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  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  . Random Hall had pancakes at 2:17 in the morning. In fact, they had lots of ... Battle of the Bands or 2 AM at Random Hall. I don't like everything about ... . Amy Smith gave an excellent presentation about some of the challenges of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  offers 57334534923 (not a hyperbole) convincing reasons to attend, to me, one of the most important aspects of being here is the world directly outside MIT. The "M," if you will. After graduating, I kind of felt like

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  /Fischer/Weitzner's Foundations of Internet Policy, both also offered this fall). Here's our course ... of the other courses offered in CMS/W & SHASS; in fact, probably ... with Ethan Zuckerman, the Director of the Center for Civic Media

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  I went to the Arnold Arboretum!!! i become one with nature

  

  On Friday, I went to the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University for ... spent a couple of blissful hours there. The area is HUGE—281 acres, to be ... of order if you'd like. My friends and I mostly wandered through random

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Events

  And now your feature presentation Are there still theaters that play the "Let's all go to the lobby" jingle?

  

  offers opportunities for students to live out MIT's motto of "Mens et Manus ... three of us took in the first week of IAP. Joe, who is the Chairman of ... semester. "Okay, where to begin?" was what I was thinking at the start of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  worn beauty of the halls. Even between West or East Campus dorms, I can ... 's sort of backwards when you look at MIT undergraduate dorms and their ... , East Campus, Senior Haus, and Random Hall are "East" (even though Random

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  As you probably know, the movie 21, based on the true story of the ... MIT Class of 2012 Weekend at the Movies So how's it work? Well, the most ... take a picture of you (and any MIT '12s with you) and send it in to me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing… Maker Portfolios! Making the world better, one portfolio at a time

  

  it's one of several options that MIT applicants have to send us additional information when they apply to MIT. (Other options include Music ... this RIGHT NOW, but please be patient. As it says on our website, all of

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  some of the big ones I applied to, RIP). Stay tuned!!11!!11! Sidequest 5 ... rejected from a lot of software internships"]applied to a lot of software ... 'll have to choose from. Note that these are in order of preference. Apply

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Infinite Corridor, set alight or, why dozens of people were crammed into a tiny stairwell at 4:19:53 PM EST

  

  speaking of phenomena - did you know that Simmons Hall recently underwent ... best not written about on the blogs. Some of these phenomena can be written about on the blogs, though, and this is one of them. The central

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 10, 2012
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  university-turned-camp. There we met the president of the university, who is ... Yesterday was one of those days where we were fortunate enough to have a cloud covering, so though most of the day was hot, it wasn

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Venturing to far living groups

  

  to be working)." One thing to remember is that just because a hall is "smoking" doesn't mean that you'll be submerged in clouds of smoke. People ... th West 2nd East 4th East And on to the point of the entry... One

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  November? Is this the universe saying it's proud of me?" I still don ... didn't know how to respond. My mom pulled me out of school after that, even though we had a couple of days before spring break. "Useless fucking

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  The first round of application deadlines are upon you, which means ... you back to zen calm state sooner :) ***AN IMPORTANT NOTE***: A lot of ... the Early Action (EA) deadline. We know that there’s been a ton of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  And speaking of awesome MIT alumna... Later this month, Heidemarie ... in space when STS-115 launches. More than one-third of the nation ... total of more than 15,000 hours in space. (Check out the MIT Astronaut

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  back in east campus jiggity jig

  

  if we couldn't do the dozen other hall traditions because of covid ... silly tradition, here is a picture of my old room. the move was ... they have some sort of puzzle, and i didn't really have time to think of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  . Of all of the hundreds (thousands?) of classes offered at MIT, three of ... Yes, I've read a bunch of books since my last post. No, I didn't feel ... -epiphany where I kind of sort of maybe started thinking about majoring in 2A

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  redesign/updating of the MIT viewbook, a process that will take almost a year ... "grow up with" the web and it's a (the?) predominant source of the ... you as it might have been for my (pre-internet) generation of college

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blended Learning at MIT benefits of technology in MIT classrooms

  

  Offering of Quantum Mechanics II), usually a fall course, can now also be ... See the original version of this post on the Office of Digital ... in an Institute-wide effort to translate traditional course offerings

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/16/23, at 12:16 PM ET Your early action decisions, wrapped

  

  decisions for the Class of 2028 will be released Saturday, 12/16/23, at 12 ... password, just go to apply.mitadmissions.org/apply, click the link to Log In ... someone from our team will get back to you!']login[/annotation] to apply.mitadmissions.org/apply

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2023