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  Reaffirming our support for undocumented students and clarifying our policies for applicants as Regular Action approaches

  

  , President Reif joined hundreds of other university Presidents in signing an ... (S^3), is an advisor for all DACA students at MIT and works closely ... As many of you know, there has been a lot of uncertainty in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  with a bubble in the middle, meaning that it's a good shape for learning ... ornaments is cups! This is another big jump in terms of technical skills. An ... . Many useful objects in the world have this same approximate shape -- for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  international nuclear politics for an hour.  Among the topics we discussed ... do to talk with an international security expert for an hour?  I sent ... ).  Eric Maskin, visiting from Harvard, talked for an hour about the flaws of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  take an Uber." I didn't have Uber. She called one for me, telling it to ... , and she offered to go check out for me. <3 Get lost. I had an Uber ... somehow made it to Back Bay in time for us to get on the train home. Do

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  finding appropriate roles for architecture in society. It is a place where ... amphitheater, a little blinded by the brightness of sun and snow. In searching for a place to sit, I named the following constraints: that I must sit

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  other activities as well, helpful for breaks in between portions, but the ... year, but I hope they bring them back in the future for a perfect blend ... Campus. From there, it’s an ~11-minute walk to Chinatown, State House

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  , and an astronomer from the Harvard-Smithsonian Institute for ... underground tunnels and keep an eye out for Congressmen, who are identifiable by the pins they wear. We run into Michele Bachmann while waiting for an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  processing power, for our tour inside. Mind you, on the outside W91 has an ... and the servers in this photo? They're there for cooling: cold air comes ... install one of these things at an Internet Service Provider, FastNet, in

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  fights for prison abolition in Brazil. While Brazil’s mass incarceration differs in some ways from America — for example Brazil has fewer private ... class takes place in Sao Paulo, Brazil, so we’re engaged night and day in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  kitchen, there is a "sacrificial table" - "sac tab" for short. Any item placed on the sac tab is automatically up for grabs. This is usually food, but in the past I have acquired both a pair of jeans and a Snuggie

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  , we constantly drafted up ideas for short films in an informal setting ... Throughout my 5-ish months as a blogger for the Institvte, I ... ton of primary categories under which a poster may classify an entry

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  (standard name for the airport you skydive at) was about an hour away and ... an airplane - which I did. I got all dressed up in a student jumpsuit ... -nighter."  Apparently the club fell apart for a while but in March it was re

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  layover in Chicago later, I realized that I'd forgotten it was possible for ... We're in a hotel room and we're watching Men In Black (preceded by ... raucous men out in the parking lot blasting loud country music. While all

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  6.073 (officially CMS.611) are hard to get in without an affiliation ... creating STEM games for middle schoolers in Nepal, and I'm pretty interested ... and in other arenas. I'm looking ahead to next summer to maybe get an

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  For those impacted by Hurricane Michael (and other disasters) clarifying our policies for applications affected by catastrophic events

  

  America, tropical cyclones (and military conflicts) in the Middle East, and an earthquake in Haiti. And, while our Early Action deadlines are approaching, these catastrophes have left many of our prospective students in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 22, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  memo. In all seriousness though, I actually do get sleep, usually about ... neuroscientist (or your parents) will tell you, your brain does need sleep in order ... are an extra imaginative type sleep deprived person like I was last

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  MIT waitlist, everything will still turn out well for you in the end ... aiming for a class of about 1,040 students this year. Based on our ... reconsider all of the waitlisted students again in May, when we know how many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in Review: Week One IAP should stand for Independent Awesome Period.

  

  for sophomores majoring in engineering. Going on a week-long retreat ... A couple of days ago, I was working on an entry talking about all the ... , I had Orientation at the Broad Institute for my UROP there - which

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  the Above. (And yes, the capital letters were critical for emphasis in ... don't know why that deserved an exclamation point. Probably because I ... , watching DVDs, and generally bemoaning the fact that school has, in fact

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  holidays in boston a photodump for you to procrastinate with

  

  of lobby 7[/caption] Also in an attempt to spice up the awful, drab ... eating cookies for an hour is justified! ... holiday season, and I'm coming in hot, live from my bed watching Frozen

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 16, 2024