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her a pre-eminent water scientist before her graduation.
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What is MITES Semester (formerly MOSTEC)?
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What is the MIT Energy Initiative?
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How many Nobel Prize Laureates are affiliated with MIT?
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Blog / Uncategorized
snip snip liberating the shoulder one free t-shirt at a time
uncontrollable urge. Every single time I get a free t shirt, I can't help myself ... idea can't even remotely be attributed to me. If anything, it's just a testament to how often I get too lazy to pick out a real outfit and just -
Blog / MIT Life
sticker stories adorned on my water bottles
tracker (because I am crazy and put a really old tile on it) and saw it was ... ): you did such a great job at holding water. oh great green bottle, you will be missed. I feel like a mosaic, comprised of fragments of -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
LSC Presents: Black Panther 2
On November 20th in [annotation note="a lecture hall"]26-100[/annotation] MIT's Lecture Screening Committee hosted a special free screening ... screen, either early or not. We had been working with a local publicity -
Blog / MIT Life
REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion
. According to MIT's Dormitory Council: Residence Exploration, or REX, is a ... . For the rest of you, REX is a great opportunity to find out about the ... , REX is a time to enjoy yourself, meet as many people as possible, first -
Blog / About Decisions
random thoughts about choices why mit? why not mit?
one concern i hear from a lot of people on-the-fence is of mit ... say mit is only as hard as you want it to be. that is a lie, but so is ... . some might say that you can't make a bad choice here, and that may be -
Blog / Announcements
PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1
up for classes. I'm co-teaching an a first-year advising seminar on ... some of my advisees and helping them pick their classes. A number of them signed up for a new discovery subject being offered by Course 7 -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Mocktails happy new year new you
It's 2017 now according to the Gregorian calendar. I'm a frosh.5 (RIP PNR). I am currently about 1700 miles from MIT, physically where I was a year ago when I spent an entire day writing essays for a number of -
Blog / MIT Life
deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres
i woke up naturally at 9am this morning to a sunny day, feeling ... a haircut at this place my brother recommended--the guy there said he ... then up boylston from the library back to mass ave, picking up a sandwich