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  the children yearn for the snow quarry 120 bricks, 80 man hours, 3 tons of snow, 2 forts, and a partridge in…

  

  begin excavating as quickly as possible. Also, try to avoid scooping too ... !🎶 Listen to crab rave on repeat for an hour. Lie in the snow and make a snow ... assemblers, plus one person to gather loose snow-mortar in trash bags for the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  , many filled to the brim with gifts for our relatives. When mom couldn ... to them as uncles, aunties, and cousins for the rest of this blog ... . Everything is ridiculously cheap. For maybe the price of a weeks worth of

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  Caltech"). We landed in Baltimore close to 7 AM Saturday morning, after a ... finally figured out how to open the trunk to look for the ice scraper Zipcar ... unhealthy. We decided to get the bare necessities for lunch sandwiches

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About Toys And how they rule my life!

  

  prototypes for our very own line of toys, ElectroPlushies! We took our toys to ... prototypes to the winner, $10,000 for 2nd place, and $1,000 for 3rd place. A ... there's more! This year I'm a mentor/videographer for 2.00b so I get to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  adjusting to prices and scrounging for the best deals, I've found a way to ... -day budgeting. Because of this cost, a lot of students opt to live in a cook-for ... things cost adult-living-in-a-major-city prices. On one hand, I want to go

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  interviews has changed (though Stu's advice on how to prepare for it remains ... , they should limit themselves to nagging you to do it, and not do it for ... that the interview is not only a way for us to get to know you better

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  , I knew that the very last post I wrote had to be Landing. So here it ... for being my number one support system that I can always turn to. We ... .  To my grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins, thank you for the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.270 What's a 6.270?

  

  just an intro, with future information to come. The main reason for this ... root for Team 9 (also known as Team Awesome). We're in it to win it! Our ... Who knows what course 6.270 is without having to look it up? Anybody

  • by Snively '11
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  -friendly floatation device on sale, which happened to cost $10.99 and contain a manhole ... oil, unlikely to be mistaken for water." Might I provide an ... to register for PBIE happens to be June 28th; I happened to be making

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “The Flying Luxury Hotel of Tomorrow” The luxury cruise of tomorrow is sweet!

  

  additional lift to keep the behemoth and its 400-ton payload aloft while ... precise adjustments in flight dynamics to compensate for outside conditions ... year's worth of supplies to an offshore oil rig. "You can land on the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  . And they don't just want to meet you--they're looking for people to go and work for them. People are dressing to the nines and lining up around the block to get in for the chance to talk, face-to-face, with these

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  list are invariably awesome, and we hope to find a space for them in our ... space in the class for students who have remained on the wait list.   To those who learned this unhappy news today, I want to express my thanks for

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  time had to do with what the ECs look for, what questions they ask and ... best way to prepare for your interview is to plan to talk about yourself ... Not surprisingly, you all seem to be the most interested about how

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Your college application motivational soundtrack for January patience, young grasshoppers

  

  waiting. And we know - it's a ton of waiting. So to make the waiting slightly more tolerable, we made another playlist for y'all! Enjoy :) https ... College apps are done! You did it! You'll probably never have to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  improve access for students applying to MIT. Below are answers to some ... my scores for your consideration? No: in fairness to all applicants, we won’t consider them for anyone. We think it would be unfair to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  . It was an interesting thing to watch. For, as you see, we have made ... interesting for you and helpful to us. We understand that condensing your life ... easier for you to tell us, in your words, exactly who you are. Yes, the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  who applied for EA got a chance to contact your EC and have an interview ... buying a ticket for the lottery. The only similarity to a game of chance is ... deadline to contact your EC for an interview for Regular Action is December

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus Activities What to do while not learning.

  

  't have tons of time to do fun stuff. I was digging around on my external ... never blogged. For some brilliant reason I decided that the gallon challenge would be a fun activity to partake in. Not familiar with the gallon

  • by Snively '11
  • September 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  depressing and could discourage you. So decide for yourself if you want to keep ... problems when it comes to research. I have only been working in labs for ... aliquot of a substance you need for an experiment can easily cost $300. Then

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections Some thoughts on the admissions process, both to those who were admitted and those who…

  

  staff, I want to say thank you for your interest in MIT, and for sharing ... , you will thrive wherever you wind up. For those who will come to MIT, I ... I know that it's been a long year, and now that you've had a week to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2008