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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  years at MIT, (b) leave in the closet for all four years, then pull it out ... notice is that "the two weeks before finals and graduation" is officially ... Wellesley, for example. Ice skate on Frog Pond. The next thing you should

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  blogger applications; this week, I'm modifying the Maker Portfolio for ... applicants. The idea is that the answers tell us something about the applicant ... best we can, which is how we've settled on our current format of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  collaborated with Rosalind legitimately... The Double Helix is famous for ... lines as "the best home for a feminist was in another person's lab ... then proceeded to get no credit for the whole thing because [fill in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  . The truth is, like perhaps many of the 1,116 freshmen in the class of ... , the psets are already rolling in, the reading is piling up, and the ... overwhelmed by the barbarians (thank you Dictionary.com for your invaluable

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween

  

  above all takes the cake. This is quite possibly the best halloween costume...EVER. And this is quite possibly the best advertisement ever ... -WITS is the brainchild of a MIT course 2 alumnus, and it's basically an

  • by Bryan
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  and loiter in the airfield for a day or two. Let's be clear--wind is bad ... Today was the major flight day for most of the teams at the Design ... decreased groundspeed when flying upstream. For instance, if your plane is

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  APPLE BAKE channeling midterm stress into baking, sculpting, and completely destroying apples for decades

  

  in each category. There were also prizes for the entries that won Best ... 't be able to hold it for the next two years since Burton-Conner is ... of Burton-Conner compete to create the best apple dishes and apple art

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  "] leaf no. 3[/caption]   The open forge is a great set-up for ... ’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to ... , searching the empty cavities of my skull for words.  I was busy and not

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  good for the world; the problem is that those two parts of me both feel ... that everything you touch is the result of the backbreaking, soul ... hard to improve the world (said grad student was probably one of best

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist ... —if you look beyond the thing you’re waiting for—it can also be full of ... , take a breath, and remember that we can only do the best we can. https

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Three MIT students win Rhodes Scholarships In case you're wondering, yes, that's a lot of Rhodes Scholarships.

  

  as "the oldest and best known award for international study," includes ... . Huang, Newark [Delaware], is a senior at the Massachusetts Institute of ... Kesem, a student-run and free camp for the children of cancer patients

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ritual & Ceremony I'll be out of contact the next two weeks as I celebrate a big event.

  

  couple, as we explore romantic Italy. As I've been preparing for the big ... 's exciting, but at the same time, there's a bit of anxiety. For me, the anxiety is about planning the big event: have we forgotten anything? WIll our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 14, 2007
• 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…

  

  me for falling in love with theater at MIT? And the more I got involved ... directing a musical with the help of a mentor. The next fall, I co ... . True, I don't get any credit or pay for the hours I put into the Musical

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  these programs are volunteers and work directly with students."]This is ... commitment] 40 hours (5 hours on Saturday, for 8 weeks)[tasks] Scratch is a ... the feelings they experienced because of Spark. [what i learned] It is

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  playing along at home, this is about $4000 for the entire school year.) I ... . Manisha asked, Hey Mollie, thanks for the visuals...Macgregor is by far my ... office hours and starting a relationship from there is probably the best

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  Paula Abdul is briefly and somewhat arbitrarily featured in the video for ... to head down to the Hatch Shell and pick up tickets for the concert ... Campbell autograph I've been lamenting over for the past few weeks. Fantastic

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fresh Food! Here at last!

  

  fruit in the form of a campus produce stand that will open for business ... won the "Best Produce" category in Boston magazine's 2007 Best of Boston ... East Campus, proposed the project to Dean for Student Life Chris Colombo

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things You Shouldn’t Do And something I did

  

  mentioning a brand new feature for the MIT bloggers: Locker Space! We're not ... computer's files. This webspace is what the bloggers use to host their pictures, which works fine. The downside is that with all the blog pictures

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Fireworks over MIT’s Great Dome Fireworks and music and Dome, oh my.

  

  As I noted two entries ago, MIT has a front row seat for Boston's 4th of July celebration -- one of the biggest and best fireworks shows ... , online. Click To Play   Thanks to MIT TechTV for posting the clip!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  repeat in my head for a week already. As the song is less than two minutes ... night. (The dress was for the MedLinks Dating Auction, which went really well - we rose over $1000 for Tutoring Plus.) The thought makes me smile

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007