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  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  those that are just entering leadership positions in clubs or really ... things I would do if I could do MIT all over again. In my four years at ... been able to take a photo with truly everyone in it ^^; And of course, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
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  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  , pushing forward, and in the absence of motion, it was simply falling. This ... in any case, I was far too busy to contemplate what it meant. I met up with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  pset problems! Spreading the word about announcements made in lecture ... their friends are taking, work on psets together in virtual Zoom lounges, share resources, ask questions (and post memes) in a forum, and keep track

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  congregation gathered in the East Campus courtyard huddles together slightly ... "live" means verb, "to live," or "live", as in concurrently, alive ... east parallel. In a window on the second floor, behind the man standing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
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  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  (I started this post wayyyyy back in January. Ask any blogger who ... getting back into bed to watch actors in their mid-twenties pretend to be ... 't ask me any super-detailed questions about rapid gene transcription in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  morning at 6:45 AM. (My postdoc at the lab told me I don't have to come in on Tuesday until after I've taken a nap. This may sound nice, but is in ... application and wants to get to know you in person. I'll be meeting this weekend

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  ’s your orientation, in the literal sense. This is what the campus looks ... . There’s main campus, which is the pentagon in the center; most activities ... in west campus all have numbers that begin with W, like W20, the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

    Chris asked to meet with me last fall, in late September. We sat down in an office in MIT Admissions. “For the spring admissions ... Man comics A lot of people at MIT were of course ecstatic, and in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... FIT: I cannot emphasize this point enough. No matter how (in)convenient the accommodations are, you will not be happy in a dorm that doesn

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  Lately I’ve struggled to blog, due to being in the middle (!!!) of ... younger, but I found myself facing more often in college, as I found myself facing more questions about identity in general in college. This year, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
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  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  exaggerated clarity and make a point of crisp, rapid pronunciation in everyday ... consonant strings like 'dx' and 'dt' in permutations whose English ... -inducing passage from Faulkner's Light in August: Memory believes before knowing

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  Anyone in the admissions office knows that I have an unhealthy ... why we shouldn't believe in astrology (anyone in the EAPS Department ... reading." Thus, I've decided to share my secret talent with you all in the

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never ... engineering courses were typically in one of five lecture halls that I became familiar with. Today is hectic in part because my mind is still racing

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  corners in the two photos to figure out how to line up the images, and then ... of pretty paper art. In fact, I did a UROP on designing this stuff over ... :)   Rose R. ‘17 Mural-ish thing :) In order to brighten up my room a bit, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
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  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  's insane. Equal in insanity magnitude is I became a blogger in 2008, which ... between the amount of stuff you can do in a given year, and the amount of ... , you're so heads down in your work that you hardly notice dates flying by

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  ; Here at MIT, you'll find that both entries are equally applicable. In fact in studying here, no matter what major you choose I can almost ... :   It's good for you   You see, in the many conversations I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
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  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  finger in both pictures? Iron Man with a Brass Rat! Having Iron Man, a.k.a. Tony Stark, be an MIT alum got me interested in the movie ... .   In the movie version, they say that Stark graduated "

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  we should be majoring in. Currently, we are majoring in Course 21E, or ... major too; we are interested in the storytelling and writing classes offered in it). And our Engineering field is Course 6, or Computer Science

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  Hemingway in dramatic black and white. There is perhaps my favorite meme that ... all day. You haven’t slept in weeks. You arrive late to lecture. The chalkboard is already covered in equations. The desks are covered in equations

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  , to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to close. I graduate in June, if all goes well. A short while afterward, I ... of them. ** 1. First time using a washing machine. My first time in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017