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  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  Santa Fe, New Mexico   What: Working at Surroundings and Architecture 2030. Writing about street art, coyotes, and trees. Reading Joan Didion, James Baldwin, Tupac Shakur, and Carson McCullers. Also, Ta

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we ... interested in MIT, and so forth. In the meantime, you may talk amongst yourselves below. As always, please keep your comments civil and friendly in

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  're thinking: "what else is new?" You yawn and ask whether I salivate and breathe ... of our home planet in Book II and you'll see what I mean: "And fast by ... ambiguous by design, since Milton is fond of wordplay and double meaning

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  . After a few semesters of psets, midterms, finals, and projects, that once youthful prefrosh full of joy and excitement can seem a long way away. Ring ... revealed, and yesterday night the 2016 Brass Rat was revealed! We don’t hold

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  so many exciting things going on, and best of all, THERE ARE SO MANY PREFROSH! Yes, they are still called prefrosh, and they will be called prefrosh until convocation when President Reif gets on a stage and says that

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  We Eat At Food Trucks A few may even start their own

  

  event coordinated by Clover Food Lab and MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning. When I RSVP-ed for this event, I totally forgot I was ... Lab. And this is the inside. Clover Food Lab, which grew out of a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 6, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  saturate myself with sodium and MSG. It was not one of my better days ... decided to draw. Expressing myself through color and bad Photoshop layer effects is so paramount in my life that it surprises others and myself when

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  comes to a close culminating in graduation and Tech Reunions on our campus ... MIT class. It was quite a party with a record number of classmates and their families in attendance and ended with the final celebration of MIT

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s like finding candy in your pocket… MIT in the media - Always a treat.

  

  likewise very into the Internet as you may have guessed, and as it should be in my opinion. I'm sure we all fall victim to surrendering minutes and ... something like this: A New Yorker cartoon and a Jay-Z&Beyoncé picture

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  I love getting mail. Actual mail, that is: packages and postcards and ... . Mystified, I tore off the flap, and a brand new book slid out. I yelped (alarming the desk worker) and dropped the envelope. I knew this book. I had

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our homework is to go camping on a school night...!

  

  this semester has been especially fun and out-of-the-ordinary. So two weeks ago - …the assignment was to construct a bamboo-and-canvas shelter ... used for conferences and fraternity/sorority semiformals, etc. Our

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…

  

  applications. Last year, it was 17,909 to be exact. And we don't just see them ... big deal; we're not sticklers for that type of stuff (and hey, nobody ... much time and effort the student has put into the application. So be sure

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  get our schedules and get to talk about our classes, yay!" I will tell ... 'm starting to feel like a real engineer and it's super. So yeah - putting on the big-girl pants and leaving Debbie Downer Elizabeth back home was

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  This…Is…BLODGEBALL! Everything and anything you ever wanted to know about us.

  

  Admissions, Stu Schmill, but we need your questions! Send anything and ... -dot-com - I get to make silly videos, draw doodles, write my opinions and then have my self-esteem bolstered when pre-frosh recognize me at CPW and then

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  Three days into my study abroad program and this is my classroom ... , Brazil; Cape Town, South Africa; and Hanoi, Vietnam with a group of 30 ... different forces that shape cities and the challenges that they face. I can

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  competition, part exhibition, and 100% inspirational. This time around, both Boston and Cambridge invited 76 teams of spoken word artists to engage the stage and compete to be the year's top poets. MIT was even lucky to host

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  I was out meeting a friend and some of her friends that I didn't previously know last night, and the topic of school came up. (SIDE NOTE: that was the most difficult and awkward sentence I've typed in a long time. I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  choir, played oboe in band and full orchestra, and participated in every ... decided I wanted to be in an instrumental group and a vocal group. I didn ... (MITSO) or Wind Ensemble (MITWE), and I didn’t want to bother

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Cultured C-Show 2011

  

  that I was capable of turning off my alarm and going back to sleep ... .03 (diff eq) professor sing in class, to general applause and awe. (3) I ate my first blueberry bagel ever and decided immediately to eat many more

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Life On Mars and by "Mars" I actually mean "3AB, Simmons Hall."

  

  options. You want to explode things and paint crazy murals on the wall ... and independent living groups and sorority and fraternity houses, there ... House, iHouse, soon-to-be Maseeh, Random, Burton-Connor... ...and then

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 15, 2011