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  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  that outer layer, so despite the 34-degree air outside of this 2250 Acela ... of two nearly-identical, 300-foot-long buildings known as the West and ... 1916: at the time, MIT didn't even own the land west of Mass Ave, and

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  , one for the minimum amount of classes we need to finish the 21E degree ... a double major because, well, it equates to the units of one major ... opinions, is the epitome of the epitome of using animation to not just tell a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  the Bemis section of the east parallel (the west parallel and the other ... offered, and explaining the hundreds of clubs and student activities, along ... creator of the amazingly useful CourseRoad (along with TeXcha, a La

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  Leading our transfer admissions program is one of the greatest joys ... real magic of the transfer process is that no two transfer students follow the same path to MIT. Colored by the patina of life experience

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  Dear Class of 2022, 12 years ago, Ben Jones, aka The Blogfather, shared 50 pieces of wisdom with the Class of 2010, which became 50 Things, the most-read blog on MIT Admissions. As a member of the Class of 2018

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  the most popular TV shows ever began, Friends. In 2004, at the end of ... . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now ... began following the lives of Ben, Matt, and Mitra. Soon after, Sam and I

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  Orleans, and elsewhere. If you're on the West Coast, you may have heard of ... 't rain flooded the banks of the Charles (along which I bike) or which it ... about 35-40 minutes of a workout in the morning and afternoon. I arrive at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my ... more multitudes. The truth is, however, that most of this semester has ... going into it. Many of the weeks have been unfortunate at best and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  own. As admissions officers, we talk about one way the residents of ... . The details of the project change each year, but it's always ambitious ... of the 2015 roller coaster (which I rode, and which some of my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  days of yore, the internet outage hit the dorm like a tsunami - hysterical shrieks of people who were unable to submit HASS papers filled the ... scent of carnage spread over all of dorm row, until all of West Campus

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  -Madison’s offer of acceptance. *** And that’s the bulk of it. That’s why I took a ... For most of high school, the US was just a vague blip on the radar of ... of studying in the US would be like, but we spoke in the offhanded

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  I figured I would suck it up and power through for the purpose of a ... . I started having thoughts to the effect of “everyone else is already ... ’t considered and I could be any of them and oh my god what the everloving egg am

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  bouquet, Or offer a market assessment, Of the future of Valentine's Day. We ... past ten years made up the bulk of your adolescence. It’s certainly true ... fondness, as a decade of so many Firsts that made me the person I am today

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  of the MBTA stations, including the Silver Line. He made a post about ... of this done for the London Underground, so I latched onto the idea ... some parts of the path, there were even options for us to take depending

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  2, English House. Units of measure were alive and well within the culture of Conner 2 during my stay there. To the best of my knowledge there were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  the entire west parallel of east campus went off and everyone had to ... of food. As the legendary French chef Auguste Escoffier once said, “la ... foundation of genuine happiness. Small wonder that the U.S. has such

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  . I added some of my own advice. Then I organized everything into the ... sense at the moment. A lot of items contradict each other. Here is the ... ’ve found a group of people who love doing the same thing you love doing, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The state of Arizona does not celebrate daylight ... quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is ... to make a graph of the number of credit-hours of class I've taken per

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Genesis Embrace me Blogosphere!!!!

  

  research teams while completing a master’s degree at the University of ... Inspired by the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Theme Song Now this is the ... attend Morehouse The first degree was fun so I did it again So I earned a

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or ... can really get into the meat and potatoes of what I want to talk about, I want to first introduce the structure of my internship: I'm part of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020