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

  

  fourteen students, were killed in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Over the past week, student activists from Stoneman Douglas have spoken out loudly, often, and in public

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

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  measures and symbols telling you what key you're supposed to be soloing in ... delightful to you. Freedom! A chance to be expressive and creative in front of ... chance to freak out and embarrass myself in front of lots of other people

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  As someone whose idea of Friday night fun in high school involved (a ... , writing search algorithms to help fictional cows find salt licks in labyrinthine pastures, then (b) spending the next six hours buried elbow-deep in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
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  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  Aviv's Ben-Gurion International Airport. It was just past six in the ... doing here? That was two years ago. In retrospect, that was just how I felt on my first night in Baker; if I recall correctly, neither of my

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  MIT accepted its first international student in 1866, only one year after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse. By 1895, 39 from ... came from Turkey than from Texas. In 1909, President Maclaurin began his

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
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  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  I live in East Campus, on the third floor of the west parallel, which we call floorpi. And on floorpi, I live in room H306, which looks like ... ’ve lived in this room. many of the things in this room have been passed down

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  entirely by the students: in my experience so far, after a few starter ... -sets; sometimes there are not. At the end of the semester we write in-depth explorations of the topics of our final presentations. In 18.304, I got to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  computer, opening up the MyMIT page that I hadn't visited in a few months. I ... took a few days/weeks to settle in. I got some congratulations at school ... done well in science competitions (yet), and I really did not have much

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology ... in developmental neurobiology at that other university in Cambridge ... rabbit (who did not attend MIT) in an apartment just north of Boston. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  tell me what he had been doing in the time since. I thought it was a ... blog it, and he said I could. I've reproduced it in its entirety and ... the years. You might want to know how I fared in past five years (wow

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
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  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  buildings lining Newbury Street two miles away in Boston. Much of campus, including the Great Dome and Lobby 7, was built in the early 1900s in the ... ’s campus, especially Stata. I personally love the dissonance in the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  ?" We agonized and fantasized over getting The Big Envelope (or in Colin's case, The Tube) until both we and the pterodactyls in our stomachs were ... 'm getting in! I'm getting in!" moments, followed by, "they'll never take me

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
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  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  designers in various disciplines who work at different scales and lab sessions where we refine our own design skills in a series of increasingly complex assignments. As someone with no design background at all and minimal interest in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
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  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  those that are just entering leadership positions in clubs or really ... things I would do if I could do MIT all over again. In my four years at ... been able to take a photo with truly everyone in it ^^; And of course, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
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  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  , pushing forward, and in the absence of motion, it was simply falling. This ... in any case, I was far too busy to contemplate what it meant. I met up with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
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  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  pset problems! Spreading the word about announcements made in lecture ... their friends are taking, work on psets together in virtual Zoom lounges, share resources, ask questions (and post memes) in a forum, and keep track

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  congregation gathered in the East Campus courtyard huddles together slightly ... "live" means verb, "to live," or "live", as in concurrently, alive ... east parallel. In a window on the second floor, behind the man standing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
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  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  (I started this post wayyyyy back in January. Ask any blogger who ... getting back into bed to watch actors in their mid-twenties pretend to be ... 't ask me any super-detailed questions about rapid gene transcription in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
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  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  ’s your orientation, in the literal sense. This is what the campus looks ... . There’s main campus, which is the pentagon in the center; most activities ... in west campus all have numbers that begin with W, like W20, the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

    Chris asked to meet with me last fall, in late September. We sat down in an office in MIT Admissions. “For the spring admissions ... Man comics A lot of people at MIT were of course ecstatic, and in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017