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  A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday Honoring the decades old (?) tradition of the East Campus Friday Afternoon Club (FAC)

  

  East Campus is unique for a wide variety of reasons. We build roller ... East Campus is our Friday Afternoon Club, or FAC. Every Friday of the ... food item for the denizens of East Campus. Tetazoo takes FACs extremely

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  feel guilty for not doing enough, and the Aquarium Puzzle Hunt is ... the meme is that we say, Everything is going smoothly. there ... , which I honestly don't have the bandwidth to think about, and REX is going

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  today is the 'unluckiest day', then maybe tomorrow is the luckiest? If not ... left before EA decisions. Given that the average length of a TED talk is ... discounted seat for only ~$20 in the outdoors section. All photos courtesy of

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Art? It's late, but not too late.

  

  Thermodynamics, we got four review sheets for the final. I know someone once ... sheets. The most review sheets I ever had for a class was 12, front and ... rate. Just playin'. Fact is, I was utterly entranced by the fountain, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  continue for the foreseeable future.  The idea of the test is that if you ... substitution for the swim test. This is the only instance I could find of the ... one of the shores. The river is 200 yards wide, so you would need to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  wanted for myself. I think one thing that gets underestimated here is the ... which I've just forgotten what's important to me. This blog is about the ... for the tests was honestly the worst experience for me. I stressed so

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  exist, I can confirm). It is the one form of art where I am perfectly ... that music is one of the most relaxing things, ever. Whether you ... the noises of the world, even for just a couple of minutes. It’s almost

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Profile On The Web: Can It Hurt You? Responses to questions on Facebook and other internet profiles and how they can affect college…

  

  as potential MIT '11s gear up to begin the admissions process. Below is ... simply because of an internet profile? Do you think it is fair for that to ... use them as the latter is, in my opinion, not terribly ethical

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  One of the biggest events of the spring at MIT is always "Spring Weekend," and the highlight of the weekend is the annual Spring Concert, where a national musical act performs on campus. The headliners for this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  to present to my peers, the rationale for this being the intensity of ... human being when the only news i get is from MIT Confessions... this feeling of being trapped in the Bubble is tangible in my failure to take

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In ... will last until the coin is found, probably sometime Sunday. Many teams ... which on "Call of the Wild"... The coin is found! Everyone listens

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  time for audience Q&A (which really is the most fun part), I ... just assumed the Red Sox were winning, for no particular reason)) and ... presentations on MIT each year. And, for the most part, I'm generally discussing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  undergraduate hackathons in the nation, is opening up its internet doors for ... is the weekend to meet other enthusiastic hackers, push your boundaries ... clear, this post is not part of the puzzle nor does it contain any hints

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…

  

  laptop display I searched for comfort amidst the suburban silence of post ... each entry of transformed tensor is a multiple of the determinant of a ... on a river, falling leaves, the mass of flowers in spring. gravity is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  need a tour for, I was "living the dream" and could find everything I ... telling myself that I should take the time and see what it is the tour ... never seen it before, with "fresh eyes" as it were. The truth is, I still

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  (Urban Planning) ’12 is blogging from Cambodia, where the D-Lab team ... the community. The team is also gathering feedback on solar lantern ... and the potential for the Leveraged Freedom Wheelchair (LFC) to be used

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  film, Monkey Dance, is a documentary about the lives of three Cambodian ... starring Hanuman the Monkey God. The characters are united in their love for ... her next film, which is an adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  academic preparation for MIT. If there is an extenuating circumstance that ... disruptions over the past few years. Some of these may have impacted your ... school can make available to us and consider them in the context of your
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  Lab, is small, demanding and moves incredibly quickly. Each semester the ... , the class would be flown to Istanbul for a week to present to the ... scheduled for the week before Spring Break. I had never really anticipated on

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  for screenreader accessibility: Growing old is the worst thing to ever ... , maybe maplestory is a fading, indistinct chapter near the beginning. for ... felt mildly insane for doing so, but the thing is--it helped. A lot

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021