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  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  great degree of structure to it, six years of grade school, followed by ... , to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to ... celebrate my 21st birthday. Just a week ago, I imagined one version of what

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
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  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  2, English House. Units of measure were alive and well within the culture of Conner 2 during my stay there. To the best of my knowledge there were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into ... , no less!) I remember back when CS was getting started - one of their ... few weeks back. This got me thinking of MIT people who just kind of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
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  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  conversation (meaning 90 degrees of Tang will sever a conversation clean in two ... , and is the talk of campus. . . President Obama came and visited on ... as brilliant as some of the professors are, we still get super excited

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
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  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  chose to do a Southeast-Asian-themed array of flavors, offering ube ... (east of tEp), and Harvard Square. I decided during my first visit that I ... three main housing options (listed below in order of increasing personal

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  congregation gathered in the East Campus courtyard huddles together slightly ... banner says "Live at EC." EC is short for East Campus. I do not know if ... , simultaneously, this-broadcast-is-live. I live at EC, on the second floor of the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  , this necessarily means that I can only capture a very small part of what ... hours of teaching Class class class class Help Help Desk desk It ... teachers teaching 504 classes. And two thousand is a lot of people. For

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
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  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  the east side of MIT.   ... Northeast of the more frequently mentioned Harvard Bridge is the Longfellow Bridge, which connects MIT to Boston from the Stata Center side of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  MIT has a lot of resources that could have made my freshman year a ... the 2015 HASS requirements. So, uh, whoops. By way of apology, I'll do ... remainder of your prefroshly days, for once in my brief but glorious

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  rejection by heading the Continental Army, driving the British out of their ... , the linchpin in the formation of the United States of America. Worked ... absence in no way inhibited the spectacular course of his life. Washington

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
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  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  Bemis House of the East Campus Alumni Houses. But that was all in the ... dormitory on campus—the Class of 1893 Dormitory—which had opened ... ," the Faculty Houses. The dorm's name of '93 would last for

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
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  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  This past weekend was the 10-year reunion for the MIT Class of 2000 -- my MIT class. It was fun to see so many of my classmates and hear about ... will be helpful. In anticipation of our 10-year reunion, I emailed all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
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  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  A lot of socializing at MIT happens on the dorm mailing lists. One of my favorite mailing lists is Burton-Conner’s, not because of the content of the mailing list (I’ve never been on it), but because of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
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  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  purgatory and get my degree just in time for the Class of 2012 π reunion. But ... Hey! I’m back this term to finish my undergrad degree. I realize that with the incoming class of 2019, most of you have no idea who I am

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
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  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  At the end of the semester I emailed Random Hall’s social mailing list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the ... panorama of my door, also attached.   YQ L. ‘15 As you might know, I do a lot

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT What?!? The Long and Illustrious History of the MITMB, as far as Kim knows.

  

  Marching Band grew out of a group from 2nd East. The guy in the shorts was ... of both the marching band and the modern football team. Looking through ... /kimfad/Public/rightsize/MarchingBand/newspaperarticle.pdf">fascinating piece of history</a> from 1978, we see on page 12 that "the band

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 10, 2008
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  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  wound up with 2 final offers at the end of it all. I actually applied to ... of job offers, but honestly, most people around me are in the same ... end of the semester. Last year, I had my offer from PlayStation by the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
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  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  ?! And my response is yes, there was definitely some degree of novelty to ...  have all made appearances during my time at MIT because of some sort of collaboration with people here. It's neat-o business, folks. And as of last Monday

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  economics degrees done that i missed out on finding my true calling, which, of ... the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... different type of work this semester--the work of being present and focused

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
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  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in 2006 with degrees in brain and cognitive sciences and biology, and I ... 's government, and was the captain of the cheerleading squad. When I was a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007