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  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  been covered with plywood and then heavy-duty plastic sheeting, covering every inch of carpet. Tools are everywhere: most of them neatly piled and sorted on the tools table, but here and there is a drill, a crescent wrench

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  friend in the head while gesticulating the angle between a wall clock and ... someone every month or so. Statistically, if you have 500 friends, and .5 ... , and the average human arm length is around 2.1 feet, and you point at

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  about deferring for a year, and here I am giving you information on how ... - Project Interphase. *Summer is quickly approaching, and I’m guessing you ... before you come to MIT and get screwed over by the tsunami of work that is

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  goods and bads of freshman year, what do you have to say about mit now? also, just out of curiosity, and its totally okay i you don't feel comfortable talking about it, but what's your grade like so far at mit (1st and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  to an end. It would be great if I left more than bones and a carbon ... to its end. And I do not want to be just an entry in the registrar ... I was here and I affected MIT in ways other than bringing down the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  people on the bed and one in my chair, when enter Brenda through the doorway. Brenda is bubbly and sweet and used to live on this floor and is ... she wants, and that I think her dress is cute. Nick is on the other

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  High Schoolers), and have noticed that many of them have similar themes ... scrolling and scanning, here's a table of contents: 1. Calculus and APs aren ... people or the world, and that I'm not smart enough to pursue what I want to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  Mystery Hunt ended just over a week ago and I think it's safe to say ... the storyline, the adventures we had, our victories and defeats, and ... little glimpse into the average Mystery Hunt puzzle solving session and a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  know, the ones that have something to read every day, and you rip them ... satisfaction and 2) way more scratch paper than you'll ever need. I always get ... a single word), Sudoku, and so many more. Sometimes I even have two at

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  , because for 9th and 10th grade, we were in the music program of the arts high school we went to, and for 11th and 12th grade, we transferred to a ... that teach, communities that center around, and clubs that do visual art

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  renewal season so I’ve been thinking a lot about where I want to live, and b ... checking them out and maybe even staying in one (yay!). Full disclaimer ... , but I’ve also spent a year each in Simmons and Baker, so if you have any

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  "Yes I said etc...... Just don't think about it to much (oh and I ... tripped over your foot and successfully landed a perfect front flip recovery, your girlfriend exists (lol), and you walked into your AP Physics test

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  Board schedule and realized that unfortunately you’re all almost done with AP exams ... still a thing?) or your school is like my high school and has finals the ... , because it reminds me that I have strategies, and makes me feel less like I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  One of the academic differences between MIT and Cambridge is that ... consists of 1-3 students and a supervisor that is either a graduate student ... future blog) and are where a significant portion of learning happens at

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  around for summer UROPs.  I'm Course 6-2 (Electrical Engineering and ... (Synchronized Position Hold Engage and Reorient Experimental Satellites) in the International Space Station.  They were originally inspired by Star Wars and

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  questions and plenty resources on campus to help you figure out the details of ...  Public Service Center, and the MISTI Program. My summer internship was secured ... MISTI and my buddy Chandler is doing a missions trip through Breaker of

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  West Coast-ers and international students take note: when it snows in ... negligible amount of snow - to be a shocking amount. And that's understandable ... 'easter: So called because of the storm's trajectory and wind patterns, a Nor

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  Second semester is just two weeks old, and I've already decided that ... .00 (Psych) is filled with cool videos, neat facts, and references to one of ... Hat. But my favorite class right now is definitely 21W.755 (Reading and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  thought MIT was tough, and it was. But that's all it was, it was tough. It required some extra work, some time management, and it was different than I ... say that MIT is hard and that bad test scores will happen, but having to

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  five hours of sleep last night, but for some reason I'm awake and feeling ... this before, but my summer is very routine and kind of boring. I have very little awake time during the week and there isn't a whole lot to

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008