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• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  took off, Boston dropped beneath me, a sea of darkness cut through by ... awesome Nigerian food—how I missed that!—and looking forward to a wedding ... circular dancing to a synchronized warble my cousins shimmied to, the heavy

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as ... Class of 2012 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two ... you plan to do. We will grant a deferral for almost any reason. Come up

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  Each piece in the collection is framed and signed by a leading ... distributed on a first-come, first-served basis to any student who lost out in ... doors for a second chance to participate in this extraordinarily popular

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  I’ve been thinking a lot about how I would want to structure this ... make from this post to relief in Ukraine. If you'd like to join me, the ... post for a month now, so I didn't want to rewrite, but it felt weird to

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  Island, followed quickly behind by Virginia and Pennsylvania. For a ... students to meet their interviewer face-to-face and to set up a time for ... colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  and slander your peers) in hopes of securing a bid (an invitation to ... Ξp is what it sounds like: a week dedicated to working on the house.  t ... like to propose a distinction between wholesome grungy communal living

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  What I Have Learned From The Early Decision Process At MIT Here are some of the things that impressed me.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   As you can see by the photos, this was a grueling ... makes you a geek in HS, it'll make you a superstar at MIT.  

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  were: Introduction to Art History, Rhetoric (a different version from the ... at length about each class, although I do want to write about a few ... , speeches to give, and presentations to make. In Japanese classes, there are

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie I love freebies!

  

  form. Although I'm excited to have new classes and a fresh start, a new ... so I'm going to try to put a lot of effort into it. Toy Design = This ... running. We're meeting with a manufacturer in a couple of weeks to discuss

  • by Snively '11
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  such thought, I am instead going to erect a shrine to it by documenting ... after their scheduled start time,[/annotation] so I have a minute to make ... ! part 1: getting to class 8:50 AM: My first alarm—a primer alarm, just to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  printers to make a sorting station for wires, the power tools to… feel cool ... collecting every block in the game and getting killed by every possible mob, to ... getting struck by lightning (I hope), putting my goals for the year into a

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  email from the president, three days ago: i decided to go. i picked up a brown paper bag with a grilled chicken sandwich, and sat down ... engineering and in sloan business school, and a visiting student from germany

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  [/annotation] major at Tufts and invites me to a life drawing session the other day in a ... for a circle of artists to sketch. Life drawing is essential to a ... planes and contours. It's fun to choose which ones to emphasize with such a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  If I Try Really Hard, I Can Resemble Ernest Borgnine First stop on the tour: London.

  

  city of London put it up for sale to make way for a new bridge. Oil and ... ,460,000, and the London Bridge was dismantled block by block and moved to remote Lake Havasu City, Arizona, where it was reconstructed atop a man

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  referring to someone by name wasn't hard. in the quads, after a period of ... one. it's nice to have slack in your schedule. and by slack, i don ... referring to free space in a schedule, like a buffer period. but there's a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  my transition from pueblerina to big city girl. A year and a half has ... there were a couple of things that I needed to ensure my happiness, sense ... instance, a tortilla can either make or break a meal: corn tortillas bring

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Miscellany In which I talk about my life and Fancy sportsball DNA folk songs

  

  Thanksgiving, making it impossible to attend all of them), I'll go into a couple ... feel like: So I just made a vlog to get back in the rhythm of filming ... would be coming to campus to give a lecture: Yo, Lil B is coming to MIT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  extensive to fix in time. It didn't matter though. 2.007 was a trial by fire in the art of making. We were on our own, and had just a few months to ... had one desire: to make something that looked cool enough so that I didn

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Premiere I bring you the 2010 Ring Premiere, in full living color!

  

  The Brass Rat is a long-standing MIT tradition that has given rise to ... controversy. I would've loved to see a woman on the seal. It seems illogical ... right after the class of 2007's Brass Rat had decided to try using a woman

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  year. So, while I'd really like to write a really long and complicated ... has a student holiday on Monday that the professors always seem to ... test yesterday and I had to learn like ein bazillion words for that, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005