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  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  of these walks, I reflected a lot on my time at MIT and my relationship ... . At MIT, with these flowers comes the optimism of students. They signify ... her at the time, but I had started to feel the hefty impact of my feet

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2025 i3 videos megapost

  

  As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing process, rising first ... traditions of their residence halls. In the '90s and early '00s, these I3 ... MITs, but with the advent of YouTube/Vimeo/etc they are now posted online

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Homestuck Day! and advice about college decisions / cpw

  

  identify with. No one at U recognized the Homestuck jacket that I wore ... one night I was at MIT. This is relevant because today is both CPW, MIT ... one of the reasons I chose MIT. I'm celebrating by wearing a Homestuck

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Beacon St. and Marlborough St. Rooftops and flowers on two streets in Boston.

  

  Over the past few years, toward the end of my full-time undergrad and ... thoroughly exhausted. When I close my eyes at night I see castles, green ... sun on my skin; I still see blue skies, light clouds, and networks of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  checked the mail at my house, not because of a fondness for the mailman, but ... have a great experience at any of three colleges to which I applied. So ... could have a great experience at any of those schools, just like I could

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Minecraft: Discuss Open thread.

  

  released in two day's time, at 9 PM on Thursday. But because neither of us ... video game which allows players to build constructions out of textured ... . Basically some Swedish guy named Notch got bored at his job as a game dev and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  There are no undergraduate classes here at MIT over the summer. Hopefully you already knew that, or at the very least figured it out from all ... old homestead. It’s not a complete “Night of the Comet” (or “28 Days

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Building 56 It's really boring. You may not even want to bother reading it.

  

  , MIT is like "I WANT WEIRD STUFF, GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME!" Of course, MIT has its fair share of boring buildings as well. Take, for example, building 56. It sits right at the end of the infinite, next to the NEWLY

  • by Snively '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  I should NOT be writing this right now because I have a ton of other ... as to what your next year of school may look like). I have two psets ... seminar. Tomorrow I have class at 9 AM until 4:30 PM, at which point I go

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  first big snowfall of the year has coincided with the first of four final exam study days. From my desk at Hayden Library, I watched the snow fall throughout the afternoon. (It reminded me of something a family friend told me

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat! Retreat! 24 wonderful hours of sister-time in the MIT mansion!

  

  spent the past 24 hours at the Endicott House , an MIT owned mansion in a ... prepared by a gourmet chef. The retreat was a mix of bonding and business. Sororities at MIT are quite large, with about 80-100 members, so it is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  She came in through the bathroom window. The greatest construction project in the history of MIT--yes, even greater than Simmons Hall.

  

  Infinite like the rest of campus. It's a historic summer at MIT, for ... like taking a picture of a bathroom door at 1:30 in the afternoon in the ... , sorry, I just really like this door... and need a picture of it. Right now

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Paternity Leave I'm back! A few words on the Harvard Admissions Institute and such.

  

  Howdy folks, First of all, thanks so much for the phenomenal advice ... . I wrapped up paternity leave last weekend and have been at the Harvard Summer Admissions Institute since Sunday. It starts at 8AM with breakfast

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2025 is now live

  

  -year undergraduate admission to MIT for the aspiring Class of 2025 is now live. You can ... .[/annotation] We have been hard at work this summer completely overhauling the ... . However, we have also added a set of optional questions across [annotation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  's a shame this area of town isn't as nice." Person 2: "Yeah, but at ... passed, word spread, and a crowd of spectators would gather at the chosen ... in all sorts of forms and at all different levels. But no matter what

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  : silence and song. Moments of laying down on my bed, looking at the ... The first day of classes is tomorrow. [annotation note='like, of ... the end of my summer commitments and the start of the school year, so I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  ’m talking about the hundreds of billions of silicon transistors that form the brain of your computer, each engineered and manufactured to near ... Displays of Science Regardless of what display you’re using to read this blog

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentations Live Webcast Project Engineering Processes aka The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can Have Without Their…

  

  previous years). At the end of the course, teams present their work to a live ... It's that time of year again! Final Projects Time! Finals Time ... will say, the best part of final projects is when you are done with them

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 7, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Turning on the Light A note to the MIT community.

  

  It's hard to wrap my head around the chain of events that unfolded within the last couple of hours. As emails flooded my inbox around 10 ... going on. The idea of a shooting occurring on campus was impossible in my

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger selection 2008 results We have completed the selection of this year's bloggers!

  

  is the most senior of the current student bloggers? [answer at the end of the entry] You may recall that last month we put out a call for new ... reveal this year's new bloggers, I'd like to share with you some of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008