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  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  of others, I traveled to northern New England to see the total solar eclipse on April 8th. I had happened to see the total eclipse in 2017 in ... on the edge of the eclipse, caused by rugged craters on the moon

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  The way we interact in our three-dimensional world is frankly kind of ... dimension, I refer to the number of independent directions on your space. The most clear understanding of this may be through the directions on Earth

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  “we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:

  

  choice of MIT, I mean it. I'm on a mission to spread the New England winter ... summons me at 10:00 pm to accompany her on the most random and hilarious shenanigans. Exhibit A: On the last day of finals, as if to celebrate the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Links Sent to My Group Chat from the past month

  

  to the 12/9 MIT Class of 2023 Ice Skating Event Cami: Tweet on how AI ... I'm a group chat kind of person -- I really am bad at individual ... controversial, I send to my group chat. Here are some of those things. December 1

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That Lovely Pre-Finals Period

  

  all week. There's a lot of buzz on campus right now about some proposed ... IBM/Lenovo merger for class. It was a team project on mergers as a whole, with each of us choosing a merger case and exploring its respective

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Ends 522 EA admits, Snively, molecular jewelry, and Evan Broder's holiday card - more random than…

  

  Happy New Year! I hope you guys are having a great 2008 so far. Congrats to all of you who got your applications in on time. :-) And being a ... days... enjoy them! 390 --> 522 I've been noticing lots of

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  Predicament of Aftermath: Reflections on 9-11 and Oklahoma City that I ... human dimensions of memorial responses has given me a way to think, now ... use about moving on. Closure has become an amazingly overused word in

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  - and I'm incredibly excited to be a part (however small) of the new ... Biology Angelika Amon to investigate the effects of aneuploidy on ... this point) and get a jump start on some of my coursework for next

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students: MyMIT Updated Important and cool new information on MyMIT: check it out now.

  

  Students admitted regular action have a whole bunch of new stuff on their MyMIT portal today, including: Class of 2010 Guestbook. Sign in ... . Across the country (and across the world) there will be meetings of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  compete for resources and face hardships. Music induces release of "feel-good ... Social connectedness may be good for our health. Take two hours of pine ... Biology of Culture: Bridging Art and Science Straight from the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  we took a break. We sat on the side of the road, and I scanned the ... of like a teddy- OH GOODNESS. "Raphael, what is that?" Raphael looked ... blobs on either side of its body. So he drew the rings on like ears. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  acceptable use of IAP! I turned my cell phone off, set up an auto-response on ... poco of Spanish, lay on the beach, stroked a baby caiman, took a lot of ... I owe you an explanation for my absence (and you'll get WAY more

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  . On top of the movies every week, MIT gives RBA groups a lot of money to ... into the dorm of your choice, rooms are assigned based on seniority. So ... A view of Next House from across the river: I have gotten a lot of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  how to grow a vibrant kresge just add sod

  

  pallets on some of the major walkways through Kresge lawn to inconvenience ... sky over the lawn. The saturated blue sky puts a lot of pressure on the ... Spring is here, which means we are nearing the end of Kresge lawn

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 18, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  Food? What? I may weigh approximately two pounds, but I eat as much as everyone else. All…

  

  live in one of these residence halls in order to eat there (which is good ... just cooked large amounts of angel hair pasta with ground beef in black ... lack the ability to cook food in small amounts and nearly all of my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  since he’d first stepped foot on this new land. With renewed vigor in his ... of eternity and create a legend—a legend that people would whisper about across the shores of Valhalla. Then, after writing a slew of blogs

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019
• 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

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  and don’t have time to (since it’s kind of long), the gist is we were ... stuff (by switching to CMS). At the end of that post, we concluded that ... , before making any drastic changes. So, for now, we’re taking the path of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  fastest pace of life in the United States? Even beating out New York City ... had to be carry-on. We brought a grand total of over 1000 kilograms of ... deeper level of my UROP that I was working on during the school year in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  the rest of my life is mostly on hold until then. Hanna and Liz (both ... way up at the top of this post.) Anyway, a long-ish time ago in a land ... life, and when I try to think of my future in a way that doesn't involve

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010