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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 blogging scholarship competition! Thanks! One of the biggest culture shocks coming to MIT for me, a ... likely to hear things like ". . . at 6 and then head to the game . . ." or

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Boston Marathon ‘08 I'm back!

  

  way the trees look from my dorm room and exactly how long it takes me to ... material, either (it takes me 6.2 seconds to tie my shoes). I've got the ... while listening to Kelis under a sign labeled "THE YARD". I have all of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  . If your initial reaction to that was "...um, what?", then I'll fill you in: Steer Roast is Senior House's claim to fame - it's our annual ... ; instead of getting a band or two to perform, we hire a dozen bands to play

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  Barton Rogers’ alma mater (10 points to anyone who knows without ... supportive of my children’s right to choose, so I bought him a “Nerd Pride” shirt at the Coop, went to the MIT Admissions Road Show

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sore Subjects state of affairs isn't so good. But here are some telescope pictures!

  

  ) symmetries of the hydrogen atom, using just symmetry and algebra of groups to ... Schiff's solemn-as-hell-looking Quantum Mechanics book to the Virgin ... close to the waves that time) and sand all between its pages. Aside from

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  just like yours is. However, we come to different conclusions because we ... me a bottle. Fast forward to 1991, and I'm a little boy playing outside ... spring of my senior year. I'm accepted to MIT and decide to go. My parents

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  is in the Longwood Medical Area, and the labs I've chosen to rotate in ... things this winter that I did last winter: going to class, reading lots of ... difference is that now I'm getting paid significantly more to do it. (Ugh, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  several problems with this logic: Not everybody wants to go to grad ... to grad school. You are not the same person you'll be at the end of ... school applications (particularly in getting into my perfect program) to my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  !Helping Students with Asperger's and Nonverbal Learning Disabilities Go To College ... : The Good, the Bad, and the Oh-So-Stale I am drawn to sessions with ... the pressures to be admitted to the "right" college. The sign

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  : Bostonians only have a 25 Letter alphabet. No one knows what happened to the ... : Too many to name... Here are a few: Seventh Samurai, Dr. Strangelove ... Married An Ax Murder, Love Jones, Dolomite. If you ever need to settle a bet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  I don't want to alarm those of you in California, Texas, Florida ... much at peace. Last night I went to see the opening night premiere of ... juiced was for The Matrix: Revolutions, and don't expect to be in one again

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  sometimes do refer to specific fonts, not just typefaces. Second, the ... to its lower left, the one that starts "THIS ACCESS POINT", is in ... the poster to its left. I thought, at first, that the font was FF DIN

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  to? good question. right now, i'm sitting on my chair in a weird ... midwestern genes. and it's really cool to look at a basket of fruit and be like ... describe my courseload to people their eyes kind of widen and they're like

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who else is watching infinity train?!?! *a fangirling hub that we will update every day this week*

  

  signatures, was made to turn Infinity Train into its own show!!! The power of ... ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atutlhoyc_Q[/embed] THIS WAS RELEASED! One thing that struck out to us was the I N C R E D I ... wall!!! THE DETAILS OF THE DESK from the stickers to the paper clip to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 6, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  newborn.  In the 3,000 days, I moved to Washington, D.C. (for a fellowship writing for CityLab, then part of The Atlantic), moved to New Mexico to be ... and married him, and moved across the Atlantic to the other Cambridge to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  township was large enough to need two high schools, there was only Middletown High School. When the district decided to expand, the original building ... was a little kid. That's not to say I accepted it, of course. When my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  Last weekend, I took a short solo trip up to New York to see the Whitney Biennial! I’ve wanted to go to the Whitney Museum of American Art for years, ever since I learned that they’re host to (almost) all of the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  today, while my friends and I were walking down the river to Trader Joe’s. [I’ve been planning for a while to have a midlife crisis and switch to ... sufficient 2A credits,” to which I respond, “You’re right,” and submit my 21E

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  upcoming term. It hurt me to do it; 9.15, only offered in alternate fall terms, was the class I was looking forward to the most. The problem ... is exactly what I'll have to do very soon. It'll be a huge comedown

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to ... really dreadful rodent problem. To draw attention to this ever-growing infestation, one rat is chosen out of the many scurrying about campus to be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006