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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  to find two sophomores in a double, as most move into singles, but Dima ... process. "Living in a triple means we have to be creative about finding ... walls, they often take it a step further and use their rooms to truly

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  home. In the Spring of 2019, a Harvard student named Denisse C. '22 ... . I somehow found myself somehow talking to her in Lobby 7 for nearly an ... Saturdays, we'd wake up early to walk a beautiful two miles from our

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  's gonna be happy to be here or not. Their job is in some ways to look out ... contrary, if you don't get in it's a good indication that this probably wasn ... . MIT is a tool you can use for your education, but there many others that

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  truck stop town. a city in the central valley that used to have a bean ... , thoughtful, busy, creative. i would find a community while learning how to ... what i did. i started to feel a twinge of something in my bones

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  you have to find communities yourself. Last year, I lived in the lovely ... like to use a lot of extended metaphors--tempering iron, making porcelain ... have to actively want to participate in activities to really become a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Energy Forum Come drink from the solar-paneled firehose. ("Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren…

  

  global needs and produce a plan for a cohesive initiative to tackle the ... . Polenske - China * Amy B. Smith - Energy in developing areas 4:00-4:30pm ... addition to today's forum presentations, though, there are a whole bunch of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 3, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  listen to you talk about it, you’ll find no shortage of them in East Campus ... "]freshman[/annotation] to be Box Boy, who runs around in a box trying to bring people to the ... covered in sweat and holding a soda bottle to my swollen foot as my other

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  compared to a farm kid in North Dakota? They have nothing in common.  I think ... admissions counselor fashion - I'm going to use this last pulpit opportunity ... didn't. When I was a high school student in lower middle-class California

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  -dump-way-too-comprehensive-distinctly-personal version of a “How to put on a thousand-person hackathon in six months” guide ... hackathons from around the world, and do everything else necessary to run a ... subtitle… anyways we still hack mit ! in a way."]Hacking[/annotation]in its

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  she talks about her internship in China and how “it's never too late to ... you give yourself the opportunity to change your mind, and be led in a ... to tell us how you handled a situation in which things did not go

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.

  

  89%) in O levels and 4 As in A/S level is how much likely to get ... a copy of the site in a CD and send it to MIT or can I refer them to ... will be able to read chapters of a novel; I would recommend using the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  collected in a twenty-year odyssey around China, Europe, and the east coast of ... and used Google Maps to go on a 'virtual scavenger hunt' around those ... ! The course has asynchronous materials in addition to the synchronous 1

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  ’t expect there to be much of a difference in the characteristics between the ... susceptibility to malaria (their overall health, they might live in a more malaria ... there's no way to verify this claim by looking at data; like in the

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  to students in, say China, it’s a big change from MIT where our ... really motivated to get a lot of stuff done. But then Christmas came. And ... Apparently this is not the case in England. They do things

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  gathered in a biology teacher’s classroom, attempting to excel in something ... went unanswered, reduced to just a mark on the scoresheet. I buzzed in ... “Fiona, next round, you should use your thumb to push the buzzer, not

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  this in part to Rush, in part to a slightly larger-than-usual number of ... entrenched in them - maybe high school a little bit, but only to the degree ... all places, to find a cultural identity, and a cultural heritage. It

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  access to internet, end homophobia in China, provide a STEM program to ... a new friend committed to improving mental health in our community ... emotion and authority — as well as find mentors who are invested in me as a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Talent Show ua innovation gets lit

  

  decided that it was an achievable way to bring students together in a ... show! Since Yiming is currently living in China, the team had to ... -years in particular to meet new people, so the show was a wonderful means of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision letters mailed

  

  letters each come in a standard #10 window envelope (4.125" x 9.5"). The ... to further contribute to that by leaving only a very small number of ... something like 2699). More later (off to dim sum at China Pearl!)...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  week to do a pset (or two weeks, in classes like 7.01x (Intro Bio)). But ... to matriculate in May 1. The disc contains a 5-minute video ... typing "hosed" into the title bar), but then I decided to finish exporting

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008