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  someday fate of friends

  

  Kai being athletic now,” S said. I thrilled at the idea of one of my old friends, who’d known me back when I failed each and every single one of the ... by how immediate it was—crossing the threshold, I mean, of the door to

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  the most of your MIT education." After three years of eclectic classes ... yourself to explore your options. Nine months ago, I was in the middle of a ... ).  We invited all of these professors to tea and connected the institute

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  under the bed. I can see the floor of my room, for the first time in days ... the point of a career fair is to collect job prospects, not swag. In the ... list-y theme of this post, there are three reasons I used the career fair

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  sit down with Richard Rusczyk and Dave Patrick PhD '97, two of the folks behind The Art of Problem Solving (AoPS). The fantastic AoPS offerings ... about math, you'll check it out. The Art of Problem Solving folks also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  . Generally this fits the pattern of every trip I've ever taken - happy once I ... /28). In the middle of that I head down to Tampa for the NACAC Conference ... assumption, so we try to bring the feel of the campus to you. We use short

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  All Applicants Can Now Apply For Either Early or Regular Action MIT Admissions announces a policy change allowing international students access to either Early or Regular…

  

  I wanted to let you know of a change in the admissions process for the forthcoming admissions cycle. As you may know, in the past ... , including undocumented students) could not apply to MIT during the Early

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A, Vol. II A sort-of guest post

  

  Hello folks of the blogosphere! Greetings from Columbia, MO. Now I know you are probably thinking, "Wait - but it's the middle of April ... -city's-a-madhouse, the 'tute annually gives us this four-day weekend. My favorite kind of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  adventure to Montreal in the great land of Canada. Neither of us had been to Canada before. Therefore, we were quite surprised by some of the ... during which I took a ton of pictures of Kayla climbing. The shopping day

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reality TV My former dormmate will appear on Queer Eye tonight.

  

  will get made over by the Fab Five as part of their new season in Las Vegas (see photo of Ed "before," with Carson Kressley at right). The ... '03, was on Season 2 of Beauty and the Geek. My current housemate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology A trip filled with enough desserts to satisfy anyone's sweet tooth!

  

  when I fixate on food, but it’s all in the name of science.) We began at Truly Jorg's Patisserie in Kenmore Square, which had some of the coolest ... . Next stop, Beard Papa's at Faneuil Hall, home of the “world’s best cream

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  at the Institute. art completely covers the walls of East Campus, for ... murals. of the existing dorms, there used to be four buildings where murals ... of self expression. East Campus and Random Hall are the only mural

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  Vaporub type of sick? Not once in the past ~seven years. Then a few weeks ... regardless of how I avoided the plague for so long, the fact of the matter is ... onto the next attack: cancelling plans. This part of being sick sucks, in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2025 are now ... Regular Action, 33,240 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2025. This ... needed to get the job done right.   It was an incredible amount of work

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  , including how we write our dates. The [annotation note="and, of course, dropping the leading 0, so it's currently 9/ and not 09/"]convention of MM ... and who works in/around the field of interactive fiction. I think it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Emergency Morale Booster Night! One of my favorite e-mails of all time

  

  of Those Times of the semester) the French House social chair, Emma '14 ... resident Queen of Party, I've been getting the feeling that some of my party ... SYCAMORE GROWWWWW????" Q of P - I was the first one there, as anyone who

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Red Sox *wwooooossshhhh!*

  

  has to be a game, because I just heard the last little bit of the ... Hey, did a Red Sox game just start? The dorm just shook and it sounded like a bunch of fighter jets just flew by, another benefit MIT has

  • by Snively '11
  • April 7, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Canceled? HOW COULD THEY!?!?!?!

  

  MIT gives students the month of January off, it's something they call the "Independent Activities Period," or IAP. Turns out, due to budget ... !!!] [Also know that this is the product of a winter break quasi-flame war. See

  • by Snively '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Buying books You shouldn't have to spend all your money on textbooks!

  

  the book that you need, then you can get it off of Amazon.com. Worst ... of classes have "Course Notes," which are sold at the Copy Tech. They ... , are sure of your classes, and hear which books the professor wants you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Whirlwind Weekend highlights of the weekend (UPDATED!)

  

  ourselves as we walked up the catwalk in front of our potential dates. "Bryan ... . Mitra enjoys the economic thrill of auctions. Our emcee for the night ... Formal This year it was at the State Room which is on the 33rd floor of an

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Evens & Ends Notes on CPW, Veronica Mars, and more.

  

  , we are in the process of matching you to an MIT student host. If you ... " (Stanford South?) preview weekend on the most recent episode of Veronica Mars. For one thing, the weekend is not planned out for you, it's more of a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2006