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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Progression of Spirit You must be this tall to ride the MIT Emotional Rollercoaster

  

  down the hall in hysterics increase. How does Jon react to the added ... I realize that the title for this post could be the title of a hymn ... that they're worthy of MIT, and prove to themselves that they can handle

  • by Snively '11
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  accepted. To my surprise, I got in, and I signed myself up! Best decision so ... Houston explained how working at startups in high school and his frustration ... companies. She explained in fascinating detail how her lab developed tiny

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Town Cambridge: university and city.

  

  too many pictures of the Cambridge as an actual town in this blog. So I ... in Cambridge. Even though it is the middle of winter, you can see the ... Like MIT, Cambridge also gets its share of tourists and visitors. I

  • by Cambridge
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  residents were interested in New House, so i wasn't sure how easy it would be ... 's mattress from her room in EC, but when i saw how decrepit it was, i decided ... how i'd feel if i were living in a dorm with less culture. part of me

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  Festival. I was unaware of this until I happened upon a food truck giving out ... ' grilled cheese would be here from 3-5pm today. Either 1) I am getting very desensitized to event emails because we get so many every day or 2) I am

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  pitches. So far as I can tell, people weren’t really forming words, just ... to take classes in anything a teacher wants to teach. I still don ... good one, but believe me it’s just a lucky guess! (Read: I’m not a

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  . It has an extensive history (that I won’t go into but you can read ... -poms, and testing how far I could reasonably chuck various mini beaver ... more and more people filed in. At some point, I poked my head out to

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  our usernames back in those days), I chose madmatt as my username. It ... task is to choose a username for yourself. Yes, MIT believes in letting you choose your own email address (you can laugh at your friends at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  can see the view I saw yesterday, no matter their level of mobility) and ... Last week, I was lucky enough to get to see something very unique ... , and they took me on a tour so that I could tell you about all the super

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  Anne Liu and I spent January 7th through January 17th in India on a ... trip, we placed our faith in ad hoc planning. Anne and I left our hotel ... because I was able to appreciate what I have in my life in a way that I

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  in Comparative Media Studies, class of 2013, whaddup), I'm always ... sciences with the rest of MIT. I’ll discuss the history of how one ... Venice.” Unfortunately, we didn't videotape the talks this year, so I can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  in the blogs... stay tuned! *edit: while I was writing this post, a ... my punny ways are a lot stronger when I'm around them; this entry is ... rest of this worse. Before I get fired for writing a blog post

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  should I do in order to know MIT better?" A great starting point for how ... ://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/...ork_hard.shtml I think I can, I think I can (Bryan): How do you have time to have fun? http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/...nk_i_can.shtml Standing out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  insecurity. I remember sitting in Alan's office (surrounded by empty cans of ... receive any exam booklets." Prof. Guth smiled and asked whether I was in the ... into the wrong exam hall, I said "Um, yes. 8.012 is DEFINITELY in this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  , explicitly foregrounds these concerns in discussing how the MIT education, and ... MIT is like, I always talk about how it's decentralized, even ... While reading Whitney Zhang's article in the Tech on the history of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Imagination there is no place i know...

  

  pain. In the meantime, I'd like to thank everyone who made this video ... Imagination." You can watch it here:   Professor Woodie Flowers once told me that "MIT can be either a steamroller or a candy store: it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  bacterial sense). You see, though it is impossible to see in this photo, I ... they sprout is. I am like a great lion, tawny and magnificent in my ... , personally, and to the leadership I have shown in the realm of proper beards

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  front. there are plans in place to advance the game: but i can't get too ... Cycle of targets, and there can't be any loops: in other words, the hunter ... consistently as long as i'm still in the game. my strategy is more or less to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Events

  #WeAreMIT SMASH helped jumpstart an intense conversation between students and administration

  

  I plan on presenting in the form of a Tech Article, a Powerpoint ... MedLinks do and why we exist, and how vital our role in the community ... SMASH stands for Students At MIT Allied for Student Health. I am on

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  In the South for prospective students; in the mail for incoming students Travel & email.

  

  , where I got to meet many fantastic students. After wonderful meetings in ... said, here are some tips I'd recommend... In my circle of friends, as ... alum that I don't regularly keep in touch with, by default I always

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2007