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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  hands of thunder clapping. The universe poured down in a divine onslaught ... Monday schedule... even though it's Tuesday. Just think of how fascinating ... fabric of reality, that if it changes its schedule for even one day without

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  Weekend, but you're wrong. CPW really means "4 days of Pure a ... hanging around campus. It'll probably never detach itself from the Pure a ... on large chunks of text unless said chunks of text are arranged into

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] For me, one of the greatest things about MIT is the culture. It's hard to describe, but there's a peculiar mix of ... , let's do it!"), and a lot of creativity from people who enjoy doing very

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  I've had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a decade after I was a student here, but one of them is ✨delight✨ at seeing new generations of MIT students carry on traditions and make them their

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  choice I get the feeling that a lot of people find MIT's dorm choice ... . Late May/early June -- receive a booklet with descriptions of each dorm ... usually due around the third week of June. Late July -- Housing lottery

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  . Of course, I also had to pay to get into the park; however, since Ling, Erica, and Simon were smart enough to buy a family pack of season passes ... that for the low, low price of only $20, which is actually pretty

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  applications after spending much of last week reading international applications ... , as I write this entry, I'm also half-watching one of my ten favorite films of all time: Sneakers. I've got a week's worth of questions to catch

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  another blow to my confidence. I went and hid in a corner of the university ... rejected, I offer my condolences, and the best of luck as you apply to other schools. For the deferred, I offer the rest of this post. Posts like this

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer reading: “The Language of God” Consider adding "The Language of God" to your summer reading list!

  

  universe. I'll try to read it before the end of the summer, but feel free to ... As some of you may know, this summer I'm working at the NIH National ... entire human genome, so that we now know the location of all human genes

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Astrology Forecast for the Class of 2023 Some big aquarius energy is coming...

  It's an incredibly exciting time of year, as the Class of 2023 is ... with our newly enrolled class through a number of events over the next ... of Multicultural Programs, LBGTQ@MIT, and the Office of the First Year

  • by DJ Rock
  • August 22, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  group of American college students come along and play ultimate Frisbee ... the start of one of the most curious experiences I have probably ever had. In lieu of a proper picture, I have made a diagram to try and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  . Dear Ella,  We have completed our early action review of your ... 't read the rest of the email. I turned the windshield wipers back on. I ... lot of attention to MIT Admissions. I didn't read the blogs. I didn

  • by Ella T. '25
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  of some less-than-important recent events, I decided to put up a short ... training for the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University ... here on out. Our week-long training was almost entirely composed of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  . On Floor Pi, one of our traditions is this event called tea time. It ... communities do you most value being a part of?" But often, discussion strays ... into math, but we have a hard rule of "no math during tea time".) I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  research at a tiny university on the outskirts of Mexico City, which was a ... university. I ended up living there for the majority of my time in Mexico and ... -absence of productivity - three things I have not experienced consistently in a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  number which is also placed on a map by the degrees of longitude and ... language. And it’s the only language that all of us in the world understand. it’s key elements are one of my favorite things–numbers. Having that

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  [By Miren Bamforth ‘15] On behalf of the four other freshmen ... state something: our advising seminar might be one of the coolest classes ever. Each week we spend the first hour or so of class learning about

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  for most of my life i was very prone to envy. part of that was because of the academic environment i was raised in - other people doing ... instance, i remember feeling little pangs of resentment whenever one of my

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  Last Sunday, one week ago, I moved out of East Campus. The hours ... in my key and walking out the door. I knew it was coming, of course ... the moment of checking out still felt unexpected, and surprising: these

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Study Break MIT is home to some very dedicated gamers.

  

  hang the Cranium die on the face of the building. Most impressive ... that happen? Most of campus is already cracking down in preparation for ... the stress level on campus would be pretty high right now, most of my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 11, 2007