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  Stuff that happened on Pi Day (besides decisions) pastries and pie-ings from around the institute

  

  a few days later with some of the other stuff that happened on Monday ... Museum took advantage of the day to announce their new home at...314 Main Street in Cambridge (right across the way from the new Welcome Center), a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 16, 2022
• Blog / Events

  150. We're in the news!

  

  anniversary, and all sorts of cool installations appeared on campus. Jenny ... my own to the collection: Thousands of people showed up on campus for MIT-150's Open House and FAST (Festival of Art, Science, and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  Class started today and before we know it, a lot of us on campus will ... really, you can't afford to (with the default fear of not graduating on time, etc.) The fast-paced nature of MIT makes "big changes" an

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  I want to tell you about a friend of mine who is on television this winter. TBS’s new reality show King of the Nerds features two people from ... interviewed Brandon about his experience on King of the Nerds. How did you get

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  deciding on a course of action, which is very useful for student government ... person who takes on these sort of soft skills, while I do more of the ... production of the musical tick... tick... boom! here on campus. It's a role

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  fog, of New York City lights. Now that future that I've dreamed of is ... ."]compromising.[/annotation] When I think of the future now, I see cushy New York apartments in the ... attending a Netflix premiere red carpet in the heart of LA. Or sitting on a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  to so many new perspectives and ways of life that I just never even ... 'm thinking of you and the family. I'm thankful for all the new people I've met ... tiles and has, for a lot of us, associations with parties, holidays, good

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  Needle is one of five, and together they play music based on how the people ... . Meanwhile, by the waters of Lake Union, there's a park built on the skeleton ... practicing the traditional, hard-hitting, fast-paced Seattle art of hardcourt

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  EA, RA, and Transfer Updates Including the status of MyMIT tracking and the latest for those impacted by Sandy.

  

  website?  mitadmissions.org is now "responsive," meaning it should look equally good on a desktop, laptop, tablet, iPad, Kindle, mobile ... looks! MyMIT Tracking for EA: We are still processing thousands of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  more like 20, on my list, so that I always have back-ups whenever one of ... = nonfiction) Summer 2015     New Reads: The Emperor of All ... Again by David Foster Wallace (nf) (ran out of time on the library loan

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  good way to meet new people. By virtue of being HASS, they tend to ... recall we journeyed to New York City at the end of July and survived a ... living at pika happens on the roof instead of under it. Pika's homemade

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  is stored, accessed, and shared across a network of servers on the ... people around New England were set up that allowed hundreds of people to ... millions of users. That's how people can start their own websites without

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  ; New York: On our way back from DC, we stopped by in NYC to hang out with ... Pinos (@erickpinos) on Jan 13, 2017 at 10:22pm PST In DC and New York ... snowball fight starts) It's been a good IAP, full of spectacular sights

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn in New England The trees explode with color.

  

  I've been lucky enough to be able to enjoy autumn in New England recently. For those of you in regions that do not have four seasons: autumn is a wonderful time of year; the air is crisp, the foliage is exploding

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking Shape

  

  the feeling of being stimulated, with new insights and questions brewing ... one of our papers, with feedback on the draft from the teaching staff ... lecturer (coincidentally one of the new East Campus housemasters) as well

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  Wednesday. On the Tuesday before classes started, for one of the many ... way which saps away any hint of other emotion, positive or negative ... from being able to really enjoy the semester in a variety of ways: I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  courses would allow me to explore new ways of bringing visibility to this ... ripening. The sky is full-bellied with sunshine. Still, we're on the verge of ... ’s biggest challenges to being a good friend. Describe one way in which you

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  James Grimmelmann of New York Law School. Grimmelmann is flat-out one of ... ever written on the subject of Facebook privacy. So you can imagine my ... competition on a grand scale. Teams of up to 200 people attempt to be first to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  ’m laughing, I’m relishing a new, intoxicating sense of freedom that I’ve never ... new MIT frosh go to a bunch of events and check out all the different ... idea of being vulnerable in any way —physically, emotionally, etc.— makes

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  amounts of data on a process we want to model, under certain assumptions ... randomness You also improve on some meta-skills and get more of things like ... explore every angle and get a deep understanding of the way the components

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024