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• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  is similar in architecture, layout, and structure. I haven't counted ... -- so you can gather opinions from many sources.) I should note that there ... Campus the only dorm where I could be happy? No -- thinking so would be

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  now that I went to an art school and spent most of my time in film ... This morning at breakfast, I gave my son (the high school junior ... make a quick collage? You can use existing images from magazines and your

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  , where we had a meeting scheduled in the auditorium. We were a bit worried ... state of Montana in attendance. And I do mean "all across": one father and ... ,898 people!! That's insane! I hereby propose a new metric in admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  , or understanding the progression of disease in humans. I also want to ... . And because I like biology, but don't necessarily want to work in a ... year I was majoring in Course 20, but recently switched to CMS as my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  similar in these ways but I hardly ever find anyone that I can look up to ... ’s not my class speaker 😔 I can’t imagine anyone better — like where will ... , daring, and curious. I can’t think of a better speaker. You never truly

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  that apartment dwellers can use to split a bedroom in two to save on rent ... wall to change in size. I was my team's Information Officer, which meant ... made me HTFP, but in the end, I absolutely loved it. I built this crazy

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  Background: I love writing. I love building on thoughts I can’t put ... , in the sense that you can build a support network and enjoy things that ... short by a writer I admire to warm up my voice. If you can’t think of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  in emailing the CEO to ask for an internship, but can I have one?" The ... INTRO First things first, I have to post this, as promised in an ... MIT seemed to take all of the things I used in my application to get

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  , for the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in ... lucrative ring contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a ... each year of prime MIT ring-buying. Using imagery representing events

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in freshman ... contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a typical year; one ... prime MIT ring-buying. Using imagery representing events from their first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  , the internet is forever), and I look forward to the ones I’ll have in ... , practices became focused and I began to compete in individual tournaments. I ... family. Everyone brings something unique and amazing to the team and I can

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  works. In some respects that's tricky to answer, but I can give it a shot ... would like to live in them (1 = I WANT TO LIVE THERE! 17 = I'm a guy, you can't possibly expect me to live in McCormick!). You submit all of your

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  activities MIT is offering this year. I obviously can’t speak much about events other dorms are running, but I can talk at length about East Campus ... anything. where’d we go?, on 8/27 at 11 PM: Hm, I wonder… Make your own

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  in a pre-orientation program they thought I'd be able to help. Instead ... lights. (I was temp'ed in EC during CPW) How much is the real MIT like that ... and 8 nights was the itinerary, if I recall correctly. We would camp in

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  bit."]ARES[/annotation] for fun. When I was in high school, everyone I ... , suggesting I put triangles in the black and white spaces in the "W","X", and "M ... serif). So since I couldn’t change it, I made alternatives. In fact I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  in high school, I'd pictured myself on a pretty green campus with ... ="alignright" width="300"] steps of the fancy majestic Lamont library, where I used to ... excellent study environment. I don’t mind working in corporate corners of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  together into one photo entry so I can move on with my blogging life (and ... DID YOU KNOW? Tyra Banks is 5'10" tall and weighs 161 lbs. I am 5'9 3/4" tall and weight 150 lbs. I have taken a cue from fellow blogger Lulu and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  paragraphs in this Economist interview: “I don’t want or need to disrupt ... prestigious private school I was in love with. I didn't get in. I went to a ... of interest to underleveraged students in the developing world, then I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  fact, I didn't even know where to start. My resume was honestly kind of a mess in the beginning of the school year and, in hindsight, I should have gone to CAPD in the beginning of the year. At this point in time, I wasn

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Best from Staff

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  highlighted in transparent red — like “explain” is, here — you can hover over it ... backgrounds, and only if they can demonstrate that [annotation note='In other ... the term, over the last decade or so, just in terms of things we can

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023