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• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  the Class of 2021 will gather and President Reif will give a welcoming ... ; Advice from Graduating Seniors John P. '17 MIT is a great opportunity for personal growth, and a big part of that is understanding your limits. Find

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  time I danced down the street under the Big Dipper constellation. A dozen fireflies lit up the trees. There was no one around—a terrifying scenario in Cambridge, MA, but a soothing one in the suburbs. That was a night the cicadas

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  The following is a guest entry by Patrick L. '17 Just before 9 pm ... from a pleasant distraction to a moderate disturbance, but to me, it was a reminder of why I had come to love Simmons so much over the last two

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  council for the year's graduating class buys a whole bunch of group tickets to activities like skydiving or a Red Sox game, and the rest of us ... year (although a lot of my senior friends had ZERO finals

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  had one more mission to fly and we wanted to re-fly a mission as well in order to score a little higher. We were on the clock--the weather forecasted heavy rain and a thunderstorm starting around noon, in which case

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Discovering Product Design through Photography Beautiful photos taken by DPD 2013 freshmen

  

  is a freshman preorientation program (FPOP) at MIT, which I participated in as a freshman... and now help coordinate! During the short ... design through a variety of interactive lectures, awesome design projects

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Great Gatsby In all its pixelated glory

  

  While browsing through my news feed the other day, I came upon a post ... Gatsby as a video game?? So cool. After doing a little digging around, I ... . If you're a little sad that you can't actually be on campus to enjoy

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  a little while. Next week I will begin a leave of absence from MIT. I will not, however, be leaving MIT. I will instead be moving a few buildings east to the Media Lab, where I will spend a year as a graduate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  redundant, apparently). When school starts back up it's like a whirlwind of activity happening all around you. There's seemingly a quintillion things to be done, and walking around campus is not unlike walking around a 3

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Dang Right, We’re Cooler Than You On the eve of Decision Day (D-Day), I bring you three things that adds to…

  

  (1) So this past weekend was Spring Weekend (when MIT invites a singer to come to campus and give a concert), and guess who came! :D (no ... jealous of my life. ----- (3) Recently, there was a College Confidential

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Get excited for CPW! CPW= Campus Prefrosh? WHOA!

  

  members of the former convene together to celebrate a 10M concentration of ... , food, a showcase of student organizations, food, sample lectures, food ... show off their unique cultures, get to know you, and help you get a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  November means a lot of things for different people. Thanksgiving and ... . "Beards?" you say. Yes, beards. See, November is also home to a hallowed ... no control over it. See, some guys just can't grow a beard. The best

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Arts Party 2010! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Now that I'm about to graduate, it's time for some fun…

  

  included a DJ, hors d'œuvres, and an open bar! (Despite now being 21, I was in the mood for milk.) ABOVE: Pouring myself a nice big glass of 2 ... , along with a variety of guest bloggers. Biyeun '10, as indicated

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  ? There's a feeling that goes something like "ugh, if only I'd taken more ... in three or three-and-a-half years, four years feels just right to me ... together to finish my degree. In fact I can proceed at a comfortable pace. I

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEGGGGGAAAAAAA! [by Danbee Kim '09] Music from Sonic, Donkey Kong, Final Fantasy, and more!

  

  [by Danbee Kim '09] It's familiar. It's even more familiar when a ... front of a television watching an 8-bit blue hedgehog in snazzy red sneakers run into gold rings, I'm sitting in a dark concert hall watching a

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship Opportunity: Davidson Fellows A look at a scholarship worth up to $50,000, and some past MIT winners.

  

  Having read MIT applications for a long time now, I know that MIT applicants and students are quite a talented bunch. As such, I try to look out ... accompanied by a $50,000, $25,000 or $10,000 scholarship in recognition of a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  managed to get one percent higher than what I needed to get an A for the course...as a result my course grade was 0.2% higher than the A cutoff ... intention of making this a sappy, nostalgic recollection - I do feel it

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  As of right now you may or may not have a job. I got my first job the summer between junior and senior year of high school as a carousel operator ... also worked a full time internship during the summer, in addition to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  Hamentashen. One is a sweet and versatile triangular dessert, the other is a ... Jeremy Wolfe, who used to teach a wildly popular Intro to Psychology class and is now a teacher in Concourse. (He's on the far left of the Team

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  MIT, being at the forefront of a lot of things, is a very neat place to be. It's also a really dangerous place to be. No, no, don't freak ... . Every once in a while you walk by a door with a sign on it and you wonder

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008