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  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  -weekly offering of free food; even though the food (wings!) has been in the office ... the two of us and the fact that I'm still looking at the Mc ... we feature articles from The New York Times about national and global

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  of what he is like, he taught my little brother (who was four at the ... the confined walls of a university and its limiting course requirements ... in Kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  it. Comparing that to my experiences in places such as New York City ... decided to sacrifice the comfort of a small town for all MIT had to offer ... were made, people said they were from the Bay Area, New York (by which

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  at places that supposedly offer a diverse and challenging working ... what someone writes about us in the paper, whether it's the New York ... I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  museums at the time of the night when few tourists were out and the city got ... single for at least a period of time in college. Take yourself out. It ... to your peers. Everyone at MIT has something to offer (you do too

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  article ranking the top 50 world universities. They had us at #7, behind ... considerable challenge at other universities. I've never, ever been very ... DID YOU KNOW? The first person I met when I arrived at MIT for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  ball, on the other hand, is a ball only held at the end of the academic year. The ball is organized by any one of the colleges of the University ... for May ball and its fireworks! Old friends and new friends at St

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  beautiful Thursday in the New England fall. I walked out of the Convention ... my UROP research at another university’s undergraduate research ... of mine who lived in Lauren’s dorm, offered to walk me back. He had

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  County, having just spent the week in New York City and Long Island ... of pizza. As we arrived at Regis we heard the shocking news of Cory ... Les and Tom Nacinovich, who is the EC assigned to Regis. At most of the

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  so drunk that no hotel in New York would accept him, and he ended up in ... shedding the old enchantment for the new. Four. We arrive at the Stud and ... anything new. I did, of course; I learned a lot of things about MIT, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  front page of the New York Times -- above the fold, no less. (Here is the ... offer you 50 Reflections. Here goes... The years I spent at MIT were among the best -- and, at the same time, the hardest -- years of my life

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few ... thousand of you have applied. You’ve poured hours and hours into your ... offer from Apple and a congratulatory call from the President, with the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  New York Times about the college admissions process, it is hard for me ... college? I imagine it went something like this. At the end of another very ... offer of admission, from the big name universiy, that will impress their

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  random places, all of which I seriously considered for at least the time I ... about the nature of the universe and all that. I’m considering Econ ... A lot of different people have been asking me about my prospective

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  Prize, alongside such distinguished visionaries as Steve Penfold of York University in Toronto ("The social life of donuts: Commodity and community in ... awarded a prize at an Ig Nobel ceremony :) (Also, the rest of John Carr

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  results from either CEEB, the New York State Board of Regents, foreign exams ... course, but also New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, "and other principal ... first-years today choose their courses, which is at the end of their first

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  .091 helped me discover my interest in course 3! At the end of each class we ... my eyes to a lot of new material regularly. It's certainly drinking out ... clever people who are down to earth, and can provide a new mode of thinking

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  acquainted with all we have to offer."]CPW.[/annotation] There is no rush at ... easier to you than it does to for others at MIT. A lot of you may have come ... have even had AP Biology offered at your school. It is these differences

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  when I first moved here, the density of people and place was new and ... simultaneously by offering: a wide variety of fresh and healthy produce, grocery ... lettuce at many of the major grocery stores in the area. At Whole Foods, a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  mascot of this year's Hunt. Look at them: As Eric notes, we've seen the ... tasks we had to do for New York City included making the Monopoly board ... through the endgame. There was a bit of memery at the end that reminded me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022