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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  arranged. The RAC is a resident in the dorm, chosen according to dorm policy ... helped me see things more clearly. MIT is unique in the incredible variety ... , is also the RAC, while in Random Hall the RAC is its own position and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  doing much of anything isn't nearly as bothering to me as it is to the ... like the most appealing option for others is just to join the cacophony ... easily study in my room, the space I specifically cultivated to be

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Applications… Things are getting busy here at MIT Admissions!

  

  . In the meantime, we are only reading the most complete applications. So ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... lots) of mail. (The Wall Street Journal today is reporting that our early

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  unsuspecting children would continue to buy Pokemon cards (the most expensive of ... famous blues club in Austin. Ry is scheduled to play the first one-hour set ... real world you should neglect in solving this problem: ² The earth is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Hot Crosswalk Buns free food and football cleats

  

  It's beginning to warm up here - still in the 20s, but sunny and nice - so during a break in committee I took the opportunity to cross the Mass ... Niketown, to ask the resident experts what kind of cleats I should get for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  sports? The answer is MIT students. In fact, I have yet to see an empty ... of a process than an event; sure, the main goal is to get the frosh ... more abstract purpose relates to getting us in the appropriate mental

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  . Boston is cold in the winter. It truly is. I’m just starting to feel that ... because there is so much to be done at any given time. Get excited for all ... important. The curriculum is different in my country. I haven’t done AP

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  miss most about MIT (besides free printing at Athena stations) is the ... it to a concert. We saw the electronica band Ratatat in London. (Listen ... St. John's. Once at Cambridge, your college is probably the most

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  . Dodecahedron near CambridgeSide Galleria Most people end up in the Lechmere Canal ... the North Point Park, which is a nice way to see the Leonard P. Zakim ... Park Located right off the Long Wharf, this park is an ideal place to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  the big deal is") to prostitutes ("They are so mean!"). Mostly, though ... , though not necessarily from film) to participate in the Michel Gondry ... causes all the tapes to be erased. Left to their own devices, the pair is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  into singles if they choose to stay in the dorms (about 50% of MIT guys ... of the dorm. The design is a pretty big downside to Burton ... out great for Marty's dad in Back to the Future, my main purpose behind

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  the semester, is 8.033 – relativity. And yet, sitting in lecture, I ... "]tensor[/annotation] is. The problem is that physics is hard. Really hard, and in a ... meant to understand this in the first place," and, honestly, I stand by

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Punting

  

  Punting is a really relaxing and nice way to spend the afternoon if ... tomorrow. The really great thing about coming to Cambridge is that we’ ... University). The term “punting’ in MIT lingo means to relax, chill

  • by Cambridge
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  're taught to associate with the class. Most amphibians are born in the water ... Today is the fifth annual Save The Frogs Day, a day to spread ... what you found in the comments for the rest of us to see). I hope you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  seven people in it, one of which I knew prior to the program and five of ... " and we would yell back "HEY UPOP." My group is the table in the ... a limited amount of money to buy a limited amount of materials.  The

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  to the same fate, I have decided on minor downsizing. The issue is I ... on the board, so I was mandated to wear this shirt twice a month in ... to buy the shirt because it had corn on it for Iowa and I didn't want

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Season Some advice for the EA deadline. (Relax. Be patient. Don't stress. Don't procrastinate!)

  

  submission date for documents to show up in the tracking system. We have ... submission. If something is missing in mid-late November, then the fax will be ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  year. PNR This is the simplest and most commonly known, so we'll start ... .111[/annotation] is known to have a much lower pass rate than tests like [annotation ... you, though, because most of this is external factors (the average MIT

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  that the world is a very big place, and in order to change the world, we ... , I’m shook. To me it’s quite clear that MIT is the place that makes ... learned in 2.009 that this is the place that makes us SUPER. I have no doubt

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  what is and isn’t me (rush, part 1) and the somewhat methodical unraveling of self

  

  , however, the important thing to note is that for the past two years, I have ... most part up here in the North, or at least at MIT. And, for two ... kindly to, and that was “The Guys”—the 20-some-odd boys in my grade who

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025