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  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  -campus dining options; there's a huge cooking culture in many of the dorms, as ... it comes to quick food at minimal investment and effort to yourself, I still think MIT's the place that can't be beat; the majority of my

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  If I were to show you the following series of pictures, how would you relate them? Some of my favorite guesses? "MIT is obviously ... installed solar panels." "Ninjas at MIT used solar panels to attack the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  blink of the eye really in the scheme of things, back across the years that made all the difference in the world to me, or none at all, depending on how you look at it. I was 8 and lived on the outskirts of one of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  assigned to the Tuesday/Thursday 2-5 section of junior lab. I showed up at 4 ... picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to ... concentration, sitting through an hour and a half of lecture without being

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  at Spark” and a collective mural to help create a sense of community at ... trying to find disinfecting spray at Target at the beginning of this school ... of the class in small groups staring at a blackboard and talking about

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  other summer interns at Microsoft NERD. To top it off, the new season of ... finally was on top of everything. I had planned to post this at the end of ... final-round onsite at a startup for a full day of interviews. I arrived on

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  reports) to remind me of the pleasant times spent at Makerlodge this ... Welcome to the first of the many blogs I have meant to write but just ... -years could participate in, and I immediately did the online portion of the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  useful, but every entry has a flavor of MIT to it and, when looked at as a ... bloggers. Read all of the headers at the top of the page. Read Newsweek ... The MIT Admissions blogs started for several reasons. One of the

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  involved no playing of instruments at all, but it was cool... I'm the new ... at too high of a temperature, you won't get any crusting at all ... of it like a box full of memories. ...and the Trumpet of Coffee On

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  journal: Today at the Plastic Lunch, the periodic get-together of the ... " -- although this one is a little more literal -- one of my first days working at ... First, I am excited to say that the class of 2009 is slowly

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  ) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products. From the website: In ... teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and build working alpha

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 10, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2020 are now available at   > > > decisions.mit.edu < < < ... , 19,020 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2020. As of today

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog

  

  's definitely not what I expected to produce, but at least I have a basic idea of ... First off: I apologize for the shakiness of this video. For some ... timelapse component of the video kind of failed, too. It turns out that when

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  at old requirements for admission.  Last year I posted our essay ... next year, they won't; every year, we sort of reassess the questions ... on. You can think of essay questions as instruments which elicit a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Holidays with the Huangs a nondenominational celebration of capitalism and duck

  

  around in the most godawful turquoise bathrobe ever sold at Costco. (I ... health with the power of time, the love of my parents, and the mesquite goodness of Barbeque Lay's (okay, so maybe to mediocre health). And I can

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action this year I'm so impressed with our applicants

  

  accomplished, and diverse community of students at MIT. Our Early Action admits ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... previous years, this was an extremely selective Early Action cycle. Of those

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  in. This is one of the best parts of summer in my mind. Whether you actually get to the beach or not, don’t miss out on the last few weeks of ... about you, but I love to be reading a few books at the same time

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  man fresh out of college would drive 90 miles each way to his new job as ... time staying awake while on the road, so he would stop at the Woodrow ... secretly longed for the day when he would not have to spend 3.5 hours of his

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women Rock All sorts of folk, and folk songs too.

  

  that there are all sorts of folks at MIT. For example, there is no majority ethnicity. MIT is about 35% white, 25% asian (of some persuasion ... % International, and our minority community provides all of the cultural resources

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus, version 2.0 More pictures!

  

  As promised, I come bearing more pictures, Some of these are courtesy of Hanna, Dorota, and Jake, all fellow frosh. Here are some from the ... lounge Some of the Haus frosh hanging out in one of our suites: In the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 20, 2007