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  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  the future may look like. I suppose this is a sequel of sorts, one that threads through the pages of an established past. The years since my coming to USA, to MIT, have been some of the most monumental years of my life

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  1,126 students joined the Institute as freshman in the fall of 2011. One of them was Spencer Wilson, a young man from the small town of ... rebuilding in his backyard. Spencer sent us the equivalent of a Maker Portfolio

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  of self respect. At least that's the way it was with me. Something that ... only the parts of the material necessary to hand in a completed ... .409 (which I highly recommend by the way). Another piece of universal advice

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  me the strength to declare the major that I did: 6.08 6.08 is one of MIT's Intro to EECS classes, with each of the Intro to EECS classes ... will be pretty long! It'll be an explanation of the class, my experiences

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  there is a D9 presence at MIT and show the many benefits of joining one ... of PVC' This was taken straight from Snively's post titled The Other ... . Nikayah also spoke to faculty such as Dean DiOnetta Crayton, Director of the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  them with you. The first is Old West Revue, of which the data collection ... This post contains minor spoilers for the structure of MIT Mystery ... The beginning of the end The final runaround Help me because I don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  rejection by heading the Continental Army, driving the British out of their ... , the linchpin in the formation of the United States of America. Worked ... absence in no way inhibited the spectacular course of his life. Washington

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... came out, I was sitting in the McCormick lobby, with our Head of House ... began what is easily the most demanding of days I have lived through. What

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  's government, and was the captain of the cheerleading squad. When I was a ... engineering major named Adam, and we dated for the rest of our years at MIT. In ... Boston's Museum of Science, which has a great view of the city skyline

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  part of that process, I polled the bloggers on blogging features and ... this year's CPW. In the 9 years between these posts, there were dozens of ... is not an individual or collective failure of the blogs or the bloggers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  had been drawn for the lottery to see him and Mike Schroepfer (VP of ... Hearing Mark Zuckerberg's Talk: Significantly more terrified of the ... billionaire in the world, the founder of Facebook - talk. Wasn't that SO cool

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... different type of work this semester--the work of being present and focused ... 'm doing so i can get back to the place where i approach the days of my life

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I need a high school diploma to apply?

  your odds of getting into MIT and will help you make the most of the ... MIT doesn't have any age requirements and doesn't require high school completion to apply. Each year we receive a small number of applications from
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  of the Milk that he posted on these blogs two years ago: Nineteen years ... a stretch of time found it confined. The Bonfire Resident perhaps came across this carton a couple of times over the next few months, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  efforts, the number of international students doubled in just ten years. 1 ... Daily Globe article, the President of the Latin-American Club at MIT ... they can insure the future peace of the world.” To achieve this ideal

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  hundreds of wonderful and intelligent female students but also the best ... , filtered deliciousness from a burbling water fountain while the attentions of the actual residents were occupied by festivities of a barbecueous

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  . One of the lifeguards noticed what was going on and offered to help out ... to the solution, the climax, the moment of insight, breakthrough. That ... your wits, and in place of the solution’s space will be a black hole

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
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  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  purgatory and get my degree just in time for the Class of 2012 π reunion. But ... that with the incoming class of 2019, most of you have no idea who I am ... . There are tons of new professors. New shops in the student center. Online

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
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  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  This past weekend was the 10-year reunion for the MIT Class of 2000 ... the members of our class (about 1000 people) and asked for "10-year ... had, though, I condensed the responses into a one-line summary of each

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
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  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  year, I saw the graduation ceremony as more of a check-point than a ... is class of '08) couldn't come see me graduate in person. I did the ... using a strip of cloth and a couple of alligator clips. I used the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009