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  Visiting MIT & Boston colleges Some tips for checking out MIT and Boston this summer.

  

  Summer is a great time to visit colleges in Boston. There are more ... is lots of construction going on around campus and in Boston; our ... location. Visit other schools while you're here. Boston really is a great

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  , which meant that I couldn't see myself in the mirror - a blessing, as I ... continuing to move her hips, began tapping her feet in a rhythm that magically ... our limbs in a variety of directions. I thought of my first swim lesson

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  made some art about the iberian peninsula featuring a long winded unedited rundown of the month of january +/- a week

  

  ="aligncenter" width="2366"] yummy yummy underpainting[/caption] This is a painting of the Alhambra in Granada. Basically I watched this guy make a landscape ... ="aligncenter" width="1574"] primary colors? also delicious[/caption] This is a gouache

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 22, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  plan for IAP. Since food is expensive, and cooking food takes a while, I wanted to try an experiment in Soylent, a meal replacement shake. I first ... in the fraternity, I went to a nearby IKEA for furniture shopping. But

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So done Midterm week = loss of Mollie's mind

  

  dualism in Western thought (7 pages), 21A.100 paper on cultural relativism ... genetics (15 pages) 39 pages of writing in one week, plus a test worth 20 ... So depending on a) what major you are, b) what classes you choose to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  cancer, and otherwise having no fun at all. I know this is a common ... Fall Formal, which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: a chance ... swing, the party moved back upstairs to engage in a more traditional dance

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT salutes Harry Potter ...the best way we know how, with hacks!

  

  celebrated the series a number of times in the way we celebrate: with hacks ... broomsticks, appeared in the Stata Center. It is unknown whose brooms were ... in Boston, the two biggest movie theaters, the Boston Common 19 and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  Product Design Lab Wakka wakka wakka

  

  is a drill press, belt sander, and band saw at each table We also have a little alcove that is home to a laser cutter and a 3D printer (I ... toy? Our assignment in lab the next day was to build a pull toy. You

  • by Snively '11
  • March 11, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/16/23, at 12:16 PM ET Your early action decisions, wrapped

  

  fact, be like Boroton, who has never had a thought in his life. Go listen ... application cycle. In a few days, let the decision wash over you, knowing that ... [annotation note="bloggers: i'm looking at your spotify wrapped and taking in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  , the one who pulls the rope that the sail is attached to. (Now, in ... inept novice sailor, Kate, alone in a boat, center stage (where stage ... , really really fast. And it is scary. And I’d never been skipper for a jibe

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  ). Having an interview is an important part of our process. Check in with ... 3514, and our ACT code is 1858. Don't slack off in school. Your senior ... 's housing system is the best around, and Caltech has a similar system I admire

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  ). I tried to go vegetarian once before, in February, when I stayed on a ... evils we perform -- my running shoes were probably made in a sweatshop ... a few times in my life. The one time I ate it on purpose, I was at a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO #tbt #behindonblogging #seniorspring

  

  in my rush out the door, making a nice dent in my computer and almost ... Commons has a cute little pond in the middle which you can ice skate on ... time here at MIT. So like any good Type A personality, I've made a list

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 12, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  have them take a look at me. Being sick in college is not fun, no matter ... of other stuff - which is kind of convenient since there's a pharmacy ... drew some blood to do a blood test, put me in a bed, and set me up on an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  MIT – Problem Sets = IAP! Today marks the beginning of IAP 2007.

  

  IAP, check out my entry from last year. As Bryan wrote, there is a ... : Baseball (Art of Hitting)- “Learn the fundamentals of how to hit a baseball which is considered to be one of the most difficult hand-eye coordination

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  Blendie looks like an ordinary blender, it is in fact a voice activated blender -- with a catch. Blenders don't speak English, so in order to ... paragraphs in your entry (personal peeve, I hate writing that is just a

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: Attend Local MIT Admitted Meetings! Note to ADMITTED, CURRENT, and FORMER Students

  

  -together is a microcosm of MIT culture. (Note that, if you can't attend the ... of local MIT meet-ups is a positive one regardless of how long you ... it’s ok with you, I will include your experiences in a similar PSA next

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 26, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you want to hear about?

  

  I would like to post more entries this summer, but this is an MIT blog and I'm in Switzerland. I could ramble philosophically about MIT life - I've certainly done it before - but a lot of my big rambles have

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 3, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind” ...the cow jumped over the moon....

  

  To celebrate the anniversary of the first manned moon landing, Google has a new site up: http://moon.google.com. If you zoom in close enough, you can see what the moon is made of ;-) (thanks to diana for pointing

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  the best to the regular action applicants in finishing up their application materials. Try to get it done soon so you can have a rockin' New ... for financial aid applicants (and remember, MIT is need blind for all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2004