story about challenge and resilience at

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  constantly fluctuating sets of policies at MIT and beyond, such as the absurd ... in, even if you wish they'd pass. No, the hardest part of arriving at ... , about the mission of care that the students at this school have for each

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  up filing a patent at the end of his internship for a new radar ... University of Texas at Arlington, Pelkins transferred to MIT his sophomore year ... . “Will you go back?” This moment is a snapshot of many conversations I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  . Scrape off excess clay at the foot of your pot; use a needle or wire tool ... how big you can make your vessels. At the end of week 1, I ended up with ... . At the end of week 2, I had kept the following two bowls: [caption id

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025