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• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  and converted to monastic Buddhism, and the coffee table had been ... -glucose-home within the parking lot of my soul. And should I summon the courage to ... . Admittedly, it's a relief to step away from college for a few days and taste

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  5 weeks of the term, and can be dropped from your schedule up to 10 ... disciplines, as well as engineering and humanities, are applied to understanding ... is committed to bringing together scientists and engineers from these

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  I came, I saw, I stirfried Foray into non-ramen cooking

  

  School has already started, but I have one last part of summer to share, and that is how I managed to feed myself for three months. You see ... time in my life. And cut it. And activated the once-dormant Asian stir

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stand Back! I'm going to try . . . well, you know the rest.

  

  , each team of two people was given a setup and allowed to come up with ... you, that's ok) and rigged it up to the force sensor. Then, it was time ... are totally beyond me) and I've been having a great time in it. I

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  February(ish) Updates and Notes aka my life in photos and haikus

  

  Instrumentation Much more than rulers MechE’s must measure all things And make ... -ish classes (3 12-unit classes, a 9-unit, and a 6-unit). I think it’s starting to settle down a bit now, but the initial jump from IAP to “SURPRISE

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  've seen in friends and mentors here in response to the tragedy, reflective ... enough to even begin to bring peace to the families and all those affected ... experiencing now, and what they will continue to endure. My heart breaks for each

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  . Unfortunately, I can't pull the blankets back over my head and go back to sleep ... chance to hear about their classes, what professors they like the best, and ... break and go down to the tv room and watch Gossip Girl, Gray's Anatomy, or

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Shall We Dance? having two left feet is a thing of the past.

  

  mine and I decided to take advantage of free dance lessons offered at MIT ... about their dance experiences? How do they expect us to memorize and keep ... information. One ballroom dance website had the lessons listed on Mondays and

  • by Bryan
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  is 3:30 am Friday night and I am moving back to EC tomorrow starting 11 ... has been driving me to get up and about. Some things I've been up to ... central and the harvard square area, I realized when my cousin came to visit

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Promise of Ending ...is labor and sharing and loving.

  

  History Channel that was trying to determine the precise location of Sodom and Gomorrah when I decided to check my grades, like I do, you know ... Pulitzer Prize-winner, going to Blue Man Group, and flirting with Ina Garten.

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Applications… Things are getting busy here at MIT Admissions!

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... this mail, and hope to be completely caught up within the next few days ... ! Yesterday, a student came in my office and said, "Pink! I've never

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  . College was a chance to both remake myself in a friendlier mold and to build ... something that I've had to work to seek out and keep and occasionally ... people. That gave me hope. And I also decided that I needed to change my

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  this blog and is trying to tell me something. So here are the highlights ... , despite never having seen these words before and abandoning my studies to ... located in Haviland, Kansas and is less than 1,000 years old. I wrote a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  and willing. As regards me and my decision to be premed, I had few ... class, relative to how other friends were doing on exams and p-sets. I ... challenging, with nothing to answer to beyond my own standards and those of my

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  by the freshman year, and what support do you give to help make that ... to choose, but almost all of our students choose a major and find ... panelist, Robyn '07: "Our small goal is to fix global warming. Once we do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  ," which allowed it to move to Cambridge and build the core of the ... ’s residential Back Bay area and create new, valuable real estate. The proposals ... petition to revive these plans and relocate the admissions office to an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Events

  July 4th Pictorial FIREWORKS!

  

  So where did I decide to watch the fireworks from? C! The MIT Sailing Pavillion Now I'll tell you why, after I show you everything else ... does my camera have a fireworks setting? ...Cue fireworks photos

  • by Bryan
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: Parts 1 and 2 for Early and Regular Action applicants

  

  relax. Apply to Regular Action colleges (for that, refer to 2 and 3). Live ... evaluate your performance and form. Welcome to the applicant pool! For your ... one dedicated to excellence and service. Decorated with medals and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  each muscle in your body, and understanding how to create something ... year knowing three new ways to juggle and talking about how I was being ... crazy spiked hair. From him I learned to contact juggle, toss juggle, and

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  . And if that gets boring, you can even use all four limbs at once ... back to life and riding a triceratops to class. MIT is supposed to be ... I’m now in my third year at Next House, so the long walk to campus is

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023