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  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  .  Like most stereotypes, this is not wholly accurate.  For example, I ... the MIT community practice better etiquette.  And one of the most popular events is the annual Charm School Business Etiquette Dinner. So

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  able to work close to home is a plus for me, but in my case, it still ... stations in the Cambridge-Boston area, is subsidized by MIT, a perk available ... cruising up to the northeast. The 40 minute route diverges from most major

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  conditions here in Cambridge. The good news is there's not much that you can ... to expire until much later in the day. In the immortal words of Bachman ... feet of snow just to reach the sidewalk.) The caveat is that any day that

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  In The Mail Well folks, the time has come. The letters are in the mail.

  

  exhausted (Amy)... All in all, we're relieved that this part of the journey is ... to reflect the clean-shaven face, as promised (sorry mootmom, but a pact is a pact). :-) Enjoy these other pics from the day's festivities

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  Museum of Science today to check out the reception site. Hanging in the ... " terms -- intro chemistry is almost always taken in the fall, so the spring ... , taking 5.111/5.112 in the fall frees you up to take 5.12 in the spring

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I read the news today Oh boy! I hope that you're as excited as I am.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The Riemann Zeta Hypothesis was voted to be the most ... from high school was voted "Most likely to prove the Riemann Zeta ... the article, hey, don't worry, you could still come to MIT and major in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for undocumented students and clarifying our policies for applicants as Regular Action approaches

  

  the work we do in admissions, states that our mission is to "advance ... states: MIT is committed to making every effort to ensure, within the ... students is as similar as possible to the experience of all other students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  . If any qualified man in the Boston area reading this would like to ... this curious flyer outside of the Athena cluster in building 24 (aka "a computer lab on campus"). I particularly love the warning "this is not a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  feel only tired, and comfortably numb. And there is so much good in this ... jewelry supplies are still in the desk drawer, though I've taken my best pliers to Boston. In my room, there’s a shelf of books taller than a man

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  today? Skip class to work on the pset instead. This is great on timescales ... how well your classmate is doing. The goal, of course, is to compare his ... told us, "how many times I've seen this happen." The goal is to fire six

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  in the area of Service Design. (Basically, figuring out how to make ... 'm so happy to be awake at 8-in-the-moooorning! Yeah, it's trash day ... I'm always one to celebrate the more obscure holidays. After all

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cancer on my mind Wait, shouldn’t that be Carolina?

  

  definitely worth a visit. It was established to connect the community in ... and open to the public from 9am to 5pm weekdays. Not everything in the exhibit is a work of art per se, however, and actually the most striking

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 18, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Awesome Autobiography in rage comic form

  

  have learned now in my advanced age. On the same day, in a very different ... a tesseract - an 86 year old man posted his autobiography to reddit in ... to me, and on to you. It is pretty awesome, and another piece of data

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  of my classes is 1.00 (or in non-MIT speak, Intro to Computers and ... are others. It is basically an introduction to programming in Java. I ... later in the term. There are lots of small details which never seem to be

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Dah noo-loo Hey kah ay-ay u-nye

  

  their "talk to people not from MIT" routines. It's funny, MIT is in a bubble in that, as an MIT student, you start to forget what the outside ... actually were given a 15 minute talk in the bus about how to behave while not

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  past on the Infinite and call my parents is a tall order to do even in ... -based math, and it culminated in a project where I got the chance to listen to ... semester to be over even in its earliest stages. Eventually, I perfected the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  thing in the world you want right now is an acceptance to MIT. You ... forward to what is still to do. -- Goethe So I spent the Thanksgiving ... really relate to. .... then we all got here in the fall and haven't seen

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  to be in the same post since they had different tones kind of so ... Stud2 (the floor with the food court) to help fix my broken code. In the ... when it comes to coding. This is one of my most toxic traits, I'd say

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Your CPW Host The host assignment meeting was tonight.

  

  , are very much looking forward to CPW. In short, we're all very excited ... meeting looked like: (note fellow blogger Bryan in the front row, freshly back from his trip to Italy) If your assigned host is back from Spring

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Profile On The Web: Can It Hurt You? Responses to questions on Facebook and other internet profiles and how they can affect college…

  

  as potential MIT '11s gear up to begin the admissions process. Below is ... inform decisions, either in regard to admission or in regard to the ... use them as the latter is, in my opinion, not terribly ethical

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 11, 2006