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  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  's faculty - and what's actually here on the website is only a small sample of ... , it almost seems as if campus is constantly brimming over from the sheer ... a college professor is, I think, something along the lines of an

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  succinct description (borrowed from the official Lose The Game website ... of the game is to forget that it exists. It's one of the most popular ... whom is about as obsessed with xkcd as I am, so he showed it to me on his

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aquatarkus Why I turned in a half-finished 10.37 problem set.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The landscape of the Charles River around MIT is almost ... Charles is a very dirty and very old river. As Wikipedia tells us: Despite ... of the river is now considered safe for swimming. Health risks remain

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  I live in Burton-Conner, which is a cook-for-yourself dorms, but I ... [annotation note="Independent Activities Period is a four week period in January ... [annotation note="!!! time is going by alarmingly fast"]finishing our first semester

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  different angles, and my  Single Variable Calculus class is no exception. I think the true definition of drinking from a firehose is to be learning ... always loved math is probably working in my favour as well! During

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  website. The cool thing about these classes is that students from all levels ... IAP is a concept I didn’t really understand until last month, oops. The way that MIT’s academic calendar works is that the Fall semester is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  "The mother of all adventures, the Mongol Rally is an 8000 mile dash ... , there is no carefully marked course, there are no professional drivers ... Mongol rally is a charity event raising money for some fantastic

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  , I know). This is the class website; don't worry if you don ... . [website] 14.74 is Development Economics (or "Foundations: Dev Policy"). I ... -day schedules! The math department is located in Building 2. In my previous three

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  website. Another reason was this magical thing called "Web 2.0." Web 2.0, where anybody can put anything on the Internet and everybody is equal ... revolutionize the way colleges advertise. MIT is no longer a photoshopped ad, it

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gustavo Dudamel Conducts MITSO! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Because we are THAT good.

  

  Newletter and MIT News website. Music is more than just notes and rhythm. It is about expressing emotions, feelings, moods, and ideas. This is the ... emotion are necessary. There is indeed a huge difference between simply

  • by ARTalk
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  The Next Big Mailing (NBM) is on its way out the door. Formally known ... Coupon, PDF] The last item is the one that generates the most excitement ... until they send their first email from their MIT account. This day is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  .” Not that almost every week at MIT isn’t one of those weeks (is that one ... thought we’d go into a part of MIT that is seldom seen by public eyes. You can’t find it on the website, they don’t show you on the tours and you

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  (who is suddenly not so little -- he can drive! weird). Soon my family ... fireplace. My actual purpose today is to talk a little bit about selecting a ... any major. A list of degree programs is here (I find this list SUPER

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  in me. It is a space of gentleness, optimism, and unfamiliar trust ... wisdom I can't make up for myself. Readers, what do you think? Is self ... not helped you? If self-help books don't actually help, is it a waste of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  designed the new SoS website and forthcoming new mit.edu. I like working with Upstatement, and I think their new website for us will be very good. Indeed, I ... is something I've been thinking of as "MITAdmissions Labs

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  . The website tells you what MIT is looking for and how to get here, in as ... I don’t have to do work yet (although this is work; also, according to my Writing Advisor, “thus” is a very math major word

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The Music Man is my least favorite musical ever. The only reason I even like Meredith Willson is because he wrote "It ... subject. This entry is gonna be mostly pictures. So, like the good traveler

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  I like to think my lack of formal diction is relatable and shows that ... fun relatable way, which is a more powerful tool for me. [caption id ... Ciudad de Mexico, where a friend of mine has family. We visited her family

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  This is the first in a series of a couple of posts I wanted to do on ... first move in, one of the first steps in making East Campus your home is ... people can testify to that. East Campus culture is very heavy on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  mentors gathered in the conference room for a final learning session and de ... awesome people together. Sure, part of the group is reuniting next week for ... Mo Cast and Directors Another awesome group of people is from IAP (January

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016