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  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  were as a member of my living community, the Burton Third Bombers. I had ... "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were ... community's first event on a whim, I wouldn't have joined the floor and met

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  . Suddenly I was on the other side of the line, separated from my family by a ... then, I’d only seen America through the lens of blockbuster Hollywood ... afloat in the comforting bubble of MIT, so it didn’t really matter. I had

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  ... Whatever’s in the top ten of the U.S. News & World Report rankings ... the number of people who have died from laughing too hard I decided to ... with the black licorice at the bottom of the bag.   mostly 2’s

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  the last 26 days in my hometown – Columbia, MO. Located in the heart of ... entirely out of the desire to hardcore om nom nom on these suckers to prove ... The last time I wrote a post as I was flying at some undetermined

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  essay may be the first time they are disclosing this aspect of their ... World Pride in New York City and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the ... transgender students in the college application process. One of the biggest

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  Here are the answers to the questions you've left in the comments of ... know of any other really good vegetarian/vegan restaurants in the area ... , "All of the MIT-run food places on campus have vegetarian (and usually

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events We’re Pumped For! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  Events from clubs/groups that we are part of! Next House Events But first a ... miss out on! Next Big Thing Presents: The aMAZEing Space Are you sick of ... Thing, the aMAZEing Space. 1,920 Square Feet of adventure, wrong turns

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  -MIT people who are still interested in the minutiae of your MIT life. My ... dimensions of personality (the hosts fill out info about themselves, and you ... host realized that I was very scared of being in the city by myself and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Florida, complete I'm back in Boston now, my meetings in Florida being done. It was quite a…

  

  people at 4 meetings across the state of Florida. I met many great students ... conference of the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC ... Ocho, in Miami's Little Havana. The Cuban sampler at Versailles

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  concord market is finally here!!!!! feasting at MIT's on-campus grocery store

  

  Verde's closure, the bustling grocery store on the first floor of the Stud turned ... -campus grocery store.[annotation note="The earliest mention of LaVerde's I could ... . Maybe it's existed since the beginning of time."][/annotation] Sadly, in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 21, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

    January 23, 5:00 pm Today is the first day of MARC 2024 (the ... learn about the cool new ideas that are changing the world. Of course, it ... doing this kind of stuff, but I quickly got the hang of it again and was

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  ="Functional programming, of course"]the best programming paradigm[/annotation], but I could sense something special about them from our first interaction. The ... expressions and all things computational – I heard they could list the first

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  floundering in the amount of work you have to do The word itself comes from the ... . Tests every couple of weeks (I just took my first couple tests this past ... different interesting events happening at all hours of the day that I want to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  formula for the surface area of a sphere (4 pi r squared) was not exact, and ... delicacy of mud to again show off our proud cultural heritage. The Europeans ... compensate for the lack of Oreo cookies at Aldi by substituting smashed-up Twix

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  I don't know about you, but I had a pretty awesome weekend. First of ... wonderful end-of-week meal at the appropriately named TGIFriday's. Friday's is ... 's chill and didn't care anyway, plus she got a free meal out of the deal

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  of the other skills I practiced was self-care. I learned to let myself ... after I ran myself and select members of the engineering department into ... of the time.   It’s funny. I have carpal tunnel, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  on my email and read some articles and flipped through the first chapter of the python natural language processing textbook. then i hung out ... 's reflection on John Perry Barlow's 1996 Declaration of the Independence of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  , the computer science MEng is often seen as an extension of undergrad ... graduate school or working elsewhere. Do I miss the proximity of undergrad ... have the shared context of MIT with somebody, do we still have anything

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  outside the MIT bubble is an important part of being a student here!) One of the best things about going to school at MIT is that you get to live ... of Soft Matter." Even though I'd never be able to take the class

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  much more productive over the past few weeks than i usually am. of course ... and eventual death by overdose. it’s probably one of the saddest things ... and lack of motivation, the cycles of therapy and relapse, the emotional

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022