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  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  inordinate amount of time sitting at my desk. As a student studying computer ... the way to a ballroom competition at Columbia University. Wish me luck ... driveway as I had done thousands of times before (driving was weird in and of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  % International Citizens Number of countries represented: 52 8% Geography New ... Here at MITAdmissions we try to be transparent as possible about our ... 've blogged before about how the dangers of reading too much into admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  park are actually embankments built in 1775 at the command of none other ... appetizer of brie sprinkled in candied walnuts, wrapped in puff pastry, and ... take the river route along Memorial Drive. But because I ended up at a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Leaves, Strawberries, Doors Pictures of campus, faculty dinner, another door. (7 pictures)

  

  , and more. One of the dinner tables at ZBT; in this picture, you can ... (small) collection of photos of doors at MIT, this from a room ... to turn as early a September, but only recently has most of the campus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  , there are no disadvantages (at least, none that I can think of) to declaring your major at the end of the year. My impression is that joining a ... all my new camp friends. *according to the lovely people at this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  presented at the [annotation note="one of the biggest art shows in the world ... get to stick with the industry because at the end of everything, I love ... off"]series of coincidences[/annotation], I've been waking up at around

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for undocumented students and clarifying our policies for applicants as Regular Action approaches

  

  , President Reif joined hundreds of other university Presidents in signing an ... many of their friends and classmates, also dream to study at MIT. ... As many of you know, there has been a lot of uncertainty in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  (which I don't), it's mandatory to have at least some sort of meal plan ... excited to sign up for this class. Turns out, of course, that learning a new ... IAP is in full swing, and I am having a blast! At MIT, the second

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Return of QBert Whack-a-mole, a piano player, and a whole lot of fun. All in 24 hours or…

  

  New Hampshire, of course. Now telling you the destination without ... unmarked Toyota Matrix to New Hampshire. All I remember of the drive was ... hours later, we arrived at Giuseppe's Showtime Pizzeria in New Hampshire

  • by Bryan
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  and spinach salad: one of my first attempts at "real food"!   ... **Edit: tagline no longer accurate as of 11/16/2015. Whoops! I don ... on making yummy food, and making a lot of it. Cooking is a social event

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  Sunday, staying at a MITOC cabin overnight, and then ice climbing in New ... presentations at the end of the week. UPOP isn't perfect - sometimes the sheer ... point is, of course, that the longer you’re away from something the more

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  example of how font choice can define a building's character, take a look at ... the poster to its left. I thought, at first, that the font was FF DIN ... of its signs, like this one: Most room signs have numerals set in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Love Affair: 11.027 & New Orleans [by Janet Li '12] Spring break in NOLA.

  

  one of the smaller majors at MIT, and it is an absolutely awesome field ... around the city. New Orleans is such a conglomerate, a fusion of various ... New Orleans, but especially on Frenchmen, and we had a lovely dinner at

  • by ARTalk
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I “less than 3” the Chorallaries My relaxing and enjoyable vaction draws to a close. *sigh*

  

  Well, it's been quite a week of spring break adventures! I basically ... important on Monday, spent some time at the public library on Tuesday (I'm not ashamed to say that I adore that place), and picked April up at the bus stop

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  [/annotation] and because they can help offer an unfiltered view of what I’ve been doing for ... it happened again. after finishing my second round of midterm exams, i was promptly swept away by a whirlwind of final projects and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  16.810 Rapid Design and Prototyping 8 days to build an airplane. Intrigued?

  

  . Throughout my childhood, a small walk in closet in the basement of my house was ... !). Birthdays and Christmas were the only days of the year on which we'd actually ... actual official LEGO design, we'd rip it apart and build something new and

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  at CPW, and many of us ended up staying in touch throughout our time at ... , classes, and research. Instead of buying new gadgets, I would save up my ... people at MIT who support you no matter what, give generously of their time

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  , not new: as I blogged last year in the wake of Hurricane Michael ... really, really important part of your undergraduate education -- at MIT or ... interrelatedness of these challenges and work at their intersection: the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  the Head of Product Design at Continuum. *** This is the class I ... next. Through out all this switching around, I also started a new UROP in the HCI Engineering group at CSAIL led by Prof. Stefanie Mueller who

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  at me. Bam. Here’s a new set of issues for you to stress out about. An ... first time. Everything was so new and there was this sense of wonder in ... place and my crowd at MIT. So to remind myself of all the ways in which I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021