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Is campus safe?
campus warning system, where students can opt-in to receive email ... offers shuttles day and late into the night around campus in Cambridge and
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FAQ / Life and culture
How hard are courses at MIT?
to collaboration: problem sets (psets) are typically completed in ... peer network is a great source for support, MIT students can speak with ... getting in the way of their schoolwork. -
FAQ / Life and culture
What are the housing/dining options?
undergraduate experience, and all first-year students live in on-campus residence halls. You can read more about housing on our page Housing at MIT. Just ... might prefer to live in a cook-for-yourself (and often, your friends -
Blog / Extracurriculars
A Half-Century of Hacking MIT's original hackers are still alive and well, right on campus and just a short…
Nickel Plate." Anybody at MIT can join right in, even freshmen, and get ... hand in hand. But what you might not know is that MIT's original hackers ... of freight and passenger services nationwide. Written in Python, it -
Blog / Life after MIT
An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!
awesome research in the same labs where I worked last semester. A bunch of my friends and I sat in our lounge for hours listening to a '71 alum go ... who used to be in our shoes so many years ago! I just kept thinking how -
Blog / Admissions
Meet The (New) Bloggers! how to something something
A few weeks ago I posted the Blogger Application 2012. We received ... into fistfights in Matt's office. Yet decide we must, and ... : Anastassia B. from Miami, Florida. Anastassia, like Abe Lincoln, was born in a -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Love Affair: 11.027 & New Orleans [by Janet Li '12] Spring break in NOLA.
[by Janet Li '12] A house decked out in Mardi Gras swag in the French Quarter. How did you spend your spring break? Eight students in the ... standards in New Orleans. Course 11—Urban Studies and Planning—is -
Blog / Admissions
2020 Admitted Student Gatherings Get a vision of your future at MIT
and RSVP if requested. Everyone here in the MIT community can ... there, we hope you are pumped for what the next few months have in store ... -togethers in their hometowns for students admitted to the class of 2020. These -
Blog / Challenges
Hosed Exams=Cars, I'll show you how!
= awesome. Exams in the same week = not). Now I have my own theories on why ... in different weeks so that you have one or two exams to take every two ... the scheduling for every exam and you get three exams in three days -
Blog / Events
Meditation Mondays Achieving inner peace, just in time for my 14.05 pset
Meditation Monday: Tonight, 10/16 @5:30 pm in 50-005 Meditation ... attainment of inner peace necessary! Dress comfortably. I went to this meditation session tonight -- which I definitely needed after getting my French -
Blog / MIT Life
The Birth Of Baby Nance Regular updates from labor through delivery (guest-hosted by Ben).
way. I'll keep you updated over the course of the day. Let's use this ... and weight guesses will receive gifts from Bryan (Ha! I love hijacking his blog and making promises on his behalf!). Personally I am hoping -
Blog / MIT Life
Q&A Round Two Answers to some questions
course where they sit in and evaluate the class to make sure that it is covering the material that it should be. Mugho Pine asked: If you come in ... you'll want to design efficient algorithms, etc. If you were in another -
Blog / About Decisions
It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies
the letter contained in the tubes, which I've embedded below. ... . In my life, I've applied to nine graduate programs. I've been admitted ... MIT, whose offer I accepted), and denied seven times. In fact, two of -
Blog / Academics & Research
Kickstart My Art highest form of expression
There was a great article in the Tech earlier this week about startup ... . Now, Mark could do a lot of things in a lot of organizations, and all of ... , and I'm currently a freshman studying Computer Science and Philosophy -
Blog / Hacks
Invasion MIT! the long war of general jack
As I walked up the steps to 77 Mass Ave this morning I was ready to plow through another day of committee. What I got was war. ... battles just as we prepare to defeat our finals once again in this infinite -
Blog / Events
MIT is Utopia Because the nice guys were here.
weekend was Utopia, a big boat cruise and party in the Boston Harbor. MIT ... other shorts and music videos. I've been a fan of them since high school, so I was super excited that I got a chance to meet them. Be sure to -
Blog / Miscellaneous
We’re Linux! "Aha, Linux beats paper!"
Congratulations to the future class of 2013! I'm looking forward to ... . Maybe I'm a little crazy, but isn't that just too cute for words? :) The ... from SIPB, Waseem '07. The video's been entered in the Linux Foundation -
Blog / Hacks
Harry Potter and the Infinite Corridor (updated!) Don't even try to post a spoiler.
Hallows, I will punch you in the face. I'm not kidding." Photos from ... Currently at Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square awaiting the arrival of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I figured it would be cool to take -
Blog / Admissions
CPW Registration Browser Issues Firefox isn't playing nicely with MyMIT...
Hi folks, I just learned from the folks who support my.mit.edu that certain browsers (i.e. Firefox) may not play nicely with CPW registration ... the bottom of that asap, but in the meantime, if you've already -
Blog / Events
Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory AXO Fondue was last night!
(Ashdown House) into an undergrad dorm in 2009 (right after I leave, not fair ... When five bloggers (Anthony, Bryan, Matt, Mitra, and I) all attend ... event was particularly special for me because I was one of the four