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  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  *written by Liz O. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer ... looked at the address… A Michigan Address. After a quick conversation ... roll into the parking lot fashionably on-time. Most of the other people

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  've learned a number of things: At MIT, the week of my birthday has always been ... parties I've typically blogged about in the middle of October? And the exams ... myself up less over the idea of always doing at least a fair amount of work

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  ’t seen most of the United States. My cousin’s getting married on June 30th ... since the beginning of June.  So I decided to take a train from Boston to ... take an airplane the rest of the way. Hour 0: I am not on a train. I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  ’s second law, the other hand stirring a vat of soon-to-be chocolate ... the entire day, locked myself out of my room, and measured muon velocity to be 0.98 times the speed of light - exactly what we hoped to get

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  area of the Africa! This does not include the land used to provide food ... This post was written for the final project for 24.03 Good Food: The Ethics and Politics of Food. The assignment was to engage with the topics

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  to pursue interests in the humanities at MIT -- I mean, the name of the school is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, after all. Even as I ... opportunity to meet with Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts & Social

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  sweet, sweet moment you click submit and the burdens of writing a good ... accountable. Sometimes the fear of breaking a promise to a good friend is enough ... with a pithy line or a catchy hook to convince you to read the rest of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  topology, which is the study of flexible shapes like knots or rubber surfaces ... more robust measurements like counting the number of holes in the shape ... analytic things). Tristan S. '23: I'm a 2023 graduate of the math and music

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Class of 2010: Wondering Where Everyone Is Living? Find orientation housemates/roommates.

  

  database of housing info for at least half (so far) of the class of 2010, so ... ! If anyone wants to add themselves, his email address is on the page. The address is: https

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  on its way to those who replied to us before the deadline. One of the coolest parts of the NBM is the Athena Account Coupon. The coupon will allow ... schools where their email address is some garbled mess of intials and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  another day of summer ♬ ba-ba-da-ba da-ba-da-ba ♬

  

  day for the past week, probably because of the abundance of natural light that filters through the windows each morning and shakes my unruly ... -the-fuck-out-of-my-house-and-find-a-UROP frenzy. I really like the work

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  current state of the world, and damn, does it hit hard. highly recommend ... so...for the sake of social distancing, everyone's trapped in their ... have a lot of time that we don't know what to do with. in fact, in the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All The World’s A Stage On theatre and artsy stuff

  

  Wednesday the Eleventh: Instead of growing up with boy bands and ... as a set designer for my sophomore fall production of The Crucible, and my eyes (ears?) were opened to the glory of musical theatre. It

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 22, 2013
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  that's filtered naturally by the sediment of the earth—“protecting” the ... A lot of people living in the United States don’t understand how ... the complexity of getting water to places that don’t have it. I was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  good portion of REX hanging out with the Bombers at their events, however ... uninformed, this means that I 1) live on the third floor of the Burton side of the dorm Burton-Conner, and 2), am lowkey part of a cult—a rowdy

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  but a pale imitation of the truth - valorous but vain attempts to ... . The fact of the matter is that CPW is an experience far beyond mere ... one of the admissions counselors, over 2,000!) that the Admissions

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  of the HASS graduation requirements. I think I've got a good set of ... . Chesterton. In any case, the entire point of that little tangent was to get on the topic of knowledge, and from there, school. Classes have started, as

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  that most people never get to the good stuff! Most of what gets taught in ... good stuff is beautiful - some of the most beautiful stuff in human ... the rest of my life to meet other math people, and I really wanted to

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  ’t match would make it impossible for the inside of the filter ... extra filter that can be assembled to be placed in the lenses of a camera ... I couldn’t have prepared myself for the stir of emotions that suddenly

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  -campus dining options; there's a huge cooking culture in many of the dorms, as ... still think MIT's the place that can't be beat; the majority of my ... it, it's a delicious experience for the mind, the mouth, and the wallet

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011