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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  semester (although I haven't had the chance to build most of them... yet). Tetrahedron I think we can all agree that the triangle is the pinnacle of ... flawless design, but with the power of hot glue, it is indeed possible

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  a single blog by a student five years ago, at the dawn of the Facebook ... . During my CPW in April 2003 (wow), I took some photos of all the madness ... everyone in the entire office is reading thousands of applications and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  of the carrier, but you should be able to figure it out easily enough. My flight was the red-eye out of SFO on Friday night at 10:20 PM, and ... -In. Finally, I was at the head of the line. Time check. 9:20 PM. I had an hour

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  decided to go with the good old standby: duct tape. Of course, once I ... , which was sort of interesting.) I showed the outfit to Adelaide, and she ... the athlete's point of view. As I said, I rarely eat in the dining

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  To-Do List for Regular Action Applicants With the deadline a month away, there are things you need to be doing now.

  

  great time to register for the January administration of the tests, which ... (3514) as a recipient of the scores. If you haven't yet given your ... application components to us in advance of the January 1 deadline, if you can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  40 Hours Left! The time is 0500 EST, 12/15. I am studying for finals. You are waiting for…

  

  -205. Taken from Hood, Clifton. 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How ... sexual flirtation where the motion of a crowded rush hour express threw two ... fall in love?! :P ps. Just in case you were confused, some of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  schedule has been pretty set in stone since the first week of classes, but ... draw a Mohr Circle, and the beauty of making assumptions in engineering ... . 1.035 serves as a continuation of the material with more depth, and a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  not know me at all because I wrote blogs back in the dark ages of 2008 ... 'm the author of such classics as That time we streamed a dance party from our floor lounge to the homepage of the admissions website and got

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  you stop reading one of the lines in the middle and neglect to add the baking soda and the second cup of flour, ahem...) and some amount of ... recipe? :-) Do people share the cost of staples for the hall and cook

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion I just really like data visualizations, plz don't judge

  

  . The Media Lab is much better at this sort of stuff than I am, after all ... green blob is Petey, naturally), the conglomerate of blue, red, and brown blobs is comprised almost entirely of East Campus people, and the very

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  thinking about, and where the time I put in materialized in the form of cool ... went into them. And now for the plug… Sure, I did a lot of science ... to enter, and just some of the awesome prizes include: • A trip to MIT

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  -set. After staring at the problems for a couple of minutes, my mind folded into ... . Let the games begin!! *** Er…I was expecting a fancy cloud of smoke ... however is roughly the size of Seven New Yorks, so extrapolating over the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  , cofounder of Lingt and inventor of the iDoor, which I lived behind one summer ... freshman year), none of the good shops are available after midnight. My ... slowly that I had to really simplify the rig, which ended up consisting of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  it. I guess now is as good a time as any to ponder the intricacies of ... bottom of the social food chain. You get what I'm saying, right? Well ... experience, because you're all going through the motions of calculus psets

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  I could slowly ease into the shallow end of the pool feet first so I ... trips down and back. I only made it down half of the lane when I grabbed onto a lane divider, gasping for breath as chlorine stung the back of my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  "convenient" that the amount of self-selectivity in the female applicant pool ... that I've even been slightly skeptical of that in the past. Anyway, the ... of the doubt and say that it was some other anonymous troll who was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  in the sense of rushing to try and get an answer. yes, the answers to ... relate back to the big question of what I want out of life. There are three ... post can guide your own thoughts, the beginnings of a framework for you

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  words of one of my friends, ‘reshuffle my cards’. I feel spoilt- the ... one of the leafier subsets of the city. From the balcony of my room on the tenth floor I have a majestic view of the Bangalore bungalows

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  the process of making. They aren't intended to persuade you to choose MIT, but to make the best choice for yourself. Although of course you ... many members of the Class of 2020 who are all struggling with the same

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  pulse. I'm used to the relaxed and sometimes languid feel of Texas, and ... lack of a better term... sketch looking :S Taking the underground transit ... minority dinner and got to meet a bunch of interesting new people! The food

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010