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  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  1916. East Campus can be found (somewhat unsurprisingly) on the eastern ... modern fire code, ADA[?], etc. and that would open too many cans of worms ... residents can do to the space, giving rise to murals and loft beds and crazy

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  happen. Better news: everything is going to be OK. Best news: you can ... them still intact. Sorry for the “Admittedly” pun back there. I just can

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can ... ’ll do some data mining and see if I can find updated numbers. Now, anyone

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  00b. So, sorry Mark. Can't help you out, but Rachel can! There are

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  any number of other qualities and characteristics. While one's race can ... diversity than what can be captured or satisfied by a simple check box. The

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

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  ; they suggested naming the band "The Band Of People Who Can't Play Solos" in my ... extreme lengths to avoid embarrassing themselves - and you can achieve great

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  them something they can do that will get them in. Maybe they need to be ... possible for competitive college admissions. Sometimes, you really can have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  twenty countries on my own (I suppose if you're bored you can guess a few ... , of course, if they think you can read it). And, the sidewalks are lined

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  accomplishments in soccer, you can tell that these women are not only extremely ... largely about showing high school students that MIT can be a great athletic

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  the rings so that we can see an image of the Boston skyline when we look ... so that we see an image of the MIT skyline. This is so that we can look

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  Over the years, I have discovered that just about anything can be used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up ... okay to keep making the same mistakes. You can't just tell yourself "Oh

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  . sheet metal can be cut and textured into leaves (or cacti, or, as a grad ... can see in my drawings, the dragon hilt is quite sculptural, but also ... iron look like play dough. You can squash a workpiece in seconds when it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  hair dye can be discussion starters, and being openly and loudly queer can help show others that they, too, are free to be themselves around you and around others. Fighting for the right to be yourself can help

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  graduate from college, I can say now that failing out of MIT was one of the ... stuff you can't work on aside from letting it fade from the collective ... whatever career you choose, your success isn't measured by how much you can

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  around in an oversized fish tank: ‘I can’t wait to get out here.’ When the ... . “He’s alright Billy, he can stay. Give the lad ‘is key!” My room looks ... ’s because not many people can do it!” “No, it’s not that hard. It

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  anyways. And since I can learn faster than the lecturer talks, I'm still ... requires you to correct for it all at once. I can't go to lecture if I haven ... on difficulties. I go to office hours whenever I can, because sometimes

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  's a single historical source where you can read about these kinds of things: the MIT course catalog. You can find the most recent course ... observations are organized into five categories. You can read this article in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  worthwhile watch and can be helpful if you're missing MIT like I am. Some ... intelligence research. I hope we can become as strong a leader in identifying and combatting the issues that AI can perpetuate or create (such as racial and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  . Maybe I’ll write about my application some other day so we can like ... account was actually a terrible idea. I don’t know if I can think of any ... ; (If you want to make me happy you can watch this video and exaggeratedly

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  ="i’m including cambridge here but not the other cities, because i can. i love to be ... below fills me with fresh giddiness that I still can’t shake off. At the ... because all I can think of are MIT’s open bathrooms waiting on the other

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020