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  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  time to return to MIT, and I was pretty excited. I had already formed the ... to Random, and wished me the best of luck at MIT. The world needs more ... the student center. I felt it sink over me, the awe of MIT, the awe of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  . First is the famous quote widely attribute to former MIT President Jerome Wiesner: “Getting an education from MIT is like taking a drink from a ... Around MIT, where it is instead attributed to Anonymous: This was the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
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  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  around MIT, but nevertheless I stand by [annotation note="cj: it seems that jacky is claiming that MIT food is bad therefore people in MIT are sad and ... , Taiwanese.[/annotation] When I arrived at MIT in August for international

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Did you know that President Sally Kornbluth, MIT’s 18th 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

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  ." HIM: "Do you go to Harvard?" ME: "No!" HIM: "MIT?" ME: "Yes..." HIM: "Funny how Harvard and MIT kids always tell people that 'they go to school ... reason, I do feel like sometimes saying "oh, yeah, I go to MIT" sounds

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  few weeks back. This got me thinking of MIT people who just kind of ... there is someone at MIT who falls into that mold, it's probably Charles ... MITERS, the main student hackerspace at MIT. Specifically, he's best known

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  all the references... including a couple cheesy direct nods to MIT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  computer, opening up the MyMIT page that I hadn't visited in a few months. I ... my mom I got into MIT. She said congratulations. I went to bed. It ... last at MIT. Gosh kids can be mean. Unfriended them on facebook, got a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  applications, including your MIT applications. Over the summer, when I was ... 's still one of the featured discussions on the MIT board. I wrote this both ... both useful advice and some insight into the values of MIT's academic

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  love. I came to MIT for the people here. I've had wonderful experiences ... Random Hall. Each dorm at MIT has a personality, and I think ours is at ... this part: I hope you choose MIT, obviously. This place is amazing. If

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  , DDR players... Yes, students at MIT are excited about science and ... read an old MIT brochure from the 1980s I discovered at a school I ... , this is a paraphrase):   "MIT is not a good place to be if you don

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  fun of the architecture a lot here, but sometimes, MIT really does look ... two photos are from Valentine's Day 2013, during my first time on MIT’s ... decade since MIT entered my life. It’s been a while since I’ve blogged

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Program (CUP). Two weeks ago, MIT faculty passed a motion to change ... [annotation note="unlike other universities, most of mit's classes are 12 units ... to 7–10). on average, mit students take 54 units each semester."]60

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
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  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  Longfellow Bridge, which connects MIT to Boston from the Stata Center side of campus. Here is the view from the Longfellow Bridge from the MIT side. MIT ... again, now facing Cambridge. MIT is just to the left of the frame.   And

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
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  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... somehow surviving the treacherous Boston weather. Being an MIT student, he ... across to his finders in some way. Maybe MIT students just like to have fun

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
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  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  Points full of of photos that look like they were used in MIT admissions ... and were very well composed. Fancy stuff, MIT. Because this was an MIT Admissions box o’ mystery, it makes sense that there were

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  Almost every time I return home from MIT, I find myself mentally translating certain MIT concepts or words or course numbers when I'm talking to ... much to people who've never been exposed to MIT. To MIT students, those

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  Context and Anna's Being "Qualified" For MIT, as well as conversations (good ... question: What does MIT value more: diversity, or merit? In its uglier ... are assuming this: that MIT, for some students, values something called

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  to a thousand-person MIT revival in an Atlanta auditorium. Whenever I ... , which is this: How do I get in to MIT? And here is what I tell them ... is generally because they want to come to MIT, and they want me to tell

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
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  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  reflecting on these things during my last few weeks at MIT, but I wasn ... do grown up things in the grown up world. What did I learn at MIT? (We ... years ago I asked my MIT interviewer what his favorite part about the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013