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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  offers 57334534923 (not a hyperbole) convincing reasons to attend, to me ... Massachusetts, and not a day has gone by without me thinking "TGI Boston" (even ... is an unbelievably cool city. From the music scene to the history and

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Infinite Corridor, set alight or, why dozens of people were crammed into a tiny stairwell at 4:19:53 PM EST

  

  off short buildings.  Grumkins who haunt the hallways and who never see ... written about on the blogs, though, and this is one of them. The central ... the entire length of MIT's main buildings.  And a few days a year, the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  " YES! So as college students, we're constantly looking for deals, and we ... tickets any MIT student can buy through MITAC. And thus, on a Saturday I actually planned on sleeping in, I was out of the house by 7:30 and on my way

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  , and neither are having extra rodent roommates. To a degree, housing and ... 'd requested and discarded essays, I may have killed a tree. I'll plant one when ... things to consider when I applied to college. And so the list begins

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  organization which recruits top students from prestigious universities and hires ... tired of getting looked down on, so they turn further north and deride the ... 're in the same town and governed by the same school board, Middletown

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  come to CPW, in case a weekend of free food, free shirts, and hanging out with me can't convince you, and in case you're afraid you won't have ... 25 things about yourself, and then inflict this upon others, and

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  definitely don't provide the perspective of the whole Institute, and I'm sure ... Archives and Special Collections" and the Lewis Music Library. The Institute ... each and every MIT library. Now I have collected my notes for your

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  of luck, I got an offer to join their team for the summer and am ... . And then I found an article that suggested lip gloss might cause cancer. Disillusioned and concerned for my lip health, I started looking for other sources

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  I've been taking the time to explore some classes and activities in ... maga, and did art with some coworkers! pole I’ve tried out the stripper ... learning? I found a studio in central Copenhagen and took a trial class

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  products. They pitched their ideas to local entrepreneurs and the university ... zone/learn about Moscow culture and the university/explore the city and ... ) and pet llamas (Exhibit B) and may have eaten llamas (shhh don’t tell

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  degrees and the skies are probably going to be blue for the next three ... freshman was lucky, and only had two finals (8.022 Electricity and Magnetism, and 18.03 Differential Equations). Since freshmen are on pass/no record

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  degrees counterclockwise to face Boston. And repeat. After a while of this ... around and answered questions about student life while Tiffany (who’s pretty awesome!) answered the hard questions about applications and

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  just any degree and a passion for it. Part of me still feels weird not ... . (and getting into politics with a stem degree is easier than ever, so ... . What follows is the very long and detailed crisis I had in picking my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  Sinus pressure and general malaise have prevented me from typing up ... strategy. I presented her with my list of colleges, mostly state schools with ... MIT until the coordinator suggested it. I thought she was joking, and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  i. The days wheeled past like a flock of starlings, and suddenly ... correct about most things, and she’s correct about this: summer slips away ... in diary pages and used calendars. Another year until I acquired the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  world's leading IT media, research and exposition company") and philanthropist behind such ventures as the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at ... , and, as it is here, it is often a very interesting story. Read on: I was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  40 Hours Left! The time is 0500 EST, 12/15. I am studying for finals. You are waiting for…

  

  Following the old tradition... Go and change the world! Buena ... . Proceedings, Third IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture ... -205. Taken from Hood, Clifton. 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  , and one revised essay) while still finding a decent amount of time for club meetings, having dinner at my fraternity, playing Brawl, and ... ...emotionally, socially, academically; as a friend, as a student researcher, and as a human

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  the taxi driver and did my best to communicate (no mean feat, given how incapable I am of doing anything at all in the morning) and confirmed that he ... life. Twelve minutes later, suitcase packed and shoes on the right feet

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  i’d like to write a happy post a sestina

  

  has been quite a difficult one and I haven't really had the headspace to ... this meager offering. I'd like to write a happy post. Some light fare ... takes your hand and dances. You'd get to come along on my adventures. The

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 6, 2022