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  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  jesus christ, MIT alum friends of mine are talking to me about applying ... we (the class of '24s) were supposed to just get it. Like we were ... they should live [as though we should have a semblance of what dorm

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  protested “the militarization of university research,” and in November of the following year, another group chanted, “We won’t ... Studies [CIS]). In 1971, following Daniel Ellsberg’s leak of the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their ... Yo, I've been getting a lot of questions lately in the comments and I ... my head. "MIT's music program is like the fugacity of water in a water

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  of offering ''universal access to human knowledge," and, in pursuit of ... plenty of time to read both the New York Times and the Boston Globe. The ... Brewster Kahle '82 (right, courtesy Library of Congress) and the Internet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  hall, saying hi to some of the admitted 2020s who were there and ... engineering research fair for high school students. Every year, millions of high ... . No one at my small high school did research, and we had, to the best of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Visit YouTube to Participate in the World Economic Forum! Have world leaders watch and respond to your video at this year's World Economic Forum!

  

  website offers five tips for increasing the likelihood of your video's being ... ://web.mit.edu/mitir/) to spread awareness of an unprecedented opportunity: You can ... ://www.youtube.com/thedavosquestion and post a video response of no more than three minutes to the following

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  18, of Random Hall): "I'm working at Akamai, which is not all that ... A few weeks ago, I sent this email to a bunch of my friends: Hey ... prospective students why MIT is amazing, or (d) all of the above - I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  campus by descending upon the dining hall like a flamboyance of flamingos ... doing some math and a lot of camp. Mickey Mouse™ won’t tell you this, but ... name like Mathcamp, you’d assume we do a lot of math. And you’re not

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  One of my favorite things about MIT might also be the most obvious ... of awesome Boston-area college students. Considering that a lot of other universities aren’t necessarily in cities or around many other

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  many different universities to see what kinds of programs and ... (non-MIT). My research involved a lot of coding, applying machine ... I get a lot of questions about it's like to major in "Computation and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  scenes all of the time. A typical 2 hour class starts with a warmup, some ... drive is littered with scraps of nonsense that will probably never blossom ... have a few one act plays to my name by the end of the semester. Also, the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  makes you different from the thousands of people applying to the same ... reminded me of my parents, who are one continent and one ocean away. So, on a ... know it (really.) Anyways, all this reminded me of all you Early Action

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  ! that's the least number of classes i've ever taken in mit, and the least number of classes i can take while maintaining full-time status, which is a requirement of being on an f1 visa. in theory, i should have less work to do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Food, Folks, and Fun…..but definitely not mcdonald’s Quinton makes friends at the Muslim Student Association

  

  , attended the dinner and offered words of introduction. He has been a member ... community. Over the past couple of months, I have been exploring this wild and ... , and staff as humanly possible in order to get a full taste of the true

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Redesigning a hall logo: 4.500 part 1 4.500 part 1

  

  separation of the letters disregards the "integration" aspect of hall. The ... cons of the symbol, and improve on it throughout 3 iterations. I chose the 1E logo (my hall in East Campus). AutoCAD was strongly

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 27, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  fixed idea of where I was applying, what on earth I was doing, or anything ... September 1st may have been one of the most simultaneously ... like 1+1 is starting to seem like a challenge. Day 1 of September rang

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  ^3 offers all kinds of help for pretty much any kind of problem an MIT ... ’m laughing, I’m relishing a new, intoxicating sense of freedom that I’ve never ... new MIT frosh go to a bunch of events and check out all the different

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  finals. I guess this is the universe's way of helping me keep my discipline. ... moral of this story, as you will learn, is that you should NEVER FORGET TO ... . As promised, Sam showed up wearing a suit, holding a giant box of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  fun of by everyone in the grade. You'd exposed your own vulnerability and hadn't even gotten any benefit out of it. And middle school students were vicious. Pretty much everyone has passed through this phase of life

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  length of the Infinite Corridor, admiring the cracked Terazzo floor and the ... honed amid the mellow brick and expansive green lawns of my and William ... supportive of my children’s right to choose, so I bought him a “

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008