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• Blog / Events

  And now your feature presentation Are there still theaters that play the "Let's all go to the lobby" jingle?

  

  semester. "Okay, where to begin?" was what I was thinking at the start of ... offers opportunities for students to live out MIT's motto of "Mens et Manus ... In a world...where engineers want to become leaders...3 students must

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Open Letter Employers love students with dorm desk experience.

  

  easy to multi-task. I am one of said desk workers at Baker, and early ... on that one day last month, I had to check in nearly 50 packages of ... Probably one of the most lucrative jobs on campus is that of the dorm

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 8, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  such a close scale before, so none of me knew how to react. My head was ... to the last of our days; for it is only our heartbreak that finally ... In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  ridiculous amounts of food for a few hours (I woke up to my friends making a ... take up a quarter of the page, and to be printed in full color. Also unluckily for me, everyone seemed to be holding a copy of The Tech on Tuesday

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lewis Music Library Tra la la

  

  Instead of writing only about student life, I'm gonna try to write ... things you'd like to know more about (or see photos of, if you're unable to visit MIT), leave a comment at the end of the entry, k? According to the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  very bad about this because part of my job as a 6.005 TA is to make sure ... them. Exam grading, which I couldn’t make it to because of lecture, is ... to the MFA. 11:25 am: I get bored of Stata and decide to move to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  -quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn a lot of trivia — time on ... have a lifelong goal of trying to make it onto Jeopardy, and so I view all of this random-fact-learning as somewhat productive c: To be clear

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  questions about them feel free to ask in the comments! 3 Best Parts of living ... . There’s a lot of them. On the plus side, it really motivates you to add your ... inconvenience that is very specific to our room since we live on the wrong side of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  distance  from my dorm to feel like an excursion of a sort CAVA - also in ... talking to people bc what else is there to do now Eat a crap ton of ice ... Afeefah Will Try To Read This Summer The Secret Life of Henrietta Lacks

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  If I were to show you the following series of pictures, how would you relate them? Some of my favorite guesses? "MIT is obviously ... ? Also, all the captions to all the pictures of it showing up online and in

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  short span of two semesters, the term starts to lose its meaning. It ... to run up until the Friday of that week. So basically, you're learning ... that with the fact that I didn't adhere to the end times of my study

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  plenty of time to read both the New York Times and the Boston Globe. The ... of offering ''universal access to human knowledge," and, in pursuit of ... , presidential phone conversations to recordings of Cowboy Junkies concerts

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  of times, when you're not frantically trying to say a too-early goodbye to your friends and pick up the pieces of your cancelled events, moving ... , to be honest, I think that many of us are so stressed about the big

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  . Sincerely, Krystal *: Welcome to the footnotes, the land of comments ... of rewarding thorough readers. I wanted to put tiny, microscopic ... starting spring of my first year. What’s the point? 1) I get to declare a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  -generated (we'll get to that). However, we knew that at least some of the video ... -roll footage of campus to use as the background later. We waited to film Stu ... /production process, and 100% of it was conjured by Loren, who I have come to suspect is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  of campus tend to fit more easily into the "stereotypical MIT student ... , to loud, sociable, and partying, but forms of socialization tend to be ... looks, in the words of my little sister, "like it's going to walk across

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  was back on a plane to Massachusetts for the beginning of IAP. People ... to at the beginning of IAP, but there were far smaller mini activities ... 't get to attend as many of the workshops as I would've liked, but I have

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  self than my high school self. It's hard to tell if this is because of ... and generous to my friends. I think that's my greatest mistake of the fall, and of 2019; I regret the dates I was too tired to go on, the team

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Think YOUR research is crazy? Why doesn't spaghetti break in half? There is an answer, because someone has dedicated their…

  

  Organization) It calculated the number of photographs you must take to (almost ... the smell of limburger cheese and to the smell of human feet. »Rectal ... of the 20 Craziest Scientific Researches. Some of the Craziest

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 14, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  unable to write you a letter. We encourage you to try to get letters of ... We require letters of recommendation for our application. We strongly ... Secondary School Report. We have always said that it is most important to get