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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  of crowding in campus housing, since freshmen are required to live on ... this would merely require more students to live in uncomfortable living ... words spoken in these blogs will not help these brilliant young students

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of UROPing in few words

  

  different fields to make work that can help the lives of many people, and 3 ... . Without classes this month to focus on, I started working under some teachers and students on Course 2 work. I talked about this in my last

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show

  

  campaign. I was called up on a random night in October by my friend Sathya, asking me to help run this Jalapeño Bacon Mac and Cheese campaign to feed ... T. Adams was working on in Iowa called the Young Entrepreneur

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi(e) Day: The Baking Of created with love (and pies) by the bloggers

  

  . We had a lot of cleanup to do... The geese on Killian helped! For ... Even though MIT decisions are released on the same day every single ... on the harsh overhead lights of an interrogation room, illuminating a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  have any questions or need any help on the final project." cool, nice. i ... House Approved^TM lofts"]climb[/annotation] down my bed, throw on the ... ="cryptography, security"]6.857[/annotation] recitations but i decide that today was a good

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ..and Here We Go Again! [by Ken Haggerty '11] ARTalk is back!

  

  on the arts! We'll be highlighting anything and everything art-related that goes on at MIT, from building large-format cameras to LARPing (for you non-nerds, that's live-action role playing) and giving out recipes

  • by ARTalk
  • February 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW time waits for no man, woman or beaver

  

  I know you've had a lot on your mind this past week, so I understand ... equally impressive, and you have an entire Admissions office here to help ... webcasting live tomorrow night beginning at 10pm EDT; check your email for

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 22, 2010
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  , and being so insistent on communicating in Italian that it posed a ... foresight to grind a Duolingo course on the flight there, my half ... unsmilingly: “Okay, bye.” On the first afternoon, I walked into the least

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  that she has had several at this point. I heard about where she lived on ... 's time I come clean. I had never been on an MIT campus tour. Yes, you heard me...I had never been on a campus tour...before yesterday, that is. It

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

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  "Splash" on it? What is "Splash"? Me: "Splash" is a teaching program. TSA ... stuff going on nowadays. Great time. Me: Uh...yeaaaah! TSA Agent: And you ... for the weekend. That was yesterday. Today, we woke up late, spent a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  Between June 1st and today, I have: written 5 versions of my ... programs/internships and so on. Through all this, I've learned that writing ... differently than cover letters, and so on. It's been an up and down roller

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) to the 2020 MIT Protofrosh

  

  Dear 2020 MIT Protofrosh,  Today or tomorrow, depending on your timezone, you will access a special message on decisions.mit.edu. You ... hard to think coolly today. Instead, distract yourself. To help with that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  First Blogiversary One year ago today, "McGann's Factors" began.

  

  more helpful and successful. If you have any feedback, constructive criticism, or any other helpful comments about how I can be a better blogger ... being published, I'm enjoying some down time in Taiwan. But today I do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  lot of work to do. So, when I arrived on campus, I was pleased to see that some helpful hackers had the delivery drones already warmed up for ... ;         A helpful hacker forwarded the text of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  sleep at all? I don't sleep much: maybe 5-7 hrs on weekdays and 7-9 on ... the same term or something. I'm not on speed. This semester is the only ... get really good marks in Physics (Maj.) Depends on how smart you are

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  decisions on which students to admit. We'll provide advice and tips wherever ... questions find it interesting and helpful to hear other people's questions and ... has been most helpful? What hasn't been helpful at all? And for those of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT Mini Maker Faire Celebrating STEAM and creativity

  

  Last Saturday was the first ever MIT Mini Maker Faire, and (at least according to MIT News) it was a huge success! My photography skills are less ... the video) and she helped me understand why some of these machines

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 11, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  sister and I would provide very little help—we’d work on our schoolwork ... on our refrigerator, listing all the dishes that had to be made. It ... photato,' based on my dad's phonetic spelling one year, which my sister and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  . When I lived on campus last fall, weekend trips weren't allowed, and ... I loved living in Macgregor. Every weekday, I woke up at 6, brushed ... , sliding into a seat in 35-225 at 10:05, right on MIT time, ready to take the

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  return offer. Obviously, it's nice to be on the other side of things ... row, has sort of worn down on my self esteem over the years. But this is ... it for over three years now. Coming into my own at MIT has helped me

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020