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  Love that dirty water

  

  I've returned from France to the States just in time for lots of exciting things: the arrival of the Class of 2008 on campus, the announcemen ... of the day, the entire Admission staff met to prepare for our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  The New MIT Viewbook! Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton of work) we saw…

  

  of work) we saw the first proofs for the final book. I was blown away ... hold the first copy in my hands. Those of you who will be applying next year - you're in for a serious treat. I honestly think this is one of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  with picking the best possible version of myself to become - deciding on ... during school, though of course all the details have changed i still ... computers - though these days, instead of reading all the papers and writing

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  with that. More importantly, I've recognized that the pressure cooker of ... prepared me for, but a social one. Why does the "endless" amount of resources ... these questions rooted in our societal issues with the cult of youth blah

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  More Updates from Cambridge It's CPW 24/7 here. We can't wait to see you.

  

  here as we prepare for nearly two-thirds of the admitted class of 2011 to descend upon the MIT campus... CPW Events Wow, there are a lot of cool ... 's Battle of the Bands at 8pm Saturday, with special guests Ben & Marilee

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Anna’s Taqueria

  

  , because today is the grand opening of Anna's Taqueria on campus! Anna's Taqueria is perhaps the best know Boston restaurant of the variety "cheap AND ... awaiting the opening of the MIT Anna's just as eagerly as the students. Today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  “we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:

  

  choice of MIT, I mean it. I'm on a mission to spread the New England winter ... shenanigans. Exhibit A: On the last day of finals, as if to celebrate the ... of snow. Even better, right outside of the dorm where Siyi and I live

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  designated stop, after the doors open and let on all of the passengers ... knew it, Yuki and I were at the end of the Red Line and were greeted by the sight of transit police standing on the platform. We got out of the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  [annotation note="read, they still haven't kicked me out of the group chat yet."]Until very recently,[/annotation] I was the president of Next House, the dormitory where I live. The role of dorm president is often a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  strips of colored LEDs lining the hallway, a bunch of the hall frosh built ... rendering of the lineart. I sent it to Winnie, who was already at Metropolis ... put in the 12x 24 piece of acrylic, and I watched the laser cutter for

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  , centered around the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Das Rheingold ... Cycle. It is the tiddler of the bunch, lasting but a single act and being ... songs - it flows, and holds together by the use of little musical ideas

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Do You Like “Like”? What to do about social sharing.

  

  publish the article to the News Feed of your five thousand closest Friends ... . If you look at the bottom of the page, where you once saw this: you ... the Like button instead of Share, since it's a simpler and easier to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  previous years (see left-hand column of the "the road" link). So feel free to ... state of Michigan, Michigan has two peninsulas - the "upper peninsula ... part of the lower peninsula, going "up north" usually refers to either a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  it to. Here's a muddled average of all the things I've been up to these ... , and[annotation note="Those of us in cold climates, anyway. The rest of ... some mixed-up combination of reactions to things that happened the day

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  Of all the student groups I am involved with at MIT, the one that brings me the most happiness is Camp Kesem MIT. Those of you who have stuck ... and sophomore summers at MIT, and I’ve been a part of the coordinator

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  just "Make") is sort of legendary. Gershenfeld has taught the class every ... had to design the bricks ourselves and laser cut them out of cardboard ... the peaks of the edges have to be wider than the valleys, so that the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  want to mention, which are some of the memorable moments from GIR's in ... monolayer of Au nuclei (styrofoam ball contraption, behold below) at the front of the room in order for us to calculate the percent rebound, relating

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  I'm back at my parents' home now (watching reruns of Buffy the ... the wait was an hour and a half, so we headed down to Cafe of India ... imagined, though it isn't large by the standards of national parks in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  amazing strategy I’ve had the pleasure of discovering via 20.109 this ... procrastination, but work of the utmost and immediate importance. It may seem ... the related literature. ALL of it. Read it in depth and pay attention to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  Man, but also the producer of this year's Next Haunt! There is a lot ... arranging the build and actually running the thing. Because of that, I wanted to talk about some of the processes that went into making sure

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024