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  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  fourteen students, were killed in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas ... asked that, in this case, a disciplinary action associated with meaningful, peaceful participation in a protest will not negatively impact their

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  isn't always predictable in a class with more than 200 students. I fell ... realized I wasn't enjoying it anymore. In a past life I would have taken the ... and didn't recognize her. I realize that the class took up a shelf in my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  enough, so without thinking too much about it, I wrote the following in ... in clubs and sports and whatever else you do... the essay is the one ... that is fine. But there's a big difference between those little

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  ? (Edit: I've recieved confirmation from a couple of alums in the comments ... weeks. Maybe in 15 more years, a blogger will find our Pie Day video buried in a box and have a good laugh? :)

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  told you about my a cappella group yet * * * FROSH: is this east campus ... : are you in a frat ME: no ME: ME: well i'm in the toons ME: ME: we're more of a sorority though * * * ME: how's it going FROSH: ME: FROSH

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  eighteen in a week; I feel like my spirit is aging more quickly than my body ... rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to ... month of January on a finance internship in New York City. Both MIT and

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• 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

  

  that lived in a hermetically sealed jar in Random Hall and is ... , despite its cream-filled protests, was chucked into a refrigerator, in which ... year, around January 1st, we received a paper application in the mail

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  .101 Metakaryotic Biology and Epidemiology, 21A.508 Culture and Ethics in Science ... .72 Vision in Art and Neuroscience. The last one is sort of the reason why I ... catalog. You should do it. Now. Here is the link. I have spent a whole

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  . Home is still wonderful. Being home is a great time for deep ... , and the prospect of A's is almost heart-attack-inducing. I don't think ... got a C in physics/chemistry/biology/math Parents will label these as

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  due to the double factorial) Eran Ergozy = "How fun it is to work at a ... to conversation. A Graybill is a unit of harem. The Itani is a unit of negative tact.  A Snively is equal to 1 byte wasted on the internet. Friends

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

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  it’s called in scary scientific terms), is a rare case in which a ... “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me ... , really). In layman’s terms, it’s just a really huge moon that gets eclipsed

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  round in the magazine. Don’t give up the mission. This is a mantra Coach ... ). One that comes to mind is while replica plating. Replica plating is a ... and way cooler, is this IAP in rifle. Rifle is one of three firearms

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading ... recently. I come to the second to last piece in the folder, which is the ... impact on me that the student had "the magic 1600." Yes, scoring a 1600 is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  talked about this yet in my blog posts, but I have had a longish ... discussing Ron Padgett's poetry in Mr. Zavatsky's class. My brain was a little ... layout is that the streets are 60ft wide (about a dozen running crosstown

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  . Just to give a sense of how crazy and loud it was, here is a video of the ... Bezel is a tradition (I'm not sure for how long, but at least since the ... details in the Joke Bezel that I didn't quite catch but here is a picture of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  after Luís Francisco Verges’ death, a fellowship in his name is still ... after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse. By 1895, 39 from ... in 15 students at MIT came from a foreign country, possibly the highest

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  I just said is a horrible lie. Here’s the truth: I have never taken ... a good sense of how competitive of an applicant I was or what sort of ... was a competition, in which the applicants strove to cast themselves in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  yeast smelled like, so I stuck my nose in the container and took a big whiff. Do not try this at home. It smells bad in a way that I cannot even ... everybody in the lab is at the annual Picower Institute retreat on Cape Cod

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  at MIT. Liz is a senior, majoring in Mechanical Engineering (course 2 ... their conference, NEWMAC! NEWMAC is a conference including Babson, Clark ... Intercollegiate Athletics site has a long list of achievements. Meghan is a

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  still on time in pacific standard time. but also i girlbossed a little too ... with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is ... "] ah yes, a normal day in lecture with a normal set of... people sitting

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024