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  arrived in the Admissions Office. For students for whom midyear grades are a big question, we will set aside the case with a "MYG" (midyear ... students feel like a supplement is almost required for admission, but this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  Hockfield joined U.S. President Barack Obama in calling for a "truly historic ... dedicating $150 billion over 10 years for a new clean energy R&D and ... opportunities for students interested in making a difference - so if you're at all

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  space-themed climbing game for kids There's a shift in arcade games ... a demo in action! :D The biggest concern for Gravity, they felt ... canopy for power wheelchair users If you're a power wheelchair user

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  fundraising for a project called Fuse!box, a "mobile hackerspace" designed to ... . The buildings are built out of tasteful sandstone and, as a bonus ... value... ...and the a cappella singers are all satanists. Okay, so

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow

  

  holidays because a lot of our extended family doesn't live within a drivable ... packed up our winter clothing and headed to Colorado to spend a week in the ... an actual break for me this year- it seems like almost every other

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Evolution of Physics Physics gets harder as you get older, go figure.

  

  Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 Blogging Scholarship for $10,000! I don't like physics. A lot of people seem to think I do. I'd like to dispel those rumors: I don't like physics. Lucky for me, there are all

  • by Snively '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Global warming? ...or just a weather anomaly?

  

  pictures (I included some below), and go for a run. Boston is known for ... for a marathon, like two blogger alums? Run the Harvard-Mt. Auburn Street Loop (14.1 miles)…twice! For a map, click here. Mitra had also

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT students launch Camp Kesem Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children whose parents have had cancer.

  

  “Magic.” Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children who have a parent who has died from cancer, is currently in treatment for ... camp. Toasting marshmallows over a campfire, playing capture the flag

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi, I’m Lulu ...a different kind of blogger; I take pictures.

  

  my biography, but here's a little more! I was born in China, grew up there in a valley between the mountains, moved to the outskirts of DC when ... Haven. My essay for MIT was about my life before age 8. My interview for

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  ; eventually, we will pull it out and have a nice column of space for the fire ... Petite Anise, Haiti) that will serve (in porridge form) as a binder for the ... Use sand to seal the edges and let it carbonize for a while. Fast

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising and freshman formalities

  

  connections, even as a freshman. For those of you coming here in the fall, be ... Yep, I'm officially Course 11. A few interesting things have happened this week. - Thanks to a freight derailment in Idaho, I spent most

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  The Great Dome, Marriage Equality, and a Proud Hack Better yet, all three in one picture!

  

  For those of you who didn't notice, the Supreme Court of the United ... Dome as a medium of art, commentary, and celebration. The Dome has been hacked for the anniversary of 9/11, the Olympics, the Red Sox, the Lord of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • June 27, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  . An infinitesimal part of. As it turns out, for some reason, this is a ... closely with The Tech as I did last year. These parts dying down for a ... dimensions. For instance, the Earth is locally homeomorphic to R^2, by which I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  . Typical for an MIT student, I am used to not a day going by without a ... , Brazil; Cape Town, South Africa; and Hanoi, Vietnam with a group of 30 students on a comparative urban studies program focused on understanding the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Wedding of All Time I walked Tim the beaver down the aisle

  

  be a thing. They thought about it for a bit, talked to Caltech ... fingers as well, so we had to make a small and a large ring for the ring ... . MINCE had a cake picnic, where 30 bakers each baked a cake for people to

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 4, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  note="we meet 3 times a week for 2 hours during the semester and like 20 hours a week during IAP to prepare for our annual show...those hours stack ... ordered [annotation note="a great place for frozen yogurt or calzones on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  ’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to ... . Open forge takes place once a week, usually on Mondays or Wednesdays, for ... "] leaf no. 3[/caption]   The open forge is a great set-up for

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  -photorealistic rendering of a pic of my family's puppers   For my HASS class, 21M.734 ... from my group's final presentation to a scene in Waiting for Godot   ... after that, at least not for a few weeks. And it's a good thing. But at

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  (Take a look at “My Monday” by Yuliya K. '18 for her day in the life ... Infinite for the infinith-time. This time I spot a hanging octopus. Yeeeee ... :00: Arrive at the TechX office in the Student Center for a meeting about

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  Institute Requirements (GIRs). For reference, a "normal" courseload is 48 ... A, 7A, or 8B), which is intended for students with multiple academic ... unit" in some area other than physics Now, this is ideal for a double

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005