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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  . Unlike the murals, their contents change with the scale of days instead of years, but they often follow a few well-trod paths: lists of classes that floor residents are thinking of taking in the next semester, polls about

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  feel all of my feelings until my body hurt too much to feel anything else ... motivated by the purest distillation of every other reason combined: I ran to ... outrun anything. I would be untouchable. I had a lot of friends raise

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  If you've read any of my other posts, you probably know how much I ... helping students transition in and out of the dorm and navigating student concern during the renewal process. Being a member of this team was

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  For those impacted by Hurricane Michael (and other disasters) clarifying our policies for applications affected by catastrophic events

  

  deprived thousands of  people of power and property across the American ... approaching, these catastrophes have left many of our prospective students in ... than their application to MIT. These kinds of events [annotation note

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 22, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Hall Rush: 1E So many packing peanuts

  

  /architecture). I live on the first floor of the east parallel of East Campus, which ... 40 bags of biodegradable (edible) packing peanuts and filled the lounge ... added. This means that they stick to the sweat that was seeping out of

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • September 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  This past semester has been different than any of our other semesters at MIT (and even any of our years in K-12), in that we only took ONE ... same classes (often the timing of our schedules were different, but our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  Amsterdam, to an even colder city up north. I guess I'll count that as part of ... incredible time seeing an entire array of landscapes and cityscapes that I had only dreamed of visiting one day: from the canals of Venice, to the red

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  naturally, I set out for the nearest and most convenient source of soda ... any of the vending machines at MIT were, so we wound up walking up the ... found another cluster. I ended up getting coffee instead of soda and also

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  It’s the start of my third year here, and once again I am smiling at ... ? Well, it’s the start of a new half of college. This year, I was asked ... like one or more of my professors, but too many lucky stars need to align

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  at the clover food truck on the way. i saw lots of real people, shopping and eating lunch. i saw the verizon employees on strike in front of the verizon store, and i saw a farmer's market, and lots of tourists

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  Lydia here: some of my favorite things I’ve learned at MIT, from my ... math but which are, indeed, math. In particular, math includes many of the things we find beautiful—our very perception of beauty, actually

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / En Español

  Sloan MBA Adetayo Akisanya works at Volaris, a Mexican airline, on their Commercial Strategy team “I really gained a new perspective on the airline industry, on commercial strategy, on competition,…

  

  a list of things I didn’t learn!" Volaris From the minute he walked through the doors of Volaris’ Samara offices, Tayo, MIT Sloan MBA ’14, was reminded that he was at one of Latin

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  The past weeks of my life have been consumed by 2.009, MIT's famous senior product design class. By the end of the class, our team of 24 ... . Over the course of 12 short weeks, we're expected to build a product that

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Action deadline is almost here The only thing scarier than October 31st is Nov 1st (just kidding, no need to…

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... November 1. (There is a small amount of grace period for students having ... processing of all submitted materials. Items are not posted directly to your

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Week 1 Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and More!

  

  As exams become more and more of a reality that I can't ignore, I ... the early UK release date, and I absolutely loved it. A huge fan of the ... of my favorite movies and this movie knocked it of its throne. While I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  I can see the end of my first reading season from here, and it has been a humbling experience. I am full of gratitude to you, our class of ... all here next fall. I know that some of you will be disappointed and a

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  -orientation program (FPOP) known as FUP, where I got to do all sorts of cool community ... so many exciting things going on, and best of all, THERE ARE SO MANY ... they are frosh.  This is called the conservation of frosh.  Since they

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Turkey Time MIT Admissions will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.

  

  Happy Thanksgiving! The Office of Admissions will be closed from ... Thanksgiving holiday weekend (see below if you'd like to learn more about one of ... to answer questions in the comments of this blog entry in the meantime

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  FUP!!! I spent my first official week at MIT as a FUPPER!!

  

  extreme lack of sleep, but I met so many amazing people and did so many cool ... Program, which is one of MIT's many pre-orientation programs.  FUP focuses ... Vermonsters at Ben & Jerry's on Newbery Street.  One of my main concerns

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

  math textbook: The sum of three cats is a dog. It only works on female cats, and all three of the cats and the dog must be Russian. There are ... tweets. While I love the revision that goes into most of my blog posts, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012