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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  longer surprised me. Past professors or TAs of mine have also offered to do ... After talking to my friends during the first week of senior year and ... 've realized I may be one of the few people who regularly has days off. This was

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  anticipated) I had a list of names and numbers of people who had offered to help ... scheduled for Wednesday, and classes were cancelled in anticipation of ... tomorrow" meant "have 520 hamburgers, 68 dogs, a corresponding number of buns

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  . I googled "how to write an ode" but then got distracted by one of my ... impression that they were tunnels in the most adventurous sense of the word: cavernous cement cylinders wreathed in shadows and coated in a moldy film of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  semester. Over the next five days, I put in 50+ hours of solid, sweat ... , and generally had close to zero human interaction (with the exception of ... me in terms of not traveling to NYC at all. That's saying a lot

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  offered quite a bit of freedom with my room, even going as far as switching ... means taking on the job of making a home out of a small shared room with ... organizing a dorm room. Sure, it can just be a bedspread and a poster of your

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  your Swim Test offered in the beginning of the year, and it basically ... , after 12+5 days! I'll let pictures tell the story of this last two weeks ... required to attain 8 PE points before the end of his/her sophomore year* as

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / Events

  To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before: P.S. I Love You THANK YOU LSC

  

  chat this: HELL. FUCKING. YES. For those of you who don't know me ... the second row of the theatre, but honestly not complaining, I could ... kind of what was going to happen, but it is SO MUCH BETTER watching the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  problem for me. I Iive in a triple. One of my roommates, Claire, is from ... class one day to see that Claire has received a big box of “fall clothing ... first taste of fall. Yeah, I will admit I am freezing my butt off. But

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  . IAP is another name of the month of January. Some people may be quick to point out that we are in the month of Feburary. These are the kinds of ... of the glorious unknown. The mystery bag was an opportunity to purchase

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  FIRST OF ALL: In case that you haven't thought of enough reasons to come to CPW, in case a weekend of free food, free shirts, and hanging out ... anything to do, FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS IS GOING TO BE IN BOSTON ON APRIL 17

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  Ave shortly after, traveling southwest at a trajectory of 42.6 degrees ... as I have no other use for this absolutely ridiculous piece of ... front of him is a two-way mirror through which a nervous-looking aardvark

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  of use, and they're not intended for long distance running. I ... have won the "Best of Boston" award (given by Boston Magazine) in the ... basically wanted me to run an entire workout in each pair of shoes. First, I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2017!

  

  old girl at nerd camp yelled at me for being part of the globalist ... dragon staff 3) It's time for those of you who might want to be bloggers ... blogger? The mission of the blogs is to help prospective students understand

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  I blog a lot of retrospective trip reports (see, e.g., ISEF 2016, IOI ...  in zone 2, offering hands-on activities in coordination with ... than 130,000 ft2 of build/hobby space, about 2.5 football fields, to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision Day Eve Your questions as the May 1 deadline approaches.

  

  MIT Class of 2017!), that you're declining our offer of admission (it ... concerns? I am available, as are all of the bloggers, to field questions ... the fairest treatment of waitlisted students. If you need more time: If

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  More info for Admitted Students just a few more things to do

  

  offer of admission (it's okay, we know you're making the best ... Congratulations to all of the admitted students! I hope you are still celebrating, but I also want to remind you of a few things to do now

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  the chance to fly faster than the speed of sound, pull more Gs than any ... chance (which happens to be very good coming out of MIT) to have an awesome and exciting life. When I first signed up for ROTC, I thought of it

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions 2007 A quick look at this year's admissions.

  

  rate of 12.3%, or fewer than one of every eight applicants. We offered ... , when the decisions come out, I know you will feel a range of emotions. I ... . One of the things that make these blogs special is that there is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You know my name I should think of a clever title, but the song has been in my head…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Blake Ross, who is kind of the inventor of Firefox, is ... .003. I ate a lot of stuffing today. But most importantly, like two weeks ... for fall 2007! pfffft!), we offer at least math 10 classes in nonlinear

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  classes by preregistering on WebSIS before the beginning of the next ... where you can pick up a poster of the LSC schedule. As for freshmen, when ... Orientation, but then second term, you join the rest of the world and do things

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006