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  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  December, the registrar sends out letters to some freshmen, offering them ... no longer have a 57-credit limit for the spring semester, nor do they

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Democrats, Republicans, sportsmanship, books The unbearable awesomeness of literature at MIT.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The combined weight of all the termites in the world is 10 times the combined weight of all the humans in the world. Confused thanks to Ariel '09 for sending me a text message at 2 AM with only that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  welcoming our new bloggers! baby bloggers? baby bloggers!!

  

  campus, settling into their new dorm rooms for the year; classes are ... has some new baby bloggers, all very excited to write for you! After ... favorite spots for lunch around campus, or their wild adventures Boston, or

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Screw Up Your Username It's time to put down your AOL screen name.

  

  graduate. In other words, this is for life. Fear not, though. After ... for clunkiness or awkward pronunciations. It's usually best to go ... nicknames of a sort for people, so consider whether you'd be comfortable being

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 30, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  Manage Your Future

  

  Every year MISTI sends nearly 600 interns from all MIT majors abroad ... from field observations will be crucial for my own future research. I really want to improve my qualitative research skills: for that I plan to

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  was a sophomore in college I once ate for the Internet. I had missed a ... . Keeping up with the standard I had set by eating for the Internet, they ... hall. Here is the menu they set for themselves: Plate 1: Spaghetti

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Camp Kesem! It's magical.

  

  day, when I shelve my textbooks and notes and give it up for three wonderful summer-y months. I have a few things lined up for the summer, and ... for a long, long while; Melis '08 wrote about it a few years ago, when

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  . Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of wind chill that eats Jack London novels for breakfast. 10:00 AM: Toast ... writing my undergraduate research (UROP) proposal*. It's like yoga for the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading.

  

  calendars until after EA selection, so I haven't had time for much else (although we were allowed to take thursday off for Thanksgiving). I spent ... harder for air. It's the first time I've been that scared for one of my

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  This was a great day. Take my word for it. What, do you want me to ... for $3 in 26-100, had invited the MIT Marching Band (MMB?) over to play ... for about an hour, we went over, stood up in front of the crowd, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  you think of a really good one, send it to me via comment or e ... Thermodynamics -- Last year, my UROP advisor, Jefferson W. Tester, taught this for ... lab requirement for Course X. It's taught in the sub-basement of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... numbers, the admit rate for applicants who had interviews (or whose interviews were waived) is about three times the admit rate for those who didn

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy V-Day

  

  excellent date idea, for those of you who need suggestions), romantic movie ... for their sweetheart, or friend, or professor. For example, I remember ... sending a harsh, anti-love sonnet). Also related to Valentine's Day, did

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 14, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  totally lost in that class for weeks. The current plan is to work on it with ... tea for lunch, and then I take a caffeine pill because a large black tea will not cut it for today. It’s a pretty quick meal, and I run into a few

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  , tickets for the commuter rail bought, and our laptops ready for blogging, we begin. (Also deep thanks to Kano for the planning and brilliant execution ... go on. The five of us hopped on the shuttle to wait for the others to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  regardless of how I avoided the plague for so long, the fact of the matter is ...  terrible, opened my Google calendar, saw I had nothing I desperately needed to do ... rescheduling or simply asking for forgiveness. Everyone was more than

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  footbridge, cross the street, then walk for two minutes. On a good day, the ... "] google street view provides[/caption] I have traveled this segment of Mac ... , so when I think of Valenzuela, I imagine MacArthur. A road that is, for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  planning on taking a class to satisfy the culture course requirement for ... program or not (and was supposed to find out before i left for Christmas break), i couldn’t register for the class. as a backup, i signed up for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Spot the Blogger where you'll find bloggers during CPW, and some bonus tips!

  

  .mit.edu for a simple Google Maps version of campus. Don't be afraid to explore ... catch up on sleep when you get home. Don't feel guilty for wanting to stay up and try everything. :) You've earned it! 4) CPW is still school for

  • by Connie H. '15
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  . It was pretty ugly. Checkout the iCal for this past week. [Calculus ... , Physics Quiz, CLASSES!!!] For the moment, I have no profound thesis for a ... ; Bane of my existence, and I know I’m not alone. For 8.01 – the intro

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009