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President Susan Hockfield
To: "All Members of the MIT Community" From: "Kathryn A ... for Susan Hockfield To all members of the MIT community:   ... Hockfield on her first day as president of MIT. Monday, December 6 -
Blog / Academics & Research
Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!
figuring out the optimal scoop-ability of your favorite [annotation note="or sherbert, if you’re me"]ice cream[/annotation]? What about the power of nerf gun bullets? Or maybe the power of a single footstep? Want to know the -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?
the blog train for a bunch of reasons, and then never quite figured out ... a year, and I've been living in comfortable silence for almost all of ... movie adaptations of good books, clothes that are the wrong size, the -
Blog / Life after MIT
Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations
died after medical complications. He was 75, and one of the finest men I have ever known. For many of our readers, I suspect Woodie needs no introduction: to the tens of thousands of FIRST participants around the world -
Blog / Academics & Research
Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history
had come to $3.14, the monetary equivalent of the ratio between a circle ... jokes (out of pity). It is currently the first day of school’s eve, more ... did not say it was impossible.) Glamour shot of the East Campus -
Blog / Academics & Research
Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"
to develop and test these sorts of things in an environment where if ... tens of thousands of dollars of payload into the emptiness of space just ... . You see, one of the things I want most to get out of freshman year is to -
Blog / Admissions
On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.
“hands-on”. Before I got here I would've listed, off the top of my head: FIRST Robotics (or any sort of robotic shenanigans, really). Rocket ... ’d totally rock an MIT-themed Family Feud episode. What do all of those have -
Blog / Events
Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before
weekend-long party centered around the overnight roasting of a steer in our courtyard and the subsequent feast. The following description is courtesy of a ... Steer Roast as an extreme barbeque: instead of grilling hamburgers and hot -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.
in here. Not a day goes by when I am not absorbed by a mass of tourists with cameras, taking pictures of the most random, well, crap, that I've ever seen. Pictures that I've seen taken include pictures of a wall, of a -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…
ROTC Color Guard was something along the lines of, "You see that man over ... in the Air Force." Both men instantly had my respect. One of the many ... leadership training is probably somewhere at the top of that list, but that's a -
Blog / MIT Life
Things you might have wanted to know
curious about and just aren't asking. One of them, I answered in one of my ... picture of MIT at night, looking out over West Campus. You can see the West ... large chunk of Cambridge, and part of the Charles River, with the Museum -
Blog / Hacks
Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.
name of the fictitious character who often takes responsibility for mysterious things that happen at the Institute during the middle of the night. My clever little paragraph up there is just a cute way of saying that a -
Blog / How to Human
i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay
I've been reading a lot of slow, contemplative writing recently, which is the kind of writing that always makes me want to write my own blog post of that nature. Frankly, I've been overdue for such a post -
Blog / About Decisions
What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside
It's been a few weeks since many of you have submitted your ... 're working pretty hard to read each and every one of them. I know the wait is ... every one of you a fair chance is to read what you've presented to us, and -
Blog / How to Food
everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good
spring of my high school senior year, I decided that I was done with school ... being. A big part of this was learning how to cook and bake. I tried a couple of elaborate recipes that year, but for the most part I just spent -
Blog / Travel
spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen
experiences of a lifetime. Last year, MIT didn't give us a spring break because of the covid restrictions at the time (not that I would've wanted to travel very far then); so this year, I knew I wanted to make the most of my -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane
year and graduation and "the end" all felt so far out of reach. I wasn ... couldn't be looking so far ahead. All I had in front of me was the present ... moment to the moment. Now, I have just about two weeks of classes left. In -
Blog / Admissions
Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard
eponymous book. Lewis first became famous writing Liar's Poker, a memoir of ... small fortune and a new life narrative. All of a sudden people were ... odds of being seated at that dinner next to that Salomon Brothers lady -
Blog / Academics & Research
Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…
unwittingly snapped a picture of me in Diff Eq. around Valentine’s Day http ... recall we journeyed to New York City at the end of July and survived a gastronomical bildungsroman**. *In all prepositional honesty, at least half of the