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• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  get to MTC in under five. WILD. this is so revolutionary for me ... 't want to walk to places like [annotation note="i would die for a grilled ... one off Amazon for <$20"]accessible,[/annotation] and easy to use

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  An MIT Adventure Life at the 'Tute

  

  the subway for the first time, but getting to meet the students at the ... I have been at MIT for the past year, and it has been nothing short of an adventure. For instance, I came here straight from the country

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  Angry Birds Fly at MIT Students construct trubuchets, catapults, and air cannons to take out the dastardly pigs on Killian…

  

  Mechanical Engineering course 2.009: Product Engineering Processes took to Killian Court (the big grassy quad by the Great Dome) to fire birds at pigs ... ) go to market; they present their products at a huge event before

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT’s Newest Nobel Laureate Can you autograph my problem set?

  

  the Nobel committee for being the first to produce an efficient metal ... So it's Nobel Prize week, and this year, MIT has been able to add another name to it's list of professors, affiliates, and alumni who have won

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  frenzy looking for something constructive to do. Believe it or not, I ... !) Applying for an internship is a challenge- actually, applying to anything in ... distinct disadvantage, even applying to a program for minority students. I

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  .03 pset. I unfortunately feel like this is going to be a theme for the ... judges for the presentations. So I basically just showed up, listened to a ... to get in for another few months. I guess I just got lucky. (*How did I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  contrast to esp itself, which has been around for sixty years. how does any ... meetings. but it takes time to set up the infrastructure for good knowledge ... "institutional memory" a lot. it refers to the knowledge that's shared between the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

   police for getting too close to the front while both my friends met Tim Cook ... stop typing for more than 7 seconds.   This works to cook up a ... right flavor. I bake my post to perfection and let it sit for about a day

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  to get into our (or anyone else's) headspace for your essays. One tip for checking this: give your essays to a good friend and ask if they can ... We've gotten some questions about our essay prompts for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  that this may be more challenging for some students due to their ... FAQ to your teachers when you ask for their letters (which we recommend ... We require letters of recommendation for our application. We strongly
• Blog / MIT Life

  snapshot of the last two weeks picture of my brain

  

  not listen to people who promise to make Mars safe for human habitation ... ALBUM: i like it when you sleep for you are so beautiful yet so ... bridge > memorial drive WORK: the mediacloud team @ the center for

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Attention local high school students interested science and engineering! Have you heard about BeaverDash?

  

  set for Saturday, May 5, 2012 from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm. The topic of the ... competition to compete later in the day for great prizes. Free t-shirts and ... to invite new friends from all over the world onto our campus. But in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Classes Yo-Yo's and Cell Biology...Rock on

  

  for several days back to back was senior year of high school when a few ... distribute chocolate to the class. I dig through the bag for my favorite piece ... to fly out for interviews. Surprisingly, this strange thing has been

  • by Bryan
  • February 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  "likely admit" letters for RD applicants before the actual deadline? I know some other top colleges do." For those of you not up to speed on what a ... in your mailbox. And for those of you applying to MIT, I wish you the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  follow-up stalking (I like to think of this as "scanning for comments by my ... shipped off to the Bay Area for a super ... problems and having a blast doing it. I could go on for a while as to what

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  always wanted to go to Hogwarts (college name pseudonym, for privacy ... in October, and it was important to me for a lot of reasons that I ace ... crutch to office hours in the rain? I did it for a specific result: I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  teams of glassblowers who gather for a few hours a day to make batches of ... to fund ourselves. The revenue from these pumpkins is a big reason why ... anywhere else! If you’ve ever been to the Great Glass Pumpkin Patch before

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  matter is what is thought to account for approximately 22% of all matter in ... we use it to account for the speeds of gas and stars in spiral galaxies ... elliptical galaxies. For the computer to 'create' each elliptical galaxy, we

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  . I had been on the lookout for other options, and ETH seemed to be the ... semester, and there aren't any previous Course 6 exchanges to rely on for ... credits to transfer over, but it'll be work on our end to petition for those

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  't afford to attend school any longer. When I started looking for jobs, I ... want to make the process less daunting for you (at least, as much as we ... a buddy who wanted to hang out. Since I was a college admissions

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019