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  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  For many years I have written these blog posts from a cubicle in room ... ="Overlooking...Chipotle."]new office,[/annotation] on the second floor of a new building, E38, which is ... least 2015, as part of a broader Kendall Square Initiative along MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  starting it. But don't. Don't start a flame war. If you do, the people at ... On May 18th I wrote a blog entry called “Ring Committee” which was about as popular as anything else I write amongst a prefrosh audience but

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  reshuffled; seeing as I hadn’t moved since Boston, I grabbed a blanket and did ... Well, here we are. I’m taking a brief stop in the Great Hall of Union ... , a franchise I haven’t eaten at in a while. I got a cavatappi lemon

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  , MIT doesn't like subsidizing food. So, over the past year or two a ... There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining. You see, MIT currently has a rather unorthodox dining system, and by that I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  song: Passing Through (Can't the Future Just Wait) by Kaden MacKay In high school, when I'd start to get bored of a class, I'd sit and ... halfway there." And I'd repeat this throughout the class. It became almost a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  will stay in academia and become a professor someday, so I suppose I’m ... a freshman fall semester isn’t common here, but I feel that it is definitely a massive part of the reason I’m enjoying this semester so much!

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  As promised last week, I'm presenting the winning entries of the CPW ... Honorable Mentions: First off, Josepher presents an excellent example of a ... -printer guy* meant something like, “Welcome, MIT Families!” but I'm prone to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  quite a few classes. What have I even learned from them? I'm bad at ... often fear that when I talk, people aren't actually listening, so I'm glad ... the computer as a whole works. But you can't just look at the small

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  about you as a result of reading your essay? Student:  I'm not sure. Me ... determine if you are a good fit for the community? Student: I don't know ... -written applications) to a largely digital one (with applications and supporting

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  Planning) and really want to pursue a minor but probably won't due to time ... '; this is the one I'm studying. It is a joint program between Course 4 ... might know from the handy banner above, I am a Course 4 (Architecture

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Party pics

  

  hit the floor. Next to her, Mike '09, who I'm sure some of you know as a ... because we're smart. A lot of West Campus people, I've noticed, don't ... previous entry that a little over a week ago on 5th East we had one of our

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 2, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  true. Admissions looks at a lot of different factors. You don’t need to ... Sixteen months ago, in April, I made a promise to myself: if you choose MIT, you get to take a gap year. You’ve been selling your soul to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  , Orange County, Florida... though I will be holding a meeting in the "real ... and floodgates. He is doing very interesting work in a city with similar geographic traits to New Orleans, Venice. A quick Google news search produced a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  . Can't really take it while I'm skating in North Carolina? Here's a ... airport, I wasn't able to call an Uber as I usually do, so I got on a taxi ... a 56%, so it wasn't as horrendous as it initally seemed. Either way

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  -MIT-student fashion, I forgot to respond.  For context, I’m chomps - a foodie and '25 ... ="108447" /] If you’re looking to sip and study … As a hosed MIT student, I’m always ... ="108460" image5="108459" image6="108458" /] A few bonus cafes  I couldn’t

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  :48 a.m. ET By SETH BORENSTEIN The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Get ... geeks are more normal, he said. "I'm a geek because I'm a dad," Blum said ... culture did, so don't qualify. But don't discount John Quincy Adams as a

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  . There is, however, a "Jon, and me." Because even though I haven't often ... September 11th, 2001. I was a freshman at a new school in a new town in a new ... family because we hadn't yet been able to move into our new home. My world

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  other A4 pizzas I've eaten, the mushroom pizza didn't use any tomato sauce ... mushroom and fontina pizza! I'm still A4's biggest hater because of all the ... Area Four (A4) is a popular pizzeria/cafe near MIT. Known for their

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Ringing in the second half of MIT The Class of 2019 gets their brass rats...at last

  

  grand reveal. Some students, including me, don't know that this is a ... introduced as a woman. The other was when the graviational wave was unveiled. I'm ... Last Tuesday was a big day for MIT's class of 2019. After two years

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  the floor and pretend i'm a carrot". Make of it what you will.) Though ... , it's still one of my favorite things to say right now) I’m a huge fan ... least. I don’t have a picture of our masterpieces, but the point is we had

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015