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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  , and Chris M.!): M.I.T. Taking Student Blogs to Nth Degree By TAMAR LEWIN ... admissions office has been so ready to welcome uncensored student writing. "A ... or trying to set a world record in the game of Mattress Dominos

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  a biology major to read ethnographies in which the author (an American anthropologist) claims to have gotten malaria in Africa because a rival sorcerer ... weather and went out to Chili's for dinner, then shopped a little at The Pru

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breaths Perhaps wisdom, perhaps not. See for yourself.

  

  , but I got hit by a jolt of admissions reality just now. 1. The deadline ... my application read, I have to press it. 2. I don't own a time machine to go back in time and correct mistakes or retake tests. 3. A little

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  , making sure I had understood everything. I got into a good rhythm and went ... -recording a class. Freshman spring I wanted to fix that but overshot to the ... and I'd be working for three to four hours on a single problem on each

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden, part 2 a zine carved out of pink erasers

  

  ="aligncenter" width="507"] imagery borrowed from Turtles All the Way Down by John Green ... -ish Fall Out Boy album. tbh I feel so-so about the album as a whole, but I do ... ="attachment_90798" align="aligncenter" width="507"] this summer i've been biking to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 20, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  into the pi day verse 3/14/22 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  and doing what you love (even if that takes getting hit by a truck to ... , feel free to email us at [email protected] and a friendly guy named ... tutorial, learn how to shoot rubber bands extremely accurately, try a new

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s All Work Together Easier Said Than Done

  

  failures of the AC unit for the car leading to a few occurrences of smoke and sparking. This could lead to a major recall. Our task was not to find the ... so difficult? We’ve all been in the position of trying to do a group

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  first assignment of the class, we were challenged to write a script for a ... illustrate it, but I thought it would be a neat challenge to illustrate it and ... in handwritten script to make the comic feel more journaled

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  a reminder to ask bigger questions--Am I making the most of my time ... now... In any case, it's easy to get lost in the details of MIT as a ... have a flexible plan A, B, and C It's hard to get anywhere without some

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Here’s a Plan let's burn off the pi(e)

  

  up with a clear mind and higher spirits, ready to face the day. I stress-exercised a lot before decisions mostly because I wasn’t about to ... attending workouts four or five days a week. Allow me to draw up a workout

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • March 9, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A little bit about me and my trip to La Republica Dominicana A trip to the Dominican Republic to compensate for a bitterly cold Boston winter

  

  me: I'm a rising sophomore planning to major in Mechanical Engineering ... spent a lot of time reading Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson by the pool. The resort had a circus school, so I learned to go on the flying trapeze

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  like it's going to explode more so than in my avatar. I graduated a year ... myself to leave the 'tute, so I took a job at MIT after graduation at the ... by MIT students. Our main mission at MIT+K12 Videos is to show folks

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  was a counselor at this one camp and I was supposed to do it again this ... point, any summer job will do, but I'm not sure if I want to be a camp ... . Students are also not allowed to jaywalk - Sheridan Road, a fairly large and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Engineering Hero One of the coolest professors at MIT

  

  kid, I've always been intrigued by invention and design to the point of electric shock at times when I tried to power a robot by plugging a wire ... So two weeks ago, I had a lecture from one of the oldest people at

  • by Bryan
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  visit to old Montreal and we had a biodome day and we had a climbing day ... : So all in all, it was a successful and spontaneous adventure to the ... . She asked me if I wanted to go to Canada, and I said yes. About 24 hours

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  A Hack and Advice Two entries smashed into one.

  

  mentioned a couple of songs. I believe her words were: "If you're going to ... proceeded to listen to them. A lot. I'm glad I did, because it's one of the ... my classmates. Granted, by now we've all listened to Dropkick Murphys

  • by Snively '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Course Lounges press F to pay respects to the entirety of course 21 and CMS

  

  , because we're edgy and unconventional, our equivalent to a regular college ... their own course lounge - a designated space for majors in each course to ... Course 6, I can firmly attest to the fact that our lounge sucks, and as a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 27, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

  events to gcal as soon as i become aware of them, and i'll also make action ... you want to). in this way, the gcal becomes a more accurate life log of what i did at a particular point in time and when, as opposed to a list

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Everything’s coming up Milhouse! This one goes out to the Class of 2010. Fire!

  

  during their Freshman year." That must make me a failure. Good thing I have Mollie to cheer me up. Everything's a little bit bittersweet here, because ... "Hello." to a familiar-sounding "Hey!" to occasionally, on particularly

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Coin Is Found! The Mystery Hunt ends after 36 hours.

  

  captained by my friend Dan '03. Way to go! Dan '03 of The Evil Midnight ... Sunday, 12:31 AM: The coin was found by The Evil Midnight Bombers What Bomb at Midnight in a refridgerator in the basement of E18. It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 15, 2006