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• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  groups get together at the end of the semester to schedule next semester ... I'm given to understand that at other colleges, students actually get a luxurious full week off between the end of classes and the start of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  standing culture that our ancestors may have had at any point of time. We ... the default language of the office. At lunch, I would sit and watch as ... language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  awesome time to be in, at, and around MIT. There's all kinds of art ... title of this entry. If you haven't thrown up yet, hang on. My friends ... rest of this worse. Before I get fired for writing a blog post

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  are you prefrosh? Long time no talk, although some of you got to enjoy our sweet dance party a couple of weeks ago (which included a friendly ... dwindling rapidly (for a variety of reasons) and blogging is one of the few

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  winners ice cream at J.P. Licks, which has some of the best ice cream in ... The thing about summer is the weeks kind of all run together, so all the days just sort of bleed into each other and everything starts to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  community, I did research at a local university. But in spite of all of those ... world, a little cross-section of life at MIT. I'll be taking you through ... was going to end up at MIT for college, I probably would have laughed in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  to Berlin at... well, if it wasn't 5 AM, it was sure close to it. Of ... DID YOU KNOW? Charles Darwin's theory of evolution was inspired ... year before The Origin of Species was published. Berlin is truly an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  )[/caption] Lasell University and the University of Massachusetts at Boston won't be ... evolutionarily related to each other? Of course not. If you said yes, then you ... sure that I can claim the title of being the founder of mascot

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20

  

  a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series* Everyone knows the deal - MIT is a constant whirlwind of PSETs, exams, lectures, and the occasional puppy labs. For several of us, there’s so much more

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Iron Man is a 15-year-old MIT Student and lives in my freshman year dorm

  

  recreates a rough version of an Iron Man suit using parts "borrowed" from campus. Presumably, she spent a lot of time at the Stata Loading Dock ... girl from Chicago studying at MIT. She will be taking Tony Stark's place

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  know many of you have been awaiting news about our wait list. tldr ... that we are able to admit 28 students this year. Today, at 5PM Eastern ... things go with the FCC. At that point, we will consider our wait list

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  continue my adventures here at MIT by doing all the things. So when I got an e-mail from one of our alums, Mitch B. '03, about an underground Ice Skating place at a Vermont quarry, I immediately responded that I wanted to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  experience. Sure, there are a half-dozen people at each of the schools I ... , distance: all of those factors I mentioned at the beginning are real. It ... your shoes it wasn't part of my decision making process at all. It really

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Your friendly neighborhood webcaster ignore if you can time travel within your own lifetime

  

  hurry you can still catch it at the Class of 2014 site! (use the username ... the wonders of MIT I planned to register for” to “that potentially life ... inexplicably decided to watch all 5 seasons of ‘Quantum Leap’ back-to-back, which

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  really long-winded and kind of boring entry while working Burton ... : -I am not a chapstick addict, but I carry two tubes on me at all times... in case there's a chapping emergency, and one of them got lost -stain

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe ... to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge. Of the 29 Clark medalists to date

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  One of these labs is not like the other GELlin' like a felon

  

  The scene: Friday morning, about 9:10am Me: *Sits down at table with a bunch of people I don’t know* Instructor: “Ok, each team should ... : “Alright, you have a packet in front of you. You have 30 minutes to complete

  • by Stanley G.
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  By the end of my freshman year, I was convinced that I had not learned anything in my classes at MIT. By the end of my sophomore year, the ... part in terms of math academics, I had fallen to believe something

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  (I was more of a math person at that point), dragged in my physics ... , my middle school science teacher started a team at my school, and I loved it. Science bowl, for those of you who haven’t heard of it, is a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  , Randall Munroe, has something of a cult following here at MIT: we’ve hacked ... happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light ... If you haven’t heard of xkcd, stop reading. Instead, go over to xkcd

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014