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  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  I'm taking a somewhat lighter course load this semester. I signed up ... maybe some pattern drafting thrown in. What the class has ended up being ... play where each actor morphs between up to four different characters

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  portfolios at the Bay Area Maker Faire. Along the way I got to meet up with Ari ... spend a few days holed up in that AirBnB and didn't get out quite as much ... Friday June 3rd. Matt Damon, who grew up in Cambridge and once

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  bed I should just get up early and then take a nap in the afternoon, because getting up later than 7:30AM throws me off (in the spring time that ... have to wake up before 8:00AM at the latest, or else I am significantly

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  : Lydia brought up a great point in the comments so I'll try clearing up ... it. We also have instinct, which is intuition built up from experience ... internship and both of my UROPs but, as I'm finishing up my second year, I now

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  would hold it up for his inspection, and attempt to balance the plane on ... together 10 years previously!   Wait--I also remember throwing up after ... robotics over band in high school and ultimately wind up here looking to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  a chain around my neck. I then picked up the kitty, gave her a treat ... finally woke up. I sprayed dry shampoo in my hair, and headed to MIT Medical ... to eat. So she set up a "bot" to send me reminders to eat and stay

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  I can’t remember the last time I dressed up for Halloween. Last year ... phone when I discovered a picture of 6 or 7 year old me dressed up as a ... highly amused by my get-up and probably hopped up on the mere anticipation

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  extracurriculars, the negatives and the tragedies all add up to be, in a way ... , and took a nap. I woke up in time to go to MIT Medical, where I saw one ... woke up the next morning at 7am, for an interview with a really awesome

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  When people ask me where I grew up, I hesitate for a moment before ... comes up in conversation or something. While some might say that I spent ... leading up to my second grade move to California played no small role in

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  section by accident I marched up to him and said "Hello, my section did not ... meeting (as my advisor, he helps me to come up with an appropriate schedule ... inflationary theory from the man who came up with it. Sometimes, one hears about

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  up at 5 AM, the life story or experience that sets you apart from ... up the answer and then emailed the interviewee back, so don't be afraid ... avidly played since childhood, and her eyes immediately lit up. She started

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  with their advisors to sign up for classes. The day before the first day ... Meeting Of The Year. I woke up at 8:30 to my alarm, turned it off, and *actually* woke up at 9:30, this time to the aroma of cinnamon rolls. One of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  , about once every other month. The people surrounding me have brought up ... pharmacy and picked up vitamins.  I really wanted the chewables but the ... starting to like looking up new healthy recipes and discovering new healthy

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  the window. Sleep ends up separate from everything else, which I ... the morning. Every night feels like camping, and I usually wake up ... almost always and an obnoxious Clocky alarm clock for actually waking up

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  to that crazy Institvte up north. (I still remember writing this blog ... even leaving for FLP (haha) but not actually staying there until right up ... out how to navigate the Institute, the year when we teamed up to make

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  -- always a fun event), and various other shenanigans, I met up with Anna and ... not making this up. Glowing orange. There was no doubt that they were ... 'll have to excuse me; sometimes I mix up bloggers with migrating birds

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  happens to me which makes a good story, I end up telling it to just about ... pavilion for our lesson, and rigged up a boat with my partner Webb H. ’14 ... arms catches up to her and the wind takes over, blowing the boat back 90

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  you having to get up. You forget that this is an institute of world ... to be up there, on THAT VERY STAGE, doing standup with a hand puppet ... Obama speak) and I ended up getting there at around 9:30, and already the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  you.) Last Saturday, I woke up in a not-very-exciting fashion, so I ... .) (Shrimp dumplings in a translucent rice-flour skin, backed up by peripheral ... bring up a steady parade of rolling carts, and the total charge per person

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  changed, it's actually possible, so it's up to all of the other students to ... -mail at MIT lit up that day and it was hard to walk outside without hearing ... have come up with several solutions to the constant female-only e

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008