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  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  Today, the Class of 2012 formally register for classes and thus ... sense of their individual achievements, passions, and dreams can be harder. So this summer, I watched the news wire for stories of incoming

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  a brief respite finds me on the second floor of [annotation note ... outline the rest of my day, but a [annotation note="i've gotten the freshman ... propel myself towards my next event, i push away the cloud of uncertainty

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Top Blog Posts of 2015 widely viewed and capturing the essence of 2015

  

  sliver of the voices at MIT, and yet we capture many of the experiences, hardships, accomplishments, and adversity that can occur inside and outside of campus and college. The following is an unordered list of some of our top

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  thousands of dollars that are flowing back and forth on paper between you and ... had a lot of papers out, and was frantically scribbling numbers on pieces of scrap paper. Finally, he looked up and said, "Well, we can pay

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2022 Wait List An update for students who accepted a place on our wait list

  

  According to the admissions profession's Code of Ethics and ... upon date by which students reply to offers of admission. Following May 1, we take about a week to determine the state of the incoming class, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  ’s sparkle with a curtain of grey. The life of the Frosh shifts. Dulled is the thrill of the first impossible PSet. On sleepy breakfast runs, the Dome is ... MIT, unsure whether the prospect of returning home for the holidays

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Varied states of the basement A roundabout trek to an underground level of Building 7 leads me into areas very…

  

  ... and arrive at one of my favorites -- I mean, just look at the pattern on ... a picture for you. Various areas of Building 6's basement are under ... , so keep these in mind. We're almost out of Building 3 as we pass

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  that simulation can give you a better idea of how plasma behaves in a fusion reactor. Then, of course, you build the perfect fusion reactor and ... good at theoretical plasma physics you have to know a lot of things that

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  bring the wrath of higher-ups raining down on the admissions office again ... ) Scared about repercussions c) A member of the MIT faculty d) Tempted to e ... horizontal piece of PVC. At the end of Rush the fraternities make bids and

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  I did three things on Saturday, and each one of them rocked. Better yet, each one of them rocked in a different way, kind of like a charity ... time she crashed a bicycle in the mean streets of Boston, Ruth Miller was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  on its way to those who replied to us before the deadline. One of the coolest parts of the NBM is the Athena Account Coupon. The coupon will allow ... (currently 1 GB), ability to access MIT-only secure web pages, and, of course

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2nd Half of IAP a quick and slightly belated list

  

  For the first half of IAP, we were speed walking to prepare for the ... way! Look at the frozen river! and ducks! and geese! close up of frozen river! 2) We saw Mary and the Witch's Flower, the first movie of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  As some of you may have noticed, the world didn't end on Wednesday like I thought it would (for the rest of you, look outside, yup it ... being annoying to those around me under the guise of it having no

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  2 hours of slack: it can be delayed by 2 hours without affecting ... 's 1 hour buffer. now Y has 3 hours of slack, because bob added buffer ... choice of how much slack doesn't depend on alyssa or bob. it depends on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)

  

  Boston Public Library - Venue of the Class of 2020 Ring Delivery ... (almost) halfway point of getting through MIT. It marks many psets and exams ... gather in a big fancy place, eat fancy food, dance, and take a bunch of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 27, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  their far too clunky suitcases onto the airport shuttle, I feel a pang of regret wash over me. New waves of kiddos are coming in to make MIT their ... my feet to quickly realize that I don't know much of anything, really

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  First Midterm of The Semester Here I go...

  

  I have about 30 minutes before the first midterm of the semester. I just finished gulping down a breakfast burrito. Back in high school, I always had eggs before a big exam. It's become one of my pre-exam routines

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  tall and narrow, and she curled the ends of her letters so that each word ... my lecture notes, there is a mixture of 1) abbreviated content (normal ... fact that the kid in front of me is taking notes rapidly in LaTeX and it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  taught “Don't give in to peer pressure!”--an oversimplification of a ... , come to think of it, I can swim across the Charles... My point is: peer ... : dyed hair is a stereotype of my dorm, East Campus (among other dorms

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The home of cool toys the best way to spend a Monday

  

  without the coating of dirt (note to future Coure 16ers: that downwash is no ... ... fortuitous signage come back soon! One of my colleagues had a much

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 4, 2010