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  Cats!! I love where I live!!

  

  MIT are kind of different from most other colleges. Each dorm has its ... fantastically different culture and feeling of community!  My absolute favorite floor in the world is my home. I live on the third floor of the east

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  as a sterile place. Labs stacked on top of classrooms and everything ... where I’d be bombarded with art from the most unlikely of places. But it is! And after a tour of MIT’s public art through my

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

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

  

  made cold salads, ordered cake and hung decorations. And at the end of a ... celebration for all of MIT (and all of Cambridge practically) on Killian Court ... waitstaff began to fill the bars and the tables full of treats, while rows and

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  Boston tradition – 115 years running (no pun intended). Of course, I ... record time). A number of MIT students run each year, but even for those ... around 11:20 am; thanks to the number of spectators heading that direction

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Cultured C-Show 2011

  

  A couple of noteworthy events took place yesterday: (1) I discovered that I was capable of turning off my alarm and going back to sleep, without any conscious knowledge of my actions. (2) I listened to my 18

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

  Not so FAST heading to MIT on Saturday for some FAST Thinking

  

  At the end of my first week in my new job, I attended a gala ... circling that piece of chocolate? Very MIT cool and quirky. The 150 exhibition was equally dazzling, showcasing 150 of MIT”s best inventions

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Get It Done Keep On Keeping "On"

  

  -length weekend, if you don't have Monday off). I know that fall of senior year can be a pretty hectic time. During the October of my senior year, way back in the forgotten mists of 2004, I was editing the newspaper, the lead

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  Lots of students make money during term by working in their UROPs ... are lots of other jobs out there, some of which are barely technical at all. You can browse some of them here, on the financial aid website

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Crotchets and Quavers The evensong tradition

  

  , each meant to serve the every need of its students. Most of them have a ... thing of great pride for a college, and they will entice good musicians ... all their own - Trinity happens to be one of them. Since I sing with my

  • by Cambridge
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  Ok. Well, I've been kind of busy these days. Taking 5 classes (2 CIs ... giving you one of my problems to take a look at. 6.033 is Computer Systems Engineering. It has lots of different components to it - so far we've talked

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  write this, there are a whole bunch of really cool things going on at MIT ... '73 PhD '76, one of the seven members of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (of course, chaired by Ben Bernanke PhD '79). He

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Events

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

  

  recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to ... Quadir (head of MIT's Program in Developmental Entrepreneurship and founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Amazin’ The Mets clinched the NL East. *happy dance*

  

  'm slowly making my way through descriptions of classes, I might as well talk about 2.001. 2.001, Mechanics of Materials, is pretty straightforward ... class, and you pretty much just sum forces all day long. The sum of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stocking Up Completely random but fun.

  

  considering what you save by buying massive amounts of the stuff you use anyway ... Charles River, just adjacent to East Campus. Now, I'm not much of a swimmer ... a part of East Campus rush. He spent a lot of time writing C code to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That Lovely Pre-Finals Period

  

  , with each of us choosing a merger case and exploring its respective aspects of communication. The final report, some 33+ pages worth, is due ... all week. There's a lot of buzz on campus right now about some proposed

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pervnert This entry is not suitable for children under 7 or finite-volume, compressible vapors.

  

  of Boston Celtics tickets, about my most memorable moments of learning ... -foot-tall letters thoroughly ingrained the structure of cyclobutane in my mind, and I probably won't forget anything about the state of American Civil War medicine

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Letting the days go by Fish finders, the Apprentice, and techie fashion.

  

  are lots of terrific applications! This will be a challenging year to choose from so many great applicants. A quick roundup of some interesting ... device that probes under water, looking for spots with plenty of catchable

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  Staying up all night while staring up at the stars, eating loads of ... summer camp, right? Not quite, it was part of sophomore Shaye Storm ... studied extrasolar planets (a planet outside of our solar system), which I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  something of a college preparatory nature occurs multiple times per week. For seven months, the notion of a new life and future along the Charles River has been firmly planted in the back of my mind. But sometimes, when you

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions mailed;

  

  At 3:08pm today, we completed the preparation of the decision mailing ... missed the photo of the postman coming to take away the letters. We have admitted under 1500 students, for an all-time low admit rate of 14%. Fewer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005