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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  She came in through the bathroom window. The greatest construction project in the history of MIT--yes, even greater than Simmons Hall.

  

  facilities has finally decided to recognize the Institute's gender balance with ... ) spans buildings 7, 3, 10, 4, and 8 and features the "little dome" (over ... -100), the Building 4 Cafe (4-100) and the brand-new Nanomechanical Technology

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  their respective universities slaved away we at MIT got up late, ate ... made banana pancakes, Hannah made scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and I joined in and made my earth-shattering waffles), and then went back to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  From One Cambridge To The Other A year away from the Institute

  

  wonderful exchange student from the University of Cambridge, Rob. An ... British. In between correcting our pronunciations of Sixth and Herb he regaled us with tales of a different education style, lavish balls and Harry

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 12, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  summarize and capture the important things in your college application, and ... breath, close your eyes, and count to ten. Applying to college is really stressful, believe me, I'm applying to graduate school and every day I call my

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  the campus of Hebrew University that also includes business training and ... (Courses 6-3 and 21M, of Random Hall): "We all know that MIT is the best there is for science and engineering, but many of the humanities

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining As it stands now

  

  a variety of reasons, none of which I'm going to touch. The long and ... exactly what's going on right now and it's simply not responsible of me to talk about such a big issue when it's currently in a state of development

  • by Snively '11
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  also a country with such distinct and concentrated culture that upon ... a Korean bathhouse. And it is my encounter with the jimjilbang that ... temperatures. (I remember going into one that was 50 degrees Celsius or 122

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  in a place where to a degree the world comes to you and you can meet a ... get my degree and get out. I also wanted to learn how to make cool ... meet everyone who got in and hear about their stories about how they

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  offered different things to different people, and what they all gained from ... everything and hopefully make academics run more smoothly this year.  So far ... classes and the work way more than last semester--which I guess means I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  test yesterday and I had to learn like ein bazillion words for that, and ... .112 and 8.01 problem sets this week, working in huge, huge study groups ... year. So, while I'd really like to write a really long and complicated

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Want To Play Music @ MIT? (informally, that is.)

  

  " MIT offerings. Post what you play and what you're looking for. For ... playing with (and for) other people. This dream took many forms when I got ... , and many of my friends played instruments in the orchestra and in

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT Commencement On Friday, the MIT Class of 2005 graduated! It was a beautiful day on Killian…

  

  year, the show was hosted by Institute Archivist Tom Rosko and Dean of ... Admissions Office, Salvador and some visiting prospective families watched the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  hear, this class was just created this year, and this is the first semester it's being offered. I think the website is enrollee-only, so here ... new class on the topic of field (that is, "in situ") and laboratory

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  , Clark University, Princeton, U. Chicago, all have Splashes (and those are ... At MIT, I've taught for two Splashes, three Sparks, and two HSSPs. My classes have evolved with my interests: Spark (Spring 2011): Rockets and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If the roots are imaginary, then the dots will be blue… Diff EQ what now?

  

  still am - I just got out of my 8.02 final, and I have 5.12 tomorrow.), I ... board, waves chalk in the air.) "See? Blue." "And now I'm reminded of an ... dosage then you'll be dead, and the differential equation we just spent the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  . Most of them are offered by several departments, and so I get a variety ... . There are readings with short names, like “Racisms,” and readings with incomprehensible names, like “Intersectionality and the Ethics of Transnational

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Commence the Commencing! and congratulations to the Class of 2014

  

  of 2014 will join them as alumni of the Institute. The 148th ... of 2014, including Anna, Emad, Kate, Natanya, and Tom, were the first undergraduates whom I helped admit, and I've seen them grow from small, squishy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 6, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  From Markets to Math Class

  

  I blogged last week (also here, and Kirsten did so here) about the ... the sexiest internships (and not the ones which are interesting or different or that you'd like to do and learn from), and then going straight

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Anthony Rindone A local first generation college student.

  

  and contemplates the high school years they shared. "Our memories are ... important." The graduating class includes native Revere residents and students ... with their families. Differences in background and national origin did

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Kresge Info Session Come integrate MIT, at least for an afternoon.

  

  and try to visit as many regions as possible to deliver presentations about the Institute. It's a challenge to convey MIT's vibrancy in a ... students and their families to campus for the day, and Admissions people

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 25, 2005