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  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  ’ve also gone as part of a class trip for 21M.601, Drawing for Designers. I ... CPW! I did my fair share of fly-ins when I was in high school and always appreciated my hosts who gave me a better idea of the school, so I really enjoy

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Redesigning a hall logo: 4.500 part 1 4.500 part 1

  

  4.500, Intro to Design Computing, my favorite class this semester, is a design class with a project every week. The first four projects involved using CAD software to design 2d and 3d objects, and then laser

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  . Design of the HTML version and the book were done by Ingrid Ankerson ... , including how we write our dates. The [annotation note="and, of course, dropping the leading 0, so it's currently 9/ and not 09/"]convention of MM

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  . Baker to establish a school for engineering in Cambridge. This college is now known as Harvard Business School. Today is a "virtual Monday" at MIT ... Monday schedule... even though it's Tuesday. Just think of how fascinating

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  families of these other NEWMAC schools often scoff and say, “Why are you so ... smart, the draw of an amazing academic school is too much to resist. MIT ... school. Yes, that MIT. The one that has swept the Putnam competition for

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  -ish snowstorm. Of course now school is in full swing and I'm running full-tilt to ... though, it's tragic. Snow is one of my favorite things, and winter is ... , skis in hand, and it never happens. After the massive amounts of snow we

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freedom isn’t free. ...but a biology minor is, sometimes.

  

  of building 2?" "I don't know, I dont think milk vending machines are ... -mail from Maxine, president of MIT's chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, which I'm not even really a member of. From: Maxine Date

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun with Legos A photo journal of THE coolest room I've ever seen.

  

  advisor, which is an upperclassman who acts as a something of a mentor to ... sometimes takes place in the form of an advising seminar, where 7 or 8 ... seminar topic. My advising seminar is called "Designing Kids Technologies

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  . Bryan '07 offered all of the prefrosh blog readers a chance to write a ... of my creative days, it's one of my "I have an entire day of toolage ahead of me" days. A quick break from 2.001 will be good though, and I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  MIT's Dean of Admissions Marilee Jones (our rockin' leader) is in the ... : Easing Stress of Getting In Looking at colleges with her daughter was often painful, Marilee Jones recalls. Not because of anything her daughter Nora

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  three things i made recently lasers, radio, and a chocolate chip cookie loaf

  

  the semester just started, but it hardly feels like school's really ... snow days in the last week, which meant lots of indoors time. it's kind of nice, really: mario kart in the lounge outside, teasing the hall

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 15, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  some days, I feel like nearly an entire high school semester's worth of ... Meet Dennis Hopper. That was a portrait taken of him by Charles Giuliano, published in 2007. I first saw Dennis in a pile of four art pieces

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  my first all-nighter of the fall term. Well, I don't really believe in ... really cool article. Then on midnight of the 12th day of the festival, a ... the star of fire to reach the zenith. Once it did, the priest would

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friendship Oh my dearest . . .

  

  me and Elizabeth (one of my teammates for toy design last year) about ... toy design. When not working on school work it's reasonable to assume ... Club event. Our toy design professor, Barry, sent us this: FROM: Barry

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  ). I took a lot of AP classes in high school. In fact, I took 14 of them ... schools. Incidentally, when I Googled my name the first page of results ... because on the rare occasions I visit it, so much of what's on it makes me

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  -every-birthday-card-in-a-cute-box-sentimental type. More like borderline-hoarders-that-have-to-assess-the-potential-value-of-a-random-reciept-sentimental-types. We’ve always kind of been like this, and it wasn’t a problem in high school, because our mom kept us in check organiztion wise (read: she threw

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  Something very important happened on Friday. The final report of the ... of the recommendations will probably start being implemented a few years from now, so some of you might have a vested interest in knowing

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  . The language of instruction in the Andorran, Spanish, and French school ... country during the month of January and teach high-school-aged students in a ... points of confusion. But since the school was part of the Andorran system

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision Day Eve Your questions as the May 1 deadline approaches.

  

  MIT Class of 2017!), that you're declining our offer of admission (it ... concerns? I am available, as are all of the bloggers, to field questions ... the fairest treatment of waitlisted students. If you need more time: If

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  region. Fun fact, the exterior of the museum was actually designed by I ... Kazakhstan, and we thought the weather would be very pleasant at this time of ... for summer tourists"][/annotation] In addition, Qatar Airways offers a

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025