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  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  , which featured a bonfire of Institute furniture, to the 1964 Fifth East ... heading back to MIT (well, South Station in Boston) from my hometown of New ... that outer layer, so despite the 34-degree air outside of this 2250 Acela

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  , to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to ... celebrate my 21st birthday. Just a week ago, I imagined one version of what the future may look like. I suppose this is a sequel of sorts, one that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  'm not far from the Institute, going home feels a bit like "breaking out of ... Thinking of living off campus? Maybe not, maybe you just want to read about it. If you're an incoming freshman or thinking of applying, this won

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  something like “Congratulations, man.” He was so against the institution of ... My high school was this tiny sort of dinky-looking building on the campus of a community college, forty-five minutes from my house. It was a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  Dear Class of 2022, 12 years ago, Ben Jones, aka The Blogfather, shared 50 pieces of wisdom with the Class of 2010, which became 50 Things, the most-read blog on MIT Admissions. As a member of the Class of 2018

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  right now? BC isn't exactly at the top of the list of institute ... love that each dorm has a unique vibe and set of traditions and that prefrosh can choose where they want to live instead of being randomly placed

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  This post contains minor spoilers for the structure of MIT Mystery ... about puzzles, like On puzzles above and below. There’s a lot of non ... The beginning of the end The final runaround Help me because I don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  : That was East Campus, video by and courtesy of Eric Lujan ‘19, screaming ... , not all of which is residents, from 7:07pm Sunday, May 3, through 1:47am Tuesday, May 5, 2015, in expansion of MIT Gothic. It is up to you to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Important Well, at least I think so.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 14, 2012
• FAQ / First-year application

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  Email: [email protected] Fax: 617.687.9184 Mailing address: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Office of Undergraduate Admissions 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room E38-200 Cambridge, MA 02139
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jack of all trades master of none...

  

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 24, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  2, English House. Units of measure were alive and well within the culture of Conner 2 during my stay there. To the best of my knowledge there were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  a double major because, well, it equates to the units of one major ... opinions, is the epitome of the epitome of using animation to not just tell a ... and revolutionary one. The field of visual storytelling is really broad

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  summer, I'm usually a ball of anxious energy just waiting to be released ... string is everywhere, splayed out in front of me like...like...well, I was ... unwound. Yet one of the downsides is that I've now gotten myself into the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  My Two Cents Thoughts before the big day

  

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  Written by Danny The Brass Rat is one of MIT’s most iconic symbols ... one of those events that all sophomores look forward to. During the actual event, the Ring Committee reveals the designs of our class year

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Folding While you wait for decisions...

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grown Up Well, not quite.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2012
• 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

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... came out, I was sitting in the McCormick lobby, with our Head of House ... began what is easily the most demanding of days I have lived through. What

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020