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  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  The last week and some are a blur, a long, joyous drink of EC. When I ... I know now), they glow with a sense of MIT, and particularly East ... , everyone sporting Rush T-shirts from years past; on the back of each shirt is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  -every-birthday-card-in-a-cute-box-sentimental type. More like borderline-hoarders-that-have-to-assess-the-potential-value-of-a-random-reciept-sentimental-types. We’ve always kind of been like this, and it wasn’t a problem in high ... and decided to give us a bag of things she no longer needed, but thought

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  tl;dr: As of this fall, any member of the MIT community can use Turbo ... example of a well designed civic technology: solving a societal problem by ... . Making this happen involved a lot of students, faculty, and staff working

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  last friday a lot of my friends walked at commencement after a speech from tim cook and a ceremonial turning-of-rings. this class especially -- "my" class -- carries a lot of people who taught me how to care, how to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for international students

  

  for residents of certain countries. This past weekend, a group of ... students. Some of these questions have come from citizens of the countries ... at 40% of responding American universities). I understand the concerns

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  grand master list of links for any and all of you going to any college at ... personal tumblr blog, other universities, random google searches, and of ... ! Please be aware that some of these links are from tumblr and other such

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  this all in one go in my remaining 47 minutes on the train, instead of postponing for another 47 days of drawn-out anguish at the accumulating height of the tardy-writing-mountain** I keep purposefully shrouded in the

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  sharing and appreciating passions, regardless of major and background. The ... limited example of my hall, I will do my best to explain how. On First East ... sit together in a darkened lounge and watch shadows of Jupiter’s moons

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything

  

  of the things that seem the most puntable are the things that make me me, have always made me me. One of my New Year’s resolutions has been to reconnect with the good parts of the person I was before MIT and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  I will admit: I've been in a bit of a rut. Don't get me wrong. Life as an AeroAstro is amazing in a lot of respects. 9AM classes for ... (like I did for most of last year) and I feel like I've found an amazing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  compilation of end of the year reflections from my lovely friends and amigos ... luxury of seeing my cats or rolling around on the living room carpet (as I ... say I was excited would be an understatement. Taking advantage of the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  I am sitting in the coolest little corner of our courtyard I've ever ... was tired, I don't regret a second of it.  I love learning more about ... to shanti-town building and more!  Here are some pictures of our

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Study Break. Or two or three. Or four. I think you get the idea.

  

  Saturday is a singular bag of nacho cheese Doritos and a fun-sized bag of M&Ms. Sunday is waffles. Monday is Insomnia cookies. Tuesday ... smuggled out of dinner. Now, you may be wondering, is the above: 1) a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  Today, I walked into my office (cup of iced tea in hand), logged onto ... student office. About half an hour later, I found more pictures of Raphael: under my keyboard, behind my monitor, on the side of my computer. Raphael

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  our understanding of the universe.  One of those winners is an MIT professor, and the inventor of The Inflationary Theory Of Cosmology, which is a fancy title for A More Complete Version Of Big Bang Theory

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  I’ve found myself being reflective recently about a lot of things. A ... kinds of thoughts to mind. This happens every summer as the academic year ... but this year is different. Last year I attended the 25th reunion of my

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  circumstance, this would have been a mere blip on my daily radar of Shiny ... of rock climbing. So while the blip was more like a bloop, it was still a bloop nonetheless, and I went about the rest of my week unaffected

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  In the hassle of getting my life and graduation requirements together, I almost forgot to take advantage of my (last :'/) biannual free post ... : taking all of their GIRs second semester senior year because they didn

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  Even though I'm now two years out of high school, I still keep in touch with one of my favorite English teachers - indeed, one of the best teachers I've ever had the privilege of taking classes with - from time to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  months, in the hope of generating some kind of useful conversation here in the blog comments. The MIT Admissions site was one of the first higher ... respect, understand, and integrate the importance of social production and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011