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  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  cupcake in my hand (I was lucky to know where to stand to grab an early part ... full day on Saturday while surveying the yard in anticipation, I said to ... MIT 150. I marveled at the large screen toast to MIT by alumni in space

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  first real snow!! wow so magical

  

  : "where are you right now?" me: "i'm in the green building! what's up ... i woke up this morning and it was COLD. i checked the weather. lo and behold -- snow was finally upon us!!!! at 3 pm i walked to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  . Last week, I had an interview where my interviewer argued that MIT ... , in the world of math, while I was deriving the equations for the heat ... Name the song I stole the lyrics from and win a cookie. So this week

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  -nighter I pulled finishing a problem set I could have easily done in two hours ... nothing about where I came from or who I became here. It omits how I met ... student, which I wrote in my first entry here, even though I wasn't really

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  BBQ in the history of the universe. I should warn you that I saw Le ... many summers I spent in Grenoble. They had some fantastic vin de noix, je ... salad this side of July 14th. I erroneously added the raspberries in the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  design process begins in freshman year with the highly competitive process ... purchase the ring in a typical year; one company actually shuts down their factory for the one week each year of prime MIT ring-buying. Using imagery

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  a few friends, and that was where I got to see Nonchaloir in person ... -related things I’ve been enjoying in the past few months (numbered #1 because I ... building in nyc, I liked the way the light fell on its facade

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  -- since I didn't come in yesterday (I was up in Maine at Adam's ski condo watching a History Channel special on the Kennedys), I had to come in at 7 ... do this again?' But I digress. The indomitable Adam won third place in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Guys Are Used To Getting No Sleep, But I Am Old To those of you who have siblings: what's the one piece of sibling-related parenting advice…

  

  when I can find time. Hope you guys are having a great start to your ... ? [Edit: in other words, I want my kids to be as close as possible as they ... be friends. I know of course that this can't be forced, but I also know

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Varsity Pistol Team Wins National Championship

  

  , theater, and, yes, sports. MIT is a member of NCAA Division I in Crew ... play on the MIT Alumni Club of Boston team. As I like to say in my ... While I was busily at work on your Campus Preview Weekend (April 7

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  the only method I am fully capable of doing after years of training in ... few parking lots around. I hear that driving in the city is no easy feat ... summer to get to and from his job in Providence. I've used it to go to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  in me being asked to take a year off. If I came back, I had no idea how I was going to graduate in any reasonable time, and in which degree ... , excelling. It was a lot of work, but it felt right. I graduated in 2011, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  .01L so I can take 8.02 in the spring so I never, ever have to touch ... hellhole that is Massachusetts. In this time, I've been trying to keep ... promises in the beginning of the year that I have not kept. I said I would

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  was going to end up at MIT for college, I probably would have laughed in ... average guy. Sure, I worked hard in my classes, I joined a bunch of clubs ... community, I did research at a local university. But in spite of all of those

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Latino Cultural Center It's Mes Latino!

  

  LCC board for a semester, it's become that place where I go in between ... . Usually it's held in Walker Memorial, the same building where a significant ... study breaks and review sessions! That's the LCC in a nutshell. I'm happy

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Cultured C-Show 2011

  

  .03 (diff eq) professor sing in class, to general applause and awe. (3) I ate ... in the future. (4) I learned that the ratio of Dunkin' Donuts to ... to take part in C-Show last year. I did this year though! This year

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  seriously. I cannot stress this enough. Try to pick a place that fits you in ... didn't hear you; I have a banana in my ear. RESIDENCE-BASED ADVISING WILL ... do we have an opportunity to use it in a sentence.) You can either have

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Metabo lite s Why the Broad Institute is inspiring my exercise goals

  

  I’m getting married again in a mere five months and I cannot fit in my wedding dress. This might be because I spent the whole winter in ... doing (and you can read more about the whole project here) I was most

  • by Kris Guay
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Freshman App Questions We're happy to help.

  

  Ahoy! I hope you arrr having a great September. As you know, the ... deadline is November 1, and the Regular Action deadline is January 1.You can read more about our application and admissions process in the Freshman

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  layer of masking tape. When I come home from classes I linger in the ... simple narrative: friends, food, firehose. That’s what I expected coming in ... the high-voltage work in lab. Thus, I have no choice but to go to lab

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024