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  Special October Events

  

  Stuart, MIT's sexuality educator, will be on hand to MC the game, answer ... plenty to keep me busy. Here are some of the many events from this time of ... about sex? Want to prove once and for all who the true players are in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  outreach to students for the season. After this, I'll head back to the office ... . Track the status of your application at my.mit.edu. Students like to call ... mail day of the early action season, so I encourage you to get your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  way to reveal it, and had decided to make her speech on an impulse. The ... This is the first of my "entries-on-request" - as you probably ... -related topics to write about. Today's entry was requested by Anonymous (come on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Walter Lewin ESG Lecture Oh, you know, only one of the most famous Physics Professors of all time

  

  Earlier this year I had the pleasure to meet Walter Lewin at an ESG ... to the ONLY reason someone wouldn't like physics, Walter Lewin never ... sat with us and answered any question we threw his way. Taking the most

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  There's a story my mother likes to tell about the time, soon after I ... , mom     One of the best ways to learn is to teach, both ... first came to MIT I started teaching through SPLASH, one component of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  Kerry, Ireland. It’s the launching point to walk the Kerry Way, a nine ... to Killarney. I hiked about 4 miles of the Kerry Way before it began to ... to 23% when I charged it in the bathroom of an old abbey, and had

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  we were asked to do it four days before the event, so we had three days ... accident and on purpose). Besides committing to MIT, joining Spinning Arts ... real than the one you sit around toasting marshmallows in on a camping

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  Freudian terror. Flash back to the real world, where school is still kind of ... -explained Wikipedia entry as the first Google hit on the topic. But instead, when I look ... equivalent class bases their curriculum on it. The omnipotent hand of Google

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / Events

  What now suckas!? That's right. I have a brass rat. What.

  

  and you see somebody with a brass rat on then you know they went to MIT ... get started with this entry, let me dust the cobwebs out of your head ... , at the very beginning of the semester. Since then, all the sophomores

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  hopped on the zoom call i felt such massive déjà vu back to my freshman ... due. — i signed up for 18.701 because it was the right thing for me to ... .701 became a way for me to start learning pure mathematics to the degree that i

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 Numbers

  

  had expected. More news on the yield and makeup of the class soon ... highest overall yield (the percentage of admitted students who decide to enroll) on record. The numbers won't completely settle for a little

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Simply Brothers Finding brothers and brotherhood in MIT's fraternities.

  

  to the contrary, I'm the only guy out of four children. That's right: I ... say the L-word on this blog?), I won't deny that some small part of me ... came here. When I accepted the offer to join Phi Kappa Sigma, I knew that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  while the doctor listens to my lungs and winces. I went on antibiotics ... throw down the anchor. I could revisit what I knew to be true. Looking back on the post, I think its ridiculous. I think it is needlessly

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  fraction of the most difficult course at my school. A course on American ... , essays, tests, revisions-- to and fro like clockwork. When the bell sounded for the end of the period no one stood up; instead, heads bent to clear

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The only living boy in New York I get all the news I need from The Colbert Report.

  

  's Lohengrin. Thanks to Zach for that random fact at the suggestion of a "barbarian wedding." There's going to be a great entry about all the fun Mitra ... stories about getting out the vote at the grass-roots level, I'm going to do

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  I was looking at the calendar a few days ago and thought to myself ... day. You can pray for 36, but it isn't going to happen. One of the best ... budget your time. In high school, although I could be out working on the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  Hey all - On the night admissions came out (two nights ago), my good ... 'll give you two sentences to stop reading. The rest of this post will be ... success. You can go to a community college and still end up at the top of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  presentation in the same week, I'd never been so behind on work. For Thanksgiving ... telling me to look up. The moon, jupiter, and venus in a right triangle ... . To see The coming together of things.   Then Tuesday at 1pm I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…

  

  people go on to write their ideas out. The minority that does go to the ... just put the writing off. "Just one more day…I'll get to it ... -drawn-from-a-hat prompt had to do with parallel universes. But the best part, at least for

  • by ARTalk
  • March 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  awesome, what's not to love about the combination? So here it is, *groan ... * For me, it was really awesome getting the chance to work in a lab and to ... . It meant that I got to work on something that I got excited just

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010