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  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  \     Protests erupted all over the country yesterday ... back to the United States. Students (including yours truly) joined Boston's protests in Copley Square. I took all the photos above, and the following

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  Aaand… Semester #3 is done! I’m on the plane back home, music conjuring fantastic worlds, clouds dispersing around the flying machine. Like in the winter of my freshman year. But life matters were really

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  I'm taking advantage of the Starbucks wireless network, at the Westin ... the same feeling two weeks ago, while hanging out with my boyfriend ... , which had a population of 544 in the 2010 census. This is about the size

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully this post will be helpful. How does the waitlist work? We are aiming ... the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the "

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  Roughly a week ago, on a Thursday morning, at the crack of dawn, I ... airport, awaiting the plane that would take us to Minneapolis en route to Waverly, Iowa, home to Wartburg College and the NCAA Division III Cross

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  students are assigned to lead activities during the Engineering Leadership Lab, and those students are assessed by members of the program (staff or GEL 2-Year students). The assessors fill out a "blue card" with feedback

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  The guy in the row next to mine just asked the lady behind him if he ... "Ladies Dream." I don't know if it's trying to imply that this bus is the ideal bus for ladies, or if the lack of apostrophe indicates that only

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  building toys (for anybody who is unsure, this is a good way to start the day ... and Jordan '11. For many of you, a campus tour will be one of the first ... . Unlike the typical tourist, however, I decided to take pictures OF the tour

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  For many, holiday time is the season of giving. While on this blog I more often talk about aspects of MIT that are freely offered to the world, I figured the holiday season would be as good a time as any to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  .004. Usually the labs for 6.004 are not so bad - they take maybe five hours. For ... build the Beta processor. Yeah, a processor, like you'd find in a computer ... optimistic and cheerful. I always do 004 projects in the lab so that I can get

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  Edward wrote: "Are the differences in education systems around the ... . We evaluate everything based on the US system. For example, students ... !!! :-) Yes, the folks who read and evaluate international applications are very

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Embracing the Penguin Snowboarding Trip ft. Jayden

  

  Living in the northeast sadly comes with two caveats: 1. A winter season that’s on par with the winter they were stressing about in Game of ... forehead has known since you were a child in addition to the freezing weather

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 31, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome ... wheels on them so you can roll them out into the lobby for visitors to see. Every week, I've been putting chalk art up on one of the boards, as well

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  I split the month of August between three states, between two coasts, two mountain ranges, and about a million different thoughts. The states ... unfamiliar home. The coasts, west and east; the mountains—high desert and the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  suppressed conservative news from the social network’s “Trending Topics” module. Facebook responded; the Senate Commerce Committee sent Facebook an inquiry; Mark Zuckerberg himself invited conservatives to meet with the Facebook

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  liberal arts college provide more opportunities for learning about the ... century English literature exclusively, then the Institvte is probably not a ... English Novels (21L.471 ), Eighteenth-Century Literature (21L.470), and The

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  This is the first half of this post and it was written March 5th ... haven't read the part that was posted before this, scroll down to the line! The last thing you heard from us was - and we quote - “ALSSSOOOOO, WE

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  Of all the things to happen in college, I never expected baseball to become the antidote to my homesickness. I’ve always been a fan of the St. Louis Cardinals—it was practically a requirement to live in the small town

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Hacks

  Fall Hits MIT… in the form of a Giant Spider! I promise I'm not a blog-hog, this is just too good!

  

  Let's cut right to the chase: THERE'S A HACK IN 6C! Natanya ... a web! I've decided to name him Lucifer. He's huge! He has the ... couple babies! But how did the little spiders get all the way to Lobby 7

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I join the Design/Build/Fly Team?

  The MIT Design/Build/Fly team is composed mostly of undergraduate students, but is also open to graduate students, who compete in the annual AIAA Design/Build/Fly competition. The competition involves designing