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Blog / MIT History & Culture
Black Lives Matter until they don't.
only way I could bring words to my feelings. ** I moved to the United ... invariably leads to them finding out I’m from Nigeria, they ask variations of ... to pop up with surprising regularity. A lot of my newly made African -
Blog / Events
Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings
on the street. We meandered down Beacon Street and stopped to watch ... friend of a friend’s place, surrounded by students from BU. We set to mingling, shouting to be heard over the music. We went from that house to -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.
home, and more about the fact that college is much closer to “the real ... Wow. So this is what official blagging* is like. It’s nice to meet ... admissions blogs myself, and so now I feel like I’m obligated to post something -
Blog / Academics & Research
No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.
'll ever attend. I am trying really hard to scrounge up some sad, much as I ... four years here and I love MIT to death. On the other hand, no school until September for this kid! (I have a feeling part of my inability to -
Blog / MIT Life
I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.
To begin: "If it weren't for my horse, I never would have spent that year in college." --New England proverb A prize goes to the first person to identify the source of this wisdom. Ruth, you're not allowed to play -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY
students have so much freedom to pick their dorms, or why we don't force ... curricula were similar to that of a Soviet university and that “the kind of student MIT was educating was being trained to conceive, design, operate -
Blog / How to Human
New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,
’ve almost reached the mainland. I just need to decide which one of three ... . In many ways, I am now, since coming to MIT, more like my fifth grade self than my high school self. It's hard to tell if this is because of -
Blog / Admissions
Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!
regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to tell you how being in a small ... activities that never came to our school and I want to tell how I still managed to get good competitions (all by my own effort) to follow my passions -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building
if you've seen any [annotation note = "Interactive Introduction to ... murals. of the existing dorms, there used to be four buildings where murals ... the walls"]permanent murals.[/annotation] this isn't to say MIT no -
Blog / Events
Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.
during lunch when a friend of mine ran over and said "You have to watch ... ." Not wanting to check at school I simply ignored them and put them out of ... . . ." Since getting to MIT I've been a part of several riots and a flash mob -
Blog / Rural and Small-Town
[Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'
really teach the students that they have so much to offer their future ... Bringing STARS to Campus: Reflections on our first STARS@MIT Fly ... specifically from rural and small-towns to experience life at MIT and gain -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
My first music festival It was muddy.
watch out for the Mad Russian once you get to Floyd -- gives a lot of ... 's kind of fun to sit in your car while it wags around, a tractor's tail ... Christiansburg to ask for directions; I hopped out of the car, crinkled folded map -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup
said, I am definitely going to leave IAP with so much more knowledge and ... between the fall and spring semester. While some people go off campus to ... overshot the :35 that I was going for, and I was too impatient to go back and -
Blog / About Decisions
Class of 2021 Wait List Today, we have closed out the wait list for the Class of 2021.
've been waiting for all our admitted students to submit their final decisions so we could figure out whether or not we had room to admit students ... , our plan and hope is to admit students from the wait list. This year -
Blog / About Decisions
Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions We're sending out wait list decisions today.
effort you have put in to letting us know how much you love MIT. As someone ... , we've been waiting for all our admitted students to submit their final decisions so we could figure out whether or not we could go to our -
Blog / Athletics
Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel
adventure with the MIT Caving Club. I really enjoyed it, and I wanted to ... Skating place at a Vermont quarry, I immediately responded that I wanted to ... Grotto has to the Freedlyville Quarry. The quarry entrance was about a mile -
Blog / Athletics
AIDS Walk San Francisco Shameless solicitation -- join the fun
fundraising: This is a very important issue to me so I have set an ambitious fundraising goal. I want to do as much as I can to make a difference in the ... . My friend Tiffany '06 invited me to join her company's team, and Laura -
Blog / Events
Evil Institute of Technology Mystery Hunt, Day 1.
job to stop him! At 12:17pm today, hundreds of hunters gathered in ... sign to gather our team, the Rubber Duck Hunters: I saw lots of people at the kickoff, including Bryan, who's playing for team Too Much Clue -
Blog / Events
Orientation Wrap-Up Reason #457 why I love Orientation: I don't have to pay for food for a…
So Orientation is pretty much also a week of free food. The saying goes that you should not have to spend any money on food for at least ... been touched on yet. "/> Our CityDays project involved going to the
