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  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  air, as freshmen were trampled by upperclassmen rioting to reset the ... sometimes take all day), neuroanatomy exams (shortly followed by a lecture on ... you, when you're rudely awakened by the fact that you don't know what

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  couldn't figure things out on their own. By second semester freshman year I ... online by a previous lecturer, and it was not long after I discovered them ... lecture notes from that week as I went along problem by problem, learning

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  This post is written by the beautiful and talented Christina '10, whose first choice when applying to colleges was admittedly NOT MIT, but ... 'm getting in! I'm getting in!" moments, followed by, "they'll never take me

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  by over 970 women and non-binary students for studying, attending ... biographies. art pieces The Cheney Room also has 22 art pieces created by women and non-binary artists, and a hybrid digital piano donated by Women and

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  Court... (4) ...or take a walk by the boathouse: (5) I'd show you

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  In case you haven't been on the Internet recently, a music video called "Gangnam Style" was released over the summer by K-pop rapper PSY, and now has the third most views on all of Youtube.  560,719,326 views

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  people have disagreed with my decision-making process, but I stand by it ... biked to class in the morning, always surrounded by forest and mountains ... , you might have been defined by your nerdiness and intelligence. When

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  the 2015 HASS requirements. So, uh, whoops. By way of apology, I'll do ... will need to have completed (read: passed) the following by the end of ... mandatory anyways, you might as well prereg for one random class by the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  over to stay with us, we decided to give them a warm welcome by trying to ... and ready to vectorize it. By the time I slid open the door and was ... like this: By this point, it was around 2am. I tapped out to finish

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  kindly tolerated my expletives. “Maybe I’ll have a six-pack by the end ... by myself. I think maybe the talking or affirming I do when feasting ... students than we would be able to by ourselves."]Other Universities

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  responsibility is, like most things at MIT, something you learn best by doing ... disciplined by their high school for practicing responsible citizenship by

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  , you're so heads down in your work that you hardly notice dates flying by ... how to do it, you've waited too long. You'll raise expectations by ... to be glimpsed and archived and embarassed in the future by. Here

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It ... devoted to. As the semesters went by, I developed priorities alongside ... become an astronomer. That kind of thing happens a lot. My friend Lucas, by

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  :   (Now let me just preface my $0.02 that I'm about to spill by saying that I am by no means and expert in anything related to business ... MIT and being surrounded by cutting-edge technology all the time, there

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  don’t I send her a copy. Me: *blown away by how nice people can be ... approachable. My high school was small, and I could swing by a teacher’s office ... , though, that while one can't necessarily swing by a professor’s office

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  probably be ruled by dolphins within a matter of weeks. Anyways, Nora was ... willing to get mauled in pursuit of our interests, she by vicious animals and I by heavy machinery and segfaults. (Although we try our best to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  founded by media mogul and all-around rich guy Ted Turner. When Turner ... over the airwaves, and then playing something by Pavement. Hanna throws in ten-minute-long songs by Opeth to annoy me sometimes, which I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  . Also, Next Haunt was a horror escape room, so we’d get jump-scared by ... of us got to solidify our legacy by writing our names in Sharpies on the list of previous winners.  Overall I am disappointed by how

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  The alarming rate at which the semester flew by shocked me, and I had ... regain composure before moving on with my reading. Darkness Visible by ... . Walden by Henry Thoreau was a triggering piece that’s slightly cynical but

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  , innate cleverness. I know that I did not get in by some fluke. The truth ... (occasionally soul-crushing) work while surrounded by brilliant people who ... before, not on this level. It’s not uncommon feel like you were admitted by

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015