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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  ’s currently at said Hatch Shell and tells me in not-so-many words to get there ... line to get in. Ruh roh. But no worries, this entry would not be as ... school year, it’s really easy to forget that you actually go to school in

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  This blog post unfolds in three parts: (1) a story about how I got ... ="aligncenter" width="251"] Kidist and I getting pizza in the North End in October! She ... embroidery. She showed me an embroidery kit she had and encouraged me to get

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  new people. I am hoping to do this more. If you're in a dorm that isn ... Disclaimer: I actually wrote this on my flight to California back in ... 't expect to be this different. Anyway, in my time here, I've learned a lot in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  get bored in Boston! It's such an amazing city, with so many things to ... , but that's enough to get me excited. f. Cambridge Side Galleria ... weekends guarantee an endless amount of free-time to catch up on problem sets

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  predict how many student will attend this year. To help with the ... know how many students remain on the waitlist, and how many we wish to ... waitlist this year? It is impossible to know. We will have no idea how many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  college fairs in New York City this past week. It was a fun week! First was ... hour event. Each college fair I do seems to have one question that gets ... the normal student using 8 terms to get a degree, most take at least one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  house to buy in my new town, go on a big adventurous trip to Asia, and ... prospective new hometown in the middle of March. Well. You can guess how that ... standing next to you. You dove right in; there was no preamble. Everyone knew

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  MIT) that ends at 6:30 pm. I knew I wasn’t likely to get a good ... probably wouldn’t even get in. Sadly, even though the talk was held in ... reading one of the eight stories in her new book, Unaccustomed Earth, for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  like using physical agendas more. For one, it’s fun to buy a new one each ... plastic pocket to put in any design you want. So, I printed out one of my ... stress in the form of a sticky note! I had to put it over an already

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Almost Only Counts in Horseshoes I almost did it. Rather I almost didn't do it. And all for a class…

  

  activities and stuff that I'd want to do, I decided to get all my homework done early and take my free Monday off to get ahead. And so I did. Cue the fun ... well. I hoped to get free tickets to Carmen from the Council for the Arts

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  It's no secret that I am a) living in New Vassar and b) despise it. I ... got to spend a semester with since she studied abroad in my freshman ... frosh, taking us out for ice cream or staying up until 3 in the morning to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  ? Whenever you get a chance, try to read as many of those as possible. You ... of software to help MIT life in some way. Without much else to do, I ... at MIT last fall, I originally told everyone that I wanted to major in

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Online Learning Ecology in The United Kingdom An xTalk on Amazing Programs and FREE Resources

  

  up to get help, with no entrance tests or requirements whatsoever. In ... universities in the world. Are you worried that you have no qualifications to ... Professor Eileen Scanlon from The Open University, told us how in another

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  .005 is in 15 minutes. I go to the basement to get Raising Steam by Terry ... gets larger in the window, nighttime Boston like a wet spiderweb beneath ... to take notes on and Café 4 for coffee. I find a seat in the back row

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  )   Expose yourself to new ideas, places and things. I don’t know how well I ... desperate attempt to see an online grade, a college decision, or how many ... 't know how to use my camera.) And although I had a lot of fun sitting with

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  . Will I have to take multivariable again in MIT if I get accepted?" I'm a ... better and shed new light on your application, feel free to send that in ... college to become a RN. How do I put this in my application?" Amended from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  in renewable energy. Wants to: Get a good-paying job so he can afford ... venture, which he helped direct. Zinser likes to work in the wood shop, lift ... particularly one who will be the first in his family to attend college full time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  these parts. How is your brother doing? Oh, this kid? He’s going to be in ... -optimal thing. But now I’m back, with a little less self promotion, to join in ... well. So sometimes I sit in a cubicle 9-5 by myself without speaking to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  country a little more, in a similar way to how I am accustomed to the bias ... parallels to Nigeria in how colonialism has seeped into the language, beauty ... how to react. I was having an amazing time learning all these new things

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  Museum of Fine Arts (MIT students get in free! Can't beat culture for free ... cause the student to shrivel up like a bacterium in Lysol. I remember ... class, and you have to learn for you, not for the grades. My new

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006