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  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  create to their hearts’ content for 16 straight hours. Hosted in the ... direction. The next step is to design a setup that will move an object in a ... problem and having to work together to solve it in the most creative way

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes—Fall 05

  

  at my blog. If that applies to you, um, Hi. 14.41 Public Finance and ... will write a term paper on a topic of our choice, due in December. 14 ... ' stock prices to test a stock's reaction to the event. Other data in this

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  vintage curtains from their grandparents in Poland to repurposing old ... is primarily made of brown paper bags and leaves. I wanted to capture ... by Lisbeth Acevedo) (Paper to Paperless - "Representing the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  from MIT to the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. With me were ~25 other MIT ... the MoMA: On the way in, Kandinsky tells the visitor what to think ... see the Kandinsky. I was less excited to see red squares on white canvas

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  note="in fact, I started this blog to avoid reading it! but it has now ... papers for [annotation note="seminar in advanced undergraduate research"]6 ... ’t start out this week expecting to be in this position, but here we are

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  University. I was thrilled, here would be my first chance to learn in an ... receiving my ticket granting me white privilege I got to read about the ... real. The next day I ventured to Constitution Hill in one of the more

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  to get you in MIT or keep you out. So think about something else :P ... ’s pretty irrational - computers are meant to be used, aren’t they. But still ... in the derrière these days. (Also, the programs just suck - yet they

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  scrambling to do well in all of your classes while not losing your sanity. It ... came to a close, I packed up all of my belongings in under 3 hrs, and ... I last appeared in any capacity on the internet. Though I do intend to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  ), what MIT's role ought to be in national and global energy policy, the ... . Plus I got to meet Bryan in real life, and he promised he would organize ... -day extension on a paper for 21A.100 that was supposed to be due yesterday, so I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Home Warning: Graphics Intensive.

  

  'll try to blog in Spain! :) ps. This has got to be the most interesting ... Welcome to 2008! 2008. In equivalent terms, Class of 2012 ... taking the time to enjoy your last semester in high school. I don't know

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  In 1965, Jocelyn Bell arrived at Cambridge University to earn her Ph ... in orbit around the Sun, which causes the Sun to take four minutes longer each day to reappear in that same place. So, our "day" is actually

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  super sick and ended up having to undergo surgery a week after that blog ... "]four to six weeks[/annotation]. (Spoiler alert: it was not, in fact, general ... for four to six weeks – [annotation note="In hindsight, maybe not the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  work in admissions last July, and by mid-July I was part of the team to ... importantly, whatever they wanted to know when they were in those positions ... . So, I reached out to Felix and put him in charge of this project with

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  in our coins, and proceeded to lunch. We decided to pair our seafood ... be a part of in Italy"]MISTI Italy GTL.[/annotation]I was supposed to ... , with my goal of travel in mind, I had to carve out an itinerary of my own

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  ), I felt like I should go and partake in the festivities. So I got to ... -hours How do you measure, MIT time? In psets, in physics In midnights, in cans of Red Bull. In tooling, in frats, in lectures, in hacks. In ten

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  example (in case one is admitted at all) to have pointed School of Engineering in one's application and decide to go to School of Management ... to grades? For example, would a B+ in an application be viewed in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  are buzzing... the semester seems to be in full swing. This semester is ... 't possibly suffice, it had to be a MacBook Pro. So far, I am having a blast ... to the department you're interested in to see what programs you will

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  "]not quite dumb enough[/annotation] to stand in the middle of Mass Ave, here is ... Cormick, but we might also expect to see Green Hall. Due to the difference in ... annex, which looks like it has a similar structure to the building in the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  Try to find me in this picture! Just kidding, that’s a trick ... walking in those furry two-foot-long shoes, you have to complete the ... freshmen trip to the New England Aquarium.   In the aquarium, it was

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  In the CollegeConfidential discussion of my blog post The Difficulty ... is so difficult to answer is because of the problems I discussed in the ... -the-cuff judgments deserve to be taken seriously.   In other words, if you have a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011