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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  Overheard at MIT (Fall 2012) (complaining about the ratio of male to ... number of men's bathrooms per floor: two point eight. Average number of ... period? my sense of chronology is pretty terrible) every French House

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  increased, while "real" adults donning excessive amounts of MIT apparel ... level of Cambridge, MA increased with the arrival of my 10-year-old little ... pretty much everything. Laughing contests, chess, Madden, knowledge of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Transfer App Is Live For current college students hoping to enter MIT in the Spring of 2013

  

  Spring Semester of 2013. (See the Academic Calendar.) This deadline is ... entry in the Fall of 2013. To enter MIT as a transfer student, you ... many of your questions can be found on the Transfer Admissions section of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chem Lab Boot Camp!

  

  , filmmakers followed around the participants of 5.301 Chemistry Lab Techniques as they struggled with the intensive, high stakes world of ChemLab Boot ... some sneak previews of some episodes (I’m an insider!) and I can vouch

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • August 22, 2012
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  MIT-Now in Español!

  

  video, featuring members of the Spanish-speaking community at MIT, we are ... have translated the history and mission of MIT so students can help their ... . And we want everyone to gain a deeper understanding of the friendly and

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • July 16, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  next four years of your life. It's a big decision. And whether you ... psychologists Dale Griffin and Amos Tversky (one of the discoverers of cognitive biases along with Daniel Kahneman) asked 24 of their colleagues

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  the horrifying discovery of what "windchill" is. This year however, is a ... warmer than usual. Not bad for campus, but unfortunate for those of us ... having it's annual "Winter School". Winter School is a series of lectures

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  There’s something happening here what it is ain't exactly clear

  

  Working on a big project. A big awesome project. Can't tell you what it is. But here's a sneak peak. Make of it what you will.

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  Last Saturday, when I should be working on a model of a performance ... . Apparently, a local radio station was holding an end-of-summer concert at the ... unparalleled dose of relaxation. Before we knew it, we arrived @ the Hatch

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Events

  What’s on your mind? As for me, my hair feels normal again.

  

  previously learned that the east side of campus has an unusually high percentage of people who dye their hair weird colors.  It may come to you as no surprise that I plan on spending most of rush hanging out at Random, with a

  • by Piper '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  - comprised of the communications team and our Class of 2012 senior bloggers - reviewed all of these applications, and tried to sort them out among us. The ... applications, the cruel difficulty of the decisions is no excuse for not making

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  that grease, dust, and oil be added to that list, at least for those of ... awkwardly inline. As fun as it is to play outside, the time-honored sport of crufting (see: crvfting) is an important part of daily life at MIT. Although

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Stepping Up MIT brings the best out of people (in between psets of course)

  

  factor of MIT: living groups and affiliations," said Amanda. Amanda has ... drive that raised $15,000 and collected more than 12,000 pounds of food ... enjoyable and meaningful way," said Amanda. Over the span of five weeks, that

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Dang Right, We’re Cooler Than You On the eve of Decision Day (D-Day), I bring you three things that adds to…

  

  of sucked, other than Sara Bareilles :p) ----- (2) I'll let Shaq ... jealous of my life. ----- (3) Recently, there was a College Confidential ... MIT 150 Open House, where a bunch of departments and student groups put

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting MIT’s Newest Truman Scholar! Yeah, I know I've been blogging a lot this week - but believe me, you…

  

  , graceful, and the kind of person who, when I'm tired and crying at 2 in the morning, will bring me a box of chocolate (Twix ♥) and offer me a hug. I've seen her in a variety of roles over the past year and a half or so: she

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  ! Images not for the faint-hearted. Spiraling out of control. - Now is ... doing any of those things once I got here. At the same time, it seemed like a shame to not try anything new. So, I had to adopt some kind of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Road Again Adventures in Texas!

  

  tweeting" (although isn't all tweeting sort of live by nature?) of my ... to Boston. A whirlwind trip, no doubt! Hopefully I'll see some of you ... Brownsville Museum of Fine Art for tonight's presentation! On the run again...

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Just a little hack… You never know what you'll see on your way to class

  

  Just a quick little footage of a hack I found this morning in Lobby 7. Sorry for the bad quality, I just took out my Blackberry and shot it!

  • by Celena C. '12
  • September 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  Happy Labor Day Weekend y'all! I'm up north in my ancestral woods of New Hampshire this weekend, but I wanted to take this brief moment of consciousness between an otherwise unbroken day of naps to share with you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation Lots of fun with picture pages

  

  . Courtesy of Patrick Gillooly/MIT News

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 1, 2010