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  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  manifestation in 1924. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology goes to great ... offered, and explaining the hundreds of clubs and student activities, along ... . In MIT’s early decades, the fledgling Institute lacked both space and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  open your email. Hillary Clinton is offering you free food in 2-105. You ... attends a school called Peer Institution. Rachel A. ‘17 An unpopular policy ... your man, now back to me. Sadly, he isn’t me. Leo de C. ‘18 It is hot

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  . Nerdy, silly, sporty, food-offering, you name it, that type of activity is ... to offer and time management, all while doing a good job. It ... have been putting more effort into de-stigmatizing depression and mental

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  Webster’s dictionary has two entries for the word smashing when used as an adjective: smash¬∑ing Pronunciation: Ààsma-shi≈ãFunction: adjective Date: 18251 : that smashes : crushing; a smashing defeat 2 :…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  thought the process of applying to semi-elite institutions ended after ... get an offer (or don't) soon after your on-site. I can't speak too much ... wound up with 2 final offers at the end of it all. I actually applied to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  things blurred at lightning-speed in the Institute, and you moved with the ... couldn’t escape it, you see. It was one of the General Institute ... sadly too often my default within the Institute bubble. Eventually, we

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  considerable basketball skills to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... basketball." But when the Ivy League universities hesitated to make an offer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  , I opened an email. It was an unexpected, unsolicited job offer from ... talking; I never got another job offer, or any response to any of my (many ... offered and at the same time. He was talking about the things they were

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  name of your undergrad institution and more with how you make the most of ... for fighting. It’s on institutions, not individuals, to ensure that PIs ... did From an Institutional sense, MIT didn’t convince me to Do The Thing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  the crew with a couple questions and offered to set up lights or wrap ... are the things that I want to learn, but MIT will never offer a class on ... ’s not what this Institute’s about. Sigh. (This is one of those times

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  the same-old "words of comfort" that adcoms offer to students," and ... should know about the interview is that... 0. Do It! If you're offered an ... additional information about life at the Institute and it also helps the adcoms

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  really intimidating because you start out taking General Institute ... -renowned geneticist and the former director of the Whitehead Institute, as well as a ... possible to get good grades at MIT if someone enrolls at the institute from a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  university has to offer are unparalleled relative to anything I’ve seen before ... application, we are unfortunately unable to offer you admission into Penn ... ’t accepted me, I could probably find some other institution that would. Shade

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  past two years, yet was still in love with the Institute. “I felt like ... of mine who lived in Lauren’s dorm, offered to walk me back. He had ... moment, of going to the Institute, and of caring for others. On a day

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  prospective 6-3 diploma. My initial attitude was something like, you got this

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  says something like "It is my pleasure to offer you..." Oh. OOH. OOOH ... raised in a world in which ‘institutions’ or governing bodies have a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  Things took a turn for the worse. Quickly. Very quickly. — August 17th was a Saturday, and it started out as a good one. I was awoken by the indignant…

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  priorities vary from one institution to the next. The methods employed to achieve those priorities vary just as much. At one institution, the sole ... than the application pool provides. At another institution the priority

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  would get a job offer in America that would move the whole family. It was ... through [annotation note="General Institute Requirements: classes everyone ... . So even the structure at an institutional level can be geared towards

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  offer you 50 Reflections. Here goes... The years I spent at MIT were ... fact that today almost every institution of higher education showcases ... the only institution in the country willing to take on this level of

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014