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  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  . ... These new steps to enhance MIT’s affordability for students and families ... unusual wealth atypical of a given income level. For example, let’s say you ... expenses while they farm and sell quail eggs at the Northampton farmer’s

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  Food at Jerry’s Cafe in Gallup, drove through Navajo National Monument ... barriers to higher education. After all, it’s easy to feel discouraged when ... reminds me why this work is so important. It’s about making dreams feel

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tim’s wardrobe legend has it, TIM changes clothes annually

  

  first year and have been on my year’s class council since. It has been ... , but we winded up just using a monocle, a top hat, 1800s-era TIM instead ... Illustrator. I first removed [annotation note="scandalous, I know"]TIM’s shirt

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  I hate Bevi. It’s frustratingly slow, the user interface makes me ... blissfully unaware of Bevi’s existence, prepare to have your day ruined as I ... , so here’s a story about the one time when Bevi brought a glimmer of joy

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  process takes maybe twenty minutes at most, but it’s so essential in helping ... an exercise in color theory or proportions. It’s a chance to experiment ... remember reading about Zuckerberg’s choice to wear the same type of shirt

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  here at the foot of the Rockies. There’s snow on the tracks, and the ... the mountains. I am feeling rejuvenated after a good night’s sleep; I ... french toast (8/10) and listened to her talk about her sons and her life’s

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  ) Good morning! It’s a beautiful morning out here in the [annotation ... Station to [annotation note="no, that’s not a real word; yes, I stand by it ... don’t. It’s probably the best train waiting area I’ve been in, which is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  science or tools or fabrication processes in this post, mostly because there’s ... it’s not clear why we should care about the problems we’re studying ... to dedicate our lives to them. it’s hard not to be convinced when you

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  Putting together a semester’s course schedule is a nontrivial ... , there’s a lot of “darn I can’t take class A if I take class B because they ... determine the class list way before Registration Day. It’s great for

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  abilities and get Sanatan’s. You would have had to step back and build ... : it’s really hard to be noticed, so i want to be the kind of person that ... magic i’ve found has been non-academic in nature. that’s part of why i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment

  

  , this is the result: the samurai’s sword (left) slashes straight through the ninja’s sword (right) and breaks it in half. then the samurai ... , though i know it’s not their job to. perhaps they didn’t notice, or perhaps

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  On April 16th, 2020, my life changed. That’s a kitschy way to put it ... memorable than usual, because it’s the day my first novel went to auction. It ... had asked everybody to leave campus, so I was at my boyfriend Chris’s

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  The 2024s got their first look at the class ring on Friday! Having a class ring, or Brass Rat, is an integral part of the MIT experience. It ... many '24s," I said to Grace at one point. Maybe that's because the 2024s

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  notoriety of the class and its near-universality among Course 8’s I am fairly ... photoelectric effect (Einstein’s Nobel prize winning experiment!), and the ... acceleration on earth’s surface  (the best pendulum designer gets a pendulum as a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  shoebox in my closet me! There’s more to the floor than my gremlin cave ... bopping to music every time you run into him   confused-24s Eva is probably playing Geoguessr in the kitchen while Alyssa’s air-raid-siren laugh

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  -cold-not-rainy California and moved on with our lives. It’s been raining lately, and I get ... to tell myself that there’s not much I can do about the past, and that there’s not much I can do now besides put myself back together. I’m trying

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  from the preface and first thirteen theses of Guy Debord’s classic The ... consumption. The spectacle’s form and content are identically the total justification of the existing system’s conditions and goals. The spectacle is also

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Take Care of Us asking for change

  

  ="aligncenter" width="4096"] art from alina s. '24 that summarizes what i'm talking about ... overwhelmed and it's difficult having to look 2025s in the face and say 'Yeah, I ... 2025s that MIT is good most days, just not this particular day. I am

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  But there was one prize I'd cheat to win The uptight honors student who’s applying to the entire U.S. News & World Report Top 20 universities ... , "Well, it's made for me" The kid who’s ready to figure out who they are

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  nonsensical, or the way mathematicians often hold obvious truths at arm’s length, scrutinizing them with a skeptical eye and asking “How do we really know it’s ... to now, still one of my favorites. Say yes to things. It’s okay to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020