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  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  It was the dead of winter in the smoggy capital city of Chile, encircled by the Andes mountains’ snow-capped peaks on one side and the vast Pacific Ocean on the…

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

  Behold, the first sentences of four different unfinished summer blog posts:   —- On Commencement day, I almost got grabbed by police for getting too close to the front while both my…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  We’ve gotten some questions about our essay prompts for the forthcoming cycle. There’s no reason to start on them now, but some people like to begin thinking and planning ahead…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  Like all great creative people, from Claude Monet to Steve Jobs to Franz Kafka, we bloggers too suffer from “writers’ block” or creative blocks and periods of crushing inability to…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  places at mit (favorite) places (to work/study)

  

  MIT’s campus can be pretty daunting for someone first visiting. All the buildings are numbered, and at first glance, the ordering of the numbers seems unintuitive. Buildings 3 and 4…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating Defiance @ the Media Lab a prize for responsible, ethical disobedience

  

  Last July, the MIT Media Lab created a $250,000 award to recognize and celebrate responsible disobedience: The Media Lab Disobedience Award seeks to highlight effective, responsible, ethical disobedience across disciplines…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT: Progressions what the students thought of the place in 1969

  

  Earlier today, I got an email from Kenny Friedman ’17, who took my course last fall. Long story short: while researching some old media appearances of Professor Chomsky, Kenny, with…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 18, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  sabrina, joon, and abby posted recently about the circumstances surrounding the conversion of senior house to graduate housing. joon included full transcripts of emails sent from the chancellor’s office to undergraduates,…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  For those of you who don’t keep up with the blogs, I’m Sabrina M. ‘19, and I just finished my second year at MIT. Until recently, I was the Senior…

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  There’s been a decent amount of turbulence in the past couple of months here, and given the recent decisions regarding Senior House, I want to say some things. As a…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  senior house / pilot 2021 / senior house facts, and a thought

  

  I’m definitely not going to be the only person to talk about this on the blogs, but the situation with senior haus has been on my mind and many others…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  I took part in HackMIT last year, and it was a great deal of fun! I had the chance to learn some web dev with my friends, meet industry mentors,…

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  The Accidental Harvard Class It is possible to miss a class. Not in the “sleep through it” way, but rather in the “harbor a feeling of longing for lessons past”…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  In middle school, my first foray into robotics was with the FIRST Lego League. That was the first time I remember being in a school activity that had drastically more…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  Personally, I have always considered myself a pretty social person. I have always loved just spending a bunch of time hanging out with friends and just kind of doing nothing…

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  To fully appreciate MIT’s location, venture to downtown Boston. The Institute campus combines the chillness of living Cambridge and the proximity to a big city. It only takes 10 minutes…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2017!

  

  It’s summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) A ten year old girl at nerd camp yelled at me for being part of the globalist illuminati responsible for the…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  East Campus has a reputation. It’s known as the mysterious and “intense” dorm of people with no shoes and dyed hair. But, not everyone who settles in EC gets flaming…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  The blogs have been pretty quiet for the last week. Most of our bloggers are home, with some recently graduated, or have just begun work and UROPs. Meanwhile, the admissions…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  last friday a lot of my friends walked at commencement after a speech from tim cook and a ceremonial turning-of-rings. this class especially — “my” class — carries a lot of…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017