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  Be a Blogger 2021!

  

  new thing you learned today in class, and so forth. The mission of the ... list of summer activities. Like last year, things are still a bit ... colorful new new MIT welcome center will soon be ready for you to see! more

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  at MIT, but rather me filling out a particular section of the ... . UROPs are wildly popular, with 92% of undergrads doing one at some point ... laser-induced mind control at MIT? But probably the most enticing part of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  day and get some extra food. At this point I kind of fell into a funk of ... getting out of bed to rush to my 8.01L quiz at 9. I opened up the quiz. Our ... the untimely death of Bill Murray. It was good. Now it is a new day. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  rejoicing. We eat lunch at a fairly new ramen place outside of Central Square ... end of classes! Time to have some fun. Fun? How do you have fun at MIT ... like trains? (reprise) Back Bay Station is located at the start of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  's sort of backwards when you look at MIT undergraduate dorms and their ... also in a mixture of East and West Campus geography - at the beginning of ... fringe of the academic buildings. I know that when I was first looking at

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Holy Grail of Hacks Returns and everything it took to get there

  

  longer lasting. Talks of reviving Tetris started floating around at the end ... the project design requirement set at a lifespan of 10 years and an ... own chance to be bad at Tetris where all of Boston could see me. A small

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 3, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2nd Half of IAP a quick and slightly belated list

  

  way! Look at the frozen river! and ducks! and geese! close up of frozen river! 2) We saw Mary and the Witch's Flower, the first movie of ... For the first half of IAP, we were speed walking to prepare for the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  So the other day, I was totally out of food. Like, completely. I hadn't been grocery shopping for weeks, and after making a meal out of ... few minutes I had placed an order for Hawaiian pizza and a side of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Stu Schmill ‘86 named Dean of Admissions Exciting news!

  

  named new dean of admissions March 24, 2008 Stuart Schmill SB '86 has been named MIT's next dean of admissions, Dean for Undergraduate ... 's interim director of admissions since last April, and Hastings said he has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  fresh quinoa. There were at least five tables full of food and drinks. The ... the creativity and ambitions of its students, faculty, and alumni. New ... have their own class. Suzy Nelson is just at the start of her journey

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  example, here are some of the contests at East Campus' "Bad Ideas 2011 ... the first floor of the new Maseeh Hall. It's an incredible space, with ... greatly enjoy eating, and I also enjoy eating great amounts of food. When I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM!

  

  Organizations, a 9-credit class in the lovely new MIT Sloan School of Management ... : school got harder. We're in rough terrain - first wave of exams, or in my ... freshman year due to a lack of motivation…or something. But I don’t think it

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2022 judge our music taste (the 5th installment)

  

  , but MG and I are somehow also at the far right? it's the sheer amount of ... repeat, or sample a lot of new ones? Loyalty (L) vs. Variety (V) — do you ... . woah, all of us like finding new music, huh Time Traveler (ETVU) — amber

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences

  

  Transportation is a much smaller conference put on at the end of the week by the ... I was exposed to a lot of new concepts, programs, ideas and people who ... what this week will entail and what type of issues are at the forefront

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  function was. Some of the astronomers that I spoke to at the AAS conference ... of thin air. While the 25 or so of us gaped at him, he unwrapped it ... Last year, my class sizes were on the order of 100, 50, 60, and 20

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  , so their residents get the feeling of being away from school at night ... Hello, gentle readers! For those of you who don't know me, I've been ... break from blogging. I'm here now to talk about one of the big changes I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  with your choice of “Prestigious Big Name University with lots of money ... Here are a couple of other good questions that I have been asked by ... ...Referring to the application fee:“Full name of the applicant must be on the money

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  normal to us now like motion graphics were completely new and magical at ... honestly a lot of fun – frustrating at times, but (at least for me) nowhere ... city planning movements like New Urbanism. I think this is one of those

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Mid-May Update Q&A: Athena tips and hints

  

  installed) to download a licensed copy of Eudora. Also available at that ... week of rain. :- But... I bet by now, all you '10 folks have your Athena ... solutions out there. You can get instructions on how to set one up at http

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products ... working alpha prototypes of new products. Students learn about creativity

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2019