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  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  'll share a few of my thoughts and observations after having seen 21 this ... - they're affixed to a placard next to the door). Also, we have a lot of ... ) get more than a passing shot of screen time as Jeffrey, the blackjack

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  it! So I`ll share what`s on my mind. I guess this is a book report ... hike. I was in a strange mood. I`m a student at one of the most ... happy with a move towards self-sufficiency in the woods, away from the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh cruel, cursed fate! Blerg!

  

  [Apologies to Wendy Macnaughton and Christoph Niemann for doing injustice to their art form.]

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  classes I've taken here at MIT and 21W.762 is no exception. It's a great ... quietly in a corner as we argue by Cami Mejia (Sestina) Untitled by Dien ... Fredlund (Sestina) The Earth Is Round for a Reason (or haven't you heard

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  get out into the city, do some sightseeing, and enjoy some downtime ... th at 4:30p, I breathed a sigh of relief alongside my study buddies ... yourself into a panicked, hyper-focused cramming mindset (okay, maybe this is

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now (Actually) Available Online

  

  Update: the once-in-a-century alignment of Super Pi Day appears to have fired a cosmic EMP directly into the heart of our server farm ... ; together, they constitute an incredible community, each contributing a set of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Released TODAY @ 6:28 p.m.

  

  click refresh 200 times in a minute. You might get carpal tunnel! And you ... 's what you need to do: (Deep breath again) At 6:28, or anytime ... year, the most in our history. (Again) As a result, our admit rate this

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  : What does a biochemist do? He stuffs the butterfly into a blender ... minutes early with a few friends, and also why our entire row was fangirling ... : a few hours after lecture, look what appeared!]: In other lecture

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MIT IreneCam tracking the storm - here and on the web.

  

  before I left, I set up a webcam in the office, looking out over Killian ... long as it doesn't eventually crash the computer it's on out of a browser memory leak (always a possibility) it should remain up. Killian is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  , and New Mexico. When we return from such travels, we have to write up a ... at a high school in NJ for five years, went to HGSE and now is an ... , where we had a meeting scheduled in the auditorium. We were a bit worried

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  cohesive? Nope. Do we care? Also nope. As a food traditionalist, I insisted ... I’ve been home for winter break since last Sunday, and it’s been a flurry of many things, but second most importantly, it’s been a flurry of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  Mt. Fuji. I have to preface this story with a couple facts: 1) I am not a mountain climber in any form, shape, or capacity. I hike ... ), maybe because you can buy a cool stick that they brand at every station on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  ’s probably clear from our avatar, but we are going to be blogging as a duo ... not knowing who’s who). It’s pretty funny though, every time we meet a ... stands for Freshman Arts Program – is a weeklong FPOP (freshman pre

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  .R.R. Tolkien, Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) is a language of long, cold ... poignant account of the Crucifixion (The Dream of the Rood), and a host of ... a scene from Tom Stoppard's 1993 play Arcadia (which MIT is currently

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  deep underneath a basketball court, behind several locked doors, and ... ammunition, and more guns than you can (or would want to) shake a stick at. A ... (dodgeball, flag football, air pistol). Not a lot is said about these, I guess

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Castle, a Jack, and a Beanstalk hacking culture @ MIT

  

  Once upon a late October, MIT hosted its annual Family Weekend ... hack “refers to a clever, benign, and 'ethical' prank or practical joke ... of Family Weekend 2014, a castle appeared on the skybridge connecting

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  enthusiasm stays with you forever. To dance, you must find a balance within yourself." He had quite a point. Calling MIT freshmen "enthusiastic" was ... access to a level). Which brings us back to balance. "I know you are

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  A couple weekends ago, the average age on campus suspiciously ... flooded the Student Center and Infinite. I'd almost forgotten what a pre ... brother, Ryan (who insists on being called a pre-teen). There are very few

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?

  

  several peoples' minds: Blogging. Whenever I get a brilliant idea and just ... MovableType publishing platform. Instead of being a website like blogger or livejournal, MovableType is designed to fit into a webpage that already exists

  • by Snively '11
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  What can I say, it grew on me . . . (Guest Entry) Now I'm a beaver believer!

  

  was all a little much. Fortunately, I met some other awesome prefrosh! Becca '12 and I at Meet the Bloggers Tim '12 and I stuck in a knot at ... journeyed to the Student Center to Meet the Bloggers. Snively was a hit with

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008