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• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  from 12-1 in one of the large Tang classrooms, and it ended up being ... expect that the dictator (rational consumer) will give the other student $0 ... price on anything. Heh. That proved to be the perfect segue into our gift

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  me as I cried on and on about failing my first class, the desk workers ... stone clad courtyard it still feels like home. And it will always be my ... was, and how else could I be cool except by living where the cool people

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Movies Emeritus out with the old, in with the older

  

  MIT in 1934 “for all who might be interested in knowing more about the ... , and I thought I'd share them on the blog as well. MIT: The Motion Picture (1992) You may have seen MIT: The Motion Picture on our homepage or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Holidays And some final thoughts before the new year

  

  : Laundry is very important. Neglect it you should not. The workload can be overwhelming, but give it all you got. Everyone’s afraid of failing. In each of ... it’s time for relaxing fun. With the family and friends back home. I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 30, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  exhibit at the Deitch Gallery in New York, inspired by his new movie, Be ... causes all the tapes to be erased. Left to their own devices, the pair is ... just recently came to visit us at the begining of February to screen Be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  of thought to the gift exchange, the following (incomplete) list will ... goes to Xiaoyue Xie '15) Because many MIT undergrads live in the same ... French House. Nous avons beaucoup de traditions. Towards the end of fall

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  be straightened. Engineers decided that the best solution would be to ... Podolski!" cheer. The point of the story is that it ended up being a bit ... "something white," which ended up being the reflection of the sun on a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  Orientation, I will be living on the MIT campus all year! Hooray! Everybody ... 't ride the subway enough for this to be worthwhile, you can just pay each ... stops appear to be in a straight line from each other on the T map, so I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  low number of points because otherwise too many people would fail the ... the following: most intro physics classes and basic physics models will ... 's one i had the misfortune and privilege of taking three classes with

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Speaking of mu…

  

  'm supposed to be one of the young, hip people in the office, but one major way ... : I love living in a city, if for nothing else but the food. Last night ... across the street at a Malaysian restaurant, Penang. Yummy. Then, I went

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  visits me and he can ham it up even more: a) Without fail, the first ... the shop owner for a while, who incidentally happens to be one of the ... impersonation, it was real life). Until graduation, MIT will have to wait for the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  times and be cognizant of them. I don't even remember what the last East ... the Media Lab in the spring, it won't be quite the same. Last night ... 'll always be fond of the memories of me peacefully clacking away at my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  who failed it in the fall. Some courses at MIT have "on" terms and "off ... whenever it can be fit in, so the spring and fall classes are equally ... want to take ice dancing :P The DAPER website says that registration will

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  on Mass Ave. It was days after Breonna Taylor’s killers failed to be ... , and accepting that this is what it will continue to be built on, and ... I expected junior fall as a course 6 to be a challenging semester

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  transfer to my most recent laptop and could only be found in my old Hotmail ... temporarily hate you, they will barely remember the schools, and they'll still ... , which were that a) the school had to be in or near a city, but not

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  – there will be the people you can’t stand and the people you end up cussing ... and sophomore year, will be moving back in next fall, and plan to keep ... fail some exams, would be staying up all night to finish p-sets I didn

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  being told that you were the smartest, most amazing kid ever ever ever ... Due to an Act of God, I am in the shiny new JetBlue terminal at JFK for the next three hours. An Act of God, in this case, refers to one

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  expected it to be, from looking at the pictures and reading the reviews ... scenes. sometimes we'd be brilliant scientists, on the verge of a great ... we'd even be explorers in an unfamiliar land, scouting the territory

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  remember the exact moment when I realized that I had not only failed my very first midterm,  but I had failed it drastically. I remember the disappoint ... the family I had built within my school will disperse. The people I had

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  honest answer was that I had ceased to be pleasantly exhausted by the ... from being able to really enjoy the semester in a variety of ways: I ... confident I will be able to exercise them—after all, I've only dropped two

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022