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• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  I am sitting, alone on the second floor of a brand-new cafe, with smooth grey walls and crisp, square wooden tables. The smell of fresh paint ... 's the title of the first chapter. That's how I feel right now. where i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  We often think of innovation as tied inherently to engineering and ... LGBTQ+ human rights movement, the flux of international refugees. It is ... involved. In the great tradition of MIT, our undergraduates want to pioneer

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  Two weeks ago, after a long day of committee was complete, I headed ... the Boston area create pieces made of trash and recycled materials ... Fernandez of Architecture, Professor Martin Hackl of Linguistics

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  Matter Group in collaboration with MIT's Department of Mechnical ... tied to techniques used for its formation. From the discovery of core-forming process for bead-making in ancient Egypt, through the invention of the metal

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Freshman Application Is Now Live for prospective members of the Class of 2020

  

  guide, with an overview of each of the components of the application, including essays, letters of recommendation, required tests, interviews, and ... life, full of activities, many of which are required of you. Tell us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 18, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now (Actually) Available Online

  

  Update: the once-in-a-century alignment of Super Pi Day appears to have fired a cosmic EMP directly into the heart of our server farm ... of 2019 are now available at > > > decisions.mit.edu <

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  take a picture. I had just taken a snapshot of something I see every single morning. I stepped onto the sidewalk and took another picture of the ... of everyday things. But I thought these everyday things were beautiful

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  Festival. I was unaware of this until I happened upon a food truck giving out large containers of 'gourmet' fries outside Kresge this afternoon, and saw ... duo was two of the actors from the HBO show Silicon Valley, which a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  needs to be capable of being made somehow. 2.008 teaches us how to make it real. Of course, this is MIT, where we believe the best way to learn is ... yo-yos! Faced with the challenge of deciding what what we wanted our

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  This post has been updated as of October 2018 to reflect new ... lot of questions about the new Maker Portfolio supplement on the MIT ... information about all of our supplements and portfolios on the MIT Admissions

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  myself to you. The ghosts of Uncle Labs and Beatriz have haunted me all ... radar (or I've created the perfect search terms to draw you here or one of ... -lovers). Since I've become a member of the MIT community, I've found the

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  Contrary to popular belief, I actually do stuff outside of farting ... important stuff. Filing that one away in my list of Things To Refer To When ... 'm actually learning a lot of things in this class called 20.330 Forces, Fields

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  While many of our students have known for a quite some time that MIT ... . That is of course, until they had the opportunity to experience all things MIT over the course of Campus Preview Weekend, better known simply

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sigma ChIgloo MIT Fraternity brothers engineer a 10 foot igloo while relaxing in Maine

  

  Brothers of MIT Sigma Chi retreat to Maine from Thursday -> Sunday. Here's (most of) what happened As I was assembling this blog post, my ... built as a half sphere with an inner radius of 7 feet and an outer radius

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • March 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  MIT has this uncanny way of making you learn life lessons extremely ... perfect 100% of the time. (3) It's easy to feel sad and miserable about ... different. In terms of classes, this upcoming semester is going to be my most

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Labs throughout the world open their doors to MIT Biology students

  

  In the summer of 2011, MISTI sent 22 Biology students across the ... brief look at some of those internhips: Samin Houshyar Class of 2011 ... about France. The project: The aim of my project was to verify

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We are artists & writers extracting creative talent around campus

  

  foster all kinds of creative juice. I wanted to introduce one such example, and that is RUNE, MIT's journal of art and literature. Having partaken ... to continue doing. So what is RUNE as a club like? We are a group of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Above MIT The sky's the limit.

  

  free to ask me questions! Otherwise, stay tuned. I have plenty of ... . Literally. The likelihood of you seeing MIT quite like this is somewhat small. But Piper, you might ask, how can you possibly show me a new view of MIT

  • by Piper '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  Thanks to a continuation of computer problems, I was without a computer for the entire month of January. Thus, when Chris made a call for ... though most of the people in the course were upperclassmen). There was no

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  mit.wikipedia.org The best dang hack there ever was [citation needed]

  

  In honor of Wikipedia's 10th birthday (January 15th), MIT celebrated ... of geeky wit. This, for instance, hung from the ceiling of Lobby 7: I was actually kind of ashamed when I didn't recognize the iconic globe

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 20, 2011