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  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  clipped the toy to the front of my school backpack, and went to the library ... traditions that outlast any particular generation of residents. I live in French House. Nous avons beaucoup de traditions. Towards the end of fall

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  now the proud owner of a Brass Rat! The ring's design, which I covered previously, was carefully put together by these guys, the Class of 2014 Ring ... position right now to a lot of people: my past teachers, my professors, my

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  by application of physical laws, and learning to complete projects on ... selection, visual thinking and communication, kinematics of mechanisms ... at the beginning and the end of the course so students can assess their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Two opportunities for high school students And you don't have to live near Cambridge, MA this time!

  

  the MIT Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is organizing for high school ... “Exploring Science and Engineering” essay competition open to all high school ... those of you near Cambridge, come check out the fair! And for those

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  successful MIT semester I've had to date. I've gone through a series of ups and ... content of all of my classes, especially my HASS classes and found myself ... they felt within society and culture. I also got out of my comfort zone a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  our collective dismay, there is another side of the coin: spending money ... to take care of pretty much all of their expenditures, choosing to live ... as one of the most expensive cities in the US (see: Example A, Example

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  compiling a list of distractions for the final stretch. Distractions are great – I use them often to reroute my train of thought away from worry or overwhelmedness – but I also find a lot of solace in kind, honest words. So that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  business schools owned by MIT alumnus Vinay Rai, including Rai Business ... Thanks to a continuation of computer problems, I was without a computer for the entire month of January. Thus, when Chris made a call for

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  schools and committed my near future to the progressive locale of Cambridge ... concepts like the Pledge of Allegiance, school plays, and raising my hand ... . As I trudged through my final years of elementary school, I was the kid

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  first day of school, smack in the middle of my 7-10 class, I got rejected ... 'm going to do the best that I've ever done at this school, and I'm super excited for everything that I have lined up! This sort of breaks down into

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  from a library book about reproductive biology, with a degree of ... none of my classmates understood what I was talking about or indeed had seemed to pay me any attention at all (this was a recurring theme of my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FASAP [by Maggie Liu ‘12] T-ride + thought-provoking art piece + yummy free dinner afterwards.

  

  of the advising seminars offered. The official title is 21M.123 FASAP ... Advising is actually an academic subject worth 6 units of credit and has ... school. To my surprise, through FASAP, I discovered not only an active arts

  • by ARTalk
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to have some sort of structure, but it's become a bit of a brain dump of ... horizon, but the past few days have been when a lot of project classes begin

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  only to classes that were offered this fall.) Feel free to add your own favorites. SEM.142 Sex and the [City] Institute: An Exploration of Gender ... students' perceptions and behaviors. Topics of interest will include: dating

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  requirements of any medical schools to which you plan to apply -- many won ... end of July so I could spend the month of August working on Ben's couch. True story. I'm going through and tagging all of the bloggers' entries

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  abundance of free food and the suspicious absence of work, but I felt I owed ... disappearing again. But the first week was still of note due, in part to Rosh ... Jewish New Year and Eid ul-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan. Pictures

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  unless they are in my dinner.) Luckily, I don't think the test will be of too much consequence in my graduate school application, since I already ... good GPA, and (most importantly) have a lot of research experience

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vote for Ksplice! MIT's spirit of entrepreneurship and collaboration in action.

  

  amazing example of what MIT alumni can do after MIT, please click here to cast your vote for Ksplice in the Forbes "Boost Your Business" Competition!) One of the aspects of MIT culture I most enjoy is the Institute

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  are very different in the sense of high school courses that, in many ... place a stick of incense in the incense pot at a temple festival. Now ... and today, and I thought I would post some of the good things that came

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  .P classes because of the budget cuts in my school. So only the students with ... to ask it anyway. My school offers a class called Intel Science and ... applicants to get straight As all four years of high school. I e-mailed Mitra

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005