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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  port of call - namely, the offices or dorm rooms of anyone willing to ... more," he said, "It's getting past the point of saying it's okay to be ... whom one might not initially consider to be allies. Not only was Abigail

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  even thought, hey, everyone will be wearing duct tape. What can I do to ... frosh cook dinner for the floor. I happen to be the frosh who made the ... knew two of my best friends would be there, so I caved to peer pressure

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  the undergrad population, making myself vulnerable to starting a flame ... dream: to make a hopscotch down Vassar St, or the Simfinite. Anyways, here ... other friends, and I descended to begin the odyssey. We started brewing up

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  tried to make the distinction. One way to think of it would be this: academic and co-curricular awards will usually be "scholastic." Extracurricular awards will usually be "non-scholastic." However, an important

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  , well, random activities at :17 past the hour. Seventeen is supposed to be ... . I arrived at CPW on Friday morning and went to the opening lecture ... tools and devices that were redesigned to be inexpensive enough for people

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day!!! 3.14159!

  

  (a course 6 Honors Society) will be hosting an additional event. Q ... .14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510..................... How many digits do you know? More to come later today about how MIT ... ? ------------------------------------------ Update (PI/2007 5:35 PM) So this year, the Undergraduate Math Association

  • by Bryan
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  coaster, or the Viking ship, or the rotating see-saw. But we were not to be ... room or outside to the fort that is beginning to be built. The floor has ... the ballpit. Who wants to be in charge of the ballpit. The room is

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  -rich website and given free rein to make it as cool as possible. That’s why the ... gets to the heart of why I declared Computer Science as my major—you can ... the more imminently I should be heading to bed, the less likely I am to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  The kindest cut Blog and night and red all over.

  

  will be healing under the watchful eyes of gay icon Spongebob Squarepants ... the dishes, I cut the dickens out of my finger. Mad props to Mitra for ... waited for the bleeding to subside. Props also to the Medlinks program at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  doubt that any of the pizza places at which I will probably be eating will ... liked the title and couldn't bring myself to change it. Actually, this ... from my house to my office, and although the Rhein river is a little

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  single soul. Not one person. It is never like that in the fall. To make ... ritual, and I will miss not having PPM during the semester. Speaking of ... you to parse through the poorly-developed Wikipedia pages I linked for

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  interested in AI in the first place. I'll be lying if I say I'm not a little ... to Film Studies [21L.011] Archery, for the first quarter of the ... of the Communication Requirement in your major. Not only do you learn

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  heading towards the ground, and soon I will be asked to store my computer. I ... , 5). Eventually I came to terms with the fact that some days I may not ... background that I did not have. But the material was too incredible to quit

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  good at answering over the past couple of months. So I've decided to ... you're a fan of alpine skiing, the World Cup finals are being held in Andorra in a few days, so you'll be able to see it in on TV! [caption id

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  [/caption] I hadn't planned to be in Boston for the summer. Originally, I had ... ="67433" /] It was certainly new to be living in Boston proper, and not in ... players involved and the type of work that is being done. I'm going to be

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  school students from across the world will be competing at the Intel ... you go through adds to your being in some way or form. You essentially ... foundation for the confidence you carry. And your low points remind you to take

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  meat on the farm and tried to keep it up after I left, but I wound up ... think the key, for me, is to trick myself. I can’t think of sushi and then reconcile myself to the idea of never eating it again, ever. But I can say

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  , stepdad, and four siblings in Louisville, Kentucky, and will be there for ... . Compared to most people in the South, I certainly don't. But in my first ... ". I promise I'm not making this up. In the South, "coke" isn't just a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  am here, ready and willing to be the poster child for "people who get ... know I'm not the only Jerseyan to say this: Newark is one of the worst ... Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  't pretty or cute enough to be one or the other. But the fact that I ... ="Introduction to Solid State Chemistry. Satisfies the Chemistry GIR."]3 ... the furthest limits that I’ve ever taken myself to. Looking back, I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022