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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For love of Baxter A story of love, loss, and catnapping on Burton 1, as documented by my cell…

  

  kidnapped Baxter because he smells funny and no one on the floor likes him. If you ever want to see him again, you must meet all of our demands. The ... place it on the dining table of the 132 suite at precisely 12:10 AM on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  ? That's right -- the first completed folders of the year. The brown ... will be an exciting month. By now, I've read my first folders of the ... reading carefully every sheet of paper in your folder and summarizing the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  , I try to be.” - my blogger bio, circa summer 2023 In one of the ... terrified of putting this thought out into the world. Hell, I followed the sentence up with a number of caveats all to the effect of: Yes, I do know

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Events

  This…Is…BLODGEBALL! Everything and anything you ever wanted to know about us.

  

  braggy and say that on top of all of that stuff, I even like some of the ... best kind of fun. And so when Snively suggested that our annual beginning-of-the ... Note: I'll be doing a Q&A video with our very own Dean of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cultura MIT students use online collaboration with their French counterparts to learn about each other's cultures.

  

  Gilberte Furstenberg (teacher of French III, a class we're both taking). The ... staples of daily life. The French students do the same in their own language ... in the other country. It's interesting to see the different sorts of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  the poster to its left. I thought, at first, that the font was FF DIN ... :[/annotation] That's not the only instance of Helvetica here. On the lower-right corner of the fire extinguisher box, we see an all-caps "FIRE EXTINGUISHER

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  occurrence. The unit was prefaced by the account of the world's first and only ... YAY November!!! First off, a huge WELCOME to the EA applicants! You ... the Beaver (as seen on the collaborative blackboards of Stata Center

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins the Putnam ...for the third year in a row!

  

  -based college math competition held on the first Saturday of December. The ... The results of the 2015 Putnam Competition were recently released, securing the MIT team's first-place ranking--our team has finished in first

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  the end of each semester to fill out course evaluations. Professors do ... did something similar in GEL last year: At the end of the fall semester, each of the GEL students evaluated one another based on leadership and

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  the wall of my home office to keep track of them all. [caption id ... now? Does anyone pretend to know? One of the few things that I know ... of supplies to send to the rescuers at Ground Zero: socks, contact

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  dumb little poems and such emotional support procrastination

  

  *cking pset the whole world will hear me complain i haven’t reviewed this ... the mud so concerned about right and wrong The giver of permission ... the echoes murmur louder Get up and fight me Are you afraid of your own

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  tripping over each other to get onto the page. Sometimes it is hard because ... college application essays, this is a great time to revisit some of the rules of writing well. George Orwell's Politics and the English Language

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  their far too clunky suitcases onto the airport shuttle, I feel a pang of ... left: a UROP at the Institute of Soldier Nanotechnologies various ... Office and a whole slew of other stuff. Nothing has really remained

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  ZigZag Episode 5 MIT's podcast has a new episode.

  

  Episode 5 (The Empire Strikes Back?) of MIT's experimental podcast ZigZag is now available, including stories about the 2.007 robotics ... can also view the first four episodes in the ZigZag archive. They would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 3 Independent Video Games, X-Men, and Interstellar

  

  it's a good time to stock up on cheap games! The Boston Festival of ... has always been the black sheep of the trilogy and fans, myself included, are happy to hear *X3 SPOILERS* the death of Xavier, Cyclops and Jean

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 18, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A New MIT “Alum” Many fictional characters are MIT alumni; the newest is Jessica Alba's Sue Storm in "Fantastic…

  

  On Friday morning, I was reading the New York Times review of the ... ("non-linear optics," "top of the class"), Colin Farrell's secret agent in ... Contact (played by Jodie Foster in the film) Taz "Rat" Finch ("top of his

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students FAQs for students deferred from Early Action.

  

  , regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little historical data ... , which can be downloaded off of the MyMIT website. Your semester grades are ... possible after your grades are available; by the beginning of February would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bachelor’s & Master’s in 5 Years An attractive option offered to undergraduates in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

  

  This will be the first in a series of entries focused on my ... heard that many of MIT's engineering departments have something called the ... 's not just for engineers. Undergraduates in the Dept. of Urban Studies and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 15, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It

  

  DONE (sans my physics final next week rip lol) The last couple of weeks ... honestly welcomed the onslaught of final projects and exams since it made me feel like I was nearing the end of my coursework and deserving of feeling

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Otra Vez, Como Siempre Some J-Pop to cheer you up. =p

  

  Amazing Discovery of the Day: After nearly three semesters at MIT, I ... 's already the Class of 2013! In honor of what I'm going to do during IAP ... (Todai), the most prestigious university in Japan, through a year of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2008