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  lin-manuel miranda scares me my final paper for an MIT class about musicals!

  

  (allegedly) engaged in the blasphemous act of… Google Doc roleplaying… Anyways ... school, but I did become a loyal fan of Broadway! So when I saw that one of ... –all MIT students must take at least 8 of these classes to graduate! side

  • by Allison E. '27
  • May 24, 2026
• Blog / Advice

  new york without instagram who are you performing for?

  

  days (mainly for christmas), and due to a mixture of factors both within ... ’t awful, but considering how much all of my friends raved about this city i ... of my system first. i’ll preface it by saying that this is my very

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  from my brain, minimal editing, stream of consciousness -- just my raw ... position, typing this out. i just made a bunch of heart-shaped cookies with chris and tiramisu for a hall birthday. it's the first day of the long

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

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  our sophomore year of high school. we were here for a biology camp in cambridge, and we quickly discovered we had the same memey sense of humor ... picture i ever took on killian court was of me and the rest of the camp t

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  in late february of 2017 me and jessica t. '20 did a hall exchange. a ... house. instead of studying 6.857 notes like i should be or writing up the ... my attention was the high ceiling and two League of Legends posters on

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

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it ... class in Spain through a program called IAP Madrid. It is one of my most ... class I've taken at MIT) about the history and culture of francophone

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  would adapt and adjust to the rigor and intensity of the course load, if I ... constantly am reminded by the opportunity cost of training and competing full ... on the ice just because I don't have the luxury of training all that I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  “intense” dorm of people with no shoes and dyed hair. But, not everyone who ... ’s perhaps my favorite aspect of the Institute—the chance to grow in a tight ... some of the responses below in full (with only minor edits). I hope this

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  . And I’m afraid that on Wednesday, I will find out that all of these ... . * * * Our training begins on Monday March 24. Around ten of us have arrived in ... are a handful of graduate students, and I’m the token undergraduate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  , or failed at a wide range of ventures or ideas told their stories ... “Think. Inspire. Motivate.” There has already been some coverage of the ... , but as one of the handful of inaugural TIMtalks speakers, I got a unique

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  distance of 77 Massachusetts Avenue uneaten at, pardon the grammatical ... than getting problem sets finished on a Friday night instead of chewing ... see any more of those, really). Honestly, I can't count the nights when

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining As it stands now

  

  This is another one of those entries that's going to make admissions ... a variety of reasons, none of which I'm going to touch. The long and short of it is that there are very few people on campus who can grasp

  • by Snively '11
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  By Ming Lu The Thursday morning of CPW, I woke up bright and early ... , taking the same train. Here’s a picture of the six of us: The train took around five hours to reach South Station in Boston, but the six of us

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  express themselves. Below you'll find accounts of six very different rooms ... a team of hair and makeup artists, as well as relaxing in their personal trailers parked outside of their rooms. No, actually I just ran

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  While I was on vacation this past week, MIT Dean of Admissions ... with Bruce Poch, Dean of Admissions at Pomona College, to promote their ... .com transcript of the Q & A with Dean Marilee Jones: Ever since she first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  past few weeks have been like, so some of these answers are super late ... Kuwait, is there any possibility of receiving the Admissions decision ... ." ------------------------------------- Shikhar wrote: "Should I put down that I have been member for four years of

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  note="one of the dorms at MIT, also where i live ... functional and eating edible food"]GRAs [/annotation]in the Fall of each year. It’s a competition where people bake a lot of goods with apples, to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  .[/annotation]  That was my first taste of trekking around campus. MIT’s campus is a ... end of campus to another, such as from Tang Hall to the Sloan School of Management, it would be a [annotation note="Which is about the length of 12

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  -illustrated incarnation of MIT’s mascot Tim the Beaver']Tim[/annotation]has become a quintessential representation of MIT culture. I love that beautiful little dude. It ... hall to a post somewhere on Instagram. I even have a little sticker of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  a kid, my dad would play me a few of the classics—Golden Slumbers, Let ... MIT: Regressions, where I saw footage of Timothy Leary, the father of ... movement and learned of the Beatles' role in it. They not only helped

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022