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  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  / already here: Welcome to MIT! All of us, no matter our class year or living ... parents are sketched out by how hardcoar East Campus is :P). But any of us ... questions about East Campus or MIT in general! Some of you have probably

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  , interviews were in frequency of about two per week, and I was focusing more on ... post as a reflection of how I regretfully spent some of my time during application season, and I aim to persuade some of you to handle it differently

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  and into the next year. I have a ton of plans to make sure you guys know ... more here. So, one of the classes that I feel I did really enjoy here was 5.111, fundamentals of chemical principles. I think the thing I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  fifth of my life so far, I have lived in Random Hall, MIT’s smallest and ... around the building to document what everyone was up to. One of my favorite ... so far.     By the time I took the pictures, that evening’s denizens of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  My employer recently sent me to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women ... -dominated field. It was also a chance to get a selfie with CTO of the United States ... , catering to all levels of technical ability, including undergraduate students

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  extraordinary of an appearance, seeing as I might’ve abused my powers as a blogger took advantage of another MIT-related communications outlet to tell you ... ’ve graduated, guys… Elizabeth, Course 20 class of 2013, lived in Simmons Hall

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  I know that students on the waitlist have lots of questions ... aiming for a class of about 1130 students this year. Based on our estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  top prize of $25,000, Math Prize draws girls from all over the country ... , so I slow down. And then I hear it. It’s sort of like a chant: "Hey ... ’s, and it sounded almost like the start of some rap song. Whatever it was

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  shout out to both of you :D (kind of wish I could tag people.. argh ... Boston Logan. My arrival at Logan was welcomed with a myriad of texts from ... 's abundant supply of grease, memories definitely washed over me all around

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P

  

  (songs, for example, are the main element of a musical, or in the other ... interpretation of The Great Gatsby in which Gatsby is a seahorse when asked if ... about the common theme of games, dolls and playthings in his novel

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Short, Sweet, and to the Point: MIT in five senses or less (Guest Entry) Hear, See, Touch, Smell, and Taste MIT

  

  While at MIT CPW, I had the wonderful opportunity to sample all sorts of ... members of the MIT Marching Band and MIT’s vocal groups. As it turns ... different kinds of music represented. The Chorallaries wow’d the crowd

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  like to talk about it. (I am, of course, kidding. My sister and I love ... deleting this dud of a post because I had left it unpublished for a month ... of a harsh coughing noise) and "kamber" is really just a weird nickname

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Events

  DME SoccerBot Championships 2006 (Or, How Does Justin Timberlake Live With Himself?) All we are saying is give Pluto a chance.

  

    It was an epic battle, a tournament to the death. Tens of ... rounds). If they lost this match, they would be out of the tournament and ... formed an unusally tight bond, joking around and making fun of their mentor

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  audience, all of us mentally picturing images of cute, fuzzy baby birds. So I ... visualization, oscilloscope showing the waveform of the music, and surveillance ... how.) Facebook I see that many of the '10s have set up their MIT email

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  high school, and I had lead roles in five of them. I made all-state choir ... 's show choir my junior year. I was captain of the largest color guard in the state of Ohio, and we went to the Macy's Parade my senior year. So

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  and see if I responded. Can't repeat the past? Why, of course you can ... takes a semester off from teaching 5.03: Principles of Inorganic Chemistry ... term was not bad at all, but I still haven't achieved my MIT goal of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  summer, you get to rank the dorms in order of preference, based on ... got one of their top three choices). When you arrive on campus, a period ... or whatever your dorm of choice has. And then, after that, there

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  Content Note: This post contains mentions of death, depression, and ... of MIT students this fall, the characters talk about two types of ... feel happiness or pleasure. It is described as a type of numbness, a numb

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... interviewers remain helpful). A description of the current interview process is ... of tips for applicants based on interviews I have conducted. Remember

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  So, a quick recap of my week before I launch into repsonses to the ... , people kind of freak out. So they want us EMTs to be familiar with the ... a pretty cool tour of the reactor and learned how to decontaminate

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006