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  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  calendar, to guarantee each month has at least one three-day weekend. On most ... Regulations of the Faculty 2.11: Classes shall be suspended during the following ... the Registrar in consultation with the Chair of the Faculty[…] — Day

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  ’ve forged plenty of fantastic memories of the Friendly Toast. It was my go ... of a coffee machine somewhere. Quirky knick-knacks dot the lime ... teammates sitting at a booth near the windows. When they spot me, the guy

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  , chug coffee, drop out of school and go live in the mountains as a goat ... of getting in based on your test scores/GPA/extracurriculars/social media presence/Hogwarts house. I did all of those things, back in the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

  block of time (more on retroaction in a bit). red are physical things ... adding more of these... i use gcal constantly, in stark contrast to the ... events to gcal as soon as i become aware of them, and i'll also make action

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Events

  HT@MIT: Department Lectures and Final Presentations MIT's Best Kept Secret

  

  Hello all, it's been a while since I've done a Hidden Treasures at ... 've taken full advantage of this year. Department Lectures     ... paragraphs of text are incomprehensible and there's a severe lack of the word

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • December 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  . The class, taught by the director of the Media Lab's Mobile Experience ... disciplines, so a unique mixture of architecture, computer science, design and ... Google Glass, and each team of two would be working with their own pair of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  at MIT. My weekend was unfortunately engulfed by other plans (one of ... actually was a hack there! Floating in the center of Lobby 7's dome was a model of MIT's famous Green building. Interestingly enough, this model was

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Need help choosing a MISTI program? MIT-Germany alum Nina Sinatra advises incoming interns to keep an open mind

  

  Nina Sinatra Class of 2012 Materials Science & Engineering ... consider the Spain and Mexico programs at first, I ended up choosing Germany ... students who are considering MISTI to think of the program both in terms of

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Complementary in Kinetic Typography Posted with permission from the author. Meet Rishi '14!

  

  a ton of MIT internal email lists that I am on. I proceeded to get ... it a few days ago! (Sorry Rishi!) Anyhow, this is certainly one of the ... me, was always a dream, a place where I could imagine myself at, but

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 23, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students FAQs for students deferred from Early Action.

  

  Here are some FAQs for deferred students... Is it all over for me? At ... at no advantage or disadvantage versus the regular action applications ... , regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little historical data

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where In The World Is The Nance Effect? He returns! He returns! He returns!

  

  at the prospect of helping my advisees navigate the first 25% of their ... million-dollar question. Suffice to say I am back and I have lots of advice and experiences to share with all of you. So, lets get started

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Thanksgiving on First East – Team Bemis makes hand turkeys!! (For justice and the greater common good.)

  

  My first installment of The Adventures of Team Bemis: Some extremely attractive and well-mannered members of Team Bemis spent Saturday night a couple of weeks ago putting their creative minds to use designing and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  (intramural sports) to the "only at MIT" (hacks). Check out our list of student ... College Confidential message boards), I've noticed an abundance of ... typical nerds? A. Definitely not. Many of us are very atypical nerds. Q. No

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  This is a list I made at the end of my freshman year in the reading room of Hayden Library... one of a very short list of places where I am ... give me enough alertness to get me through the rest of my day... plus it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  helped me quite a bit. At MIT, the interview is an important part of the ... , who was one of MIT's Educational Counselors, or ECs. He had retired to ... that it was at his house, which was quite dark, and seemed kinda scary to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  so empty, with nothing happening at all except a lot of work and ... at the phone thought of typing out a list of complaints: the work I ... a disclaimer some events are slightly out of order I was not really

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  lecturer. 6.2050 was one of the most demanding classes I’ve taken at MIT ... ’re using to read this post works. At the heart of any general ... spared me dozens of hours of staring at an oscilloscope trying to debug

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  recently for the class of 2024, and i swear all the sophomores were dropping ... they no longer display that data on the covid dashboard. (publicly, at ... wednesday of april, i could almost feel covid looming threateningly over me

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  's actually kind of creepy.   Hacks at the Massachusetts Institute of ... source. But can you use Wikipedia as a source of entertainment? If you ... a source of academic knowledge that might help me with my courses and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  in[/annotation], and he kind of just blinked at me and went,  “You ... My first impression of MIT was through Math Prize for Girls, and it ... latte,”  and then I did a Lot of Math that weekend,  and took a picture

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021