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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  gibberish words in class Low prandtl laminar flow...wingardium leviosa...what’s ... , ultimately, it’s your choices that matter in both places <3) (also I don ... “what’s your kerberos?” and “Athena cluster” and not think of magic

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  hallways. In an effort to spice up the recurring blandness of Maseeh’s white ... the room’s furniture arrangement and decorative ambiance. The room is ... List Visual Arts Center’s Student Loan Art Program (which I literally

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  MIT’s (in)famous fall career fair is this coming Friday…which means ... student holiday on Friday so people can focus on finding employment. It’s ... Friday!   It’s even crazier if you’re a first-semester freshman and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: Parts 1 and 2 for Early and Regular Action applicants

  

  . MIT is competitive, but it’s not a competition. There are no judges to ... recommend (and here’s what I said last year): Write your essays before ... character. Describe yourself (see 3). (For more, here’s who MIT wants.) Have

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  Before iOS7, Apple’s weather app icon always showed that it was 73 ... add in hot and humid rain, well, that’s like putting a kangaroo in the ... dropped 30 degrees. T--h--i--r--t--y d--e--g--r--e--e--s. Up until this

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  ; Professor Yoon: Situated on MIT’s campus where Officer Sean Collier was shot ... memorial’s five-way shallow stone vault is buttressed by five radial walls ... from Sean’s brother’s eulogy: Live long like he would. Big hearts, big

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  Late November, fall hangs over the Charles, obscuring the river’s ... 2018s: “We’ll start getting grades next semester. What will happen then ... that, the Frosh’s Scheme of Life has been crumbling and expanding

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just Desserts No metaphors here...

  

  and their homonymous dessert counterparts, let’s do a little thought experiment. Let’s imagine that one day, a pang of hunger strikes you as though ... it belongs in Plato’s theory of Forms; it exudes the very essence of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  puzzle is—that’s pretty straightforward. A punt is more intricate, and is ... and all such after that last line, but, um, yeah, let’s…let’s start ... …so there is this weird disparity of time among readers and…you know what, let’s

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  Blogosphere: “Yo, Anastassia, where’ve you been? What’s your freshman ... form!”   Weekend 8 Friday night, I attended SPOOKY SKATE! It’s an ... my way into a concert that MIT’s Electronic Dance Music Society hosted

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  Hello! What’s up Homo sapiens sapiens? To everyone I’ve met this ... my Algebra 2 teacher’s recommendation. It was simply a better school ... my ultimate goal was still to contribute to humanity’s progress. I

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  in voice; a volunteer for MIT’s Violence Prevention and Response as a ... Elizabeth Wood on Vladimir Putin’s presidency and premiership; and an arts writer for MIT’s student newspaper, The Tech. I took a gap year in Cairo

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  think it’s the whole package. The highlights of our trip must be the ... with a visit to Sally Lunn’s house where the famous Sally Lunn Bun was ... a poster pasted on the Department of pathology’s notice board about

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). And it’s AWESOME. Significantly less ...  in Kendall Square in Cambridge-- a global innovation hotspot (and in MIT’s ... &D would then upload a project summary onto it’s website where only

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  bloggership? Well, senior year happened. And that’s certainly not a good enough excuse, nor is it a particularly unique one, but that’s the story I ... once.” Let’s just say I was a little intimidated going into this class

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faith Embracing uncertainty as the world changes around us

  

  and the sun’s rays streaked through a break in the clouds as if the ... doctors suspected they had a diagnosis - Castleman’s Disease. They had run ... diagnosed with multicentric Castleman’s Disease. The condition was rare and

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  hour-long presentation unwrapping the foil from the Hershey”s chocolate ... my mouth as I listened. In my son”s case, I already knew that a ... Minsky”s Society of Mind and Edward O Wilson”s Consilience, three of my

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  on FTX’s (Field Training Exercises). These are 3 day long ... .) packed on our back. Suddenly, there’s a mission. There’s an ... ’s time to step off. Your squad moves in its formation through the

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

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  read more about Prof. Kaiser's new appointment here. __ It’s true ... nevermind. 4. Kaiser. The card game. (Apparently there’s a Canadian card game ... about this town is that it’s 1.5 hours away from mine. So nevermind

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  grade! Each pset is worth only 2%! Last Thursday’s test (“quiz”) was in ... then this is a CI (communications intensive) class, so that’s to be ... (why don’t chemists use percent like everyone else? That’s 14.3% of my

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010