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  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  and effort creating the ring (which has a typical layout, but no specific set design). In February of sophomore year, the design is announced ... our shiny new rings. The ring buying period has just concluded for the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  for the past few months, Nashua conjures images of flatness and tranquility, of quiet car rides punctuated only by the soft hum of the engine as trees flow endlessly past the window, of loneliness and stagnancy and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  something on the admissions website about a Maker Portfolio and got nervous ... only admit the people who submit one because those are the people who ... brain because I've had no opportunity refused to create the opportunity to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  I had been reading the admission blogs all through high school purely ... this time I read them imagining myself as one of the students here. I ... had everything ready already, but hitting the 'Submit' button takes a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  .6 miles away. That being said, the life I lived off Kismet Parkway where I’d ride down the block on my bike, wave hi to my aunt, and return back to my front door where I’d scream, “MA, IT’S ME! OPEN THE DOOR,” so I could get

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  while I was cleaning things out for the new semester, a gentle reminder of ... ) and 20.310 Biomechanics (the other three pages). For each exam in 20 ... between the size of my handwriting and my grade point average, a fact that

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  , I emailed the women's ultimate frisbee team and showed up to practice ... played quite terribly. If I just remembered which way the field was going and which way we were forcing the other team to throw, that was enough

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  CityLab — The Atlantic magazine’s website on the urbanized world. Amid ... on a D.C. metro platform to wild architectural proposals and all the maps the Internet could ever want, my first year of post-MIT life flew by

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  magazine. Insert magazine. Release the bolt. Grip as in a firm handshake. Inhale, raise arm. Exhale a little, press gently on the trigger until you meet resistance, lower arm to target. Focus on the front sight. Without

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Update It's been an amazing year!

  

  had to name one aspect of myself that has changed the most in the last year, it has to be the volume of hair on my head. Although I always dreamt of growing out the afro, I never had the opportunity until I moved

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  This summer, I'm working part-time at the Division of Student Life ... does add up to a substantial amount of time. The commute starts pretty early. For the first leg of the trip, I hitch a ride with my dad to his

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  'm nearly halfway done.) But let me start with the most important part: I am now the proud owner of a Brass Rat! The ring's design, which I covered previously, was carefully put together by these guys, the Class of 2014 Ring

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Architecture students Are you interested in designing abroad?

  

  city planning. In the last 2 years alone, 110 A&P interns, including ... explore a new area of interest within the fields of planning and ... topics in the future. The project: The project explored concepts of

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  former MIT Dean of the School of Science, passed away after battling cancer ... fact, I think the one time we actually had vocal interaction was when I finally worked up the nerves to ask a question in his class, only to confirm

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  The MIT Early Action application deadline has been extended to ... 'easter. More information below. As you may have heard the northeastern United States was hit by a devastating snowstorm this past weekend. The storm

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

    Ahh summer. The fresh air. The copious amounts of free time (HA!). The Temporary Housing Assignments. Hard to believe that it was ... being at school I've lived in many different parts of the housing system

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Get excited for CPW! CPW= Campus Prefrosh? WHOA!

  

  Ahh CPW. The time when underclassmen, upperclassmen, and prospective members of the former convene together to celebrate a 10M concentration of all the things that make MIT great. Parties, food, geektastic activities

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Arts Party 2010! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Now that I'm about to graduate, it's time for some fun…

  

  [by Ken Haggerty '11] Happy Autumn! This entry marks the beginning ... Associate Provost Philip Khoury brought together the MIT arts faculty and ... the Arts), Pardis Parsa (Office of Arts Initiatives), myself, and Mei

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  Daniel M. ’14. It was ten at night, and in the East Campus courtyard—littered with trees and illuminated by flashing, multicolored lights—the East Side party raged on. Tech-y house music thumped through the disgustingly humid

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  It was sometime during Act III of finals study week, in the pressure-cooker minutes before the curtains fell on our loose-spined textbooks and leafed-over study guides, that I asked aloud, “What is 7 times 47?” In the space of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 20, 2009