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  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  decision, your hard work is not time wasted. The college application process ... let my college decision consume me, free myself from the burden that is ... A year ago today, I was anxiously crouched over my laptop on the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  Munroe. Generally the comic is true to its tagline. It's nerdy, it's cute ... crippling rule of the military junta, the nation is yet again reeling from its ... the vigil. If this is the kind of thing that matters to you, you should

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  film, Monkey Dance, is a documentary about the lives of three Cambodian ... her next film, which is an adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake ... appeal to some of you... The (27th annual!) LSC Sci-Fi Marathon is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  certain nights, and just generally not getting enough sleep. Also, the ... more in love with them and more and more out of the not-love I'm in with Windows. (Mac is like the mysterious lover sweeping me off my feet and out

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / Events

  #WeAreMIT SMASH helped jumpstart an intense conversation between students and administration

  

  the SMASH board as a representative from the MedLinks executive board. MedLinks is the student group at MIT that "links" or provides a midpoint ... information was/is. Anyway, back to the We Are MIT event. Overall, I think it

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences

  

  got is covering most of the cost of the week, but not quite all, but I ... background, TRB is the biggest transportation conference in the country ... Transportation is a much smaller conference put on at the end of the week by the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  using accommodations to take breaks in the middle of the school day is not ... for the course is to pick a spot in nature relatively near to Boston, go ... cherry blossom trees bear not only flowers, but freedom. -- On the second

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing

  

  Serious Business LLC and MIT squash coach. The premise of danger!awesome is ... , metal, and wood. Of course, it is not necessarily limited to these ... I felt like it needed something more. So I walked down the street and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute

  

  boathouse was locked, so practice was cancelled. The day is turning into the ... the four-ish inches we currently have is enough to close down the ... now that the Institute is closed, I have the expanse of an unplanned day

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Message From Ben And Matt ...regarding the recent news of Marilee's resignation.

  

  asking why MIT didn't accept Marilee's resignation quietly. The answer is ... Hi friends, This story will likely be all over the news soon, so we ... when we've had the chance to digest it further, but right now we

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  of the day is that I got to eat lunch with MIT President Hockfield ... this is very cool in and of itself -- there are not too many schools in ... -- "Impossible is Nothing"), and the way we're taught to think rather than

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  sports, the most in Division III, and football is certainly not the big dog ... our football team is a true Division III team, and the players play for ... names of courses, is numbered. Even one of the marching band's football

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  ’m still not emotionally prepared for it.   but, again, the renovation is ... glance outside. it’s not even 5 pm, but the darkness is crushing. it’s also ... could tell you about Ring the Alarm, the dance show that my team is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hits from the ‘90s ♪ Why can't we be friends? ♫

  

  and potentially prompting them to not apply to MIT. The truth of the matter is, if I haven't met you, I'm not your friend. I don't want you ... see the need to sugar-coat any of this. If this is your first time to

  • by Snively '11
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  , and send in the form to be run in the housing lottery. The form is ... runs. Freshmen are assigned a temporary room The room is almost always ... dorm. August, a few days after that -- The readjustment lottery is run

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  Colombian restaurant near the Boston Logan Airport. Punto Rojo is quite far ... diner on Mass Ave near MIT, with the twist that everything they serve is ... name of the restaurant does not help at all..."]almost like a drug den

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  Programming," the[annotation note="Why is it the second if the course name says ... I texted my friend, "I feel like my frustration with 6.009 over the ... should make that a blog post!" So here it is, a lil post about how crazy 6

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  minds, and the early action deadline about a week away, I figure this is a ... Fouche as they play Jazz music during the Bayou Bash BBQ. This event is ... Night is the annual variety show fundraiser for Alzheimer's Disease. Every

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story Of @MITStudents as told by the person behind it

  

  Our office is not on Twitter (although our bot is), but 89 other ... communicate what life is like for MIT students: the good, the bad, and the meh ... them back out to the best of our ability. If your student group is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  worked last summer, is the largest corporate logo in the world. So I ... it in Germany, but döner is seriously the most delicious thing on earth. It's like a gyro, except the meat of indeterminate origin is slow

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007