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• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  up? We wouldn’t want him to be overwhelmed by a new environment.” She ... ?" "Isn't Black Lives Matter just a hate group? Shouldn't we be working to ... you. Here, I want to try my best to share a few moments in my life that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about pandemics and plagues in history 21H.000: History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics

  

  Pandemic, a biology lecture series on the coronavirus that anyone in the world can freely attend. One of my colleagues sent me a notice about another new ... impact on human and non-human history. The course will have a roundtable

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  novel hobby, in certain circles, to have begun a sourdough starter during ... good thing, since there is not a lot else enjoyable to think about right ... too warm? Did I need to cycle my heating lamp on and off? He grew, but

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  College in Maryland in the fall. One Saturday morning on a small New ... admissions staff. "He was hoping to make a memorable impression on us, but it ... it was all a joke. Mr. Lazar decided to attend Cornell University this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 1 Two MIT students were chosen as Glamour's Top 10 College Women

  

  ’s typical to neglect your appearance after working on a problem set until 4 am ... , accomplishments, inspiration, secret obsessions, and more. Until we all went to New ... got to spend a fabulous weekend in Manhattan; they got us rooms in a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  DME SoccerBot Championships 2006 (Or, How Does Justin Timberlake Live With Himself?) All we are saying is give Pluto a chance.

  

  were forced to take a quick break from our tournament since they were ...   It was an epic battle, a tournament to the death. Tens of ... batery failure in a sudden death one-on-one round (a clearly unfair call by

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  a toll on me. My only chances to talk to people outside of my family ... spring. Being able to live on campus now, I feel a bit more comfortable ... this post and moving on to the 5000 other topics on my to-do list, but I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  . It goes out to Meder! Solve it to understand why...) Today was a ... also very hard). A few questions to be answered... From NY asks, "As ... send anything else in its place or a form waiver etc." Nope, no need to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  sleep. Here's a list of the stuff I have to get done, and the amount of ... : 1 hour. Count hours on timecards to ensure desk workers get paid. To ... , storyboard, and make a sound list for a scene in 4.354. To be done by Tuesday

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  ."]main thing[/annotation] on my mind, and I've been meaning to write a schedule ... to actually write a blog. Life has been good, but busy. I’m taking ... like about my classes, the reasons I'm excited to take them. I’m on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  aiming for a class of about 1,040 students this year. Based on our ... -- approximately 5.5% of applicants -- a spot on the waitlist. Not all of those students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  motivated to build the skills to become a hacker by next year's HackMIT. New ... flocked to HackMIT to crowd themselves into a gym for 30 hours and make ... a steady flow of snacks that ranged from burritos to late

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  approximately where you are now. A summer of waiting to start at MIT had finally come to a close and I was trying out my shiny new label of "MIT student ... Hello 2024s. I'm about to go on another blogging hiatus, but I wanted

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  everyone is on the precipice of something new, feeling around on a dark ... a rising junior computer science major with the luck to have a good ... whatever shortlist of people were invited back to a de-densified campus. i

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Review of “Shopgirl”

  

  to see "Shopgirl," a movie based on a novella by Steve Martin. Claire ... kiss or sitting in silence outside of a movie theater on a date just to ... someone you see everyday and have been introduced to on numerous occasions

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Things Mmmmm.

  

  commit a...healthy...amount of time to extra-curriculars, but outside of ... . Ooooh. But the magic wears off after a couple weeks, to be honest, and soon "free food" isn't a good enough reason to walk across campus for a 2

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  referred to as "W1") into a "New" magical dorm (NW35 or the "New" Ashdown ... undergraduate dorms, a group of founders is formed to help with the final construction plans, to establish a government system and to begin the dorm

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  disappeared, so I was stuck with a box on stitls and no way to actually ... special to it, I painted, bought a floor lamp, and threw up a good number of posters. I did really like the color I picked, but it turned out to be a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  the back of a stranger’s car at the crack of dawn on New Year’s Day. We ... I’m sitting on the floor of my living room in Ithaca, New York. It ... the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  on their way to 3.091, professor of which is reportedly "The Man". The ... anana", so quickly shut door and resolve to check time more often. 11 ... ". 12:23 PM: Group digresses to discuss whether a third nipple is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006