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  The State of the Mail: Opened & Processed It's time to check MyMIT to make sure we have all the pieces of your…

  

  Our fabulous Records Office team has processed all of the mail we ... along another copy. There are still many more weeks of reading to be done ... another copy of the evaluation form, you can get a PDF from the tracking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  update. My grades are all in, and for the first time since coming off of ... requirements. (9.10 would have been one of my six Course 9 electives had I not ... me broke. Also, falling down multiple flights of stairs probably didn

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  quickly ran out of room. There's an incredibly interesting story to how MIT ... ," which allowed it to move to Cambridge and build the core of the contemporary campus. This is not that story. Instead, this is the story of how

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

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  taken, it's important to discuss what those random string of numbers we rattle off mean. Here's a great explanation by a class of '13 about how the ... known for it's legendary professor Walter Lewin, 8.01 is the crux of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  got up in the morning,[annotation note='over the course of the day, around 3-4 inches/7.5-10 centimeters of snow fell. according to this ... ) has Boston had more than 1.1” of snow in an October storm or for that

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  I've never been to Seattle before. One of the things I love about ... that Seattle is a gorgeous city. I was not disappointed. A lot of what ... . Drive any direction out of downtown Seattle, and in 3 hours or less you

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  weight of 4 Psets are setting in. All that being said, I am glad to be back ... the next few months with 57 units of courses: On February 6th, the ... grapefruit, and sat in front of my Real Analysis class (18.100A) for a solid

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  : Ciao, Italy. Because of the snowstorm in the Northeast of the U ... of Boston were cancelled, so after arguing with the American Airlines customer representative for an hour and a half to keep the second leg of the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.

  

  was selected as one of the seventy members of Interphase EDGE that is run through MIT’s Office of Minority Education (OME). That being said, as some people see it, I signed up for a preview of hell to replace my

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  one of many things. I’m thinking maybe an alligator with rollerblades ... person, however, would recognize the tell-tale signs of a bad joke and wait ... , “Grass. I lied about the wheels. Ha!” It’s the epitome of the anti

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  ;marquee> tags, but I'm afraid that if I did, my boss would laugh me out of the ... me, I'm excited. Before I could reap the joys of summer, though, I had ... maybe 4 to 5 equivalents of this amount of stuff: My stuff, looking a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  torn up, I happily made my way to Boston in the fall of 2005. However ... ) Program, and experienced one of the best weeks of my life. Ever since then ... many arts classes here at MIT as I can fit into my schedule. All of the

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  Last night, I attended the ceremonial unveiling of the design of the MIT Class of 2007 class ring. (Thanks to Mitra for the invitation ... once, halfway through, for the unveiling of the class ring. The design

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  I've mentioned briefly on this blog before that I'm part of a ... lot of other stressful things in everyone's lives at the time, so all ... fun together again! One of my friends is in the Shakespeare ensemble

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  On the first Friday of my last semester, I had a choice between two ... rushed coffee break in the middle of the 10am-4pm seminar block. I have ... morning starts with 9.26 Principles and Applications of Genetic Engineering

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  Study: Continuous Data Stream of MIT Student Reveals Something  Department of Physical Education | Department of Biology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139   INTRODUCTION

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  Despite what I said last time, I did manage to snap a couple of pictures of CPW, so here they are: Mason '10 (yes, that Mason, from the ... Mason! The Snack Bar, where we kept the thousand-plus dollars worth of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  The Introduction This is only part of a comprehensive guide I hope ... not an expert by any means on any of these things. Whatever I have written here is from my own personal experience or the advice of others. If

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  Last week I, along with most of the admissions team, attended the IvyPlus 2011 conference at Yale University. IvyPlus is an every-couple-of-years-more-or-less-when-we-feel-like-it gathering of admissions folks from the "IvyPlus" schools, defined, for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  Though I’ve thought of myself as a writer for most of my life, I ... meaning in the everyday arcs of human experience. But still, I struggled. I ... . This was my state entering playwrights’ workshop, with the basic aim of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014