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  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  mentors, and tinker around with lots of new shiny gadgets, technologies, and ... MIT 2016 Surprise! Midnight servings of ice cream at HackMIT 2016 Hack ... I took part in HackMIT last year, and it was a great deal of fun! I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  it this far :) I can't wait to meet some of you at CPW! To those of ... I realize that some of you have been counting down to this day since ... action decisions came out last year, I was at a debate tournament, with no

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  this is college, and this is MIT at that, and there are tons of smart ... good idea of who I am – random, likes artsy stuff, etc, etc. But to round out the intro: I’m a freshman @ MIT, trudging through endless piles of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  and turf dinners at the houses the first night of rush. Parents, to a ... lot of my friends back home thought to themselves when I told them my ... other person from my high school, and he was going off to live in New

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christina Royce: Analyzing Re-entry Systems Christina Royce, a senior double majoring in Mechanical Engineering, with a concentration in Manufacturing through…

  

  wafers must undergo repeated cycles of deposition, patterning, implantation of impurities, and heat treatments (1). Thus, the same piece of silicon must be processed using the same set of machinery several times. This

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Lost Art of Hand-Lettering Lives at MIT hidden in plain sight

  

  month, Glenn passed at the age of 78. You can read his obituary in The ... . A lot of doors. And a lot of them with letters on them, like this one:   What you probably don't know is that, since 1994, all of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Econ Prof Wins Nobel Prize (with video) A pretty exciting week as Peter Diamond PhD '63 is the latest MIT professor to…

  

  thrill of throwing out the first pitch at Fenway Park. Check out the photos ... are the highlights: You can watch the full press conference at MIT TechTV. One of the things I like about the press conference is that it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  Just saying hello from the middle of my peaceful and relaxing vacation. =) First of all, now that all of the early action nonsense is ... messages for you prospective '10s. Congratulations to those of you who were

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  'undeclared' at some point in the middle of the semester (which just means I ... 've been present at least six or seven of these emergencies, and it ... combination of spending quality time with my family/staying up late talking to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  couple of really awesome new ones.[/annotation] Another thing I've been ... groups get together at the end of the semester to schedule next semester ... I'm given to understand that at other colleges, students actually get

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  One of these labs is not like the other GELlin' like a felon

  

  continue on the adventure! A taste of something new is exactly what the ... The scene: Friday morning, about 9:10am Me: *Sits down at table with a bunch of people I don’t know* Instructor: “Ok, each team should

  • by Stanley G.
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exploring the Outdoors! In Kresge that is...

  

  At the end of fall semester, I look forward to one thing. No, it ... what they learn to create an alpha prototype for a new product! It's an awesome hands-on class that gives students a taste of what it takes to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  stepped out of Logan International Airport Saturday night was, "whoa, air ... shock, even for someone from New Jersey, which is pretty humid as well. It ... Adelaide and when I told her, "Hey, I'm about to get to Mass Ave, I'm at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  at every new cut was a real "whoaaaaa what?" moment :) But though ... summer gig. A really cool summer gig. That was all. At the end of the ... UROPs. You've heard about them before, but here's a refresher. At

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  = nonfiction) Summer 2015     New Reads: The Emperor of All ... . And if you are like me, this makes you sad, because you were one of ... couch reading books for upwards of six hours a day sometimes. Figure 1

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  . Finally, the window locked. I waved silently at Lucas and our two new ... At 9:50 last night, Lucas ‘14 and I were walking through Building 14 ... windows, and one of the windows was flapping around on its hinge. The woman

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  here at the foot of the Rockies. There’s snow on the tracks, and the ... gay couples are still at their table, now judging the property value of ... , because of a trademark dispute after reforming, they had to find a new name

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  .) At CPW this April, every time I met someone new, I had to be prepared ... body to get out of bed at my 8:30a.m. alarm"]I’d once wake up at 5 ... of my extremely poor navigational abilities, will be replaced with new

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  for new buildings, letters from faculty, pictures of students and ... this lovely man all the way at the back, which of course made me very ... liking a lot so far) and new stuff, too (I spotted copies of Holly Black

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  :   Hello dear readers. In keeping with the trend of bloggers posting ... blocks of free time, none of those "empty" hours will ever be spent doing nothing. In fact, I think this will be one of my busiest semesters so far. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019