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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  As Winter Melts things are gonna change so fast

  

  think many of the attitudes of the computing culture has spilled over into the culture and attitudes of MIT in general (which probably explains why ... hour, on average). Or perhaps you could argue that it was the culture of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  break from blogging. I'm here now to talk about one of the big changes I ... , with nearly all of the remaining students remaining on campus in dorms ... the same building, or even the same room, for nearly all of their time

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  friend. :-D] I know it must be kind of confusing to reconcile the fact that we're all apparently busy out of our heads with schoolwork and the fact ... I'm home for the evening. Cheerleading is a time commitment of about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  from the conventional path of telling you what options are available to ... interpretation of the GIRs, so please ignore them if you think I'm just being woozy ... overflow room) so a lot of people didn't have to go to class (humph*) - the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  experience," so i was willing to sacrifice some personal agency for the sake of ... the reputation of being quiet, and since i wanted something more social ... is the fourth floor of the east building (or parallel). three other

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  gets thrown around a lot in the context of life, MIT, what comes after ... your legs and the feeling of your throat getting dryer. In that moment ... ’s no winning or losing, or cheering from the sidelines every step of the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The HackMIT 2016 Puzzle Just Launched and it'll (probably) take you all across the Internet

  

  It's that time of summer again. HackMIT, one of the largest ... , and realize the projects of your dreams!" Head on over to hackmit ... clear, this post is not part of the puzzle nor does it contain any hints

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  sure. For example, on my first test of the year I got two standard ... until late November, my very last test of the semester. It's one thing to ... out of the summer all happy from working at Hasbro and building toys all

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  struggling under the sudden influx of CPW-related e-mails, and my willpower to ... already knew, but for many of you, that won't be the case. It's not a bad ... list of things to pack. Notice that one of the items listed is a camera

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  ’ll delight in for the rest of my life, probably in part because many of my ... , frequent walks around the neighborhood, and yes, a lot of time to ask, what ... do the same.  The specifics of what I do or the path from here on out

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Rush and Hall Rush

  

  the chapel and it lasted five minutes instead of 25), East Campus built a wooden Godzilla monster that carried jugs of water. By the time the ... nitrogen. There was a bungee-type swing between the two parallels of EC

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  the end of summer; one day, I was sitting in the office casually ... gradient across the parsec scales of our globular cluster, then it was one ... after cup of tea, then suddenly it was the day of my presentation and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  mess in the beginning of the school year and, in hindsight, I should have gone to CAPD in the beginning of the year. At this point in time, I wasn ... students are even given the day off of classes to go. I had prepared the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  of us speculated back and forth -- would we know the person already ... thought taking a picture of the snack table would make me look like a rube ... passed -- and then the door opened again and a group of people walked in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  I was born in the province of Sichuan and speak the Sichuan dialect. I imagine it as the equivalent of a southern hill-billy drawl ... -go young professional from the Northeast. However, in any kind of a tight

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  parts of my identity, like Tagalog. In the post, I also mention OPM, an ... enough justice to Tagalog. Especially since I [annotation note='One of the graduation requirements in MIT is the HASS Concentration, a group of related

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  cool, and also touches on a lot of the general reasons as to why MIT is ... still, from the standpoint of an individual class, the material is ... train people in how to acquire knowledge, which is the purpose of high

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  Can you believe... it’s already the middle of August ??? ...and we ... the people on this page! This is actually a group shot of Burton 1 - my ... is once you actually meet them … or talk to them outside of the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Freshman Application: Live on Monday The MIT Freshman Application will go live tomorrow (Monday) on MyMIT.

  

  MIT account. The account provides a number of benefits, including: Access to the ... decision of accepted students We'll be talking more about the application in ... The MIT Freshman Application will go live tomorrow (Monday) on My

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  I was five years old the first time someone accused me of witchcraft ... my towering intellect and spirit, and not the combination of bushy ... looked like a witch! Me: ..... The fourth time was a couple of weeks ago

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011