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• Blog / CPW

  I’m coming back to cross stitch on campus again It's been three years, but I'm back!

  

  Junior year in May. Crazy. Most of you reading this, assuming anybody is ... present some backstory. In the year 2020 there was a little thing that ... stitch kit so they could join along in the stream! CPW returned to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 3, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  building are in Helvetica. So is the "ACCESS RESTRICTED" poster. The poster to its lower left, the one that starts "THIS ACCESS POINT", is in Calibri. For the rightmost poster, the top half is also in Calibri. Then

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  This was originally going to be a post about how now that I’m in ... work due the following week in the days that follow. However. In planning this, I failed to account for the fact that I am now in the most

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  already be familiar with my experience of choosing a major. In summary, I ... undergraduates in terms of the number of people who do it. As of some time in the fall of last year, there were three economics majors in the entire class

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  , I'm Danny; I'm a senior majoring in physics with CS classes sprinkled to taste, and I live in East Campus.") but I feel a weird level of pressure trying to summarize myself in a few sentences. Should I mention the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  participate in MISTI. When senior year rolled around, I decided that a 5-month internship in another nation would be a perfect post-graduation, pre-rest-of-my-life opportunity. It was a great idea in my opinion! So there I am, sitting on the

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  QUOTE: "My advice to a high school student interested in science as a career would be to forget all the stuff they tell you in the textbooks ... considering a career in science would be to close the science textbook for a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  :00 am alarm seemed just way to early) I arrived in Seattle in time to go ... enjoy their interviews each year and they were out in force that night working with the staff members in attendance to check in the students

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  have taken at least thirty classes and spent over 300 hours in class or ... pages or longer than fifty. The research can be performed in your Junior ... faculty member or research staff person) agree upon. But in any case, it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  There is a whiteboard in Ben's office which was apparently once used ... . It is now covered in graffiti such as witty poetry and linear algebra ... is hard you're all in it together with your classmates. Then you will

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  Arthur Genius Grant in 2001, hence the reused genius crack above. She's my ... in Miami when she released her first novel, Getting Mother's Body. It's always great to meet and talk with someone who is not only successful in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  our community. Over the past 5-10 years, we have seen a surge in ... have been schooled in the home and under the umbrella of larger ... applicants we have admitted in the past. One quality that we look for in all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  When I was in kindergarten, I wanted to be a doctor. The summer ... surgeries and hold a defribillator in my hands and say "Clear!" As a kid, I ... , video game designer...you get the gist. And then in 6th grade at the

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  In years past, we've asked folks to let us know in August if they ... solidified. (While previous blogging experience is paramount in our selection ... , there seems to be more interest in the program this year than ever before

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Onion article about Robot Hazing at MIT Robot hazing at MIT *gasp!*

  

  Technology chapter of the Theta Tau fraternity are in campus-police custody today following a brutal hazing incident in which one robot remains missing and two others are in critical condition with extensive circuitry

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Pennyslvania leads the country in mushroom production, supplying 45% of the nation's mushrooms. California, in second place, provides only 18%. Sam's Mom has informed me that I have a then/than error in one

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Milk-producing glands in mammals actually evolved from sweat glands. The duck-billed platypus has no nipples. Thus, in order to ... arbitrarily. Hey folks, not too much of interest going on in my life right now

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  first environmentally advanced apartment building in the US. The Solaire is situated in Tribeca, right on the Hudson River. It is pretty ... its eco-friendliness. In addition to photovoltaic panels, the building

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I know my calculus… and U2. Bono takes on global poverty, fashion, and Course 18.

  

  The Dick Van Dyke Show called "The Night The Roof Fell In" where the same story is told, in turn, from the perspective of Rob, Laura, and their pet fish. In this case, whereas Mitra has provided a professional

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  allowed to drop a class without penalty, was last Wednesday, so I'm in all ... swimmingly; for example, we had a great discussion in 7.31 (Current Topics in ... basically one of the gods of stem cell research. The man is a pioneer in his

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005