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  Your college application motivation soundtrack for October write those personal essays! submit those early apps! get PUMPED UP

  

  Last month, Petey posted a motivational soundtrack for the month of September. A lot of y'all seemed to like it, so we made another one for October! This month's theme is to get hyped up and get shit done! :) Give

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  dying to check that fateful webpage sometime in the middle of December ... to upperclassmen as a warning not to mack on the frosh, Newton's Third Law dictates that it applies to the frosh as well. An important note

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  I've never been to Seattle before. One of the things I love about college is how many opportunities you get to live in a new place for a month ... Seattle because I wanted to try something new. I'd heard from many people

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

  Spotlight: MIT stands with the people of all nations we are one MIT

  

  weekend.     The purpose of this homepage is to reaffirm MIT ... , President Maclaurin began his tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more ... the world.” To achieve this ideal, MIT provided admissions pamphlets in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 13, 2018
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  . Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have complicated feelings that you don't know what to call

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  that description was actually a love story. They somehow manage to blend ... Vacuums 2017″ or sales around the internet. I read this just to read this ... relevant to my life/things I would actually buy or not!) So I thought today

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  , and artificial intelligence to improve video games, e-sports, healthcare ... to get follow-on investments as part of their seed round (up to an ... 've been involved with the Game Lab and VR@MIT before, so it was exciting to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  least one of us knew left and right--students going to London, Iceland, 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

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  i contributed to in my urop at the center for civic media:   ... from mit. even when you're not on leave. i went to a documentary play about race in education and the school-to-prison pipeline, called notes

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  . Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have complicated feelings that you don't know what to call

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  There were many wonderful applicants for Early Action this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down a large number of ... open forum for you to talk and shake it off together. We understand

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  theory is about making messy systems behave the way you want them to behave ... class in space systems engineering) have led to real systems for ... to understand the world, but trying to understand how other people make

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

  after winter and before summer, in which vegetation begins to appear, in the northern hemisphere from March to May and in the southern hemisphere from September to November 2. a resilient device, typically a helical

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students

  

  community. Today I'd like to take a look at Dorm Room Fund, a venture fund ... partners and scour their campuses for the most innovative student startups to ... a lot of grad student startups, as DRF isn't only limited to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  . Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some ... what to call; that's okay too.    We'll

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  There were many wonderful applicants for Early Action this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down a large number of ... open forum for you to talk and shake it off together. We understand

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  ) As part of my weekly Boston Enrichment Trip, I ventured today to the ... books from as early as the 1400s to as recent as the 1980s, but ... remains a mystery to me (though I did try to find a pattern in the prices

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  description: There is often a tendency to consider technical systems as 'purely ... historically contributed to its current shapes. In doing so, we will come to ... alternative pasts, and still may have alternative futures.   To give you a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  1. When will the snow piles melt? Bragging rights to whoever gets ... upon a time a few weeks ago, campus was a tame soon-to-be snowman's nest ... "icicles" stemming from the gutters. My guess is going to be May 1. 2. Is

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains. We need to ... the Maseeh Hall announcement screen: “MIT gets hard. I’ll get to fixing ... what it means to actually learn from mistakes. Relationships, personal

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014