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  39 windows and 2 friends a love letter to simmons's architecture

  

  floor has a height of three windows, so when you look at the building from ... three floors, the three towers (called a, b, and c) split off from each ... you think simmons is a masterpiece of postmodernism or an aesthetic

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 2, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  355 Massachusetts Avenue, a seven-minute walk from main campus. You may know us from my previous blog post where I investigated a fire that ... place importance on self-reliance, on creating a community distanced from

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  that time's passing is permanent. Bojack Horseman, a character from ... another CTY session ended, someone sent me a quote from Winnie the Pooh ... could start a new season of my life. I packed up about half of my worldly

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lounges: An Interactive Experience It's almost like you were here!

  

  cities. Road signs from mysterious sources. An in-lounge made table. A web ... The 3D Lounge Experience For this part, I ask you to settle in a comfortable location, preferably on a couch or bean bag. Turn on "The Last Ship

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Happy Birthday, ‘Murica! (Even though Boston celebrated Independence Day Eve)

  

  the street from Killian Court, near a clearing in the trees that line ... . It’s weird; like being in a different time zone from the rest of the ... ), the City of Boston is shrouded in fog and a light sprinkle of rain. This

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  'm heading home to South Bend for a week to recover and recharge before ... , I've had a great time in Simmons this past year (and there are more than a few Greek guys who choose to live in the dorms - like Alan '09

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  group of people from all over the country and globe. Now that's a cool ... , I'm getting a little old, but it's cool. It's really crazy awesome to ... saved kids from burning buildings when they were 6 years old, etc. You

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  representative from PlayStation. He eventually called me back for a phone screening ... campus to dispense food and swag to interested students. We even have a ... Friday!   It’s even crazier if you’re a first-semester freshman and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  , but does not secrete from a cell?). Blend in a lot of anecdotes from ... courses, 18.02 is somewhat different from a conventional Multivariable ... ) - especially if its from a school that you've been anticipating for a long time

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  Make a 100 layer crepe cake Buy some semi-temporary tattoo ink and ... dying Peel a strawberry Bake a grape Surgery on a grape Cleanse your email ... backpack for a week Try to get over your fear of how ugly the titans are and

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Moving Across The Pond From One Cambridge to Another

  

  -essential employees I said my final goodbyes, hopped on a plane to Canada and shipped off to a land of free healthcare, fizzy lemonade and double decker buses ... and greets, pub crawls and administrative meetings, it felt like I was a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 6, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Odds and Ends It's what's left

  

  to the reader). I'm struggling to keep my brain from blowing a fuse and ... why that is. Turns out, the combination of September starting on a Wednesday, and Christmas happening on a Saturday have culminated in a perfect

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of classes What some MIT freshman schedules look like.

  

  a first term freshman at MIT? What you'll generally see is something ... version of chemistry A humanities, arts and social science (HASS) elective A freshman seminar That's a general framework, but because MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  is a collection of 80 images taken from all around MIT’s campus around ... the image would have been taken from, a few years ago. The real problem ... , when you look at an image, and the font has a totally different vibe from

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  -Based Organizations (CBOs): visits to CBOs, which may work with students from a region ... understand what a selective college admissions process looks like 'from the ... figured I would search for a surf shop shielded from the worst of the waves

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  summer was fundamentally different from last summer. I interned at a ... evening air. Hot like Vegas (where I flew in from), but much more humid. I get to the parking garage, and my rental car agent greets me with a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  salaries and some help from the government, was just enough to buy half a ... from back then is a conversation with a nice man on the elevator— “How do ... time of day. My name is Lydia. We have a lot to catch up on. I was born

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  day, in April, I got a thin envelope in the mail from this school. It ... from our early admits and current applicants. Shortly thereafter, we sent ... that, in the footer to each email, we include a line explaining to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  eating everything at eastern edge a rave review of a new food hall!

  

  cuisine, and coming from Colorado where there is a decent amount of really ... This past week, a gift was bestowed upon the universe: a new ... places to try food. Eastern Edge is a new food hall located right in the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 28, 2026
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  all time was a 2-week trip from Boston to Chicago to New Orleans to ... This is a guest blog post by my dear friend (and first person I ever ... euphoria as a southbound train. There ain’t nothing like slowing down to ride

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023