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  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  using his own intelligence and sweat of his brow. I would love for that to ... for the name John Underkoffler, and write down what he is credited as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... achieve what I wanted. It was hard for me to do that for so long. Alabama ... from ostentatious pity that we didn't ask for. [caption id

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  . Similarly, N for buildings in north campus and NW for buildings in northwest ... branches off in the end at Building 8. It’s a pretty important hallway for ... digit are roughly located in lines, except for the tens. There are only

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I disagree. Sure, we may not have brick buildings and ivy-covered walls.  But we have wacky (modern? postmodern?) buildings, the best river views in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  - broadly defined - for college to matter.   I hope that this quote is ... mean? Why do we have it? And what does it do for our class? When we say ... factor controlling the admissions process. Suppose, for a moment, we didn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  reality for three whole months, I thought to myself: What on Earth am I ... , I have worked at a university, a non-profit, and, now, a for ... Arabic. Christian and Muslim evangelicals jostle for the same space outside

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  belongs here, then you obviously don’t know what MIT is about. (And for the ... so few spots for so many qualified people, which means we can’t take ... answer you’re looking for. I wish we could just give you a perfect black

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  just giving snapshots into MIT life. For the first couple days (or at ... (again), Meet the Bloggers  You Can't Just Ask for Prefrosh || VEDA #18 ... really packed and then yesterday I literally just did homework in bed for

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  for all those personality tests! None of this, the tests themselves nor ... bloggers) for yourself! Tests Included The structure of my survey was more or ... hungry during the race, promptly stopped for a feast and then fell asleep

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Events

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  gel thickening agent. I’ve been at MIT for a while: this is my sixth ... answering the frosh open the circle and we divvy up the cards for a game of BS ... conservation of energy you can’t go full circle. We get to watch preparations for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  hours just before midnight. Beacon Hill is very quiet for a neighborhood

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  ," the Faculty Houses. The dorm's name of '93 would last for ... see the full-size photo.) That photo is incredible for a lot of

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  gifs) I visited MIT for the first time during CPW, and I came in ... was the right place for me to be pre-med...despite the fact that I would

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  within the media industry, an atypical choice for an MIT student, my

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  quick recap of how the semester's gone for me so far since I've wanted to talk about my classes for a while but lacked the motivation for it! 8 ... myself. The class meets three times a week, twice a week for lecture on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20

  

  , and the occasional puppy labs. For several of us, there’s so much more ... throughout the semester - I’ll spare you the details, for now anyways. Instead ... . Following that, she’ll be visiting family in Colombia before arriving back on

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking! (fall 2025) highways, storks, and movies

  

  completely blanks. Unless I'm actively working on an assignment for that course ... for my classes. Coursework (im)permanence. Hopefully by writing this, I ... to register for this course as a way of returning to my roots. So far

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  , and I encourage you to Google and PubMed for updates (and please post what you found in the comments for the rest of us to see). I hope you ... love for frogs to amphibians in general. My favorite amphibian today is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  group's senior class, as well as two stray juniors, which made for the ... for MIT students that I'm aware of are Puerto Rico, Aruba, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, and Miami, but I've also seen a handful of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Millennium Scholar Culture shock gives way to passion for learning By Jason Hidalgo June 6, 2009 Just moving to a new apartment can be tough for some ... arrived in the United States as a 7-year-old from Colombia. At the time, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009