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• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  -campus living in the fall that there would be a lot of restrictions. Things will be different, they emphasized—there will be biweekly testing, daily ... without planning it in advance"]happened to be on the same flight as a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  and the void. The world feels like what can be best described as ... being able to tell longer-form stories and play around with the media of ... you will probably feel existential at some point i will probably do the

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  lucrative ring contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a ... design a ring to be used as the Standard Technology Ring. The committee ... To go along with Chris' entry about excitement for the unveiling of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  -five biology programs, and my training will be excellent at all of them; what I ... -affiliated housing? What are the different rooming options? When will I know where I'm living, and will that place be a community or just a bunch of people who

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  promised to be or maybe you didn’t but i stand by the tree with no rope but a ... of my presence is wafting through the air so you will know where to ... the winter will let lose my wings, unfreeze and breathe and fly far far

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  The only course that comes remotely close to being as badass as aero ... cut into it. The winning team will have the greatest average max height ... at the launch pad. Will it live up to its name? Will it make it through

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bachelor’s & Master’s in 5 Years An attractive option offered to undergraduates in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

  

  This will be the first in a series of entries focused on my ... 'd like to focus in the future. The topics are wide-ranging and can be ... will talk about some of the available international and study

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 15, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  -Snowman League, was attached to the traffic cone. Let it be known, to whomever maliciously assaults snowmen, we will never back down and we will fight for the ... the snowman was actually going to be. We packed some snow on it

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  experience it all. I have no idea what the rest of the semester will be like ... . Will it be the sense of community and family of living on my floor, or ... would be robbed of all the things I had been looking forward to and maybe

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Tracking now available You can check the status of your application components now on MyMIT.

  

  , so as long as you get us the copies in a timely manner, there will be ... the status of your application components. The Application Tracking will ... will follow up with the testing agency. If we are missing your TOEFL

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  school students will be leaving home to go to a university knowing little ... well on the fly, and will hopefully inspire you to do a little kitchen ... will kill the cultures in your yogurt. When the milk is still warm but

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  credits will be appended onto your transcript. Moreover, you need to meet ... additional credits, you will qualify for sophomore standing at the end of your ... would be taken by MIT for credit), you will get 12 units for 18

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  . - On the flipside, said e-book reader will be so convenient and I know I ... ordering an e-book reader (the brand of which I will not specify but you ... tradition-bending innovations will arise in the upcoming year?? brb, figuring

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  . GPI operates under the goal that WE can be the generation that ... . A friend and I are going to be chalking the sidewalks with poverty ... registration form goes live, I mean. Which will ideally be sooner than later

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT students launch Camp Kesem Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children whose parents have had cancer.

  

  . The program is open to all children ages 6-13 in the Boston area. I will be one of many counselors who will supervise campers in August. “Kids ... camp. Toasting marshmallows over a campfire, playing capture the flag

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Math Women Rock k + 8 = awesome

  

  competed in 2009. The next Math Prize for Girls competition will be held ... Women Rock, but let's broaden the pool of rockstars a bit. The Math Prize for Girls is the country's preëminent math competition for young women

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  International Selection Day 2

  

  about the students! Decisions are not yet final; the committee's decisions will be checked and reviewed over the next few days as we draw ever ... international students.   Today was the second and final day of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  's possible to be inundated with work yet happy at the same time. (5) It's my ... to be sending several up several prayers during the course of this ... is going to be my favorite class this semester. The one downside is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  simple but meaningful, I will be proud to wear it for the rest of my life ... and will be held at the Boston Public Library. It promises to be a very ... -growing infestation, one rat is chosen out of the many scurrying about campus to be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  learned? How will I make the most of the (million and one) opportunities that MIT has to offer? He's the kind of person will read Marcus Aurelius ... . Taking advantage of new opportunities is what will change yours. 2. Be

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013