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• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  the 1960s. In 1968, a coalition that included 48 MIT faculty members protested “the militarization of university research,” and in ... Studies [CIS]). In 1971, following Daniel Ellsberg’s leak of the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  required or even expected. In general, you should not send supplemental ... send in a CD/DVD or score (or mp3/pdf email attachment) containing 2 ... talents in your application. Send this via US Mail to MIT, Room 4-243, 77

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  Marilee Jones was featured in an online chat on TIME.com, following up on ... joined the admissions staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979, Marilee Jones has been a uniquely moral voice in the college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  Despite the fact that I've lived in the Boston area for the past four ... was in college, but I had just never done it. Mostly I use the city for a) sitting in the Common reading the newspaper on my lunch break and b

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? There are pop-up ads even in other languages, as I ... 't ready for this to be a new year already, but it is. I rang in this new ... ; our lives have diverged enough that I'm starting to think of them in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  himself) back in Ohio to fend for themselves. Perhaps they will have to hunt ... just sounds cool.) My mom arrived in Boston at 5 PM, just in time to eat ... we haven't had time to go grocery shopping in a while, and fresh

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  my trademark bunny hat. Don't worry, nobody dies in this entry ... down in her hometown of Covington GA to see a football game and a free ... four colors of paint in my hair. Anyway, it wasn't a problem because my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  The other day, I had a little epiphany that came to me in the shape ... surprisingly large part in my conception of self over the past two years. I ... . February 20, 2020: I write my name on a little piece of paper, sit in 10

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  holding in my freshman year of high school, giggles behind lockers and sneaking out of classrooms, sitting next to each other at lunch in between periods. I've been in love before, where love was 18 hour phone calls and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• 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 ... firsts. My goal, though cliché, was to stay in the present, appreciate each and every moment, and take it all in. Most of the places and people I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  It’s a new school year, and I’ve started UROPing in a new lab! For ... ) program gives MIT undergrads a chance to do meaningful research in cutting ... year I'm starting in a new lab. The group is in MIT CSAIL (the Computer

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  I wrote this in pieces - from Cambridge to San Diego, the train from ... fraternity in Boston where I'm living for the summer - so I apologize if this ... way from back in November!) and I definitely wrote some other entries in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  rough draft of my paper. This is my last week in the lab, and I'm trying ... around in Excel so much that my hands hurt, and when I close my eyes I see ... full name in it like I did last time, thus enabling every internet

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  pursuing a Ph.D. in quantum information next year! probably because I haven ... advice and self-help content, whether in the form of long-form blogs by ... some of my thoughts about my time in college and what I’ll do after for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  Every day, I realize more and more that I live in a privileged bubble ... what a lot of black people live through in this country. The fact remains ... before me, both in this country and in mine, the difference being that the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  freedom, and many people build lofts for their beds in order to acquire more ... another plan for this blog post: I was going to build a loft in the first week of school, and then write about it. And here we are, in the fourth

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  , I spent the last year of my life in Shanghai studying Chinese at Fudan ... coming out on things like being a black person in China, language learning, my changes in perception of various aspects of life, living in an

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  its capacity, 18. The driver sat us in the back, and fit more people ... up to the driver, asking to pay in cash for a seat. The driver reached under a seat in the second-to-last row and, like magic, out came a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  . It wasn't deliberate in the beginning but I wrote the third entry ... . Allen was my sailing partner in the Sailing PE class that I took during ... points in a variety of ways. If you take a standard Physical Education

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  in her last post as an undergrad, "Take your living group selection seriously. I cannot stress this enough. Try to pick a place that fits you in the summer in case you get stuck there, but consider Dorm Rush (REX

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007