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where they feel best. Detailed descriptions of the undergraduate residence halls are available on the Housing site.
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FAQ / Academics and research
What is the MIT Energy Initiative?
The MIT Energy Initiative is a platform for highly focused energy-related activity at MIT. The program includes research, education, campus energy management, and outreach programs that cover all areas of energy supply and -
FAQ / Academics and research
What does the D-Lab do?
D-Lab is building a global network of innovators to design and disseminate technologies that meaningfully improve the lives of people living in poverty. The program’s mission is pursued through interdisciplinary courses -
Blog / Events
Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art
the phone. A tall, tattooed man walks in wearing a skintight red devil ... order something, then walks up to the man working the register, throws his arms in the air, and yells: "I'm SATAN!" The man at the register looks -
Blog / MIT Life
The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs
I’ve gotten into the habit of keeping graveyards for my writing—little, dedicated spaces for my sentences and paragraphs that don’t make the final cut ... forever. It’s as the old saying goes, you know the one about killing your -
Blog / MIT Life
DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO
RAHHHH IT SNOWED AGAIN!!! As the blogs’ resident snow enthusiast, I consider it my sacred duty to announce the [annotation note="i.e. the first one where snow actually collected on the ground and that I was awake for -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"
Last Friday night at around 2 am I finally got around to visiting the "Murals of Senior Haus" exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery in the second floor of the student center. This exhibit was put together by -
Blog / Events
#NoBanNoWall
the members of the MIT community: The Executive Order President Trump ... the United States is already having an impact on members of our ... are also keeping close watch on the overall situation and exploring the -
Blog / Challenges
Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...
their rooms and in the libraries and delve into deep bouts of sadness. The cats are taking the hit from it the most - we've spent a lot of time ... finals week. My hall has a lot of really awesome traditions, and the -
Blog / Events
Admitted Student Gathering Thank you MIT Club of Northern NJ for throwing a great one!
Last year, the admitted students of the Class of 2017 got invitations ... prefrosh, current MIT students, and MIT Alumni. The one closest to me was hosted by the MIT Club of Northern New Jersey. As the only accepted MIT -
Blog / Events
Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.
Every year, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus comes ... the best engineering school in the world—we have a circus live behind ... clarify: it’s not really the circus hosting that we look forward to. It -
Blog / Athletics
MIT is going to pump you up! A bit about a cool new fitness program called getfit@mit
Have any of you read “The Idea Factory: Learning to Think at MIT”? If not, then I’d recommend it. The author, Pepper White, got his Masters (in MechE!) from MIT in 1984 and the book is about his educational -
Blog / Events
Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.
So this weekend, East Campus hosted the Bad Ideas Weekend, which can ... about tolerance here! Just wanted to point out that contrary to what the ... event. Friends, this is the Green Building, home to EAPS -
Blog / MIT Life
Come Together What do you believe in?
the hypothesis "wanting something doesn't make it real", we find one physically significant counter-example to this premise. Let's start from the ... Munroe. Generally the comic is true to its tagline. It's nerdy, it's cute -
Blog / Admissions
…More CPW The last of my photos from the weekend.
times. "Is MIT really like CPW?" The answer is, yes and no. Yes, in the sense that, I believe, for the most part, the MIT culture is well conveyed. You get a sense of what it is we do at MIT, how we play, see the -
Blog / Hacks
Another hack Snow and hacks and exams.
to know if you have to buy the TV, or do you rent it or... ? The TV is ... close to the amount of brain-shocking work that your two math classes will ... more cool! Haven't you ever read Mollie's favorite column in the Tech -
Blog / Academics & Research
Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.
on the chalkboard: Now, I wasn't really paying that close attention at the time because I had to finish this problem, due in less than four ... Minor, making special note of the soprano's oblique motion against the -
Blog / Admissions
Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.
, got coffee in the lobby, and checked out of the Hyatt (still no sign of ... info session the night before and it was so amazing that they didn't need ... Alison Burr, the GC at Loomis. I did my best to explain our selection -
Blog / Hacks
Hacks and meta-hacks
A few nights ago, I was walking down the Infinite Corridor with two of my hall's freshmen, when one of them noticed something odd in the ... the wall. You can't really see anything in that picture. But what my -
Blog / Admissions
Bienvenidos a Miami Updates from South Florida.
lucky enough to secure the Clark Educational Center at South Miami Hospital for the meeting, thanks to one of our Educational Counselors who works at the hospital. It's a great space, and the hospital served some