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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  humanities major, won't it be easier for me to get in? A. Nope. Wouldn't that ... epithet. Q. (related to previous) Do you spend all your time studying? A ... Recently, in my wanderings around the internet (that is to say, the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  "shopping period", in which they get to sit in on classes and decide if they ... , so we get a long time to decide our final schedules. I've been ... really taken any official hip hop in my life. College is a great time to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  I’ve learned to accept that my life can be in shambles. Being a human ... place where it occurred; I remember the directions to my aunt’s house in ... can sit and watch the moisture in the air fluoresce on a foggy night

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  find your country's organizational information here. In 2014, almost a ... computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more ... math teachers, you should consider signing up; if you're a student or a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  -love way of saying, "You've only been there a week; you'll get used to it ... “like me” at the lower rungs of a large bank: Learn to swallow your pride ... points if my job allows me to write in a format that’s not just code or

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  are an adventurer ascending a spire in order to slay it. Your cards ... your own deck of cards, separate from other players' decks. In a ... a set amount of energy or money that you can use to play your cards

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  greatly. It is a special MIT gem. Talk to your family. Stay in touch with ... your MIT ID early by traveling to Boston with a subsidized MBTA pass ... cost of food to 1/25th of the meal plan charge (if you live in a cook

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  what used to be (and in some ways, still is) a very powerful word. But I ... to these very blogs, as - quite simply - a labor of love. Everyone in ... other side, as a blogger! In addition to The Tubes, MIT also sends the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  have to pack up your life from the past four years.  No more of this, "I'll deal with it later and just throw everything in a box". Graduating means getting serious and deciding what to keep.  It also means unearthing things

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Guests on The Colbert Report All the MIT guests Stephen Colbert has had on his show.

  

  ) sent out an email with a link to a retweet by @cmsw_mit of a tweet by @MITListCenter of a link to an article on SPECTRVM which linked to Stephen ... media, on giving laptop computers to the poorest children in the most

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night ... idea it was to get that close).   The world often gives us a gentle ... floating safe in slimy pink buffer instead of withering into a translucent

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  The sun always seems to hover near eye level. It gets a bit ... over, you've gotten more work than you know what to do with, and a ... , get about 8-9 hours of sleep every night, even at MIT. But you're

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  schedule out there. Tests introduce a whole new variable in time management ... a few weeks ago, and asked us to apply some of the concepts we learned in class to real case studies, such as the merger between US Airways

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  , you will get a sense of how much things cost. If you’re new to buying ... ’s much easier to carry groceries on your back than in your arms. When loading groceries into your backpack, make sure to put more durable items in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  "]P/NR.[/annotation] And it was, in some ways. PNR definitely made it easier to get into the ... in a weird time zone, so I didn’t really have anyone to work together ... how much effort to put into understanding a subject also came up in 18

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  the airport and time to head back home. I haven't been back in a year ... to exam, deadline to deadline. It was nice to get a change of scenery ... to go on the last day of classes, a week early. And after my last class

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  to for a while in an online AIM chatroom for accepted students, and I ... four staples later I was in a taxi (my first!) on my way back to the ... , a sweatshirt, a hat—heck, even my non-existent MIT shoes—inspires in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  viewed it in a different light. We then contemplated how important getting ... assess your biases and past experiences in a new context and potentially ... this in some respect; you're chilling with some friends late at night

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A…an…uh…a cappella concert? MIT's got non-Petri dish culture, too

  

  A cappella is one of those things that is really weird to type.  It's one phrase - "a cappella", Italian for "in the manner of the church ... phrases like "an a cappella group."  Or "many a cappella groups." (if you're

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  For applicants affected by natural disasters

  

  possible in these situations. When you’re able to do so, reach out to us at ... If you’re wanting to apply Early Action (EA) to MIT this year but ... ’s understandable that there’s a lot on your mind right now, and the last thing we

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 25, 2017