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  Fabulous Festivities & Fireworks for the Fourth The annual Boston Pops concert and fireworks show.

  

  secret of the Boston 4th of July celebrations is that the Boston Pops do a ... , and MIT has a front row seat. Each year on July 4th, a concert by the ... nationwide (10pm et/pt on CBS). The concert occurs at Boston's Hatch Shell, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2007
• Blog / Events

  4th of July Celebrations Boston, and the MIT campus, are great places to celebrate the 4th of July.

  

  is that the Boston Pops do a special, less crowded, "preview concert ... arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has a front row seat. Each year on July 4th, a concert by the Boston Pops is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  in the math community. A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to ... entire AoPS crew are doing. I hope that if you're interested in and excited ... run the San Diego Math Circle, which I had a chance to visit. A Math

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  Overall, a good first day on the road. Woke up early, packed for the ... 're the director of a math/science academy? I know the spelling's not a ... class (sorry). A great bunch of people - thanks for being so hospitable

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  the child of a well-to-do family in Beijing, by offering them a great ... explanations is true, but I do know which one I personally think is a hell of a ... I have received a lot of questions from prospective or current Minerva

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  'll do in industry, and about my life after college, I tell myself: I'm a ... One. It was a lie that made me choose MIT. I was told, and I believed ... you want it to be. That most people don't actually take six classes a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  Moscow time, and as a result I go to bed at 4 am and wake up at noon ... -up instinct, and then I jaunt around for the morning, and crash for a nap in the ... my friend and I tried to build a sleep scheduling website for

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  think it's a fact of college life. nor do i dispute the fact that ... the admissions blogs have always been a platform for students to speak ... their best. * * * a year ago, the chancellor's office released

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  oscillating) weekly routine. First, a bit about general structure. A “whole ... and 8 hours at home, a 4-0-8 scheme. Lab/design/field work classes have ... 3-0-9, 5-0-7, etc. There are also classes of a different number of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  less soggy shoes, battling a CPW-long downpour over and under rooftops ... Infinite Corridor. I used a power drill. I got my arm signed by Chris M. '12 ... real MIT students doing their own differential equations homework. Very

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  glimpse of a sunset from Maseeh, I stopped what I was doing and ran straight ... take about a hundred pictures of the most random things you can imagine ... . What did they find so intriguing about a green tree, scary reptiles, and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  too much work to do, or hilarious mistakes in my problem sets, or what ... rhapsodize about a slice of sweet, crunchy red apple dipped in balsamic vinegar ... flesh into a pool of red-freckled $11.99-per-bottle-balsamic, a tableful

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  In the end we developed the "ModuWall," a Do-It-Yourself portable wall ... graduated and went home to spend a wonderful summer outside in the sunshine ... as a lifeguard. I'm not kidding.) But then today I was struck with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  a lot. For the sake of clarity: Senior House is a building. It is ... never felt like I was doing enough. It’s eating vegan lasagna and huge ... MIT, I always think back to one song. There are a lot of songs in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  this is a guest blog post from my dear friend aidan chambers '23 who ... crazy or stupid or maybe even a little bit of both and i b e g g e d him to write a blogpost about it. here it is! I think I have to provide

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  to find stuff to do. Solace came in the form of a very pretty asian ... was on a mission. Since Matt Mcgann was occupied on the phone at the ... I was with the better half of my umbrella that tried to fly away on a

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Thoughts In which I didn't try to acquire 50 different company shirts

  

  summer jobs pre-MIT! Do what you love, whether that's working in a lab or becoming a camp counselor or taking time off to spend with your friends and ... if any companies 1) interested me or 2) would be interested in a CMS/7

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 21, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  2018, not even a Targaryen dragonlord. We have seen all the wonderful ... mentioned I had been a transfer student. Well, I also was a wait list student ... make another decision, but hopefully it's a welcome problem to have. For

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  the phone that night. "I'm about to watch a movie," he hastily answered ... MIT's Infinite Cooridor. I met up with a handful of other MIT Symphony ... circumstance would be hurrying on their way - all stopped to pay tribute to a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tweet, tweet plus: swarming, oil spill cleanup robots and virus-made, clothing-embedded batteries

  

  anymore! But now that I finally got a smartphone last month (I <3 my Droid X), I've been finding myself using Twitter a lot more. So if you ... /26/mit.oil.robot/ And a few days ago, this article from Gizmag about work

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 26, 2010