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• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I join the Design/Build/Fly Team?

  The MIT Design/Build/Fly team is composed mostly of undergraduate students, but is also open to graduate students, who compete in the annual AIAA Design/Build/Fly competition. The competition involves designing, manufacturing,…
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT is “Hacked” Ultimatum

  

  That school up the river, you know, the one with the brick buildings ... happy to tell you if you come to CPW, but our first story about Harvard is brought to you by, well, Harvard. Two days ago I was chatting on the phone

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  is Ignite, which sounds...exciting! There's an web game you can play, and a archived webcast you can watch on the site or on Facebook.

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Imagination there is no place i know...

  

  Imagination." You can watch it here:   Professor Woodie Flowers once told me that "MIT can be either a steamroller or a candy store: it depends entirely on how you look at it." We wanted to make a video that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  , there's only so much you can gather from small black letters pasted ... time to visit. And if you really can't make it, no worries. I lived

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  PumpkiNerd Carving My dorm had a pumpkin carving contest, and categories were funniest, scariest, geekiest, most original,…

  

  , and best overall. Can anyone guess which category I entered my pumpkin ... "vegetabletarian" is more accurate.) Me? Not so much. For the handful of you ... can out-geek us by carving Athena. Right. Other people noted how he

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick update

  

  . Q. If selection is over, can I have my decision? A. The selection ... don't have to send in the midyear report? A. No, you must send in the midyear report. Q. Can I still send in extra materials? A. While it is too

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  high bar to overcome. My [annotation note="unfortunately, I couldn’t get ... minimum"]table[/annotation] shared stories about where we came from (China ... , etc.), where we wanted to be (physics professorship, Harvard business

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  Gardens where the circus is actually held. Rose ’14, a Simmons resident ... where she had asked the construction workers outside our window to let us ... for the elephants as Alex tries to get some front shots of the elephants

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Psetting on Campus ft. an updated mapping system

  

  information about it! Some of the pictures aren't working, but I'll try to get them up eventually... If you have any suggestions for other places you

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Party!

  

  's me, in case you somehow didn't figure it out. I still have mud residue ... by Senior Haus. It gets its name because it involves roasting a steer ... security. What did YOU do this weekend?

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Weather Machine We wish you were still here!

  

  , its timing was off by a week, but fortunately (for me, not for you, since you're at home not thinking about school work because come on, it ... Maguire). I've been so busy sitting out in the sun/getting my official EMT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Meditation Mondays Achieving inner peace, just in time for my 14.05 pset

  

  meditation session tonight -- which I definitely needed after getting my French ... long enough to achieve a little harmony and inner peace. If you're on campus and free on Monday nights, I highly encourage you to attend!

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Reading Commences The applications are in, and now we're reading them.

  

  Things are starting to get quite busy! Now that the Early Action ... rather canary yellow! Okay, so this might not be so exciting to you, but ... progresses, but I did want to take a quick break to at least give you all an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Branching out

  

  , with no Central Meetings to do, I'll get to catch up with some friends ... crowds. If you're in the South Bay, I look forward to seeing you there!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  does not encourage this, much--you can't put "I think about my feelings a ... . The withdrawal/readmission process is fairly straightforward; you meet with a dean at S3 (they are wonderfully nice people. they will give you

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  , you have a DNA that encodes a protein you're psyched about, and you put ... the cell gets both a red (your gene) plasmid and a blue (unknown gene ... worth-more-than-my-life confocal microscope. (I'm not kidding. If you were

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  with social interactions, given I can get tested and have a particular ... methodical and bland. An endless cycle of work till you drop. It was hard to ... blog, who knows), so hopefully, I can put more effort into this aspect

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  One Giant Leap For beaver kind

  

  , it's because I woke up . . . to go study. Finals are coming up! You see ... . Step 2, get really excited and head back inside for my camera. Step 3 ... , so I've got two more pictures for you, one from farther away and then

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  would you get twenty elephants through Boston traffic?), and also, anger ... Ave tomorrow morning at 10 and YOU should go see them! ME: Everyone ... true; you only know us. ME: Oh, right. Every year in October, the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007