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  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  with several inches of water. The first and second floors suffered most ... dormitory on campus—the Class of 1893 Dormitory—which had opened ... ," the Faculty Houses. The dorm's name of '93 would last for

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... '07 spoke at the Class of 2010 choice of major fair on Monday. I wanted to go myself to reveal the wonders of Chemical Engineering to excited

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  and the sides of the heart. Happily this worked on the first try! Now ... dragon[/caption] On the first or second day of class, the prof showed a ... when you make the end of a bar thin and pointy. rivets are like double

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  name of the machine shop on the first floor of the Media Lab, a place ... meetings after that first one. He had worked with Loren S. ‘17 in the past ... story of the “trailer” we would have. We based it on the existing Riri

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  /engineering school and has the reputation of being incredibly difficult. This isn't the first time one of the bloggers has written about being pre-med at MIT, but ... 'm about to dive head-first into the craziness that is medical school

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my ... spill from my fingertips: dropping a class for the first time, changing my ... more multitudes. The truth is, however, that most of this semester has

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  claps of thunder. I looked up at the sky and it was greyer than usual and ... to help”. I called Milton, the head of the volunteer department and he ... at the lobby, directing the traffic flow and helped bring families of

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  One of MIT's oldest student groups is the Assassins Guild. We're the ... for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a desert storm. And one of the Guild's oldest traditions is the ten-day game

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  students with a full year of credits (96 units) at the end of first-year fall ... they will impact the academic experience of every first-year student who ... meant to represent the opinion of the Committee on the Undergraduate

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  the concept of students completing elaborate “paint by number ... , I can not argue with the logic of trying to discover the formula for ... formulas.  When you combine the idea of creating an image based upon numbers

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  I read every single part of your application. We synthesize the ... world. Many of us read at home 5-6 days of the week throughout November ... .  Actual footage of the inside of my brain during reading season Then, we

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  year, I saw the graduation ceremony as more of a check-point than a ... is class of '08) couldn't come see me graduate in person. I did the ... using a strip of cloth and a couple of alligator clips. I used the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  ’re friends with for the first few days of school before you meet an actually ... out of the dryer six days ago anyone else permanently going through a ... does anyone else remember when the internet looked like this? sorry

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  , which is 1, the first floor. A floor number of 0 is the basement. The ... has the dorms, the student center, and most of the athletics buildings ... campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  playing in the background was also a part of the puzzle. At first, I tried ... -themed escape room in the Next House basement. In my opinion, it’s one of the ... of doing a Next Haunt run in the past, the shrieks from the basement

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  , has sung onstage with one of MIT’s student acapella groups called the ... was everything you’d expect the President of MIT’s office to be – dark wood panels lined the walls, a grand desk stood proudly in front of a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  clever title for my daily activities and was reminded of the musical ... the old city with musicians, artists, and sellers of trinkets galore. It’s a nice change of pace from the school year, which is practically non

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  , localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric ... speakers of MITglish enunciate consonants at the end of words with ... conversation. A perceptive friend of mine from Tufts University made the mistake

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  was the first technical communications class I took at MIT, and it has ... amazing strategy I’ve had the pleasure of discovering via 20.109 this ... procrastination, but work of the utmost and immediate importance. It may seem

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  fever. He was the first Class of 1892 graduate to pass away, and ... Engineering Society (with N.T. Paraschos) For the first half of his MIT career ... efforts, the number of international students doubled in just ten years. 1

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017