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  Engagement Party Salsa dancing with Benjamin Franklin and Optimus Prime

  

  MIT, and at first I was going to spend the weekend in NYC, but then I ... front of our shirts displayed our real names, but the nametags Shannon '05 stuck onto our backs displayed the name of someone else's historical

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  manager, Gary, of the first company he worked for, as someone who frequently ... difference. I talked to a couple of the Gordon Engineering Leadership (GEL ... past three-and-a-half years of drinking from the MIT firehose. During my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  what I need. It’s the first time in the last two years that I’ve stopped ... words of one of my friends, ‘reshuffle my cards’. I feel spoilt- the ... one of the leafier subsets of the city. From the balcony of my room on

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  The very first blog post I published on the blogs was a play on the ... did not know much at the time. I was absolutely terrified of what the ... ’t know if I was going to make it. Today, I’m at the other end of the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  of the instructors. The first two lectures or so were focused on using ... , clone, et cetera was confusing at first, but by the end of the first week ... the language. After attending the first day of lecture, however, I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  all the choices you have to make when starting your first year of ... salad), the Next Big Mailing represents a lot of decisions you'll have to make for the future, and a lot of those decisions involve advising. When

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball An action packed 2 weekends: Cake, a wing dinner, and Senior Ball!

  

  first things I noticed in the hotel was that there is a view of the MIT ... yelled out songs that they wanted to hear. Some of the songs that they ... restaurant called Al Dente, which is the first Italian restaurant I have ever

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  , as of January 15, 2010, happens to be my major. Generally, MIT students declare their major at the end of their first year; however, each ... strange to declare my major. When I walked out of the Course 9 Undergrad

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  minds, right? OK. Yesterday was the first day of IAP. What am I doing ... almost forgot that I had pictures from the last few days of the semester to ... Thursday for all of IAP in a classroom. As long as I pass all of the tests

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biology-inspired design from MIT alums What happens when you bring together nature and technology? I think you'll like the result.

  

  on the leading edge of a growing fashion trend. More and more ... using math and biology to produce the designs of their earrings, bracelets ... program designed to replicate a natural phenomenon, such as the branching of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  40 Hours Left! The time is 0500 EST, 12/15. I am studying for finals. You are waiting for…

  

  -205. Taken from Hood, Clifton. 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How ... sexual flirtation where the motion of a crowded rush hour express threw two ... fall in love?! :P ps. Just in case you were confused, some of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  think "out of the box"? If ever you get a chance, you should ... the murals, graffiti, and what some would call "vandalism" of ... a neon Guernica. The cornucopia of artistic overflow splatters onto

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  ’m in Cambridge, reeling with a move cross-country and the start of the ... of beds dropped on the side of the road, cheap furniture selling fast ... week ago, and I’m more settled in now. I’m still getting the feel of my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  it. I guess now is as good a time as any to ponder the intricacies of ... bottom of the social food chain. You get what I'm saying, right? Well ... experience, because you're all going through the motions of calculus psets

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  the maze, they’d stick with the first route they’d found, never looking ... usual method for choosing classes is to sign up for 12 of them, the maximum, and then treat the first two weeks as ‘reading period.’ This works

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  very little awake time during the week and there isn't a whole lot to ... involved screenwriters on crack who have no judge of what movies the public ... they can be turned down so the speakers overload. Examples of this

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate

  

  this is the first that doesn’t seem like work. That’s not to say that I ... of people. The idea of someone yelling at me for taking their picture is admittedly a little terrifying. But a rule of the class is no asking

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  MIT. It was my very first time on campus, so I was struck by the sheer ... of the history behind MIT was surprisingly interesting, mostly because famous hacks were mentioned. Hacks are the absolute best part of the

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  'll start reviewing applications sometime near the first weekend of November ... where, with all of the admissions officers finally together after a long ... . Track the status of your application at my.mit.edu. Students like to call

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  Man, but also the producer of this year's Next Haunt! There is a lot ... arranging the build and actually running the thing. Because of that, I wanted to talk about some of the processes that went into making sure

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024