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  A Faculty Dinner We invited our favorite faculty and staff to our hall for an awesome dinner!

  

  lounge for the occasion, and we spent the whole day cooking in the kitchen preparing food for our favorite professors and instructors ... of our GRTs (Graduate Resident Tutors) who live on our hall.  She got

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing

  

  working on his own project, which appeared to be some elaborate three ... Earlier this week I purchased a present for a friend. This friend ... went to danger!awesome. danger!awesome is a laser engraving and cutting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  16.810 Rapid Design and Prototyping 8 days to build an airplane. Intrigued?

  

  presentation for 16.810, we made a short video. Here it is for you to enjoy ... If you're considering MIT, you probably like to build things ... dedicated to LEGOs. I have three brothers, so we racked up quite a few LEGO

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing! !!!!!!!

  

  to go sailing for the first time ever :) MIT Sailing has various days ... was so, so relaxing to be out on Charles, with the gorgeous Boston ... day and a lab report due Thursday and a manual on electrodes to read by

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not your stereotypical sorority girl Tonight is the first night of sorority recruitment!

  

  panhallenic association, and you can click here for more information on general ... are nothing like what the media portrays. I'll try to dispel some popular (and untrue notions) a little later on. First of all, I should just

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  are buffet-style, allowing you to get as much food as you want from several "stations" around the dining hall. Indeed, an easy way to level up ... combinations across different stations. Although they are designed to be self

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now (Actually) Available Online

  

  closing comments on this blog post to concentrate conversation in the open ... Update: the once-in-a-century alignment of Super Pi Day appears to ... . Working to restore flux capacitors...please stand by.  Update 2

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  community is based primarily on what they accomplish, they rarely cease to ... It has only been a couple of months since I left MIT Admissions for a ... official member of the broader MIT community, I find that it is difficult for

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  graduates on to highly selective schools, I wasn't really sure of what I was doing. Largely, I applied to the top schools on the east coast that did ... the college of my choosing. On this second and more thorough trip to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  It's been a while since I've had time to sit down for a long period ... changes to walk, or taking in the occasionally beautiful weather on the ... still thinking of the things I would write for all of you out there who

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  about the eleven years it took him to follow up on his best-selling, six ... disappeared for 11 years, long enough for most readers to assume that, like most ... was kind of mean.) Edited to add: Junot Diaz on Charlie Rose!

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 Numbers

  

  enroll) on record. The numbers won't completely settle for a little ... % international citizens. Many thanks to the International Students Association for ... had expected. More news on the yield and makeup of the class soon

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  This year, for spring break my friend Yida and I decided to head to ... Montreal. Montreal is pretty easy to reach from Boston and as such is a popular spring break destination for MIT students. We decided to visit

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  right now, I'd like to discuss something that's been on my mind for a few ... Timeline. Timeline allows for your friends to basically scroll back through ... useful. So this blog post is an open thread for your thoughts on the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  February(ish) Updates and Notes aka my life in photos and haikus

  

  Now on to the athlete part. This past week has featured some pretty ... bus to Rochester, NY for the first round of the NCAA tournament. If you ... ’s starting to settle down a bit now, but the initial jump from IAP to “SURPRISE

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Funny pictures of me I wear a New Year's party hat. That's funny, right?

  

  to be an actual adult for the night (I turn twenty next week. Yikes ... string he'd been hiding away for that moment and proceeded to spray me ... You want to know the hardest part about this job? Entry titles. It

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  college is how many opportunities you get to live in a new place for a month ... southwest of Seattle. Believe me, we had to work for this view![/caption] And ... , on the ferry to San Juan island.[/caption] I can't express how tragic

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  , Geneva. It seems everyone on campus was trying to get away from the Institute for a bit if they could, some of us at least to the refuge of sleep ... aunts on my father’s side, Aster, used to live in Italy, and we visited

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  this will go on for. The construction has begun at 8am for several consecutive days now and the noise is making it impossible to sleep as I live on ... to lifting up large boulders and dropping them on the ground. So I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I know my calculus… and U2. Bono takes on global poverty, fashion, and Course 18.

  

  for providing their take on the Bono article? And now, your regularly ... 'm on to you, Melinda. In fact, I've kept the 2002 Time cover asking, "CAN ... 's certainly an honor for me to be part of an equation with Bono. I also picked

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005