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  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  on Monday about the importance of small farms 4. Brigitte Madrian ... on for more! 1. Professor James Poterba, the head of the Department of ... a whole day until he flew down to New York City to appear on The

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  something of a college preparatory nature occurs multiple times per week. For seven months, the notion of a new life and future along the Charles River ... you to some of my friends, and to the hall on which I'm temporarily

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  which on "Call of the Wild"... The coin is found! Everyone listens ... One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In ... and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Central Ohio Summer Send-Off Event celebrating the Infinite Connection

  

  The first MIT sign appears on the corner of the gracefully named ... legendary new unit of measurement, the smoot (now incorporated by Google ... the essential task of refreshing the smoot markings on the Harvard

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  in the back of the room who asked good questions. There are so many new ... This week was surreal, like turning pages in a book of moving ... Body of the State    Thursday afternoon, Thomas DeFrantz, a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  whole new phase of development.       [caption id ... configuration of these tiny wires; how many wires you need depends on how many ... fixed by now, but i noticed more jittery movement on top of boats and of

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  , I was working on the beginnings of a burgundy beanie that would keep ... boxes in Saran Wrap. Inside the boxes, I carefully loaded all of my ... 02139. My flight was set to leave in the morning from the B terminal of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  wouldn't really be change, would it? Now I have a whole new way of looking ... . the way people walk. Okay, I may not be the biggest fan of New York City ... the whole escalator. Because if you do any of those things in New York

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We now interrupt our regularly-scheduled programming… I tried getting ahead on my reading assignments but that only lasted so long.

  

  Just so you all know, I'm working on a new Q&A video. Thanks for ... . Hope you're surviving the snow! Speaking of snow, we've gotten a ton of ... ) because even though the Institute was on "lateness excused" policy and some

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  XC is Sexy

  

  I first saw the slogan "XC is Sexy" on the shirt of a 12 year old ... okay. Anyway, he is a former winner of the New England Division III ... blog it. On Saturday, I went with some friends to Franklin Park, in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  with my Legos; when it comes to you, you should explore all of your new school’s dorms and interact with as wide a variety of your new classmates ... --but never surrender, on paint of death. For our fashion-forward frosh: never

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Go to one in a town near you, and send in your pictures/reviews.

  

  list is just a subset of the many parties going on) Saturday Reno, Nevada ... a dozen parties on the last day of March. Sunday Honolulu, Hawaii, in ... admitted to the Class of 2011. If there's one in your area, you should check

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  myself to you. The ghosts of Uncle Labs and Beatriz have haunted me all ... now be both the most newbie admissions counselor/blogger and the new Bea. In my bio, I mentioned that MIT wasn't on my radar when I was applying

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  ! There’s also a lot of dorm makerspaces listed on the map, which is fun ... characteristic about MIT is its plethora of makerspaces. There are big basement ... working on a project to remedy that — she’s putting together a collaborative

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  version of something that will eventually be posted as official content on ... world who conduct interviews on behalf of MIT Admissions. We strongly ... ball rolling a bit, I hope. MIT has a long history of admitting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  new? Feast your eyes on one of the bazillion attention ... CourseWare version of the same lecture that I witnessed on Friday: In ... cannot escape. My name! On a chalkboard! In front of an almost

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  Criminal,” appeared on the windows of my usual second-floor study spot at the ... announced the founding of the new Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing ... that such public relations have on the ethics of the Institute

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  ' snazzy!; new hooks; a closet that's fully packed on five different lines ... to campus, learned lots of different things, and had some free time ... 've tried in I don't know how many years. I did... nothing. (But of course, in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  event was put on by the Division of Student Life and was a welcoming of ... the creativity and ambitions of its students, faculty, and alumni. New ... ' through the Stata Center, when out the corner of my eye, I saw this pretty

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  Course 24 - Linguistics and Philosophy is on the top two floors of Stata ... -Based Learning (read more on CBL). Instead of seat time and class completion ... these soon. Best of all, I get to bond with new residents, transfers and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016