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  Greetings from MIT Labs! Introducing MIT: The Game

  

  Since last summer, we here at MIT [Admissions] Labs have been working on an extremely awesome and extremely top secret project: MIT: The Game is a revolutionary breakthrough in admissions…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  We All Need A Little Encouragement

  

  From a bottle of Honest Tea, purchased from MIT’s Student Center

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  Add Date — the last date on which you can add a class — is this Friday, so I thought it’d be an opportune time to discuss the classes I’m…

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  First of all, apologies for the radio silence. I’ve been sequestered in reading and committee for the last few weeks. Today may be a Sunday, but it is no different.…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  source: http://xkcd.com/863/ Last night, I had a convincing nightmare that I was trying to double major in 18 and 6-3 and had mysteriously forgotten about 6 required classes, which I…

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  Well…if there’s one thing you can know for sure about studying at MIT, it’s that time flies by – whether it’s funtymz or seriousbusinesstime. Long hours spent working might seem…

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  The other day I dropped off my application to the International Honors Program in the mailbox across from WILG. So begins my journey to study abroad in college. The International…

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  NSBE MUSE Colloquium my first video

  

  Last week, I attended the MUSE Colloquium hosted by MIT’s NSBE Chapter at the Black Students Union on campus. NSBE is a wonderful organization that promotes academic excellence, professional development,…

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  Hey folks, TGIF! I got an email from Tanya ’10 earlier this week, who said that she wanted to write up a little entry about how GEL prepared her for…

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  Maybe I should preface this by saying “do as I say, not as I do”. I guess I’ll come out and say it: I skipped the first week of classes.…

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dell-icious. MIT students and the Dell Social Innovation Competition

  

  About a month and a half ago, I received an email from Sneha ’13, asking me to take a moment to vote for the idea that she and Divya ’13…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Life On Mars and by "Mars" I actually mean "3AB, Simmons Hall."

  

  When it comes to housing at MIT, you’ve got quite the array of options. You want to explode things and paint crazy murals on the wall? There’s East Campus. Dining…

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  In the middle of 5.12 (Organic Chemistry) lecture, 16 men dressed in red and pink burst through the door. “Excuse me, professor!” The first one cried, as we all gaped…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Too Good to Just Tweet About Hello blogosphere! Yes, I'm still alive and tweeting (@MikeyMIT)...

  

  Hello blogosphere! Yes, I’m still alive and tweeting (@MikeyMIT). The reading and selection period has been intense as ever this year, but I promise as we approach mid-March, I hope…

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  I’ve mentally partitioned my time here into “eras” with defining characteristics rather than temporal durations, although each of those eras happens to span precisely one academic year, rendering this system…

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  Throughout my 5-ish months as a blogger for the Institvte, I’ve covered a lot of ground, if we go by number of categories. Our blogs have a ton of primary…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  BEHOLD! I MADE FOOD! GOOD FOOD! Remember when I set my IAP resolution to cook dinner every night? Well, I did it!* *Okay, I mostly did it. There were a…

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Put a Ring On It 2013 RING PREMIERE!

  

  About three hours ago, a large majority of the MIT Class of 2013 filed into Kresge Auditorium for one of the most awesome events of this semester: RING PREMIERE!!! Many…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  Thanks to a continuation of computer problems, I was without a computer for the entire month of January. Thus, when Chris made a call for more blog posts during IAP,…

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  Time to state the obvious: the world knows MIT pretty dang well for its contributions to science. That includes the obvious disciplines falling under the term: every branch of engineering…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011