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• FAQ / Life and culture

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  MIT community. The purpose of the FSILG Office is to enhance the out-of-class experience for the students at MIT and be a proponent of the shared values that living-learning communities provide. The office works to promote a cohesive
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 4

  

  subcommittee was Ben and another student, a great team. The three of us worked ... Barbecue. At lunch, we had a visitor: Akash, a student admitted to the MIT ... chatting, Akash got a call on his mobile phone from another MIT '09, Anthony

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a hell week do not try at home

  

  14.121 homework and studying for a 14.121 final exam that is worth ... let me take a second to talk about the week i've had: last thursday ... thursday evening section of CMS.307 coincided with a 6.867 exam, so i had to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 27, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing… Maker Portfolios! Making the world better, one portfolio at a time

  

  Please note that, as  Hello World! I'd like to introduce you to a project that we've been working on for a while. It's a Maker Portfolio, and ... working on in their spare time. Maybe it was a really amazing new computer

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  .65 (Cognitive Development) class, we've been talking a lot about the nature of memory and how it's divided into various type (conceptual short term memory ... memories of an emportant emotional experience, a phenomenon called "flashbulb

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Glass Flowers A trip to Harvard to see the glass flowers (8 pictures)

  

  (independently) were expecting glass flowers like at the Bellagio. Not so much ... , everything you see here is made out of glass. Side note: Don't ever go to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  show is a satirical program, poking fun at conservative political pundit ... the interview, you should know that Lou Dobbs is a television ... know want to know what a triffid is. If you've got all that, enjoy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  amongst the stars a comic

  

  's honestly been a soulsucking semester so far, I went full-on retail therapy at ... been ... a lot. As a cherry on top, I tested positive for covid this week and am currently languishing in isolation. While I suddenly have so much

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  I Am Not As Lame As I Appear I've just been feverishly at work on the new website...

  

  Mollie starts tomorrow and I needed to get things to a certain point so ... applications (thanks!) and I have a file with all of your questions which I ... .S. Nance's 40th birthday party was off the hook. He had a stretch limo and

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Busy times

  

  -related meetings. Today was pretty much consecutive meetings from 9am until 7pm for me. This morning was a meeting about our new viewbook, discussed in Ben ... finally a meeting with a student group. And finally, after posting this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  When you have a 2.5-year-old and a 3-month-old, anything after 6AM is ... why certain kids get in when others do not. This is a big goal of ours ... campus - Loomis is a beautiful place. Loomis Chaffee has somewhat of a sad

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  Has a Headache: 1. By Christian teaching, sloth is one of the seven cardinal sins. 2. Sleep is a member of the set . Therefore, sleep is a sin. 3. sleep(t) = sin(wt), where sleep is a function of time. 5. sin is a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Calm Before the Storm After 6+ months of planning, over 2,000 prefrosh and parents are headed toward Cambridge, Mass...

  

  . Rockapella is probably one of the most famous examples of a cappella.) Kim ... -before" craziness today, I thought I'd take a little break to relax and write a ... ) - Chorallaries (a cappella, co-ed) - Imobilare (dance, breakdancing

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  fundamentally unfair. Selective college admissions is a zero sum game: every ... of the things most likely to elicit a gigantic facepalm is when a ... from? After a little academic archaeology, this is what I found. In an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Maker Faire 2012 the Dean is going - are you?

  

  Maker Faire 2012 is this weekend. If you read these blogs, you probably already know what Maker Faire is, but if you don't it's basically a ... 's an Arduino section, a 3D printer section, there will be robots walking

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opera No, not the browser

  

  One of my housemates here in Boston is a grad student at the MIT Media Lab, which is great for me because it gives me an excuse to go visit ... 'm working on a shorter, catchier title). Aside from the brilliantly practical

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Ervin Puskar Bosnia, Ohio, Cambridge. A video news report on Ervin Puskar '10.

  

  BG High Grad Gets Full Ride to MIT Amy Bingham / WBKO A former Bosnian refugee is going to the nation's number one engineering school on a ... 's education at MIT is worth nearly $200,000. He's considering a double major in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  This semester has definitely been a rough one, especially around this ... have not read the series, but I am aware that this movie is supposed to ... cautioned off from the public due to a battle scene between the different

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Freshman App Questions We're happy to help.

  

  Ahoy! I hope you arrr having a great September. As you know, the MIT Freshman Application is available at MyMIT. The Early Action deadline is November 1, and the Regular Action deadline is January 1.You can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More humanities than a humanities major Bitter complaining and fond reminiscing. Can't beat that with a stick.

  

  story is... look for a majorly awesome update Tuesday night or thereabouts ... remember a time when I used to feel smart: The test is from the Fall 2004 ... Okay folks, here's what I have to do this weekend... 1. Write a blog

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 30, 2005