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• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  . Initiative was taken. Somewhere along the way, I got lost in a cyber-attic of ... cobwebs instead of on the interwebs (Pun #1, check). Check out what I wrote ... went downstairs and took full advantage of the free breakfast buffet. And

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  heating up the front seat of my compact car. I was drinking an ice coffee and listening to one of my favorite programs on public radio and the ... begin to ask the questions and reflect on our use of technology, if we

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  entry that would exceed the length of The Old Man and the Sea, and so I ... desk, I spied a whiteboard in the hallway with a suspicious bag of candy taped to the side. Thanks to the educational value of countless Halloweens

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  software Picasa, unsurprisingly affiliated with Google? At the request of ... Mitra would secretly like to erase all evidence of her existence from the ... blackboard skills beyond reproach. One of the most popular lecturers in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  able to devote the appropriate attention and time to documenting some of ... be considered the added convenience of having a dining hall on the ... and parents alike that in fact the quality of food at the dining halls

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In ... and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of ... will have "warm-up" activities prior to the beginning of the Hunt, and at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  No Touching one plane, two planes, red plane, Corn Dog

  

  conspicuous lack of an airplane. "The MIT team looks like they're all freshmen," muttered one of our neighbors. Meanwhile, we muttered to each other about the demographic makeup of the competition. "I forgot how much of a sausagefest DBF

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Hot Crosswalk Buns free food and football cleats

  

  Niketown, to ask the resident experts what kind of cleats I should get for ... , however, I ended up on the opposite side of Mass Ave from my building, and ... was one of those days. When the light turned red, a few gentlemen

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I-Rop, U-Rop my contribution to the future of medicine

  

  (Pictures coming soon) One of the Google features I use the most is ... keyphrase comes up in any of the news sources that Google accesses. So ... greater understanding of the issues facing the device. I've actually

  • by Bryan
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  CERN, the world's largest particle accelerator. A triple-GEM consists of ... sheets of copper, making a grand total of three layers (the "triple" comes ... detector.) The composite sheet is then patterned with an array of 600

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  to celebrate the wedding of one of my floormates. She met her husband ... reunion with many of the '05s from my floor. Okay, enough with the romance ... Pot, on Pier 57. The cool half of the group got a meal that requires the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  jumped at the idea of creating a new sign for our wall.   For ... discussing it with the rest of our house, I ended up drafting what the sign would look like using some pictures of the wall and created different 3D

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• FAQ / First-year application

  How much is the application fee?

  one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT practices ... The first-year application fee is $75, payable online with a credit ... negative impact on your chances of admission.
• Blog / Admissions

  Maker Faire 2012 the Dean is going - are you?

  

  huge convention/fair of creative people getting together to show off the ... replica of Mousetrap the board game. Rather than have me add 25 hyperlinks ... be there! Oh yeah, its got everything. In addition to all of the

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  (students, faculty and staff) are back into the rhythm of the academic season ... innovations. Some of the most successful examples are outside of the classroom ... -Perez) and I engaged in an online experiment: we took all of the lectures for 6

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  and Rita and the earthquake in Pakistan still very much on all of our ... front of the student center steps. Over 80,000 people have died and more ... homes and families, but also for the future rehabilitation of earthquake

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  ="attachment_65379" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] from the ancient days of hs ... chalkboards on one of his walls. (I talk about this more in the whiteboard post ... .999% of the time. But alas, I cannot teach you in person, so here is a how

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  New ZigZag video podcast & behind the scenes An inside look at the new video.

  

  the lives of MIT freshmen? I think people are very curious about what it ... applications and the busy schedules of the five students. Following the ... , and Waciuma at the foundry. David from AMPS produced this episode of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  I am sitting in the coolest little corner of our courtyard I've ever ... got to play the role of Miley Cyrus this weekend, on a wrecking ball ... that, they built a giant box fort from the ruins of the stock market

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer, East Campus rush, and the new term East Campus orientation activities, the summer, and the upcoming term.

  

  The month of August was pretty busy for me - a combination of work ... lot out of the experience. It's kind of nice to settle down to classes ... -- got to know some of my co-workers a little better with more time in the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 6, 2006