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  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The city of Portland, Oregon was named for Portland ... detailing the future of fossil fuels in the United States. Although renewable ... released the MIT "Future of Coal" report -- there was a lot of interest in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  Halloween. I then ignored all of your votes and went with the most popular ... confident I could pull off. But thanks to the wonders of google and my credit card, I ordered some of the necessary components and had them shipped to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Legit Black Holes, Bandaids, and Nobel Prizes

  

  Because my roommate is in a sorority, she receives a whole slew of ... find MIT's Great Dome shrouded in white wrappings and the hubbub of ... . MIT Hackers did a little to welcome the Dome back to the world of sight

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 10, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivery Potato martinis at the courthouse

  

  with the first half (2/4 years) of MIT. That is both an exhilirating and ... 10 of the 12 members of Ring Committee. This is the outside of the ... . The roof of the cylinder lobby ring area. A jazz band played for the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  t-shirt, and my Harry Potter desktop wallpaper's fact of the day read ... Center where we waited patiently for the strike of midnight when we'd be able to get a copy of the book. For entertainment, the party had a "Make

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  States; I guess this is just the first small difference in a long line of ... , here in my Notes app on the side of the highway. Well, so be it; I will ... . (I have a lot of feelings about many things.) Is the person I am

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  of the airport near ticketing for 40 minutes while waiting for it to ... possible (boo) For the first time, get excited that security is taking a ... then notice you have to get through the whole airport experience before

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  rent a car from the local Budget office. Unfortunately, the only type of ... relatively smoothly. A few of the ECs come onstage at the end to introduce themselves and help answer some of the questions during our Q&A session. 4

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates Just a few notes -- that's all we have time for right now!

  

  once again made the NCAA (Division III) tournament! You can follow all of the news on the official and unofficial pages. Debate fans: The MIT Debate Team of Adam Goldstein ’10 and Bill Magnuson ’09 won the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  't quite empathize with the feeling of your whole life riding on a decision ... compiling a list of distractions for the final stretch. Distractions are great ... , or maybe I'm more apathetic than the average person in the face of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the residence halls/housing like?

  More than 70% of our undergrads live on campus, including all first ... where they feel best. Detailed descriptions of the undergraduate residence halls are available on the Housing site.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  This IAP was my first time ever outside of the United States! El ... family! El oso y el madroño: the mascot of Madrid At first I was hesitant ... experiences so far at MIT. For the first nineteen and a half years of my life, I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  long exposure). For the second half, we learned the whole process of ... first place: the rub of charcoal on skin, the choke of woven fibers, the ... Compared to the previous, this semester was less tumultuous, more of

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  knocks my glasses off my face. i put on the hood of my sweatshirt and ... students. the discussion of how to create housing groups was an anxiety ... very lazy person in terms of meeting people—thanks to the pandemic—so i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  producing stuff for social media—and “stuff” is all kinds of stuff. The first ... making it into a Twitter, uh, thing. One group is doing the first season of ... tweeting as if they are going through the first season of Battlestar

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  (Come to the 3rd floor of the Student Center at 12 noon on Friday of ... about why this can be a really good idea.) So you got into one of the ... ’ve always dreamed of (and, no doubt, the one everyone *expects* you to have

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Preparing for CPW

  

  be fun, and you'll get to meet all of the students you've been reading ... some pictures from the past week over the next couple of days as sleep ... Campus Preview Weekend is fast approaching, and I'm sure many of you

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  Tuesday, Reg Day is the "first" day of the semester in that it's when campus ... newness wore off faster and faster, until by the end of the first week of ... July and were comparing schedules; we, even with the combined power of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  would typically just dub, ignore, let sink into the crumbling abyss of my ... -40 hours per week. But getting a glimpse of the 360 Photography Class on the ... announcement email[/caption] The prospect of getting to fiddle with technology

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  the summer, I did a philosophy UROP with my advisor. One of my first ... only digging up enough energy to do a tenth of the first one. This is ... because I know the consequences of settling in. Because that’s what you do

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022