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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  “poverty” doesn't always refer to the consequences of astronomical tuition ... of soup), social life, free food hunts, and a dumpsterload of potential extracurriculars are playing tug-of-war with your attentions, it's sometimes

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  hundreds of wonderful and intelligent female students but also the best-tasting water on campus. Last Sunday, I filled up two entire bottles of sweet, filtered deliciousness from a burbling water fountain while the attentions of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  In today's The Sunday Times, one of the United Kingdom's most respected newspapers, rising MIT sophomore Grace Kane '11, a native of Glasgow ... drinking in Scotland by people under the age of 21, though the legal drinking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? An Italian defender once said of Pele, after the 1970 World Cup finals, "I told myself before the game, he's made of skin and ... comes as some sort of great disillusionment to you, but you don't always

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  in the past months, I have felt the impact of various people around me on the quality of my life with full force. MIT is so vast and there ... unmatched, playing copious amounts of redactle with Nora, making sure I am not

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  than usual. I am holding pallets of bright green, yellow, and purple ... group of older men wearing Lambda Alpha Chi shirts. It’s time to continue the ancient MIT tradition of repainting the Smoots.  But first, let

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... indistinguishable blob. this is a familiar experience, the feeling of days blending ... camps, every semester of college, group houses in new mexico and alaska

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one

  

  On Jan 3rd, Forbes published their annual list of the 30 Under 30 of 2017. For six years now, Forbes has put out lists of the top 30 innovators under the age of 30 for each of 15-20 industry categories. The Tech

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 19, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  It's Career Fair season, and that means hundreds of companies are ... , and oddly-formatted emails.  I've been reading a lot of job descriptions ... profiles" -- lists of traits and behaviors that are associated with job

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  with Ethan Zuckerman, the Director of the Center for Civic Media, cofounder of Global Voices and MediaCloud, and board member for Ushahidi and ... of diversifying your sources of media:     Ethan and I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  Today was the major flight day for most of the teams at the Design ... possible. We wanted our plane, Corn Dog, to fly all three of our missions ... was built for a cruising airspeed of about 70 mph, but it still took the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  As promised last week, I'm presenting the winning entries of the CPW ... attendees based on their representation of MIT's revelry in unjaded vitality ... had the tact to resize their photos to something on the order of 10^2 by

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FASAP [by Maggie Liu ‘12] T-ride + thought-provoking art piece + yummy free dinner afterwards.

  

  Advising is actually an academic subject worth 6 units of credit and has ... of the advising seminars offered. The official title is 21M.123 FASAP ... scene at MIT but also that of Boston. Apart from the 2-hour weekly meeting

  • by ARTalk
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  The dust settles. We the class of 2012 waged epic battle tonight ... results of the class sweatshirt design contest.* In that email, they also ... of the hoodie designs. I just want to share a fun experience. Of

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  dancing awkwardly under the watchful eye of your teacher chaperones (“Sally ... held last night for the Class of 2008. We received the invitation in the ... few months of MIT are tough for most seniors – we are torn between our

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  the first day of classes, but before I get into that, we have some ... was part of the packaging of my brand new awesome laptop): OK, I find ... come grocery shopping? That way you can buy lots of big, bulky things and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  about the possibility of deferring admission, also known as taking a gap year. In the interests of time, I'm going to reprint an entry (edited ... [of deferring admission for a year or two]. While cautioning that a "gap

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  -obsessive amount of time to look through the course catalog and major requirements for every major. Most of this was out of curiosity and [annotation note="I've never gone through with any of my plans, I just love making them. My

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  MIT classes are assigned a number of units to roughly scale their difficulty: the majority of classes are 12 units[1], which is supposed to refer to the approximate number of hours that class needs of your life per

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  my dorm in a rented Penske truck. We piled all of my boxes and bags ... , some kitchen equipment, and a new pack of paper towel rolls from Costco – all of which I'll probably [annotation note="because I'm taking a Leave

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020