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• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  as we passed it around. They say it sounds better in French - but I ... It's finals week! That dreaded time of year when people hide away in their rooms and in the libraries and delve into deep bouts of sadness

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / Events

  It’s Almost Here! The sun? Orientation? Only time will tell.

  

  I think the last time I saw the sun was Saturday. In a strange turn ... encourages leadership development. Next week I have a personal UPOP meeting in ... …or is it Seattle? Anyway, grab your umbrella just in case. While the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Random’s 13th happy birthday random hall!

  

  excursion to Lobby 7, stands in a circle, and performs the birthday dirge. I was actually in the middle of giving a tour of Random to a friend when I ... experience. This past Saturday, February 29th, I experienced something that I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The career fair and emerging pop stars Thinking about life after MIT at the Career Fair...and then watching a fellow blogger transform…

  

  set-up booths in our athletic facility to try to recruit MIT students ... to know about a company. I was seated at a table with three other ... ’s projects, life in Cincinnati, the product design process, what life after MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  Event in Atlanta... Last weekend, I attended the Championship in Atlanta. Though I attended primarily in a private, rather than professional ... whether I was cheering my pals in the pits or cheering MIT on Scholarship

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Breaks, Apple Pies, and Formal Halls

  

  -togethers. I see the other two MIT students in Course 1 (civil engineering ... England and the first term is half way over! I really can't believe it. The ... , the weeks are dragging on. But it's okay because I'm here with 24 other

  • by Cambridge
  • November 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ah, TV… A super-sized value meal for the mind, not the body.

  

  Action Applications. Can I be frank with you? (As apposed to Bob? I'm so funny! I crack me up!) I am stressed! Reviewing admissions applications is a stressful endeavor. I know, I know! Applying to college is beyond

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  ; about MIT) on my own graduation day in 2013, but how much, in hindsight, I ... undergraduates, whom we admitted, in the main, four years ago. In the intervening ... guides, and, in my case, the students who took my classes. We have had the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• 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

  • by ARTalk
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday Instructions on how to receive your decision online.

  

  received a "final" action in December - i.e. admitted or denied). What is the ... well in advance. What if I've forgotten my MyMIT username or password ... Hi folks, I'm pleased to let you know that we're on schedule to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunny day – Sweepin’ the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet.Can you tell me how to get,…

  

  I was reading Evan's most recent entry and I noticed that he mentioned Sunny's, which I don't believe has ever been blogged about. What is ... and plan their meals. I know, right? I mean, who has time for that? Ever

  • by Snively '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic

  

  shortly thereafter at the same link. Because I know a lot of our readers are interested in science writ large, I wanted to boost this event so more people ... a webinar on the science of vaccines, and the role they will play in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 4, 2021
• 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

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome to the Woodshop Don't forget close-toed shoes and please WEAR GOGGLES.

  

  week, I work as a monitor at the N51 Woodshop. In Building N51, next to ... finished the pieces in this woodshop. It's really the most beautiful loft I ... around campus in her epic Machine Shops entry. But she missed my place

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cambridge Traditions and 5 Course Meals

  

  Here in Cambridge, all new students must go through a matriculation process in which you are formally admitted into the university and your college. I think all of the colleges has a matriculation ceremony on the

  • by Cambridge
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  from the waitlist in the past few years? Should I even bother staying on ... The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most ... waitlist in the past few years, we admitted very few this year (due to the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• 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

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  named. Some people call it hell week, but I've found that even in the ... in sodium hydroxide and dimethyl sulfoxide, I got backside attacked. (Yes, that was in honor of the 5.12 test that I didn't study that much

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  know that Guide to Residences in the NBM? Check out our i3 video in the ... . If your initial reaction to that was "...um, what?", then I'll fill you in: Steer Roast is Senior House's claim to fame - it's our annual

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  18 and Counting Congratulations, Professor Diamond!

  

  excellent age for wine, or so I'm told by the sommelier app on my phone. It ... ago now (goodness, I'm old). And it's the age of many of our excellent ... MIT. Howso? Well, 18 is the number of years in a row that the Nobel

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2010