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  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  Today's an MIT student holiday! Years ago the faculty decided that students don't have enough holidays, so they added some to the academic ... years, we get two student holidays in the fall, in accordance to Rules and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  i visit Cape Cod and discover the most beautiful beach on Earth

  

  to spend the day at the beach. it was a goddamn ride start to finish ... suggested that we spice up our orders by asking for four of what the person in the car in front of us ordered. while passing the menu, we noticed a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 24, 2020
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  Today has been a hectic day, to say the least. It's only around 9pm ... 's Fall Career Fair, but also the day of the Global Climate Strike. All around the world, students, parents, every day workers, and more gathered

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  *to set the mood* [playlist ids="44803"] The floor of my room is a bit of a scattered mess at this point. Some of the boxes are full, but hell if I know what’s actually in any of them. While I finish packing the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  [annotation note="Except for when I sleep too little the night before, because I'll crash hard in the afternoon."][/annotation]. Last year, I wouldn't ever have thought waking up before 7 AM could be nice. The morning used to be

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  Together in Service MIT community working collaboratively

  

  and celebrations usually last for the entire day and are structured around a central theme, like flight, or pictures, and once even The Sound of Music. (I know, that one is a little out there.) But the point of

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 20, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Love Affair: 11.027 & New Orleans [by Janet Li '12] Spring break in NOLA.

  

  [by Janet Li '12] A house decked out in Mardi Gras swag in the French Quarter. How did you spend your spring break? Eight students in the ... one of the smaller majors at MIT, and it is an absolutely awesome field

  • by ARTalk
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  -screencaps If you think you’ve just stumbled into the wrong part of the blogosphere, rest assured you’re in the right place. It is Elizabeth here. There ... ;dagger Juliet, the 1999 movie adaptation of the Shakespearean classic (or, as most

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  MIT these days is pretty up on the latest social media, as is ... 'm friends with "MIT Engineers" on facebook, from whom I get the latest Tech ... the MIT shuttles (cue the: when I was your age, we stood outside in the

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  The expectations for second semester seniors are high. By then, you ... departments, this task is called the “Senior Thesis.” The requirements for the ... pages or longer than fifty. The research can be performed in your Junior

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aquatarkus Why I turned in a half-finished 10.37 problem set.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The landscape of the Charles River around MIT is almost ... , and decided on this one for brevity's sake. Still, you must know, the ... its famous water pollution, making the Charles "Swimmable by 2005

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  they feel the need to work on impactful research, and after a while they said something along the lines of:  look at the sandwich you’re eating. you didn’t grow the lettuce or the wheat or the tomatoes, or crush the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  there's this psychological concept, gestalt, the name of which comes from the german word for "shape" or "form". the famous example is kanizsa ... . but in a group of three, it gives the impression of a triangle overlaid

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  We spent our IAPs in two different states, for the second time. We both did one-month long externships through the MIT externship program that the MIT Alumni association coordinates. It is a super cool

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  When I think of suburban Ohio, my family’s current home, I recall the time I danced down the street under the Big Dipper constellation. A dozen fireflies lit up the trees. There was no one around—a terrifying scenario in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Think Pink 2011 [By Cory Hernandez, '14] G@MIT, the SAO, and Residential Life present a guide to living…

  

  doing the Housing Lottery—reading and watching i3s, visiting dorm websites ... orientation? Barely any groups volunteered the information; but one did, and I ... plan on staying for the foreseeable future. Though it was fairly easy

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  Just the other day, I joined a handful of parents at my 15-yr ... program for his junior year that would allow him to merge the arts with his ... yawning and fidgeting in small hard plastic chairs under the harsh

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  the States, and I've been happily living at Berkeley, CA, for the last 2 ... Cantonese as soon as possible, since this is probably the most useful Asian language to know in the States, due to the amount of Cantonese immigrants

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  a quad in Baker House. Four women, one big room, and all the fun and ... nice to find another place to study. My favorite option was the room of an upperclassmen down the hall who liked to study in one of the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  Currently, I'm in the middle of a week-long Admissions trip to Utah ... and precedes a forthcoming trip to Kansas and Nebraska. The trip began in Salt Lake City. I decided I'd take in the sights before my meetings

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006