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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  the campus bubble. It's too easy to go from Activity in MIT Building A ... down time - and it's a lot simpler than trying to approach the speed of ... completely new - seemed to last forever, but once I settled into a rhythm days

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Looked outside my window, and what did I see I probably shouldn't be surprised, but I am.

  

  impossible to try and capture it all in a blog. Never fear though, I'll figure ... to draw some pictures to factor out a few thousand words. ... This is probably one of the last things I was expecting to see when I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2010
• FAQ / First-year application

  Is it ok to go over the essay word count?

  We require applicants to follow the word limits provided on the application. Your information will not be saved if the responses are too long. You may have to "play" with your thoughts and sentences a bit to meet
• Blog / About Decisions

  Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) to the 2020 MIT Protofrosh

  

  fact. I hope you can find the best environment to await and process the ... and good music. Find your own best way to cope with tension. If you ... Feynman MIT '39) A Pep Talk from Kid President to You from Soul

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  puzzled again? a little puzzle for the class of '09

  

  a group of scavenger hunt questions to solve, and today they get to solve mine. This blog is supposed to have a question on it, so I'll make this one easy. How many entries to date? Please do not post the answer

  • by Bryan
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  send in a whole new version of my application? No. You do not need to ... enough to make you a contender in the Regular Action round. Let your ... your particular situation. They're more than welcome to give our office a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  biked to D-Lab to weld. I’d started a new project two weeks before finals ... guy who I’d taught how to weld, a nice student, good at taking criticism ... artisans spoke mainly to him. Three stalls down, I remembered that this was a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  some people find zigzags easier. There's a bit of learning curve to ... possible. Kind of a tangent, but I want to shout out the fact that ... myself a maker until I've learned how to operate heavy machinery? I feel

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  hadn't ever used a mill or lathe.  I wasn't sure what it meant to tap a ... and learned how to use fast fabrication methods.  And I built a pair of ... manageable pieces.  Our first assignment is to build a "Mini Me" robot that can

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  to fund ourselves. The revenue from these pumpkins is a big reason why ... teams of glassblowers who gather for a few hours a day to make batches of ... [/annotation] pumpkins at a time. And we usually only need to start making pumpkins a few

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

  how to grow a vibrant kresge just add sod

  

  [/annotation] even with recurring episodes of tent.     This is a guide to ... in a non-competitive climate. This makes it weaker and easier to kill ... torment season. From August to March, the grass in front of Kresge is hit

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  covering everything from Kanye’s visit to Harvard’s design school and a birth on a D.C. metro platform to wild architectural proposals and all the ... other writers/editors, a lot of the discussion boiled down to: what are

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  nights Time kept a rhythm, while we scraped along Now we start to peer ... Dial Gold." So due to my mother's frugality, I bought a huge package of ... ) Since this blog isn't going to be "substantial," here's a really cool

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  bags to make our car dip just a little bit. To my left in the line for ... ones I will notice. I found out yesterday that I'll get to be a blogger this year, so I know it’s a bit eager to be starting to write already

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  awash with students bustling to and fro. floorpi feels like it’s a little ... tuesdays thursdays 11 to 3. there’s a waltz class on monday evenings at 7 ... for mystery hunt, i can’t wait for it to happen, a lot of people are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  expertise I wish to take (#22). Enjoyable on-campus jobs are very much “a ... with bodies of water. The Charles River has been a silent witness to a ... water look so coarse, it seems that if only I found a way to lower myself

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  monitor, and I was finally compelled to clean my room so I could get a ... motivation for my project was to test if we could quickly prototype an API (a ... Minecraft bot could do, I decided to focus on food recipes. Ideally, a human

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  orange books that tell you everything from how to do a 360 with your car to how to escape from a well. Today's lesson? How to Foil a UFO Abduction ... better and ready to apply to MIT now? BananAPPEAL quandries: 1) Is MIT a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do students apply to a specific major?

  Here's one less thing to worry about when applying to MIT: Students apply to MIT for general admission and select a major at the end of the ... asks students to list their "course of interest" only, and the choice
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  my first trip to the farmer's market in Boston, on a lovely Saturday ... went to go do some yoga at a great (and affordable!) place on Newbury ... from Newbury St. all the way to Haymarket. It was a lovely day--a bit

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016