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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  !) is Thanksgiving day, which is a BIG DEAL in the U.S. Considering the ... cooked meals centered around a turkey, football (the American kind, not ... new every day.) Macy's is a huge department store, the main branch of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memory of a Greatly Beloved Establishment rip the stud subway

  

  wondering what all the fuss is about, but let me tell you: the Subway was, by ... Dunks? Without a question, the only place the Stud has left to its name is ... My fellow readers of the MIT Admissions blogs, a great tragedy has

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  the Ascend MAX TNT—a name which, by the way, is not something you should ... 's flagship computer club is SIPB, or the Student Information Processing Board ... the woods. (As an aside, MIT's building-numbering system is confusing

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  the conclusion that it is ok to not know everything, including my future ... this much intensity. For the first time, I feel like my life is sort of ... the United States. My supervisor is an MIT alum who attended college in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  is not the entire class, those few people feel the most prominent. When ... the normal amount, it is not enough. Because you struggle more, you must ... . it will feel like a race, it is not. Throughout my first year at MIT

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A little something while you wait. Don't plan on doing work until we finish this.

  

  work, and life is good. But in the meantime, you probably want to do anything but work, so that is why I propose the following: an MIT Admissions ... actually be able to do it. The game is pretty self-explanatory: you start

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  that it is not a big deal. but to pull out of the details of the context ... right now    a lot of the times, i am my first invalidator. it is ... sad? why is it that i don’t feel entitled to sorrow?   the first

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Better than a Ryan Cabrera poster Want a Warhol in your dorm room?

  

  Want a Warhol in your dorm room? Today is the final exhibition day ... Andy Warhol Each piece in the collection is framed and signed by a ... within the MIT community, but the annual fall showing -- before it is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Extended to January 3 We have extended the RA deadline. Happy Holidays!

  

  January 3. We strongly suggest that you not wait until the very last moment ... over the holidays and is, even as I write, busily processing all of the ... MIT Admissions has extended the deadline for applying for regular

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 3, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Dora the Explorer My long-lost twin has suspiciously wrinkly forearms.

  

  , but she says it is not easy. Thanks for the great banner design, Zaira ... Texas, by the border), designed this banner. She is considering studying ... , science, reading, and, yes, singing in the shower. Currently, she is trying

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  to go to graduate school, and the rest is history. That anecdote ... joy in obsession. Another reward of specialization is the community ... , teaching, volunteering. It’s not that “hard” in the sense that over time I’ve built up a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  This is what happens when we don’t do work Here is the infinite rollercoaster of fun I promised not to take you on.

  

  generally not the variety of nerd that seems to stick in society's collective subconscious. CPW, while certainly not farfetched, is a heavily time ... hand, life is good. Except for the part where I need to start three

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Update The Waitlist Committee has finalized decisions and has emailed all waitlisted applicants.

  

  , and to not admit the remaining 530. Unfortunately, the committee was not ... We are writing with a quick followup to Matt's recent entry. The Waitlist Committee has finalized decisions and is currently emailing all

  • by Decisions
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Infinite Corridor, set alight or, why dozens of people were crammed into a tiny stairwell at 4:19:53 PM EST

  

  best not written about on the blogs. Some of these phenomena can be written about on the blogs, though, and this is one of them. The central ... a HASS major) on campus, the Infinite Corridor is an 825-foot

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 10, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  am leaving so much, so many, behind. but that is not the branch my ... citizenship and devotion to the welfare of mit". it is nice to know that not ... we all can do the things that makes us happiest. it is not inherently

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  yourself. 24. Self-confidence is crucial -- but it's not the same thing as ... This is a list I made at the end of my freshman year in the reading ... . Caffeine is great in a pinch, but eventually the piper must be paid. 2. It

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Times

  

  Institute of Technology, is the leading theoretician in the emerging field of ... sheet of paper. He believes the form he is holding is a hyperbolic ... to do," he says. Dr. Demaine is not a man to be easily defeated by a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  mind the other day: Poetry is important for the same reason that a bullet is destructive. Perhaps I should elaborate. A bullet is not ... . It is the smallness of the bullet that gives it power. Likewise

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  , which is the second-best time of the semester. mit has several a capella groups, and this time of the semester is when they all give their ... not even go to all the ones i wanted to, like next sing or the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  🫠. But because the point of using only simple words is NOT to make ... my life. It is my favorite break time of the entire year. But it is not ... ="testsolvers"]game-problem-checking-people[/annotation] figure out where the problem is not well-made, and help it get fixed. If a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024