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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  -sympathetic acknowledgment: "Yeah... I just finished my fourth pset of the week and have to ... notes into two glorious review sheets and organized all the rest of my ... , claims to have the largest selection of cold drinks on the East Coast. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  the rest of this snowy night. (First snowfall of the year yesterday and ... the end of the semester and fifteen more the following semester! A lot ... individuals and history behind some of the most groundbreaking mathematical and

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  ’d just hung. Most of us were in the black-and-red we’d wear onstage, and ... empowerment, irreverence, joy. I threw around a lot of ideas, and the producer ... the first draft of the monologue. Over time the wordcraft changed, a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  writer the first week of freshman fall and never left. (I think they even ... looking towards the future and making moves while not bumping into furniture ... 2016 as part of the Class of 2020, which means most of my friends are

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Kendra

  

  of the chemistry department and Jamie Lewis Keith of the Environmental Programs Office, received an EPA grant of $30,000. Read the whole article ... representing 65 teams from more than 50 schools participated in the first "P3

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 11, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  we want you to know. One of the first posts I've read on the blogs, and ... . Sure, there are a lot of books and websites covering the different ... and share some of the old bookmarks I was digging through today. It's a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  was the alumni page, which boasts an impressive list of schools where ... comes to curiosity and the receptiveness of kids to new ideas and the ... to stumble along the pages of a dictionary or encyclopedia, you derive

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  and soaking in the Boston sun on one of those early spring days where ... me all the possible ways my life was capable of stretching and splitting and changing. Looking back, however, it was one of the most

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  and have most of the day (except class hours) to have fun in Tokyo! It ... ." Pfft. Come to Japan and they'll show you what the lack of personal space ... -train-comes," and of course, the esoteric art of "standing-and-keeping-your-balance

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Wahoo! MIT takes over Doonesbury! Alex Doonesbury is coming to a campus near you.

  

  32 percent of the votes, and 19 percent of the votes went to Cornell ... they overwhelmed and crashed the Doonesbury website. So, the IP was ... For those of you who are closely following the Doonesbury comic strip

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  instructional video will be released on our website and will teach you the dance ... ://tiny.cc/monstermashup 2. Don’t come wearing the sheet. At the first sound of an airhorn, put ... because I was one of the only ones there taking video and not still photos

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  of cute, in an eager beaver sort of way.) The NIH website encouraged ... a list of a few students who had emailed, and my name was on the list ... my internship at the National Institutes of Health the summer after

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  puzzle, you’ll encounter Marty McFly and the dashboard of a certain time ... I took part in HackMIT last year, and it was a great deal of fun! I ... mentors, and tinker around with lots of new shiny gadgets, technologies, and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  letterpress. This was the first time I'd tried anything of this sort, and I ... since I started college and tried my best to make the most of my time off and ... workshop sponsored by MISTI Japan and learned the intricacies of flowers and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  in the context of your overall application and use your best judgment ... basically is looking for? And how can I actually get to catch the eye of the ... growing in the last couple of years, and your rec writers should be able to

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  . Magdalena Bay was actually one of the first things Chris and I talked about. I ... me of East Campus, and when she turned on the red lights I noticed the ... . “Guess,” she said. She’s the kind of person who exudes bright optimism and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  Artist on the other two Star Wars prequels, and Revenge of the Sith was his ... honor of Douglas Adams reads, "So long and thanks for all the wit," hung beside a massively useful towel. And on the subject of nerd movies and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  with dozens of people, of trying things for the first time and exploring ... for the past few months, Nashua conjures images of flatness and ... trees flow endlessly past the window, of loneliness and stagnancy and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Deadline check your MyMIT account now

  

  MIT tracking page is for!), as it will slow down the processing of documents ... showing up on your MyMIT tracking page, there was likely some kind of issue ... ; sending duplicate copies will only slow the processing of your documents

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  first week of classes, I had 2 labs, 2 psets, and about 75-100 pages of ... the topic of knowledge, and from there, school. Classes have started, as ... are generally at the top of my priority list. And also, I figured that

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007