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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  While reading Whitney Zhang's article in the Tech on the history of ... of MIT page, was the most fundamental restructuring of MIT in its ... , and Social Science. The report, written in the historical context of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  lived in the same dorm for four years but I have lived on the same floor for four years and in the exact same room for three. Despite the fact that most of the freshmen who are placed in Maseeh end up moving out, I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  in 2006. Our institutional research website says, quite specifically ... A few students pointed me towards this piece in the Wall Street Journal about whether or not colleges should consider legacy in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Think Pink 2011 [By Cory Hernandez, '14] G@MIT, the SAO, and Residential Life present a guide to living…

  

  doing the Housing Lottery—reading and watching i3s, visiting dorm websites ... thing in particular—how accepting would that group be of my sexual ... knew that one was right for me. Senior Haus had a line in their i3 that

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  : describing the classes you're taking in a given semester. Well, now that I'm a ... ...well, now you have. I chose to do my concentration in Theater Arts. This will ... concentrating in Theater Arts or Creative Writing. Intro to Playwriting was the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  were some of the few things that I actually attended after finding it in ... to a building across the river in search of a Boston frat, in the dark nd in miserable weather, I did homework. Yep. My host Jennifer (a

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  floor residents are thinking of taking in the next semester, polls about ... ![/caption] Back when we all lived in East Campus, one of my housemates had a huuuuge whiteboard in her room. When we moved our stuff out in September, she insisted

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  in cities and ambition, paul graham writes: “Great cities attract ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around one. In a hundred ... brains in Silicon Valley, the message the Valley sends is: you should be

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Amicus briefs and the ABCs of a diverse MIT A SCOTUS filing with Stanford et al, and a strategic action plan for an inclusive…

  

  A few weeks ago, MIT —  in conjunction with Stanford, IBM, and Aeris ... to the lawsuit in question, but that have a stake or insight into the matter before the Court. MIT had previously filed similar briefs in prior

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  in "Spider-Man" for about 3 minutes, too. Surely, you had to see ... than in Boston, at the Coolidge Corner Theater, a lovely nonprofit ... 's more. While Bruce was busy in Bulgaria or wherever directing and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  very outdated website here: It's almost exactly one year old! I get a ... works. In some respects that's tricky to answer, but I can give it a shot ... discussed over a dozen times by various bloggers, websites, and other people

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  , face possible criticism, to realize your full potential. In my case, I ... war (or worse!!). This was all in order to reach my highest goal, my ... 's literally no way to tell. About an hour in, the ogs had to leave, but a

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  the comforts of home in Seattle, more than three thousand miles away ... a plane in less than 48 hours heading back into the land of problem ... ’m excited to finally move in. I’m especially excited to be a blogger for the

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  impressive!) after every joke. And there are a lot of jokes in Book of Mormon ... silent, he cued Elder McKinley, who asked us to join the cast in a ... people in watching the broadcast of another rendition of Auld Lang Syne

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  ' bedroom door and tried to hear what they were saying). In second grade, I ... treasure. We didn't. I haven't eavesdropped on my parents in recent memory. Now, instead of using fitted sheets as capes, I buy fabric from the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pie No, not pi.

  

  me. I spent from 9 AM to 2 PM in various chat rooms, blogs, forums, and ... come to MIT. I was just as interested in seeing who got in as anybody ... 't gotten in and spent quite a while fairly upset. Thousands of applicants

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  clumsy, because somehow in between buying some delicious Apple Dapples in ... once in a while. I've been feeling kind of floaty these past few weeks ... . But seriously, guys, everything's really up in the air right now. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Bonn, Games, Bonn Wherein we teach the world the true meaning of democracy.

  

  Zelda. In the end, about the coolest thing we saw in Bonn was Beethoven ... reenactor like that one episode of Amazing Race 4 in Vienna. I took this ... another 2.20 ticket I saved myself from buying. On July 3rd, we had a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Useful items to bring for dorm room

  

  of drug stores in the area, so unless you have a particular surplus of ... want a small fridge in your room. Hold off on getting this until you find ... your permanent room assignment. If you aren't staying in an air

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  District (where I buy hair dye when I put green streaks in my hair every so ... birthday. Clayton decided that we would celebrate in style with a "Gentlemen ... hadn't worn a skirt or dress since I was junior in high school. I doubt

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005