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• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  categories "for classes" or "in the spirit of having fun". While the two aren ... each other and first semester was all about finding the right balance. With Pass/No Record in place to make the transition easier, first

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences

  

  due to the weather conditions in both Boston and DC; the first real snowstorm of the season in Boston, and an expected ice storm in DC (who ever heard of an ice storm?!?—we don’t have that kind of thing in the West

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  , 12/17/2011. But I actually wrote that post on the 16th, because on the morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my ... to New Hampshire to spend the holidays with my family. As I've posted

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  rattle off mean. Here's a great explanation by a class of '13 about how the ... known for it's legendary professor Walter Lewin, 8.01 is the crux of ... affect over the student body. Taught in a peculiar fashion, TEAL is the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Waitlisted Students

  

  the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were ... waitlist. We will have more information for waitlisted students in the

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread For Those Not Admitted

  

  the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were ... the very best of luck wherever you choose to continue your education

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  MIT History Professor Pauline Maier makes the MIT homepage today with her treatise on the formation of the Constitution of United States. Follow the story here! http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/constitution-1203

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  career would be to forget all the stuff they tell you in the textbooks about the answers. My advice to a high school sophomore or junior considering a career in science would be to close the science textbook for a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t Panic! MyMIT will be inaccessible on Saturday, October 31 from 6:00am until 10:00am EDT for essential…

  

  As the message on MyMIT says, MyMIT will be inaccessible on Saturday ... apologize for the inconvenience. I thought that would be less terrifying coming from me the day before instead of in the morning when you fired up

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 30, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Students Meetings… I hope you'll attend the event near you.

  

  Each spring Educational Counselors all over the world hold events for admitted students. The events are designed to provide you and your families with an opportunity to learn more about the things you really want to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 24, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Replay… Who says you can't go home again? Or at least go back to school...

  

  I arrived on the MIT campus in August of 1982 with all my "stuff ... was the place where I would happily spend the next four years of my life ... for the long haul. I joined the Chorallaries, I helped design my class

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  a walk through campus and show you some of the things you may run into. I only have a half hour left of battery so this can't really be the liveblog I intended it to be, but I'll throw up the first location on my

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Vespertilio No spoilers here.

  

  've been doing with the last six hours of my life. Latter? Methinx yes. At 9:30 PM I grabbed my skates headed over to the Fenway movie theater. It was ... minutes early so I watched as guys dressed in batman pajamas stormed the

  • by Snively '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  CHICON 2008 by C/4C Adam Fuhrmann '11, C/4C Patrick Ernst '11, and C/4C Daniel Darlington '11

  

  Darlington, Ernst and Fuhrmann traversed the nation to a gathering of exceptional cadets from the Arnold Air Society (AAS). This event, known as the ... dubbed CHICON. During the weekend these three intrepid cadets attended many

  • by ROTC
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  First off, congratulations to the Class of 2012! From what I hear you ... meet on MIT's campus, but hopefully I'll see you around in the real world. And now, with the congratulations out of the way, it's time to get to

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Town Cambridge: university and city.

  

  too many pictures of the Cambridge as an actual town in this blog. So I ... in Cambridge. Even though it is the middle of winter, you can see the place is actually still pretty green and pretty. Well, the first picture

  • by Cambridge
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Ducks vs. Army Men! Remember the good old days when you used to play in the sandbox?

  

  At the beginning of the year, Rick '09 and I had a marathon carpentry ... the barstools never got made. In fact, the lumber is still stacked in the side hallway of the 23 suite. I'm looking at it right now. Maybe we

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  homework, and it changes regularly throughout the year. Currently written on ... . No, really. To all of the recently admitted, and any other hopefuls who ... Truly Found Paradise." You will love the living groups and the fact that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Travels Winter break is here!

  

  Believe it or not our term at Cambridge just ended. The terms are ... of the CME students are taking advantage of our 6 week winter break to do some heavy duty traveling. Some of the places include: Russia

  • by Cambridge
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat, RETREAT!! A weekend vacation.

  

  miles in the snow to get away from MIT and plan for our upcoming semester. They often say that "getting there is half the fun" and I would tend to ... to this place. 2. I'd never driven in the snow. 3. It was dark. Thank

  • by Bryan
  • February 8, 2007