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  MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…

  

  ] The University of New Hampshire ROTC program recently organized a MOUT ... people to act as insurgents and hostages, I jumped at the opportunity. The ... in style - on a Chinook helicopter. As we boarded the bird at Endicott

  • by ROTC
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  Hello everyone, prospectives for the coming years and prefrosh alike ... about MIT the instant I got my acceptance letter (deferred, got in regular Woohoo!) or shortly thereafter. After talking over all the awesome reasons

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Pictures that don’t belong anywhere else – Part I because i'm a slackslackslackball.

  

  from freshman year. This is the dorm room which I shared with Kelly '09, all dressed up for Christmas. This is my side of the room: and kelly's: You might be upset by the fact that there are 4x4's running

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 17, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  Today marks the end of a four-day weekend. Traditionally, extended ... (yet, unproductive) break. The weather only aided in the inevitable ... accomplishment. a. Cambridge Community Center (CCC): I'm a member of the Boston

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  course! That Saturday was the Manchester FIRST Regional, and I was psyched to be there. What is FIRST? Only the greatest thing ever, basically ... . In early January, a challenge is announced to the teams at the kickoff

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Winter Break Reading List "Take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow"

  

  anticipated, but some), I'll be reading a few books to pass the time. Some of ... of these books, it's the fifth or sixth time I'm reading the book. Some ... -fi, thriller, satire aficionado but I'm open to any suggestions. Now to the book

  • by Bryan
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Art? It's late, but not too late.

  

  Thermodynamics, we got four review sheets for the final. I know someone once ... yourself, does this dilute the challenge of the test? Well, no, because they write the test expecting that you have transcribed every equation

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  One of the coolest things about MIT is Residence Exploration (REX), which you can read about in everybody else's blog. Basically, during the first week of orientation, you get to go around and visit all the dorms

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  like the professionals do on how to spend a summer in Boston. Now first off, I think one of the biggest reasons why I had such an awesome time ... because we feed off of one another's energy and just make sometimes the most

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  's not shall lose... God bless the child that's got his own." If knowledge ... populations. I've come to see the Internet (and now blogs) with a strong ... you a backstage pass to the theater of the absurd, better known as

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Love that dirty water

  

  I've returned from France to the States just in time for lots of exciting things: the arrival of the Class of 2008 on campus, the announcemen ... on the road again for my Admissions World Tour 2004. Well, maybe not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2004
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  How do you raise hundreds of thousands of dollars, design the merch ... hackathons from around the world, and do everything else necessary to run a ... HackMIT, the club I sold my soul to at the beginning of freshman fall and

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  The Early Action deadline is fast approaching -- it is this Sunday ... really look for the answer here on the site -- there's no need to ask basic ... answered, though, I am more than happy to help. A few FAQs: The deadline is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  Whenever I try to think about the last year, it doesn't feel real. In ... everything my class has missed out on. A lot of things still aren't the same as in the "before times," of course. We wear masks in class, and because

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  Note: xTalks: Digital Discourses is a seminar series from the MIT ... , Pedagogical Director at the 42 Silicon Valley engineering college. This blog post is a summary of the event. ____________________________________ At 12 years old

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  After talking to my friends during the first week of senior year and ... 've realized I may be one of the few people who regularly has days off. This was ... 're lucky, all the classes that you want to take might fall on the same two or

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  there are tens of other resources out there for the general process (notably the housing website) I’ll summarize the experience briefly. After ... the different dorms on campus. If you officially decide to come here

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  What's that? You think the celebrations ended with the Toast to Tech ... -campus dining options; there's a huge cooking culture in many of the dorms, as students are not required to join the campus meal plan (although don't worry

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  (Materials Science and Engineering) and an MSIII cadet in the Army ROTC program ... are in the program. You can do the minimum 3 times per week PT (physical ... ventures out into the field where we sleep under the stars at night (or under

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  your face. Me, an MIT student? The concept was practically unthinkable ... accomplishments, whenever I thought about applying to MIT, I kept coming back to the ... know the answer to that question. All I know is that I'm here now, and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007