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  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  committment to diversity. In fact, as early as 1917, the Boston Daily Globe ... 't have a cohesive campus until 1916, much to the lamentation of some ... ) was described in the yearbooks in the following way: "This Course is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  . No, only with a pass. Please, this is the only thing I want to do in ... night to buy me A Night at the Opera (ah, the dark ages before iTunes). I ... Lausanne. I was hoping to somehow run into Jessie randomly in the train

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  school than it is to get into PhD programs in biology. And because not as ... Well, the last week and a half has been busy, to say the least. I always try to put too much on my plate at once: I was working full-time at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  question the world around me; however, in day to day life it is often hard to ... are only going to let one thing out at a time." I think the most ... in the videos, to my best friends Diann Huynh and Chielo Mbaezue for

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  much my childhood! I went to all the book premiers and dressed up as a ... most elaborate, but to me it’s still the most exciting! Additionally ... this past summer I reread the entire series for the first time in a while

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  arrived. I’ve found the most amazing people here in college, with so much ... fact, I think I’m happier in all the metrics that I use to measure my own ... absolutely amazing. Then there’s the fact that everything is new, and as much

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  essay is really an opportunity to focus on who you are and the ways in ... remain most interested in facilitating the reflection and investigation ... .   Conversation #2 (assuming there is an answer to my first question) Me: Does the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tech is Hell we are happy, tech is hell

  

  grasped that Sisyphus is the absurd hero. He is, as much through his ... down in a few moments toward the lower world whence he will have to push ... it is essential to know the night. The absurd man says yes and his

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  hardness. The most well-known is the Mohs hardness scale – an ordinal scale ... my 3.020 psets. Thermodynamics is one of the most challenging classes I ... ductile. This result suggests that the second possibility is the most likely

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  taking courses in their majors. I went to the student talks that we have at ... . Regardless of your opinion of him, he is at least definitely one of the best in ... twenty in my high school. I am not used to being at the top nor do I think

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  person I could recognize in the mirror. If that is true for some of you now ... difficult done to you, is trying, as hard as you can, to tend toward the ... for the rest of your life. Here is a small piece of advice I want to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  what used to be (and in some ways, still is) a very powerful word. But I ... lot. To switch gears slightly, I applied to MIT in the regular action ... other side, as a blogger! In addition to The Tubes, MIT also sends the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  ! Nice to meet you! I'm Keri Garel, class of 2010, and in the blogger world ... in a cognitive science lab (the very lab Lydia blogged about in her ... of the Sport Death shirt that at this point it's probably cheaper to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  much more than the material that is directly taught to you. If you’re a ... are slowly becoming an adult In part, the fact that so much of your ... life or how much you'd learn in each class. There is so much learning

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  to pick a place you feel most connected to the people in. I can ... success. Thankfully the MIT Housing system is designed to give everyone the ... you can re-rank the dorms you'd like to live in. Maybe REX changed your

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Scholar

  

  't know: that the executive at ABC who greenlighted to show is an MIT alumna ... a special she brought to the network in 2002. In 2003, she expanded ... are here in part to counteract the stereotype of the intimidating

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Useful items to bring for dorm room

  

  outlets in each room, but they don't always tend to be in the most ... of drug stores in the area, so unless you have a particular surplus of ... assignment. Dorm lighting tends to disappoint. Invest in a desk light or even

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  walk into the lounge and say hi to whoever was in there, ask what they ... convince ourselves that not making the effort to socialize is our best bet ... sit in the lounge and talk to people, ask one of your classmates if they

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  trying to do the same for K-12. My role in all of this is mostly marketing ... . Back in April, when I was still anxiously waiting to hear back from the ... terribly scary thing to plant in the mind...Because we tend to act on it. So

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  much more confident in starting a project I don’t know how to do; I can ... most a mix of both. The best way to experience it was to go with the flow ... — and in some ways this is unavoidable, see also ‘pain.’ But the sleep

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024