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  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  for many dorms was just put in last summer. There is a website with ... Questions 1. Sevi asked, here is a question for you about Mac ... , but some slarifications is needed. What is it in feet

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  wonder: is this who I am? Sometimes an old woman says that life is like a ... work in my moments of exploration, like the fictional man who brings a ... dust settles down? Being in control is a funny thing. There is a mountain

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  ) compose the majority of the academic coursework taken in a student's first year. Earlier in the fall, the Tech published a fascinating history of ... Warren K. Lewis, a chemical engineer who had been involved with the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  schedule different video calls or online activities. This blog is a ... him on LinkedIn, and he immediately responded and we set up a time the ... conversation is less of a distinctive memory if that makes sense. Doing an

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  Here’s to a basically mid-semester check-in to what I spend my time ... half in now, it’s safe to say that I will have learned a lot by the end ... professor is speaking a foreign language. This bipolarity often occurs within

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

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

  

  waking up in the morning after a terribly stressful week to a new hack by ... This semester has definitely been a rough one, especially around this ... who are struggling extraordinarily well, and some of us (at least I hope

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

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  solidified. (While previous blogging experience is paramount in our selection ... : Provide a link to your "portfolio" - in other words, your current blog. If ... number is not 100% set in stone. I am not yet sure how many bloggers will

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  earlier this week is how obsessed the US is with capitalizing things. In ... . Maybe this is why internet culture in the US cares so much about random ... note="cj: a first-year advising seminar is a class that some first

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  selection committee. (As a guy who is not wired to do science and math, I'd be ... In a few minutes I'll head over to the committee room to begin Day 7 ... guys are just awesome and inspiring. Probably a combo of the two. In any

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ‘Twas the Night before Finals Likely the highlight of my literary career. And some words of advice to EA.

  

  there arose such a clatter, I sprang to my Mac to see what was the matter. “I’m going to fail physics!” I saw one frosh yell. “Is torque in or out ... am in bed. In just a few hours, fiziks will be done, And I will have

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  founders who come in as guest speakers.   This is what I'm taking this ... is (seemingly) taking more. I came across a previous blogger's post ... productive." Indeed. MIT is a weird place where people feel inferior to their

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Events

  #NoBanNoWall

  

  a directly affected member of the MIT community who is currently ... detain or remove holders of a valid visa or green card who travel from the seven countries to the US through Logan Airport. This order is in effect

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  have a couple friends who are planning on 10B, and the lab my UROP is in ... though. I've always seen myself as someone who is more interested in ... the major is a lot less restrictive than the box I put myself in with 6

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  to share a bit of my own culture with you. It is, in fact, my home ... is simply a case in which Australia got it backwards (or perhaps upside ... supermarket shelf. This is, however, a cultivation (and not just in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  , which I will editorially comment is not a weird question. I live in a ... (actually this is kind of bothering me -- in Spanish II one of the students gave a presentation on the best Mexican restaurants in Boston, and in my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  amazing Amy Smith, who also has a MacArthur genius grant. What is it with ... , and Tracy Kidder is the journalist who traveled with him in order to ... school in a city that is a hub of so much intellectual activity. (And I don

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of UROPing in few words

  

  The first month of the year is a beautiful time for students here: no ... /Course 2 reasoning behind how it worked, 2.) it can be used in a lot of ... .) paper art is pretty. With that in mind, I started reaching out to

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  other in more detail. Frank Wilczek is laughing with a theoretical ... , as well as a guy who I think is somehow involved with a NASA space ... 39 minutes ago, I turned in a pset 2 minutes late (fortunately they

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  … alive, I think. In a semester when everything is virtual, I’m grateful to ... This was originally going to be a post about how now that I’m in ... how happy and in awe I am. Logically, I’ve known that this city is

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  Labs, a program that gives MIT students the chance to teach students in ... in just a sweater and sweatpants. short sleeves and shorts weren ... for summer tourists"][/annotation] In addition, Qatar Airways offers a

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025