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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  . However, in the process of doing research for it, I read a book titled ... systems. In it, I found this photo of Harvard Bridge from 1929: This ... , which I've labelled in the image below. [caption id="attachment_61427

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  problem for me. I Iive in a triple. One of my roommates, Claire, is from ... .” Abby and I stand in awe. What is this “fall clothing,” and do we need it ... is great for now but once it gets unbearable (in the real winter) I

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  I can’t believe it’s been a year since I first delved into the MIT ... count over that weekend was in the single digits and I still remember a ... upperclassmen being dunked in water. I remember hugging Tim the Beaver and pulling

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  another major or a minor or two. You can also change majors (as I did in my ... open eyes, I realized that MIT had more than enough resources in the ... in a HS setting. How would you recommend that I display these sort of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  uncomfortable, a foreigner in distant lands, comfortable with uncertainty as I ... and every moment, and take it all in. Most of the places and people I ... most I've ever run in my life Attended two winter carnivals and even a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  OMG. Bikes are amazing. So, I'll admit it: I'm stubborn. I like to say that I'm "tenacious", but what I really mean is that I am set in my ... 've bought a shower curtain for every suite I've lived in. The A21 suite has a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 06 The inside scoop on all 54 units I am taking this semester

  

  thing I have: A copy of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room on DVD 21F ... class In addition, I am advising the freshmen seminar 14.A03: Economics ... Here are the classes I'm taking this term: 14.05: Macroeconomics

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  black sesame powder.)   In any case, I can't believe there are only ... this IAP?" "Oh, you know. I'm working at a startup in San Francisco ... in New York to doing research in Hong Kong. Naturally I gravitated

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  deliberation over the like seven kinds of acrylic paint you can buy at Blick's. I ... the fall semester, and sometime late in IAP, I hit on the idea of a ... plan in place, I resolved to finish my door by the end of IAP. And, well

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  stories. “Not every day” for me was a few weeks ago when I landed in this ... -shirts, glorious T-shirts: I may have exaggerated a bit in the title. In reality, I ... outfits that weren't in my suitcase when I got here. A chunk of a car

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  [April 14th, 2020] It’s 4:14 am. I’m sitting in bed, laughing by ... conditions. I could sit here and write until I’m blue in the face about how ... up when I’m fading out and who turn the little windy thing in my back

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  ! Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh! Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin!), I thought I'd take a look back at MIT athletes who have participated in the Olympics. Now I know that many of you may be thinking that MIT is more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  ) and Math (Course XVIII), but ultimately I graduated with a degree in ... people the benefit of the doubt, as I'm sure we did in your case. hedwig ... definitely help in the cases when it is available. Aarthi wrote, "I think I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  can make his eyes go in different directions. I'm just glad we're not ... ), which you can read about in everybody else's blog. Basically, during the ... other university gives you this much housing choice. I'll be busy in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  ’s freedom of self-expression. Anyone who is taking part in REX right now can ... in including these as well. I echo the sentiments of a commenter on the ... his mom, when he won second place in a local filmmaking competition for

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  , we can afford to take some time off. As for me, I'll be spending about ... I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer ... ? Preparing for the influx of summer visitors. Beginning in a few weeks, crowds

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MITblogs: The Next Generation Look ma, a hack!

  

  Courtesy of the prospective Class of 2013, I am amused and happy to present eight applicants' humble homage to the MIT admissions website ... our friend Randall Munroe. I like the last panel, personally.

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

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  an MIT professor and an expert in both linguistics and politics. I ... good fit for them. But, if they would like to take classes in Major ... , I attended an event called: “A Conversation with Noam Chomsky- No More

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  haven't heard back; I can only assume that Facebook Share is deprecated ... my druthers I would just use the Share button. But we seem to be in a ... Facebook presence, or is it A-OK? In any case, I would recommend that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  less. It's still here, in little bits and pieces: when I realize that the ... others' mouths, the last time I was in this classroom it was for a class I ... imagined. One big part of that rightness is all the ways that I can see the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021