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  Cultura MIT students use online collaboration with their French counterparts to learn about each other's cultures.

  

  Gilberte Furstenberg (teacher of French III, a class we're both taking). The ... staples of daily life. The French students do the same in their own language, and we compare and contrast the different responses to gain perspectives

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  you enough of the basics that you don't look like a total tourist when you visit. All in good fun, of course. :) Step one of the "don't look ... 77 Mass Ave. It may be the summer, but we students have places to be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Challenge A little admissions fun during the World Cup.

  

  students, World Cup fever is in full force. I got to watch the opening match between Germany and Costa Rica on the big screen with a huge and rowdy group of MIT students, and I'm looking forward to watching many of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Some Notes Misc. fun stuff.

  

  Today is the first day of final exam week at MIT. [read more ... watch Randal Pinkett PhD '01 win the TV show "The Apprentice." [read more ... more: Page 2] ...while the men's basketball team heads into the break

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Dirty Little Secret? Free concerts rock my socks.

  

  the bathroom that decided to spray water all over the house. While fun for the moment, it was not that fun to clean up. OK...begin the real entry So this weekend, me and my friend Yonas went to Head of the Charles

  • by Bryan
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Solar Car Pulled Over The MIT Solar Car Team got in a little trouble.

  

  Yesterday's Boston Herald had a story about the MIT Solar Electric ... students were taking out the Tesseract - a solar powered car that took third place in the 2003 World Solar Challenge in Australia - for a spin on Mount

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 2 A recap, with pictures.

  

  my fellow admissions peeps. Not bound to the Reg Desk today, I made the most of my time attending events and meeting prefrosh. Started with the ... . Went back to my office for the first time in 2 days; checked email. Akash

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  First read

  

  all the posts from the beginning, and also check out the student blogs: Mitra, Kevin, and Allison. Tomorrow, the entire admissions staff will ... applications. One exercise is that we will discuss the same three folders that we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2004
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  Before we get to scenes from the MIT Class of 2012 Movie Night, I ... weekend (now the #1 movie in the country): Lots of folks have been interested in 4-145, the Blackjack Team practice room. For example, Chris wrote

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  The MIT Class of 2017 Brass Rat was revealed on February 13th during the 2017 Ring Premiere. I had the pleasure of serving on the 2017 Ring ... culture and traditions, it was an honor to be able to contribute to the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  (title inspired by Derrick's recent blog =D) So, the Early Action ... was very surprised that someone noticed this fact. The note was short ... . It wasn't deliberate in the beginning but I wrote the third entry

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  pictures of CPW, so here they are: Mason '10 (yes, that Mason, from the facebook group you all know and love) helps me make signs for the dorm. Go Mason! The Snack Bar, where we kept the thousand-plus dollars worth of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  CPW 2008: The Hack Edition What!? Already!?

  

  Hackers don't waste any time hacking CPW this year. It's the first ... you ever been walking down the hall and caught a whiff of rotting flesh? Maybe heard the sounds of a shuffling creature behind you, limping and

  • by Snively '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  Confusing screens at Chatelet station, Paris The term's almost over! While I'm excited for the summer, with a continuation of my January internship at the BNSF Railway in Texas, I'll also be missing some of the great

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  I had lunch at Harvard today, on the stone steps of a building like ... and ate the blackberries and apple and cheese I brought from home, and the kids trudged past to their classes, and I wondered how I would have

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  . Essentially, MIT students get the month of January off to do whatever we please ... Raymond's website and you can find the original post here. Part 1 ... designing the model, Raymond knew he wanted a turntable for easily maneuvering

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  sometime around 3 am, sharing food on the sofa of our freshman year suite and ... , like, the best room ever."  "Oh not just any double, THE double."    And thus, The Double was born. The inception of this idea sent us

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  -speaking. Whenever I tell people I'm a theater minor at MIT, there are the occasional ... something. GEL has taught me that this can mean the difference between killing ... is what led Tony Eng, a course VI senior lecturer, to organize the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: the creative process for Pi day videos

  

  The blogs have been quiet lately. Summer is ending, freshman are ... officers are preparing for the admissions cycle (sort of like preparing for ... by the Video4Colleges podcast about the drone delivery video from Pi

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  explanations... The Beard. As you've probably noticed in the picture above, I'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind this: I challenged the other admissions officers to a "no-shave" reading

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005