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  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  burning gas 93 million miles away, I am now burned to a bright red crisp. On ... it's physically impossible for anyone but me to get a sunburn. And yet ... which you, the prospective, get to experience MIT life minus the hard work

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  DesignPlus also gets you tap access to the MAD fabrication shop overall (on ... to 20 people, and they each worked on different projects. I was in the ... Plus space. Bill trained me on the CNC embroidery machine, and I used it to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Not Admitted Students I just wanted to tell you a story. It has a moral, but you don't…

  

  problem, and find a new way in getting to where you want to be. It is true ... believe in "this too shall pass," but I hope you will be able to find your ... learning from his past mistakes, he was able to get up nearly halfway, when

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Places to Sit at MIT and study

  

  . Whenever I get stuck on my work, I like to find a new place to study. The ... I came to MIT with an ambitious goal: to sit everywhere on campus. Oh yeah, and to get an MIT degree. After four years, I've completed neither

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  instructors trying to improve the course—they get data on the performance of ... a new venture to encourage students to learn about new machines ... Engineering) updated us on the Institute-wide efforts to reshape the first

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  Paris or Nicky). Headed to Loomis Chaffee for a school visit. Didn't get ... New Rochelle where the Westchester County central meeting was to be held ... probably related to the fact that we need to be "on" all day/night during

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  To set the mood: Feeling Blue   "When I'm in New York I listen ... embarked on a site visit to a small village next to Ramallah, Palestine, with ... getting myself into. The syllabus sounded interesting, and I wanted to do

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  you're planning to come to MIT you should read up on the cheer before you get here, since it's sure to be legendary by the time you get here ... devised a new cheer that we want to do with the crowd and cheerleaders. We

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  that it is collaborative and that they constantly get to explore new ... us on this blog. Marilee, Stu, I, and the other guests hope to each write once a month or so to tell you what we’re thinking about, working on

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  This is the first in a series of a couple of posts I wanted to do on ... Burton Conner - rip Senior House) to paint murals on the dormitory walls ... to focus on the door murals in particular for this post. When you

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Holding out for a piece of Pi because there wasn't enough to go around the first time

  

  . Those accepting a spot on the Waiting List, need to choose another ... admission, simply need to move on, acknowledging that enrolling at MIT is not ... your opportunities, you may discover that everything you need to reach

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  , and manage to look awesome every day when they show up (on time!) for ... Development. I've now seen more snow than I ever cared to see in my life; by that token, you can tell that I'm certainly not new here anymore. (In

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  . I can't wait to get back up north and start skiing with my family at ... Vermont and New Hampshire. In Vermont, for instance, I lived in the ... that number isn't actually that high by comparison to the coastal cities

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  kitchen table on a daily basis is really starting to sink in. It's not that ... eagerness to get the hell out of the desert, I lost sight of the foundation ... , getting my favorite takeout food. Driving to the airport this morning (a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  calls it the Brass Rat). Basically, every class gets to choose a committee ... are meant to commemorate attributes from only the class. If you google ... apparently the class of 1999 was the first to have the Hacker's Map on the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  to click on that link.) I taught two classes: Intro to HTML, which I ... encourages students to form teams and work on developing technologies which ... , officially. To quote their website: "Throughout the year students may also come

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  go on your transcript or not. My point is, you meet a lot of cool new ... As I sit back and reflect on my four years at MIT, I would like to ... numerals -- On some forms and posters, people refer to their course (major

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  with my Legos; when it comes to you, you should explore all of your new ... better in jello"? Now's your chance to prove yourself on the field of ... want to tell your new friends about your perfect SAT scores or All

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Are Beginning To Arrive Some thoughts for everyone.

  

  very, very proud of your accomplishment. To those of you who didn't get in, please continue to hold your heads up high. We didn't have room for ... A few of you are starting to receive your decisions. To those of you

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Helicopter Flight Training [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] 500 feet above Boston with two MIT Deans.

  

  another experience to fly with them open (as I did on my first flight). As a ... 's fantastically loud - the kind of stuff that gets your adrenaline pumping. It's not hard to get caught up in this experience and miss the whole takeoff. I

  • by ROTC
  • October 3, 2007