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• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  . -- There are murals on the walls! You can paint on your own walls and ... cool things they're doing on display and exaggerate them - there can be a ... much going on and you can't be a part of all of it. + People tend to not

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  in more than a month, and the time had come to catch up on MIT ... . Not everyone can get into this school, and besides, it's not the first ... copious contact with fine conversationalists on the outside, and generally

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  changed the length of psets to be shorter and be more manageable. He was ... shows just how funny and cool and kind and considerate they really can be ... people who failed and really struggled with the normal version of E

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Lilly Chin The Spiciest Memelord

  

  notifications, blew up on the front page of Reddit, and even had an Ask Me ... tacos and a reliably lively crowd at 2 A.M. on the weekends. It’s a place ... here.” And to many of them, Lilly Chin will forever be the Spiciest

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 27, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  problems in the first chapter, and i thought to myself "i can't solve that." and then i started taking the class. and i had to solve that problem ... needed to learn it. and i had satisfied the prerequisites, and i had spent

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  hours in the day (boxes), and there are so many activities I can be doing ... , and have dropped a few classes early on which didn’t seem worth the ... . Furthermore, I have plenty of reasons to write now. On the one hand, being a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Will the pie be bitter or sweet? Hint: it's a trick question.

  

  , Yan's vocabulous wit, and Anna's inspirational eloquence, I can offer ... , inappropriately timed humor, and meme pictures. There will ultimately be a binary outcome to the decision you receive from MIT, and the odds are heavily

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about pandemics and plagues in history 21H.000: History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics

  

  across the country (and the world) will speak on various aspects of the ... impact on human and non-human history. The course will have a roundtable ... with the schedule of speakers and topics. You can sign up for the course

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 11, 2020
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Are the Arts active on campus?

  . Arts on the MIT campus are rooted in experimentation, risk taking, and ... the arts, and more than half of all MIT undergrads enroll in arts ... theater arts classes and performance groups. Students can participate in
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  people around me and the world in general” and “what should I be taking ... and dying? I can hear my mom in the back of my head saying yes, of ... Thanks to Petey and Kathleen for giving me the idea to blog about

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  , campus is not beautiful. The hallways inside these buildings can be even ... , turned out to be a [annotation note="imagine sight reading it on the piano ... Let’s face it, MIT’s campus is not known for being the most gorgeous

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  introduced to the MIT flame war and have learned that they can be quite ... skinny on the MIT Flame War: All in good fun and not actually as angsty as ... this the first (or second?) entry that's ever had to be removed from the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  quickly. We met and the next thing I know I'm handing in a sheet of paper ...  about what it is like to not be well at the end of a semester, and it is not fun ... academic future last semester. I was focused on the present and what I wanted

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  , I'll be honest. I went to high school in the south, and you know ... fraternities and greek life, but just a lot of the opportunities you'll be ... House, and I was on my way to Baker. (pause for information) Just a few

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  awareness and send prayers for peace in Burma. The event was held on October 3 ... hall, and there was a line at the door. I hope you get the idea. He ... coordinates and a date. The coordinates, it turns out, pointed to a park here in

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  teacher, and one from a guidance counselor. Find the teachers who will be ... their letters must be on school letterhead and signed by them to be ... and international students.   It’s mid-October in Cambridge

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

  Early Action A summary of this year's early action admissions process.

  

  , and I know that those students will be very competitive during the ... during regular action who were deferred from early action (and the year ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…

  

  on a river, falling leaves, the mass of flowers in spring. gravity is a pen with which mass writes on the pages of spacetime. science ... -midnight residential Cambridge and instead found a page of half-finished notes wrung from

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  trees and leaves on the ground. Sunsets linger past dinnertime, and I can ... friends and said I'd be living in the Bay, but in my infinite naivete I ... outside. On my laptop. And it's not miserable and cold. Sometimes, in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  day: Go forth and feel the warmth on you skin! I will be jealous as my ... episodes – on the one and only Taylor Swift). Go explore your city! If you ... elusive skill of patience – waiting for the bus, waiting on a friend at a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019