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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  classes, which is boothing. Boothing consists of smiling at people when ... the sound of a wake-up phone call. I checked in at the Bush Room and ... came to play the game at least once, and of those, three people played it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  awesome. The music program at MIT is actually quite strong, and one of the ... Society, one of my friends during his semester at MIT was coached in a ... kazoo or pan pipes or oboe of love, there's probably an ensemble at MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  last fall at the University of Cambridge through CME. (I'd describe ... of people. I've definitely succeeded in that goal, both at Senior ... stuff I'm studying. A lot of people, even at MIT, don't really

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  any class like this offered at MIT (of couse, Harvard doesn't really ... off the bus at the end of the day and stepping back onto MIT ground ... glory of Tuesdays, in which I get up at 7 to bus over to Harvard for a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  subconsciously conscious. I managed to carry myself out of bed at around 8:30 am ... checked off only about half of my to-do list. At some point, I escaped to ... of Lobby 7. Looking around at the long pillars and intricate ceiling

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  of college, I searched for opportunities at nonprofit organizations ... mine. A week before graduation, I got a job offer at a college access ... . MIT Admissions was at the top of my list of places where I wanted to

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  . * Speaking of wonderful lectures, Noam Chomsky also came to talk at MIT, about ... the Beaver (as seen on the collaborative blackboards of Stata Center): For me, the second month of college has ended, and what a wonderful time

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  Julie Barr over at the Slice of MIT blog:       In the ... of the Institute wanted to make a new interconnected technology complex but there wasn’t any room to do that in the Back Bay. In search of a new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  last week, i failed at a jigsaw puzzle and knot theory and some fears about returning

  

  . I made the awful suggestion of starting at the bottom because the ... -a-(un)knotting number of at least 74. I sat down, analyzed it from all sides like those ... lived experience of being at MIT. After a less-than-stellar freshman

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 31, 2026
• Blog / Events

  The return of photos to my blog!

  

  top bunks and walk across. I'm at a bad angle here. I don't recognize everyone from the back of their heads, but the girl at the right is Ruth '08 ... nearly a month ago. We had the retreat in Cody, New Hampshire. It was very

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  , with work from the minds of Gaudi and Dali offering up an escape from the ... thing that helps is to pick your head up, to stop staring at the sidewalk and instead look at the faces that are right there with you. Sometimes

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  of my blankets for them to cuddle with at night, and then they suddenly ... . ‘23 was off at a very cool math REU that, sadly, did not allow cats. [annotation note="short for Public Universal Feline"]PUF[/annotation] usually

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Five Years of Admitted Student Gatherings MIT community is getting bigger

  

  talked about MIT, New Jersey, cool things to do at CPW, what we enjoyed ... typing. If at any point you stop typing for more than 5 seconds, ALL of ... *Scene opens* I'm standing in front of a house with my family. MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 29, 2017
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  of people here don't have electricity at night - or at all, so even ... president of the state university of Haiti describe how he pulled his father ... night of live music, dancing, and some pretty funky Haitian food, and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  the circle of life producing an incredibly nerdy musical at math camp ... acceptable. Here at MIT, I learn the mysterious words and ways of computers ... At 8:57 AM on December 15, 2007, I was admitted to the Massachusetts

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  Every fall at MIT has felt like a new beginning. My freshman fall, everything was new, from the campus to the classes to the experience of living ... “new” people at either meeting"]old,[/annotation]but everything felt new

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  This is part 2 of a four part series spread across our four years at ... inevitably does), we pile the stuff next to it. At the end of the year, we ... Morticia, specifically at this moment. 10) The program of Ignite, the very

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  of tests, homework, and projects that inevitably follows CPW. To temporarily satiate your craving for reading about MIT while watching half of my face contemplatively sip coffee at you from my blog header, my tooling

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  worth 10% of my grade, and at this point, I was still planning on taking 6 ... way, this is at all not required nor expected. I know plenty of people ... I have to because one of my goals for this blog in general is to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  opportunities available at MIT for students at many levels of mastery. But given ... school team to two state championships. Looking at their lists of ... When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009