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  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  (both free), and all are clickable for a larger view. The first snow of ... Gregor for CPW. The walk to campus was miserable: cold air and colder rain and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  using his own intelligence and sweat of his brow. I would love for that to ... for the name John Underkoffler, and write down what he is credited as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... achieve what I wanted. It was hard for me to do that for so long. Alabama ... from ostentatious pity that we didn't ask for. [caption id

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  . Similarly, N for buildings in north campus and NW for buildings in northwest ... branches off in the end at Building 8. It’s a pretty important hallway for ... digit are roughly located in lines, except for the tens. There are only

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I disagree. Sure, we may not have brick buildings and ivy-covered walls.  But we have wacky (modern? postmodern?) buildings, the best river views in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  - broadly defined - for college to matter.   I hope that this quote is ... mean? Why do we have it? And what does it do for our class? When we say ... factor controlling the admissions process. Suppose, for a moment, we didn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  reality for three whole months, I thought to myself: What on Earth am I ... , I have worked at a university, a non-profit, and, now, a for ... Arabic. Christian and Muslim evangelicals jostle for the same space outside

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  belongs here, then you obviously don’t know what MIT is about. (And for the ... so few spots for so many qualified people, which means we can’t take ... answer you’re looking for. I wish we could just give you a perfect black

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  just giving snapshots into MIT life. For the first couple days (or at ... (again), Meet the Bloggers  You Can't Just Ask for Prefrosh || VEDA #18 ... really packed and then yesterday I literally just did homework in bed for

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  for all those personality tests! None of this, the tests themselves nor ... bloggers) for yourself! Tests Included The structure of my survey was more or ... hungry during the race, promptly stopped for a feast and then fell asleep

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  gel thickening agent. I’ve been at MIT for a while: this is my sixth ... answering the frosh open the circle and we divvy up the cards for a game of BS ... conservation of energy you can’t go full circle. We get to watch preparations for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  hours just before midnight. Beacon Hill is very quiet for a neighborhood

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  ," the Faculty Houses. The dorm's name of '93 would last for ... see the full-size photo.) That photo is incredible for a lot of

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  gifs) I visited MIT for the first time during CPW, and I came in ... was the right place for me to be pre-med...despite the fact that I would

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  within the media industry, an atypical choice for an MIT student, my

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  /S donated three servers, which formed the ZONE Kerberos realm and the zone AFS ... Kerberos and AFS. Kerberos, named after the three-headed dog guard of Hades (usually seen as the Latin Cerberus), is a protocol for mutual authentication

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert An annual tradition bringing famous bands to campus.

  

  above all else, for most students, Spring Weekend means the Spring Concert ... from the band (if different). For some of these bands, choosing a ... Coffee in Bed") 1989/1984: ‘til tuesday ("Voices Carry") 1990: Psychedelic

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Getting Back to Normal ...with some help from Macklemore

  

  's memorial service for Officer Collier has helped us to heal.  And tonight, we ... for a huge concert. Going back half a century, the MIT Spring Concert ... Concert is not the only venue for major bands on campus (e.g. Nirvana played

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  path to nor desire for avoidance. [annotation note="At apparently one of ... some point, and January is just too dark and depressing for me not to ... a UROP for [annotation note="Independent Activities Period - the month

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Events

  I saw fireworks from the freeway… Happy 4th!

  

  really sounds like an oxymoron to me, but hey, don't knock it til you try ... famous for Smoots. C. MIT Sailing Pavillion Which would you pick

  • by Bryan
  • July 4, 2006