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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  new kind of shock. I spent my morning and afternoon in lab at MIT ... , at least) had been out of the spotlight for a few years? Was it ... .3 FM at work; every day, they made mention of their Michael Jackson

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  but think of the time in high school that my friend Allison was giving ... middle of it, in the process missing the first hour of our ultra ... ever watched it. Anyway, no. What I really couldn't help thinking of was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Waitlisted Students

  

  the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we would

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is campus safe?

  well-being of the entire MIT community. "The MIT Police mission is to deliver total quality service to all the members of our community. We focus ... offers shuttles day and late into the night around campus in Cambridge and
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  you to everyone! I got this!” Person looks around at all of us, and ... minutes of poking my pencil at a paper, I hurried out of the exam hall and ... teach, and I expect that it will be added to the extensive list of courses

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  'd fill you in on some of MIT's not-so-well-known secrets. No, this isn ... those are all awesome. This concerns saving money and taking advantage of the perks of tuition, because there's actually a lot covered by that

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  , there are no disadvantages (at least, none that I can think of) to declaring your major at the end of the year. My impression is that joining a ... departments and programs at MIT (though not all of them are available as majors

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  continue with the math part of my degree. At the very least, I knew 18 ... semester in order to present you an honest picture of life at MIT. There is ... scene completed, each solo sung, and, at the end of the day, we'd take our

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  , my buyers withdrew their offer.  All of a sudden I had a house to sell ... driving a Tesla Model S 85.  I drooled at it.  I stole glances at it.  I ... this!" she said. She was wrong, of course.  I could definitely not

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  anything to offer in comparison to the rest of the class of 2011. I was ... "peasant" of a student, not a "poet" if that makes any sense at all), but now ... you think that my sort of person can still do well at MIT, that's great

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  , so I have to grope at people for help (get your mind out of the gutter ... ’s a supreme amount, with all kinds of help existing at every door. The ... , at least one of them is giving out free laundry bags. It’s an

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  , blinking away the wisps of my dreams as i touch down on earth. “what did you do this summer?” i spent these three months on a languid journey of self-discovery, mostly. i did a lot of cooking, a lot of romanticizing, a

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

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  While some of you have spent the last couple nights clutching admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been ... arrangement ever for my jazz class without being completely sure what two of the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results bang it here for the latest updates and stats

  

  getting a lot of calls and emails from students concerned that their mailed ... 're getting one or two dozen buckets of mail every day. I have built a small igloo of them and am posting from inside it right now in fact. This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  believe that I've only been at MIT since July of 2005 and this blog has only ... ahead into the '06, I offer this quote from one of my favorite writers ... one will get hurt." (By "no one," she meant me.) For all of you who

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  rewarding classes that the Physics department has to offer at MIT. Given the ... of Experimental Physics. Every class at MIT has an attached credit ... table I want to look at the actual structure of this class and why exactly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  Massachusetts, many of them aimed at women. Harley Davidson had a stall ... addressed me, both of us engineers at MIT. It caught me by surprise when some ... ’ve gotten better at interrupting explanations of mechanisms that I already

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  out of college, who had formerly been a bit of a track star at MIT, and I had finished watching Chariots of Fire one night at 2 a.m. I told ... soon I found myself right outside my house at the end of a cool-down walk

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  of this? Because within a few months, those little blogs, buried at the ... thousands of hits each week and requests to speak at national admissions ... didn't have much of an audience in those first months, so blogging wasn

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  wonderful end-of-week meal at the appropriately named TGIFriday's. Friday's is ... course offerings. In the meantime, feel free to poke around the websites of ... I don't know about you, but I had a pretty awesome weekend. First of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005