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  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  and international students at MIT. The Institute has a long history of ... reported that "few, if any institutions, in the United States have a higher ... 't have a cohesive campus until 1916, much to the lamentation of some

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  are coming out in a couple hours. Yuliya K. '18 made a lovely post compiling a list of distractions for the final stretch. Distractions are great ... overwhelmedness – but I also find a lot of solace in kind, honest words. So that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  ), and, after some housing algorithm magic, a couple months later you are assigned a dorm, a room, and possibly a roommate. Fast forward to today ... stay in the dorm you are temped in or try and lottery into a different

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  Yo homez, I'm back! And guess what? I'm a senior. I. AM. A ... example... Figure 1. Thursday 1a) First stop in the morning. 3 ... from the other day in class and add a little something to them. Just. For

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  overwhelmed, and loving everything I’m doing. Right now it’s hard to imagine a ... emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night ... floating safe in slimy pink buffer instead of withering into a translucent

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert This year's concert: Jason Derülo and Janelle Monáe.

  

  Every year, MIT brings to campus a national act to headline a big ... Concert. Here is a somewhat complete list of the history of MIT Spring ... spring for nearly half a century, the residents of MIT's Senior Haus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  card bills. But, I'm not doing that from a public computer, nor am I ... ’s power adapter was dead. A long time coming, it had been on the fritz for ... charge until I gave the plug a little jiggle. The odd thing was that I was

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  able to do any work at all. Also, we have a totally sweet new 3-axis ... back after Thanksgiving break. And somehow with three problem sets and a ... considering Thanksgiving is usually just the three of us in a big empty house

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  . Parents are usually easy to spot for a couple of reasons. First, they all ... know what's going on and throws a more difficult curriculum at you ... . Last year I thought it was hilarious because each of my classes had a

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  not unduly harsh. The past week or so a dull thudding began at 8am sharp ... days ago a bunch of kids pulled down a big branch from the tree outside ... more than a spattering of sawdust. So these were the events leading up to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  's utilized for a bunch of classes (including many for freshmen) and is generally well-liked. I mean, it's a lecture hall, it's hard to love a lecture hall, but 10-250 is very put-up-with-able. A little over a month ago an

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 2 A recap of three incredible days

  

  What do the United Nations, the Four Seasons Hotel, Broadway, and ... only had a ridiculous amount of fun, but also left the City feeling ... wined and dined and stayed in a fancy hotel, the beauty of the whole event

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Blast from the Past

  

  door, Bryan was like "Laura! OMG we have to take a picture now that there ... of Splash! MIT has a student group called the Educational Studies ... students teach local high schoolers a huge array of topics. Splash! is a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ice cream and an onion Chun Li, pirates, magnetic poetry, and an RLC circuit.

  

  and Brazilian descent. So every year the senior class sponsors a really ... point is--there's a Halloween theme. Basically you could eat the cost of ... the rain. So, after a few minutes of brainstorming, we came up with this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston becomes Pottersville The MIT area is full of celebrations for the release of "Harry Potter and the…

  

  I be doing for the big release? Let me tell you about some of the Boston/MIT-area parties. At Newtonville Books in Newton (a Green Line trip ... . Beginning at 9pm until the "magic" hour, the store will host a "a night of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  other people on 5th East doing the same thing, so we sat under the red lights of Black Bemis and talked, which is a popular quiet-night activity ... - because they have stories, and they have useful advice, and a sense of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  In this past semester, the definition of "home" changed a lot for me ... we mellowed a lot over the course of college. "I like this Cami," my ... four months. Coming home for the first time after this whirlwind of a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  I'm in a cool HASS (Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences) class this semester. A very cool HASS class. It's simply called 'Rhetoric' and we study ... coach, Dave Hunter, attempts to motivate us for the next period using a

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT-vangelion (Pi Day 2023) 3/14/23 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  Pi Day videos from 2014 until now, do another Hades run, go touch grass ... by the fact that MIT needs an anime adaptation. We have a mecha ... .com/watch?v=fShlVhCfHig"]Neon Genesis Evangelion,[/annotation] like a nontrivial portion of MIT students

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Wednesday, 12/16/15, at 6:28PM ET

  

  I've stopped watching Tom Brady catch a double-reverse pass long ... verify that you will receive a decision on the 16th, you should visit ... recommend you do this now to make sure everything works for you. Strange

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2015