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  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  someone was boomboxing Vitamin C - Friends Forever on the sidewalk. At first

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  opportunities and events, and c) illustrate the bicoastal life that I (and a lot

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  ; C Entry: Movies Against Humanity SnaCks, Cheesy movies, and Cards

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  for Course 15 undergraduates. The class is structured around the 5 C

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  It’s been almost three months since my last blog post, so I thought I’d check in again–I keep meaning to blog, but each time I think about it I feel…

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  quick dispatch from my new room on the first floor of senior haus, just to share how my semester is going. somehow, 1.5 weeks into classes, i’m already inundated with…

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  , the student with the Ultra Violet beard, J. C. Blumé, was an

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  Yesterday, Friday, was my third day working at the Atlantic. I graduated a little over a month ago, moved to Washington, D.C. a week ago, and started the fellowship on Wednesday. The city is lush, green, unfamiliar

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  On the floor where I lived last year, Elaine L. ’18 was known for always having baked goods to offer. She studies Course 6-3 at MIT, but in her free…

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  A photo posted by Michael Cheung (@m_cheung_) on Apr 13, 2016 at 4:07pm PDT   If you know anything about startups, you know Y Combinator.  YC has spawned $50 billion…

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  This is a guest post by someone–Michael T. (UMD ’19)–whose college essays I helped edit last year. He’s a friend of a friend who wrote an entire essay about soldering.…

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  So, grade reports at MIT are not super complicated. When you go online to look at your grades you might see the familiar A - “Exceptionally good performance…” B - “Good performance…” C - “Adequate performance

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) to the 2020 MIT Protofrosh

  

  publishers before becoming history's fastest selling book. C.S. Lewis landed a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  That you vote most certainly does! The following is a guest entry by Cody C. '14 When it comes to politics, there is one argument that I have heard almost exclusively from fellow members of the MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  Music to complement this post Tweet to complement this post Post (article) to complement this post On Wednesday, I went to classes, graded some psets, did yoga in my P.E.…

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  ; I only discovered this space last year, when Justin C. '16 was taking

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  It’s Career Fair season, and that means hundreds of companies are swooping down on campus with brightly-colored t-shirts, cheap plastic goodies, and oddly-formatted emails.  I’ve been reading a lot of…

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  (Michael C. '16's Post!)   Being An Adult     Budgeting

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  of 1929 when senior class president C. Brigham Allen brought together a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  here” but really it’s more like “most people get C’s here” and you know

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015