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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  To understand most of the e-mails sent to the French House mailing list, there are three things you need to know: 1) Right outside our kitchen, there is a “sacrificial…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  My high school academic life was by no means a cruise through pleasant waters. It had its several current peaks and rocky outbursts, challenges I found myself learning to deal…

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  This semester has definitely been a rough one, especially around this time of the year.  Flags for classes are being handed out for those of us who are struggling extraordinarily…

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  The leaves are falling like snowflakes and sometimes when the sun hits the trees just right, the Massachusetts landscape burns golden. The fabled season of fall has arrived in all…

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Becoming a Princess the making of a Halloween costume [+many pictures of ponies]

  

  You see, the thing about Halloween is that it gives you a reason to act like you’re in elementary school again. You wanna become Doctor Who? Go ahead. You wanna go…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Events

  All Hallow’s Eve You're never too old to trick-or-treat...

  

  Happy (belated) Halloween! Although I guess it’s November now but let’s ignore that. This is gonna be a quick post mainly because I half-promised pictures of my friends and I…

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  This is Anna Ho, reporting live from her transition to being 21 years old. (Sidenote: a fun consequence of having a Halloween birthday is that whenever you go to the…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Answering Your Questions: EA Deadline Week How can we be helpful?

  

  With our November 1 Early Action deadline looming (Friday!), we're here to answer your questions.  How can we help?  Answers below in the comments.  I will try to update this…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  Picture this. A pavement somewhere along the infinitely stretching Mass. Ave, swathed in darkness that small glowing arcs from streetlights partially cut through. It’s 1994, Spring, chilly. The wind is…

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  I’m taking advantage of the Starbucks wireless network, at the Westin Arlington Gateway hotel in Virginia – and feeling overwhelming vertigo. I had the same feeling two weeks ago, while…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  It’s nearly the end of October, and autumn has finally begun coloring the city of Boston. Baker’s annual piano drop (this time, filled with candy) happened yesterday afternoon, people flocked…

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2013 FAQs

  

  This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the QuestBridge National College Match. If you don’t know what this is, don’t worry! You can read the updates for Early…

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  This weekend, in some order, I: 1. slept for twelve hours straight in one night 2. watched experienced the Rocky Horror Picture Show, live 3. learned about cornhole 4. went…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

    Two months ago, after spending ten disastrous minutes walking in the wrong direction, I saw Random Hall for the first time. As I walked into my dorm, struggling with my…

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  I am a first-semester senior. As a result, my brain has been swimming in fellowship deadlines and requirements, graduate school applications, and the possibility of a full-time job; occasionally, it…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  I noticed something great about the MIT Admissions blogs as the days have gone on. Everyone’s so passionate about their posts, and all of us do a great job of…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  *Correction as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   It’s mid-October in Cambridge, which means the days are growing shorter, the leaves are changing…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  As an alum, people often ask me what I liked the most about being at MIT.  The honest answer?  THE PEOPLE!  So I’m going to tell you stories about some…

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  One week ago, an eclectic group of ambitious young men and women flocked to HackMIT to crowd themselves into a gym for 30 hours and make…something. The hacking arena. The…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  Have you ever heard the joke: What’s green and has wheels? A logical person might stroke his beard and say, “Hm. Well let’s see, that could be one of many…

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013