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  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  - instead, check out Chris S.'s awesome entry. The essays are a chance for ... now decorates my colossal drawing, “You just ruined Nemo’s eyes!” In his ... you get all A’s!!!” Everything I need to know, I haven’t learned from

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  Can you believe... it’s already the middle of August ??? ...and we’re all getting ready to go back to school… Returning students are probably still wrapping up summer ventures, but 2014s are probably almost ready to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  T Minus One. BRASS RAT BRASS RAT BRASS RAT.

  

  (Class of 2007's Ring) The Brass Rat is MIT's class ring, which is earned at the end of sophomore year but premiered early during spring ... tomorrow. Because tomorrow is the Class of 2012's Ring Premiere, and we'll be

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 11, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  -year-olds — particularly MIT’s infamously geeky crop of scientists and ... -drinking. Under the plans, alcohol will no longer be sold to under-21s in off ... putting a life-size fire engine on the main building’s famous dome. Too

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  take a picture of you (and any MIT '12s with you) and send it in to me ... points if: you are pictured with other MIT '12s (use the admitted students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  when I first got into MIT…when I complained about Boston’s cold winters, he said that “it’s always warm in the library.” He was right! Even

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Reek Week Updated 8/3 to include pictures of Gilroy garlic ice cream.

  

  101S, immediately (2 seconds) after we pass the "Welcome to Gilroy" sign ... not know. This man ('s hat) is quite popular among garlic paparazzi

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 Numbers

  

  ..." Wait no longer! Here are this year's exciting numbers. The MIT ... MIT admissions.   67% yield. This represents MIT's

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Clarification On Last Post I was really just trying to say that when I look at your names in…

  

  " or "that guy had perfect triple 800's on the SAT2's." I can't remember

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  Networking is important. Probably one of the most important skills you’ll use. The MIT Career Development Center collects statistics on the number of students who got their job through networking, on-campus recruiting,…

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  

  During first semester I published a nice little entry about my bookshelf in my personal blog. It’s now 2008 and my bookshelf has undergone several renovations. What does the bookshelf…

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  consistent with gravitational wave theory. In the 1980s, for example, a Nobel

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Room (formerly, THE Sal Khan’s Room) is Being Converted into WiFi! we made this post just for the title

  

  It all started one day in the fall semester, when Danny was in CMS.100 (Intro to Comparative Media Studies). The professor handed out teacher evaluation forms and left the classroom.…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 29, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  ^ how not to do it.   “Help! I’m from [Los Angeles/Orlando/other perpetually sunny place].  What do I need to survive an East Coast winter?”   I’m glad you asked!…

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  , one of the first cities to open up to foreign investment in the 1980s

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  As some of you know, I got my master’s degree from the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT. While I was a graduate student, CMS merged with Writing to form CMS/W,…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  can be a little scary. I think it’s especially hard at MIT because it ... advisor (Professor Voldman is the 🐐) Student Support Services (S3) MIT ... several places I was stationed during my 12+ years in the U.S. Navy. On my

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  ’t always meant to stay, and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing- or anyone’s ... , without further ado, here’s a nonlinear series of glimpses into my freshman ... -Halloweekend indulgence.    “Is that my 5.111 TA?”    “No way- he’s dressed

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  pliers to Boston. In my room, there’s a shelf of books taller than a man ... ones I once aspired to read. Not far away, there’s a path by the river ... once were. Or maybe it isn’t static -- every piece of you that’s emerged

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  something intangible—a relationship, an experience, a math proof. It’s ... all or even most humanities scholarship is fluff; it’s just easy to be ... good or what one should automatically strive for, but that’s for a post

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022