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• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  without any exams to worry about, I can now put my UROP in the center of my schedule. I used to watch a lot of the Media Lab's content back in middle ... you can manipulate. A sensor above generates a 3D model of the sand, and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  hours upon hours of basically the same material each night. This semester ... , my classes for the GEL program are relatively free of curveballs when ... standard 12-unit MIT class. At the beginning of the semester, I heard there

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  Star Wars Trilogy: The Musical Edition fall of my freshman year - the ... Yoda puppet, one of the stars of 'Star Wars Trilogy: Musical Edition,' a production of the MIT Theater Guild. Photo / Jax Kirtley Really, can you blame

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  of visuals and storytelling. But, once the summer came along, and I was ... the age of TikToks and Reels, video is increasingly becoming the primary ... already had for video. Lastly, I wanted to learn the basics of Premiere Pro

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  impassively toward night, the last hanging breaths of August condensed into ... estimates, I caught six different strains of flu on the way home at 6:30 pm ... symptoms of tuberculosis. On the flip side of the burger (to coin a stupid

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  enough to post it here as well: As with most of my posts in the parents ... qualified in those terms. Based on the thousands of apps I saw last year both ... many passion indicators - but I emphasize one of many. When I was on the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  One of my five classes this term is sponsored by RATP, the metropolitan transit authority of Paris. It's a graduate design workshop in the ... the operation of the trains -- and new space is opening up where those

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  care of a virtual pet! My Tamagotchi, fondly named Tamako, was like the ... electronics to the point of designing them, and that had been something I ... , clunky buttons. I eventually landed on the idea of building a Tamagotchi

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

  10 Red Balloons Gotta catch 'em all!

  

  first team to locate all of them, by any means necessary. The balloons ... of the money MIT collects goes to charity. I've now invited all of you ... is time for us, all of us, to band together under a common dome and

  • by Snively '11
  • December 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  encyclopedic source of knowledge about the trials of Ancient Rome covered in ... headwaiter puts the bill, and very soon after rings out the sound of lively ... the door of her cadillac, I step in back, and we're gone. She turns me

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  spent more time than necessary looking into the origins of their name and ... the time. As it turns out, the name is simply part of this 50s ... nerdiness is futile, so I might as well be unabashedly proud of it. The second

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Your CPW Host The host assignment meeting was tonight.

  

  Tonight, as MIT's Spring Break was wrapping up, we gathered up all of the student hosts who have returned from vacation (hundreds of them ... . Take a look at the schedule -- the bulk of events are put on by student

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  ,500 applications this year, what is the probability that one of them read your ... gets two reads, what is the probability that both of them read your ... Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Check out these t

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  side of campus, viewed from the courtyard outside Medical (first three ... from outside on Killian Court. You can see the grey expanse of the ... off the Infinite, many of which have massive windows and are often empty

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  ZigZag Episode 5 MIT's podcast has a new episode.

  

  Episode 5 (The Empire Strikes Back?) of MIT's experimental podcast ZigZag is now available, including stories about the 2.007 robotics ... can also view the first four episodes in the ZigZag archive. They would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend

  

  CPW IS ABOUT TO BEGIN and it's going to be AWESOME. It snowed today...but the snow is now safely out of the way and hopefully the MIT weather ... 'll try to get back to you ASAP! In the meantime...get pumped.

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After MIT what i'm doing...etc.

  

  back to high school - the days are much longer with an intense amount of ... MSSM Class of 2015, the age range is from 21 to 31, with the average age being 23. I'm 22, so I fit just below the average age of my class. It's a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for undocumented students and clarifying our policies for applicants as Regular Action approaches

  

  As many of you know, there has been a lot of uncertainty in the ... and mission that unite us." One subject of uncertainty since the election has been the educational prospects of undocumented students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  [The following is a collection of ramblings and memory unloadings ... titled each document “I miss application season,” but over the course of ... –oh the potential. So much of it. So many dreams, so many possibilities, and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  ’s the elephants. Specifically, the walking of the elephants from the train ... , then down Memorial Drive in front of Killian Court on their way to the TD ... , has been excited about the coming of the elephants for over a month. So

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010