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  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  wouldn't have made it through the first few years without the help of the ... of the original Thanksgiving to protest the "myth" of the First ... The fourth Thursday of November and the few days before and after are

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  with dozens of people, of trying things for the first time and exploring ... for the past few months, Nashua conjures images of flatness and tranquility, of quiet car rides punctuated only by the soft hum of the engine as

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Preparations First my birthday, then halloween!

  

  a glorious 2 extra hours on the tracks, right outside of New Haven. I made the most of my time by studying for my neuroanatomy exam, but I was ... now the ripe age of 20 years old, after a weekend of birthday

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  the summer, MIT students do a whole host of interesting things with ... whole bunch of other responsibilities, it's tempting to just veg out on ... your time than you realize! One of the things that I have learned about

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  first place, all for the sake of coolness or whathaveyou. Therefore, it ... scampering back down, off the ledge and out of sight. I’ve been told the whole ... amazed, out of my suite kitchen one night, the sound of a cadre of people

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  REX and the City New York, New York, and other answers to your other questions, too.

  

  , Housing sends you a booklet with a page written by each of the dorms, along ... support me without starting a war. Regardless of the outcome, though, it ... always vegetarian options but they're not necessarily vegan. All of the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  Scatterred throughout the years are probably dozens of blog entries ... insane, so it's back to productivitiy! Time to churn out the dozens of blog ... entries right through the whole summer after her graduation, so according to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  the rest of this snowy night. (First snowfall of the year yesterday and ... months immersing myself in as many books as I can cram in the windows of ... the end of the semester and fifteen more the following semester! A lot

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  first trip in India and he handed me Jeffrey Sachs' book The End of ... Kushal achieve its mission of tracking the overall health of children with ... occurred to me that although MIT is one of the best places in the world to

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  seven hours of flight I was anticipating. I got the first notification in ... updated Ruth the first one or the one out of detroit? First one I might see ... of the “arrives late to the airport; makes it on the plane anyway

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  it start on the last day of finals and does it end on the first day of ... up to trivia[/caption] I'm finishing up this post on the first day of the first full week of classes, and looking back on all the things I did

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  For a lot of you (maybe not all), interning over the summer will be ... to the "freedoms" of college life.  As exciting as these summer ... questions and plenty resources on campus to help you figure out the details of

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Flavor of Love As a wise woman once said, "Free is my favorite flavor."

  

  that it's such an important part of MIT undergrad culture that the site ... -mail list, which is really cool (although half of the messages are like, LOTS ... tantalize you with tales of my free food, but also tell you about the fine

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  got some slight motion sickness, but the excitement of the whole thing ... Kazakhstan, and we thought the weather would be very pleasant at this time of ... the start to a fruitful series of Fiona Travel Blogs. Day 0 - 1/2 I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  caffeinated residents of first east in East Campus over the course of around ... the skirt is made from the front pages of the New York Times. Both the ... made from pages of books as well. Its title comes from the fact that it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Year of the Pig Photoshop fun for the lunar new year.

  

  Happy Lunar New Year from Peggy and the Office of Admissions! Here are the results of this year's new year mini-contest! (Remember, this will have no impact on admissions) "The source of inspiration was the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  A Fool’s Holiday How MIT celebrates April Fool's Day

  

  . The School of Engineering will be renamed the School of Imagineering and ... cluster. From the MIT Hack Gallery: On April Fools Day of 1998, hackers broke into the MIT web server and changed the MIT home page to indicate

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  abysmal depths of the Internet, and didn't capitalize any proper nouns in ... jumble of text and pictures stuffed into the semblance of an admissions ... Course 2 or 6 major for the rest of eternity, or at least until someone

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings

  

  Hi! I’m Brenna Heintz, one of the Admissions Counselors here at MIT. Now that I’ve finally emerged from my first season of reading ... their hometowns for students admitted to the Class of 2017. If there's an

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  months, in the hope of generating some kind of useful conversation here in the blog comments. The MIT Admissions site was one of the first higher ... respect, understand, and integrate the importance of social production and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011