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• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  a study is being conducted on main campus (worst → best) 1. Your 9am ... because classrooms are never this full at 9 am, or indeed any other hour of ... appear in your notebook but you have no memory of writing them. they are

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  . There are no restrictions on memories, and pictures of family and friends ... minor purchases. Don’t drag a mound of erasers and rulers on a plane, but ... pillows. Not on your first week of college. -- chairs, bean bags, and other

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Psetting on Campus ft. an updated mapping system

  

  access. Click on the name of a location on the sidebar to see pictures and ... Google Last year during freshman fall, I made a couple of guides to random things on campus. I'd like to bring that back this year, along with a much

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  New stuff on MyMIT, and more

  

  your MyMIT portal, where you'll find the Class of 2009 guestbook directory (post your picture!), a list of local admitted student meetings ... weekend, I hope to answer the backlog of questions, talk a bit about the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  of the blue." Nevermind that his principle work is on dark matter, not ... You may know Conan O'Brien, host of the popular late night talk show ... airing without the benefit of writers, due to the strike (soon to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  to come in heavily. I decided I'd help with the buckets and buckets of filing to be done. Doing all that filing reminded me of Being John ... with a doctor: Dr. Lester: Which of these two letters comes first, this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Missy Cummings on The Colbert Report At the end of the interview, she and Stephen face off in Rock 'Em Sock…

  

  Last night, MIT Aero/Astro professor Missy Cummings was the guest on The Colbert Report. Professor Cummings was one of the US Navy's first ... Director of the Humans and Automation Lab, which hosts many Aero/Astro UROPs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  and Chris Peterson here -- On the Conservation of Frosh by Rachel D. ‘16 here -- On MIT culture by the hilarious Snively ‘11 here A list of ... you’ve never sang.” Trust me on that one. The adult world of MIT is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Report on the Status of Undergraduate Women at MIT in honor of International Women's Day

  

  class of 2016) released a report on the status of undergraduate women at ... . In honor of International Women's Day, check out Ursula K. Le Guin on ... work outside of academics. The report also shows differences among the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT files lawsuit on behalf of international students alleges ICE policy “arbitrary and capricious and an abuse of discretion”

  

  capricious and an abuse of discretion" on behalf of ICE. The lawyers ... Update 7/14/2020: we won.  On Monday, July 6th, as MIT was finalizing its plans for the fall semester, the U.S. agency of Immigration and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  's StuffFest? Well, here's a picture of StuffFest going on in Simmons ... As of noon today, I am officially done with my first year at MIT. I turned in my last final, walked out of the exam room into the bright Boston

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  I’ve just taken the luxury of lavishing two full days on an essay ... on, as I took in the different symptoms for proposed diseases, all of ... 's not like knowing this will matter to me for the rest of my life. But on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  . Anyway, check back tomorrow for some info on classes and/or a map of MIT ... DID YOU KNOW? i^i = e^(-pi/2) Sorry for the lack of MIT-related updating now that I'm back on campus--I've been busy running errands with Sam

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  rave (it was really loud). On the last day of Orientation, all of the ... years of adventures on the T! After all, it’s not about the destination ... junior year of high school, I fell in love with the T. It’s not the best

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  Starting 2012 on a volcanic island bonfire! but no eruptions yet [photo-heavy]

  

  part of me REALLY misses MIT. But heyho two more weeks on this island ... settled in the dorms of Jeju National University. Then we went outside ... there was fried chicken. SPICY fried chicken. On December 31, the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 11, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  This goes out to all of you waiting on tenterhooks for decisions to ... nerdiness on your chest for the viewing pleasure of small children and ... causes tons of stress for everyone.) ---On that "DON'T PANIC" note, read

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  school. Two of her close friends from MIT and a number of other students that graduated in June also went on to med school. One of the reasons my ... said if I were planning on going to medical school I should definitely

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  A week ago, Professor Junot Diaz of the MIT Department of Writing & Humanistic Studies, appeared on The Colbert Report. Certainly Prof ... Fiction, but an appearance on Colbert is always... interesting. For those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  besides reading applications to MIT. One of the things I enjoy doing in my ... is one of my favorite television shows. During one recent episode ... recently coauthored a book on how higher education is failing in America

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  , for an 11:15am flight. I made it in plenty of time. Got on the plane ... to stand in two different lines, on either side of baggage collection ... Driver looked at his watch, and his grimace brought on another wave of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013