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  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  a large folder of drafts, so I had to publish the most polished piece ... from the fall semester, which itself was a sequel to three tales of ... , and discarded some of the darker paragraphs—not because I need to censor

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  basement of an entry in Senior House, eventually moving to a studio in the basement of Walker Memorial in 1960. The call letters were changed to WTBS ... 's seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  : Dozens of enormous, frozen pumpkins are dropped from the top of the Green ... two of you set up a time to Skype. Mushiness also comes in cake form ... my head (with more of a "swoosh" than a bang.) The hat looked like

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the ... at a sport that I hope to continue doing for the rest of my life ... tables and desks in the lobby of the Nano building were a great place to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  last twelve to fourteen months. Even at the start of my junior year of ... . If you find yourself to be the same person at the end of college as you ... Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life   First

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  's really exciting to be able to participate in some of the behind-the ... I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it ... wanted a look into classes, I kind of summarized mine at the beginning of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  , even though they are *unqualified* Let's cut to the core of the matter ... vast majority of applicants, is closer to the idea of qualified or ... mean the majority of applicants are sufficiently prepared to do the work

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  't click further than the Notable Alumni page to see a good number of people who's accomplishments I'd venture to say started off as the sort of ... That phrase is probably the most uttered string of words I hear. It

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  at risk of not getting into a Cook-For-Yourself dorm due to the group ... decades of murals would be whitewashed. The TT worked with students to ... the renewal is supposed to entail. Most of the refurbishments are meant

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  involves goldfish, but for the life of me I have never been able to figure ... the point of all this yammering (and I'd better get to it fast, Adam ... 's important that you understand the range of environments available to MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  Corridor. A copy of the MIT Bulletin from 1930 makes reference to the ... of the campus COVID-19 lockdown—I was permitted to visit the office to ... -historyposting-instincts beginning to tingle. At the very bottom of the cabinet, I found the most

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  of January at MIT, and one of the best times to be on campus. IHTFP ... equal to the height of Oliver Smoot ’62 (5 feet 7 inches), whose body was ... cousin to the Great Dome; sits above Lobby 7 Lobby 10 - First floor of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  tuned me even more to the subtleties of what makes a good TA, though I ... -value level of what you're about to learn is on a par with the Tooth Fairy not ... amount of knowledge on the subject they need to have in order to field your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  they can insure the future peace of the world.” To achieve this ideal ... ’s commitment to diversity, but they cannot tell the stories of the international ... especially important to me to understand the experiences of the immigrant

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
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  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  from owner to owner, like the couches, the round table, some of the ... Khan, who used to live in the room of bloggers Danny and Allan? Where are ... people. My quest to trace the past residents of my room began in early

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  legs and walk the length of the car. As I headed back to my seat, I ... of this place, so the reaction to closing the place we've called home ... around 1950, we began to see the beginning of real dorm identity take root

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  years of MIT before I actually decided to look at the entire course ... serve as the repository of courses that I likely won't get to fit into my ... : The History of Now[/annotation] 21H.001: How to Stage a Revolution

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  identification.  In reality, most of the confusion is about how to best leverage a dimension of one's personal background to maximize the likelihood of admission ... college or university because they are likely to both take advantage of the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  . They use some of the water to flush the toilets. The rest spills down ... . They want to take a photo in The Alchemist. There’s an endless line of parents and tourists waiting to take photos in The Alchemist. A convoy of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  experience in. This is the time to do that sort of thing. Ask questions when ... primary responsibility is to learn. You’re at one of the best universities ... “no fuck-up is impossible to fix.” Remember, remember, the rule of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015