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  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  I got on a bus this morning to go home for Thanksgiving, fully prepared to entrust my productivity to a flaky Wi-Fi connection. Once I got ... want to remember every moment. So I find myself reviewing my to-do list

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  've gotten used to a lot of things about the Institute. And sometimes, when I have a lot of work to do (as has been the case for, quite honestly, the ... eyes, and allow my feet to trace a well-worn path that gets me from where

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bibliophiles assemble! When life gives you books...

  

  going to make me happy. Every semester or so, the MIT Press (located to ... where several rooms are lined wall to wall with moderately new books at prices reduced up to 90% off. How could they afford to sell them for such

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  bad consequences for the entire Internet as we have come to know and ... intended, according to its authors, to curb copyright infringement. It is the ... many other in disrupting our service to protest SOPA and PIPA. Here

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  Once upon a time, when you wanted to know something, you had to find out about it by going to a place, probably not the place you currently were, called a "library." Just imagine. You had to actually

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Events

  This…Is…BLODGEBALL! Everything and anything you ever wanted to know about us.

  

  everything you've been dying to ask our head honcho to elizabizzle at mit dot edu. Not going to lie, folks. Being an admissions blogger is the bomb-dot-com - I get to make silly videos, draw doodles, write my opinions and then

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Put a Ring On It 2013 RING PREMIERE!

  

  with which every MIT student hopes to graduate (aside from a diploma, of course). Its been known to help MIT students snag internships, land jobs ... ; thanks to Jeanne '13, I have some pictures to show all of you :) As we

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

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  man fresh out of college would drive 90 miles each way to his new job as ... Wilson rest stop around exit 7 to buy soft ice cream cones from Carvel (yum ... secretly longed for the day when he would not have to spend 3.5 hours of his

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ..and Here We Go Again! [by Ken Haggerty '11] ARTalk is back!

  

  tiring place. There are lots of P-sets and lots of work to do. Which is why it's even more satisfying and exciting to see ARTalk get back up and ... -related that goes on at MIT, from building large-format cameras to LARPing (for

  • by ARTalk
  • February 5, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  A “World Record Attempt” We can do it!

  

  It's Thursday. On Monday I'm heading back to campus, along with bazillions of froshies, eager and excited to start the MIT experience. Going ... to campus as a freshman, for almost more reasons than I can count. My

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Season Some advice for the EA deadline. (Relax. Be patient. Don't stress. Don't procrastinate!)

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... the office about the deadline, so let me take a moment to answer some of those questions, and to provide a bit of advice as well. Please be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  (Answers to your questions are coming next entry; keep on sending ... else I know just emailed me to tell me that. EVERYONE I KNOW: That's not ... circus comes to town, and the only way to get the elephants from the train

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Internet is Gonna Get Me In lieu of studying, I finally get around to answering your questions.

  

  Last week I had my first exam, shortly to be followed by two others, and I'm happy to say that I suffer from this painful disease that seems ... deadly since there are little to no signs when you're first afflicted

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 29, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square

  

  : Economics) and I met there on Friday night to hear Jewel perform a free ... , because some commuters had trains to catch, but most of us. 2. On ... found this bookstore before I left MIT. In addition to a large fiction

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  , but no way to develop it; the other with no background in that idea, but the technical ability to make it happen -- can meet by chance, attract ... unique to open MIT's research to the world. I'm sure most of you have

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Food That Makes You Feel Like Home Are there foods that make you think of special places?

  Thanks to all of the students, parents, and EC's who made my admissions travels to the Midwest so much fun. I had really terrific meetings ... gave me. Because I grew up around Chicago and went to college and worked

  • by mitblogs
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  "abogado," or "lawyer." This is because the Spaniards who came to the New ... the Spanish word that sounded closest to it. Hey, according to Matt ... her logic was that she would have time to hide it from me, figuring I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wow, work! Mid-IAP update.

  

  from French homework to sit down and write to you, but I think it's time ... . Weekends have been staying relatively free, which is great. I went to Boston Latin (an area high school) the other night to see the Boston-area early

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waiting (is the hardest part)

  

  envelope (4.125" x 9.5"). As for the admit letter, it is unlikely to be ... 's early acceptance rate so low compared to other selective colleges?" Well, there are two factors at work here. First, we are committed to admitting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  Times has seen fit to devote more inches to the topic of gifted education ... Talented Youth (CTY). I'm glad to see one of my favorite teachers from my ... cybernetics and himself a prodigy who went to Tufts at 11 and Harvard at 15

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005