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  First day of school The first day of school

  

  Remember what the first day of school was like in elementary school? At least for me, I would be so excited that I could barely sleep the ... new school year, I saw V for Vendetta last night at the LSC (MIT's very

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  's South Asian Cultural Show (a huge event in Kresge Auditorium) at MIT; of ... at home, as I'll do today. I really do enjoy reading your applications ... coherence of an album keeps me focused. But yesterday, in honor of Daniel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class of 2009 Ring Delivery The '09s get our brass rats. We think this makes us like, so cool.

  

  a huge part of the undergrad tradition at MIT. Getting your "brass rat ... As a lot of you probably know, the MIT class ring is a little more than a simple piece of jewlery. First of all, it's huge. Like, as rings

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my ... using the wrong lures and jigs. Nevertheless, I had a lot of fun. It made ... their MIT application. In my three years of reading applications, I can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Howdy From The Middle Of RA Selection It's Sunday at lunchtime and we have a bit of a break, so I thought…

  

  It's Sunday at lunchtime and we have a bit of a break, so I thought I ... kickoff meeting. By 1PM the committee was looking at its first applications ... I arrived at 8:30AM on Saturday morning, the Infinite looked like this

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Our thoughts go out to Virginia Tech.

  

  All of us here are quite saddened by the shooting at Virginia Tech. I ... [email protected] To Members of the MIT Community: Yesterday's tragic events at Virginia ... system. In the wake of the events at Virginia Tech, many have asked about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings we want to meet you!

  

  Hi! I’m Katie Kelley, one of the Admissions Counselors here at MIT ... Enjoy a sunny Sunday afternoon at the home of an MIT Alum in Phoenix. Tuesday Enjoy one of two meetings held in the greater DC Metro Area at the

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 21, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  recommend attempting to summit a volcano at 15,700 ft with only one day of altitude acclimation. - It's Sunday. We were woken up at 6:30am by very ... cardiovascular difficulties, so we went at a very slow pace and drank lots of water

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  completely done with their year at MIT, there are still hundreds of students ... the student feeling comfortable about a lot of different things at the ... throw at them. This is why finals at MIT are a whole new kind of special

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  also offers to sell me no less than three pounds of tiny dried shrimp, at ... A couple weeks back, Winnie reminded me that the [annotation note="At ... traditional holidays, but at some other point in my childhood, I started

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2021 Wait List Today, we have closed out the wait list for the Class of 2021.

  

  , we had a record-high percentage of admitted students choosing to enroll at MIT (also known in admissions parlance as the "yield") of greater ... The May 1 reply deadline has come and gone, and we know many of you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From The Middle Of Selection What interdisciplinary fields will exist 100 years from now? What will people be able to…

  

  . I only wish we had room at MIT for more of the amazing people on the ... here and over at College Confidential. Haven't had much time to hang out ... . Though it's been a lot of work, I've been having a lot of fun. Selecting

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT students launch Camp Kesem Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children whose parents have had cancer.

  

  University in 2000 as a project of Hillel at Stanford; since then, it has ... esteem,” he adds. I am so excited to be a part of this new program at MIT ... opportunity to just have fun. Students at MIT have launched Camp Kesem, or Camp

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 1, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)

  

  him haha jk). No, it’s because as a member of RingComm he had to be at ... photo position setup, and 2) NONE of us are looking at the camera (Karen ... ’s Delivery. Here’s a photo of our committee on April 18, 2017 at the 2019’s

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 27, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  ") at a variety of companies with MIT alumni. I chose to do an externship ... floor, common area of main floor, thai iced tea i ordered at team lunch ... Learning division). The office was located at the end of Memorial Drive, so

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the ... cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of at ... Biology of Culture: Bridging Art and Science Straight from the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  through Seoul, and I'm holding it. This is not because of lack of access - I ... decrease the suspicion of the two other people in the emergency exit row with ... of the trip. What's wrong with her? I imagine they'd think, their

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Legacy of a Media Storyteller [by Leila Kinney, Comparative Media Studies] Recently, Leila Kinney attended a Symposium at the Media…

  

  and teaching at MIT. Above: Glorianna Davenport of the Media Lab ... -person filming techniques and delved into an amazing array of projects aimed at ... of cinemaphiles at the Media Lab, all–too capable of producing

  • by ARTalk
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  playing games at pretty much every waking hour of the day. shoutout to Wii ... each of the first two psets so i didn't stress about it until i saw my ... grade...or the stress of finding a job amidst all this academic pressure

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  tall and narrow, and she curled the ends of her letters so that each word ... . At some point, my letters morphed into their current form - my ... quickly (she was slow.) Having handwriting that you enjoy looking at is a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013