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• Blog / Community Projects

  Stepping Up MIT brings the best out of people (in between psets of course)

  

  &D challenge, a call for dormitories, independent living groups, and Greek ... time. But if a challenge is laid down for the MIT community, odds are you ... she collaborated with Sally Susnowitz, Assistant Dean and Director at

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Full Reading Day So far you're all awesome, of course.

  

  Here's what I will see every Monday, Friday, Saturday, and many Wednesdays for the next 4 months... (Sorry for the bad photo; I only had my camera phone here at the library.) I sit in the same chair every day and

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Alums Direct New OK Go Video OK Go always has the awesomest videos. Jeff and Eric don't disappoint.

  

  You know the band OK Go, right? You remember, the guys with the treadmill video, and the Rube Goldberg machine video, and the marching band video (among many others)? OK Go has a new video for their song "End Love

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 16, 2010
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  sometimes get a bad rap with regards to social interactions.  We're stereotyped as awkward nerds with grody neckbeards who shower once a month ... popular, in fact, that I'm told there was a 50-person waitlist, and my

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best of Times summer at the NYTimes

  

  about it. I also did good amount of UI/UX and product design for an intern side project, culminating in a presentation that caused me to stand in an ... with my new baby: Immediately after the internship ended, I had a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 14, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admission Interview Tick tock!

  

  house or book store. It’s not a test, and your EC won’t throw a Rubik’s Cube at you and start a stopwatch. The interview is a conversation ... are as a person and a student. Applicants are expected to contact their

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pixar Pi

  

  Waiting for decisions sometimes made us feel like kids, scared of the ... that kid right now, afraid of the unknown, know that there are a lot of ... , remember what it is that makes your heart sing, and keep doing that

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  a fraternity. Just think about that statistic for a minute, and then ... excited about CPW! There are far too many events for a single person to ... . Plus, it's a lot more fun to roam freely through events and around campus

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  supposed to be a priority, somewhere up there with getting good grades and ... darn hard for it. And I'm willing to bet that more than a few students ... I've been at MIT for just over a month now. It hasn't quite sunk in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  'm ridiculously close to NR'ing it. For the past semester and a half, I've been ... This past week and a half I've been slowly adjusting to life at MIT ... myself busy and attempt to be an actual college student. I made a lot of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  for you. Hot dog contests, Toy Fair, snowball fights, the Ig Nobels, and ... about is the part where I will sit in a library for 8 hours trying to do a ONE PSET. I don't blog about how overbearing things can feel (a test and

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  people do, with many generations living in the same place and it becoming a ... room with a "history" - and not only that, but evidence of that history ... all places, to find a cultural identity, and a cultural heritage. It

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  've graded before for a different class, and it was also pretty easy; the head ... , shortening the design cycle and launching more frequently. Also, with a network ... bread,[/annotation] and do so every couple of weeks with MIT Challah for

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  First read

  

  makes a good summary of an application. I just finished reading and ... finished, so it will probably be another week and a half until we start the ... cities in the country, with amazing architecture and interesting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  trek down to LA so that I could work with my choreographer for a few days ... and/or exams the last two weeks of classes.   Hardware for my ... to go on the last day of classes, a week early. And after my last class

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  roommate is a close friend with amazing taste in decor and books, and I ... are funded. This funding pays for tuition, health insurance, and a ... , and if you took another year for a master’s degree, you would start at

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  's a trigger for inquiry and learning." Despite this free-for ... room learn there's a difference between living with posters and living ... Each piece in the collection is framed and signed by a leading

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  added a sign for the final touch, and… BEHOLD! THE SNOWMAN!!! [carousel ... one where snow actually collected on the ground and that I was awake for ... weather machine, and even got a very melty dusting a couple days ago

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Senior Gift Kickoff Make your mark, without (grade?) inflation

  

  inflation here. I voted for tshirt design B, with a simple athletic jersey ... Fibonacci Challenge!! The Fibonacci Challenge begins with a $10 gift senior ... Tonight was the kickoff event for the Class of 2007 Senior Gift

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Weekend in Kendall Square I know I work here all week, but hey, it's MIT

  

   usually do on a Sunday morning with the dog, my partner, and the wood stove ... campus.  The other day I read a flyer about a media lab talk with the new ... interested - free food.  I commute three hours a day to my job at MIT and I

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 29, 2012