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  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  1,126 students joined the Institute as freshman in the fall of 2011. One of them was Spencer Wilson, a young man from the small town of ... rebuilding in his backyard. Spencer sent us the equivalent of a Maker Portfolio

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  purgatory and get my degree just in time for the Class of 2012 π reunion. But ... that with the incoming class of 2019, most of you have no idea who I am ... . There are tons of new professors. New shops in the student center. Online

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -foot vertical drop at a neat 90-degree incline, compared to the previous record of ...   Friday, August 28. Two MIT students sit at the top of the partly-built rollercoaster, one tapping hand on knee to the beat of Galantis (“visualize it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  screamed loud enough that the person on the other side of the living room ... a large quantity of ice cream the night before. If I got in, I would ... decisions came out. I could get 1 bar of wifi on my phone in one corner of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... different type of work this semester--the work of being present and focused ... 'm doing so i can get back to the place where i approach the days of my life

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  This past weekend was the 10-year reunion for the MIT Class of 2000 ... the members of our class (about 1000 people) and asked for "10-year ... had, though, I condensed the responses into a one-line summary of each

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  a lot of other cities. Much like with the T-pass, MIT also offers a ... people all the time and really want to feel a part of a larger community ... , living off campus is a good option. Here is my list of pros and cons: The

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  I live in East Campus, on the third floor of the west parallel, which ... ’ve lived in this room. many of the things in this room have been passed down from owner to owner, like the couches, the round table, some of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  extremes of thirty degrees. we headed against the wind, tacking back and ... brunch at a packed dumpling place, as he explained the basics of sailing to ... along the length of the boat, and two for the sails. he took the pen he

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  year, I saw the graduation ceremony as more of a check-point than a ... is class of '08) couldn't come see me graduate in person. I did the ... using a strip of cloth and a couple of alligator clips. I used the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  offered, and explaining the hundreds of clubs and student activities, along ... creator of the amazingly useful CourseRoad (along with TeXcha, a LaTeX-based CAPTCHA, and the super PAC Why Not ZoidPAC?, of which he is President and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... came out, I was sitting in the McCormick lobby, with our Head of House ... began what is easily the most demanding of days I have lived through. What

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  efforts, the number of international students doubled in just ten years. 1 ... Daily Globe article, the President of the Latin-American Club at MIT ... they can insure the future peace of the world.” To achieve this ideal

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  hundreds of wonderful and intelligent female students but also the best ... , filtered deliciousness from a burbling water fountain while the attentions of the actual residents were occupied by festivities of a barbecueous

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  of the Milk that he posted on these blogs two years ago: Nineteen years ... a stretch of time found it confined. The Bonfire Resident perhaps came across this carton a couple of times over the next few months, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  bigger and heavier than most of the other forks you've used.Why am I ... quite the case. (And of course, the jab above is all in good fun -- I have ... one of the lucky four freshmen in the advising seminar 3.A04, Modern

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent ... 'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student ... studies the development of several different types of neurons in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  wound up with 2 final offers at the end of it all. I actually applied to ... of job offers, but honestly, most people around me are in the same ... end of the semester. Last year, I had my offer from PlayStation by the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  . One of the lifeguards noticed what was going on and offered to help out ... to the solution, the climax, the moment of insight, breakthrough. That ... your wits, and in place of the solution’s space will be a black hole

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  , one complaint in the comments on those entries was about a lack of data ... : MIT should release the full set of admissions data stripped of ... , and that problem is this: sometimes, you don't have all of the data

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011