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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…

  

  lab to the tennis courts on the other side of campus to play a quick ... Cambridge. Of course, as a general rule access to the roof of the Green ... Society, of which Ternus is a member. Long story short, Ternus explained to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 3, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I get a copy of MIT Facts?

  MIT Facts is a pocket-sized compendium of essential facts about the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Unfortunately, we don't mail the booklets, but you can find it online!
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks ... -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for a whole day until he flew down to New York City to appear on The

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  's some information on what we're going to study: What is 14.11? 14.11 is a ... Social Science to the Test - Field Experiments in Economics. From what I ... and can teach us and how to conduct them. The class has three major

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  The MIT Early Action application deadline has been extended to ... States was hit by a devastating snowstorm this past weekend. The storm, which featured winds and pressures (975 mb) characteristic of a Category 2

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  making dumplings jiaozi / guotie / gyoza /

  

  dough-snakes into pebble-sized dough nodules use a rolling pin to ... to a pan and putting the dumpling in make sure to cover the pan so ... boils again, then add a splash of cold water to stop the boiling wait

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi(e) Day: The Baking Of created with love (and pies) by the bloggers

  

  the tense scene. In slow motion, Tim waddles over to a table full of ... camera around to show Tim's MIT shirt as everyone runs into a pie ... . We had a lot of cleanup to do... The geese on Killian helped! For

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  what you do to procrastinate”. A fellow classmate turned to her friend ... to interview a friend, a faculty member, President Reif, Barack Obama ... anyway...” Sometimes I’m about to start just as another blagger puts up a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  Gluten-free at MIT Oh hey, that rhymes!

  

  . Whole Foods even has gluten-free bagels sometimes." Verified to have a ... as junk. Try to leave comments NOW.), so I haven't been around. But I'm here now, so it's okay! Or something like that. Moving on to the point

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  who get flattened and gets travel to a bunch of different places via ... Having a brother who's eleven years younger than you has its perks: 1. You get to watch Spongebob and not even feel bad about it ("I was

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Fair Season

  

  night, I took a Zipcar up to a college fair in New Hampshire. I'd say the ... undergraduates go on to grauate school to earn a Master of Architecture (MArch ... , students may apply to do a study abroad exchange with the Delft University of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  to not really knowing how to make friends (I came from a close knit ... to a tech school; hated the GIRs; hated being around only STEM people ... having the chance to make new enemies on campus joined a racial

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  happened to me in these two and a half weeks in just one measly blog post ... semester schedule after quite a few trips to the advising offices, a handful ... overwhelming, there are always people here at MIT who are willing to lend a hand

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How do I contact a current student?

  MIT doesn't provide names or contact information for current students. To learn more about MIT from a student's perspective, please spend time on our site learning about academics and life at MIT. Through our
• Blog / Hacks

  Athena, Deliver Us From Finals And lead us not into temptation of crying ourselves to sleep at night.

  

  , hackers erected a giant statue of Athena, the patron goddess of wisdom, in the middle of Killian Court. Alerted to the hack by email and word of ... of higher learning and crawled out of their rooms to stand in awe of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Everyday Is Like Sunday

  

  's a committee decision, and we do the best that we can to treat the ... , truly. And each of you is going to make the world a better place, whether ... write moving your mail closer and closer to your mailbox. We have mailed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 12, 2004
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Does MIT have a first generation community on campus?

  The First Generation and/or Low Income Program (FLI) is committed to building a sense of community among first generation MIT students, faculty ... th president, Dr. L. Rafael Reif, is a member of First Gen!
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  Chamberlain claimed to have slept with almost 20,000 women. Since he was 56 at the time of that statement, this would correspond to Wilt having slept ... points in a single basketball game. He did so in Hersheypark Arena, a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  , you definitely don’t want to know. A few times, I sit on the floor and ... a while, but yes, it feels like temporary freedom, to just take a ... —found out the answers, and have a good mind to kick myself in the head. 7

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  pledged to et this semester, which means i'm a house member now. i still ... thing in the us, but it feels like a Real Thing now that i'm going to rent ... proof. anyway, i applied for a credit card and i'm expecting to get it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023