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  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  ="87065" /] Pros booths are great for solo/partner work comfortable seating ... positive but for me is distracting food is so overpriced Fourth Floor ... year that I made a playlist for when I study there...yes, I'm serious

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  . Similarly, N for buildings in north campus and NW for buildings in northwest ... –east. Many maps of MIT are pointed with MIT north up, unlike whereis ... branches off in the end at Building 8. It’s a pretty important hallway for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  really well—sometimes people just stop picking up their phones. When I ... said, "don’t you think you had a leg up getting into MIT because you ... within the media industry, an atypical choice for an MIT student, my

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  for all those personality tests! None of this, the tests themselves nor ... know it’s stupid”, which sums up my own opinion pretty well too. There ... bloggers) for yourself! Tests Included The structure of my survey was more or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  highlighter for, circle in big red pen, make it the focus of your case. In fact ... afterwards a student -- we'll call her Artemis -- comes up to me and tells me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  action on the issues that are important to us. We all need to step up for ... Department and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland ... . This resonated with me – from when I first arrived on campus for my FPOP

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  the strong case I made for her. Why? Partially because she reminded me a ... ." You may have seen Pink if you came for an on campus information session ... 's more rigorous majors, Aero/Astro, and now works for NASA. Goes to show

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  There's something I've been mulling over in my head for a long time ... Context and Anna's Being "Qualified" For MIT, as well as conversations (good ... are assuming this: that MIT, for some students, values something called

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  - so we read them very carefully. Quite simply, we are looking for the ... counselor, service, parent, etc - I can't speak for all schools, but here at MIT, that's what we're looking for. Best wishes, Ben

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  . Diaz has been doing many interviews since he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, but an appearance on Colbert is always... interesting. For those ... commentator famous for his opposition to illegal immigration, and you may also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  banner says "Live at EC." EC is short for East Campus. I do not know if ... meant feeling the heat of the sun, hearing Jesus gasping for air and ... is the only food I eat all day. I am asked to emcee for part of the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  one will get hurt." (By "no one," she meant me.) For all of you who call the "Nance Effect" a home of sorts, thank you for your continued ... importantly, it does not rely any one individual for its success. Everyday I

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  , no matter where you are going. This is a video for pre-frosh in general, not just for MIT. College is a weird place, so I hope you can gain some

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Alums Direct New OK Go Video OK Go always has the awesomest videos. Jeff and Eric don't disappoint.

  

  video (among many others)? OK Go has a new video for their song "End Love ... directed by MIT alums! The video for "Last Leaf" was done by Nadeem Mazen '06

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 16, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... ? Because on April 5, 1936, something profoundly strange was being hauled up ... pulled up the side of the dorm where I lived during my sophomore year. It

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  , young 20s, blowing into his alto, horn case closed. I climbed up the ... -leaf cigarette, we struck up a conversation. He's a recent graduate of another ... stars with his lines, mostly slowly, sometimes picking up momentum to make

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  limits here. For example Massachusetts has some pretty lame rules about ... engineering. But he's probably best known around campus for being the King of ... for things he's made at MITERS. For example, lolriokart:  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Sunsical The sunshine of May 12th

  

  ♪   ♫These days life goes like this Wake up, go to class and then Gotta be a ... rocket O look its a shiny new dime That'll help me with paying up Thinking

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  group chats for most of my classes. These group chats are somewhat helpful for: Resolving confusion about class policies. Getting hints about ... inspired by "Stellar," which is MIT's platform for learning management. On

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020