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  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  ; Raivo and I were the first to come up, giving a quick talk on the history ... culture and traditions, it was an honor to be able to contribute to the ... crowding together into Kresge Auditorium.   *All photo credits go to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  became the first terrestrial creature to give birth in space. Some ... going to debut on the big screen. A white sheet would descend from the ... Admissions blogs. 20.219 Becoming the Next Bill Nye was to end with a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  'd been awake and p-setting until 4 a.m. that morning, I decided not to look ... might change me), but for now, I'm going to sit here and appreciate the ... eating enough ice cream to fulfill all my dietary needs), but it's the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  you get to MIT, you’ll have had about eighteen years (or less for some of you overachievers) to figure out your hobbies and interests. Many ... ’ve spent your whole life being told to try new things and find what you like

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  Questions 1. Anonymous asked, Did you go to Senior Ball? I think ... , because we have a standing agreement not to go to dances. We used to go ... , you have no need to hump somebody on the dance floor, because [fill in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  , and e-mailing me for my first year at MIT. It all started when I got a ... -mails describing their kosher chili cookoffs, invitations to the sukkah they set up ... president describing his inability to run Hillel any longer with his busy

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  send it to you?" Absolutely! "Are admission interviews available in my ... interviewer in your area. You can always write to [email protected] to ask ... 't have a foreign language requirement, so you don't really need to worry

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  supermarket and it is absolutely DIVINE with honey"]tea[/annotation] to ... advice people give is, “Don’t procrastinate.” To which basically no one ... strong. By June, I had written first drafts of my essays for MIT and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  , so having to sing alone with a piano accompanist for the first time in ... I disappeared into the battlefield of the semester, not to be heard ... to anything like it again. Yet, somehow, sophomore spring got even

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  -and-forth, we come to the following conclusion: feeling is first, then clarity ... — Forget that. There'll be time for that later. It's the first day after the end of classes! Time to have some fun. Fun? How do you have fun at MIT

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  really fun to dive into; and I'm a frosh on [annotation note ="pass/no record, ie I can afford to take the time away from studying for my physics ... have a focus on writing and speaking, and we've got to take one each year

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  apparently like listening to Stomp Pop and Brostep?), I’ve compiled some ... – perhaps misguided – attempt to sum it all up in a quantitative manner ... last fall semester asleep. I tracked my sleep patterns from the first day

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  In the past three months, my relationship to cooking has swerved from reticent affection to soul-consuming infatuation. Apologies before I go any further: if you expected me to write about physics, or midterms, or having

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  reform. On July first of this year, the State of California caved in to ... write something about what I'm doing. =p This really has nothing to do ... surveys, debated in health discussions, helped the clinic to fundraise

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  being miserable. It's okay to have a first choice, but make sure you like ... to get party hats, but I couldn't find any at the store, alas. Dorm ... involved. We upperclassmen forget sometimes that it's not crystal-clear to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  the day, sometimes dinner ends up being your first meal. Needless to say ... 's such an abundance of amazing things to do, both on campus and around the ... lot as a result, lending to my feeling that I haven't been here long. At

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  questions, First, "I've got into MIT early and I have also applied to Harvard ... am brief and to the point with my answers! Questions answered by helpers A.M.C. asked, "Just to make sure: Have you received my CD-ROM that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  this. I first played with the website in 2009, when it used Flash. It survived the death of Flash by migrating to HTML5, it hasn't lost any data ... work. Here's a link to that snowflake. If you view the snowflake on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  as much as my family did: Anyway, I come to you in 2018 bearing ... updates that you want us to know (things like awards, achievements, etc ... obligated to fill up the form—it’s okay if all you’re sending us is semester

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  ’t immediately come to mind. Did not expect this. Since today was my first day ... My first final exam at MIT was 8.012: "Physics For Masochists ... marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011