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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  super hero group is a bit easier than getting in. Bullwinkle Moose Yes ... background: MIT apparently leads the pack of Ivy+ institutions in Facebook page ... they're whining about is that in 2006, the writer of Doonesbury put up a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  Weekend, but to start your academic and life voyage as a freshman this fall ... friends and family, perhaps visiting your favorite childhood haunts in a ... crazy, right? – because you want to get away from your parents as soon as

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  Stress, More Success: A New Approach to Guiding Your Teen Through College ... from the past week, with a selection from the piece; click the link to read or listen to the entire story. In the New York Times: Her Mission

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  motivation, and you put in a little time and effort, you’re sure to find people ... , you have to put yourself out there in a lot of small ways. You have to sit in the lounge and talk to people, ask one of your classmates if they

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  absolutely sure that I had a snowball’s chance in hell of getting the position ... ’s often a struggle to be just average in most of my technical classes. That ... declared a double major in CMS (Comparative Media Studies) so that I can get

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m still alive And I missed entry #2000 by one! Blargh!

  

  So where have I been? Short answer: doing work. Or just at work. I just got a UROP doing chemistry and molecular biology-related stuff in ... needed to be posted on the blogs. Expect a real post from me this weekend

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  walking down the Infinite and can’t wait to get back to your dorm to catch a ... ."]Washlava[/annotation] app to start the washing machine, you get a text message from your ... floor of the Infinite. You glance at your phone, to see a 4am Slack

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  Whether you blog for a job and get paid by the hour, or you're ... preview of what you're discussing. What better way to do this than with a ... anyway. Bonus points if your song's in a non-English language, or if it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  -needed arguments were raised in the early stages of the battle, not to mention a few ... ) contribute to scientific progress (FREE PHONES) by participating in a study in ... say that my participation in this program about which I've told you a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  and journal and plan read a little bit, daydream a little get to work ... home to Oregon and New Mexico and a stint in Stellenbosch, South Africa ... progress you made iii) how that progress contributes to your overall

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  stress in the form of a sticky note! I had to put it over an already ... like using physical agendas more. For one, it’s fun to buy a new one each ... plastic pocket to put in any design you want. So, I printed out one of my

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Tale of 8 Instagrams Low resolution, high flavor

  

  can change from pleasant to ominous in a matter of minutes. And that ... Once upon a time, I developed an Instagramming problem and started to ... retreated, and I woke up to sunshine and a gentle old man painting the Boston

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  in a few ways. First, I've been known to come in before class to get ... to getting a debit or credit card in college when we have TechCash? Oh ... a subject in which you took a HASS-D, although it can be, if you're

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week In Review An end-of-year freshman advising event, and my friend's 6.115 final project.

  

  ! As his associate advisor for a group of six freshmen, I got to tag ... ... lamb, shrimp, all raw... you cook it yourself on a skewer in a marinade ... really good. Those fruits were skewered, dipped, and consumed in short

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 18, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  A Very McGann Christmas Happy holidays.

  

  The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. On Christmas Eve, Santa visits our annual family gathering, with 40+ McGanns in ... always gets all gussied up for the holidays. It's great to be able to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  (x/2) of them are getting done; a semester of scraping by in everything ... so much that i will never get the chance to do, and that hurts in an ... good for me!) and feeling in my bones that this life is a good place to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  Minesweeper by 10 seconds (to 120 seconds)!! we found a supernova in a nice, big ... fading part of the curve, they may be too faint to see in our images for a ... tragic. after meeting, we continued to work in the conference room for a

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Things to Do in Cambridge and Somerville places and events, illustrated

  

  in July. If you're into modern music, art, or dance, and want to see a ... children is so rare on a college campus that it's refreshing to see them dancing to kids' tunes. I like to come for the crafts and get stuck at a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 15, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  in course 6/9 related things I'd highly recommend it, to get a taste of ... a life in the tech industry." "MAS.863 - how to make almost anything ... gratifying to connect with your region of origin through a deep and analytical

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  raising live chickens in my yard. I pulled out my camera to get a shot of ... horizon. Dim Sum! If you're ever mind-numbingly bored enough to pop open a ... Principle. A few blocks later, you're dodging taxis in Chinatown and on the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008