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• Blog / About Decisions

  a pi day (decision) story 3/14/21 at 6:28 PM ET

  

   [email protected] and a friendly guy named [annotation note="please be nice to them ... help! In the meantime, there’s a bunch of things you can do while you

  • by Tim
  • March 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  It was 2AM. After a heart-warming and tummy-filling Thanksgiving ... screen illuminated three sheets of paper covered in a few inked drawings for my next blog post and I took a dainty sip from my aluminum water

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  Five months ago, I took on the position of Chancellor at MIT – a position I think of as a dream job. For the previous six years, I had been ... , which is also a totally cool job – head of the biggest (and best but don

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  Orientation is about to arrive and all of a sudden MIT will be ... laundry, and have a place to sleep. You'll actually be living here and will ... a walk through campus and show you some of the things you may run into

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Formula SAE: A Turbocharged Experience Join the MIT Formula SAE team to design, engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross…

  

  Ever wonder how a Formula 1 car can reach speeds of 210 mph and pull 4 Gs? Better yet, are you interested in working on a team to design, engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross racing car and then

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  Okay, first off, I have to tell you that Erica '07 is a superhero ... working as Burton-Conner's summer desk captain. Unlike being a deskworker in a dorm, the position of desk captain requires actual work, with the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  I landed in Boston on a cloudy day about a week ago, and...it sure has been A Week™. Freshmen aren't invited back to campus this semester ... parents and get to know other people within a pandemic pod. It’s really

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  though I liked the other sorority a bit more/knew it was a better fit, did ... got a bid...and actually joined. I don't regret my decision one bit. I love the sorority a lot and I love the people in it. I often go back and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  tedious to outright AWFUL and i'm still recovering from struggling through a ... 's not even talk about how quickly I put a [annotation note="6.009 homies ... grade...or the stress of finding a job amidst all this academic pressure

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  A hack, for cap 🇺🇸 spoilers-free

  

  their best work in the dark), hackers installed a Captain America shield ... months, which they started planning about a year ago after learning a new ... appreciate the gesture. The Great Dome has long been a site of hacks

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Saw a Sea Turtle !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  This summer, we saw (and observed for two hours!) a real live SEA ... with our mom near the shore at night. We saw a dark moving spot in the distance, and as we approach, we realized it was a sea turtle! Because we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  housing, which actually means practically nothing. It's mostly just a place ... to pick a place you feel most connected to the people in. I can't stress that enough. A lot of times, I see students getting charmed by

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Seamless And A Seamless Transition [by Sadie Scheffer '10] I present to you "Seamless: Computational Couture," a smart-fashion show and…

  

  [by Sadie Scheffer '10] I've seen a plethora of Project Runway ... bed in a case that smells like mildew. Luckily for fashion, not everyone keeps her ambitions in a box! I present to you all, eager art

  • by ARTalk
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Visit to eBay

  

  friend Tiffany (MIT '06) for lunch; she's interning for Accenture, a ... me a lot of the Stata Center, with its bright colors, vibrant dining ... pay homage to the product that made it famous, eBay has a case full of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  If you've never played two truths and a lie before, all you have to do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I ... shoot an email to be less unknown!).  You probably have a passion for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  It's a beautiful day here in northern Virginia, where I'm celebrating New Years Eve with some of my friends from MIT. Since there's a bunch of ... counselor claims that because it is a selective english school with a harsh

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  Scholars went to see Wagner at the Met! A weekend-long trip to New York ... Cycle. It is the tiddler of the bunch, lasting but a single act and being only two and a half hours long. But the opera is self-standing and

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  is barely holding together. As events unfolded a number of questions ... still support Black Lives Matter?" "Is there even really a race issue ... ?" "Isn't Black Lives Matter just a hate group? Shouldn't we be working to

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

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  When I was a freshman I joined a plasma physics lab. Plasma physics ... things, then you can write down equations to plug into a simulation, and that simulation can give you a better idea of how plasma behaves in a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  yet, each one of them rocked in a different way, kind of like a charity ... 'm reaching a little with that one. But you should still check out the entry ... for some Dim Sum at Chau Chow City, a restaurant that also features

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005