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  #NoBanNoWall

  

  : with this note, we invite the broader MIT community to join in a show of ... received this email from mit administration sometime yesterday: To ... affected. We are working closely with them to offer every support we can. We

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 29, 2017
• Blog / Events

  MIT’s Once-a-Century Party

  

  , but boy does MIT know how to throw a party - I'm told the weekend was a ... a fistfight (I believe that's Feynman trying to knock out Packard ... transformed into a huge sports stadium, with gigantic spotlights emanating from

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 8, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  Ideas Weekend. From 9 PM to 1 AM, a total of 86 students representing 11 ... -competition. Antonio wore a Garmin watch, which he used to record his heart rate for all ... to how we structured each rep. After each strenuous climb, we spent a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  A parent posted a great comment on my last entry, with too much to talk about for one entry (especially since I have a hockey game to play ... to a camp like RSI for admission purposes - other than for its own sake

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  Just one year ago, I had arrived at MIT as a prefrosh, ready to start my new life in Massachusetts.  I came here early to do a pre ... service projects.  However, this year I decided to apply to be a mentor for

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  New ZigZag video podcast & behind the scenes An inside look at the new video.

  

  would be like to be a first semester student on campus. From there, we ... sent out an email to a dozen random (and awesome) freshmen that I know ... for the filming and who were excited to participate. So, a few weeks

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Under the Dome A full day of free fun at MIT

  

  seem to have a thing already for free events at MIT. I'll cut to the ... creations. There isn”t much left I can get my teenagers to do with me on a ... -off event to the Cambridge Science Festival) What kind of free things you ask

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  , I've gotten to a point where the workload will be manageable from here ... as time went on. Eventually I had a power amplifier that I could use to ... the lab and shown it to a TA, I have a day's break where I won't go into

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  family went to watch them run drills at a nearby soccer field one afternoon ... A story from a few years ago: During the 1994 World Cup, I lived in Somerset County, New Jersey, where the Italian soccer team happened to be

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  classroom to which MIT was assigned. Next door was a nice colleague from ... ." There are a variety of ways to take these courses. Each of the science ... the normal student using 8 terms to get a degree, most take at least one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Crotchets and Quavers The evensong tradition

  

  , each meant to serve the every need of its students. Most of them have a chapel, a dean, and a choir. According to Anglican tradition, there should ... [by Patrick '09] On Tuesday, I went to Trinity College chapel for

  • by Cambridge
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  umbrella--it had a big button that you could press to open it, fit perfectly into my small girly hands, had a comfortable strap to fit around my wrist ... would want to test-drive a car, right? There were a couple umbrellas with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  equipment to detect and do studies on extrasolar systems. A lot of extrasolar ... binaries to indicate the existence of a binary star system. So, when one ... UROPers hung up their lab coats to head home, Shaye and two other undergrads

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Multi-Day Weekend at MIT

  

  ) in Phoenix next month (more on that to come). This weekend is a four ... ) thanks to a rather obscure Massachusetts holiday called Patriots Day. The ... Asian Culture Show, always a great and huge event, a great place to check

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  for this day to come, for this year to end. But now, a large part of me ... '14s, and to hear about prospective '15s, not to mention a few ambitious ... time to enjoy everything. A couple of my friends and I got to go apple

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  Earth. To someone standing on Earth, the Moon would cover the Sun. In a ... set up and eclipse glasses to pass around. There was a huge crowd even ... America won't be until April 8, 2024. I hope that as a species we begin to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Only Answer I Have "Just a couple of sentences."

  

  admitted. I've responded to each email with a slightly different version of ... reducing themselves (and other applicants) to a bunch of numbers and a few ... I think you guys set a record for ben.mitblogs.com - 353 comments in

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  was a long trip.) I'd been to Paris before, but I wanted to ride the ... -Elysees Here's a small tip for your next visit to the Eiffel Tower: Don't go when ... :-) (I never said I was going to give a representative tour :-D) Before

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist MIT admitted some applicants from the waitlist today.

  

  waitlist became a reality. We worked all day today as a subcommittee to ... waitlist again this year? It is too early to know. In a week or two, we ... offered a spot on the waitlist to just under 400 people, and most of those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Classes of Semesters Past, Present, and Future since you asked.

  

  you leave a post with your course history? I want to take every class ... 's a nice record of my transition from pre-med/brains to astronomy. More details about this semester's line-up to come; I would write a more detailed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2013