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  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  for the life of me I couldn’t remember a time when that had been my ... that in mind, credit for the revelation that I maybe was that sort of ... I was at the cusp of finishing, and my much

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  've attended. (And I'm not just saying that because I am writing a blog for MIT ... .) For those both within and outside of the Institute who have not yet ... Percent-for-Art program responsible for contributing new works of public art

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  LET’S PLAY Dodgeball!

  

  a hockey-related event almost every day; for hours at a time. And it ... kids. And at the end of it all, we shake hands, cheer for the winning ... not an athletic giant – for one, Briggs Field conspicuously lacks a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  My alarm went off at 5:30 am today...I am not now, nor have I ever ... hated it, because all I wanted to do at that moment was go back to sleep ... got up and headed for the kitchen. Last fall I moved into the MIT Alpha

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Food, Folks, and Fun…..but definitely not mcdonald’s Quinton makes friends at the Muslim Student Association

  

  four years at MIT. I had a chance to meet Iman and talk with her for ... attend a Faculty and Administration Dinner for Ramadan. The dinner was to be held on campus at the Multipurpose Room of Sidney-Pacific graduate

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  flying east as I stared north at the city I now call home, and the Charles ... , drawing my eyes like a beacon. And in that moment MIT unfolded for me, as I ... me to meet at least five new people each day of Orientation. But he

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  [The Call For Guest Entries has been updated/modified] Wow, excuse ... activate it you need to speak blender to it. I could describe it for you all ... many that at one point I had to transfer all of the pictures I had taken

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  , homework can now be due late at night, or on weekends. For 8.01, there are 2 ... !! They'll give credit for the questions that we at least answered ... semester). Unless you want to be amazing and take 8.012 or 8.022 (Physics For

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  to as Course 6 or EECS) is the most popular major at MIT with 700 ... video game and joystick, a detector for interplanetary communication, HDTV ... major. Hanhan’s love for Course 6 is contagious! In high school, she

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  Sila queries: How good are the social departments at MIT? And, at the ... talk about science at MIT? I mean, obviously it IS the institute of "technology", but are people socially aware,m for example? Are there people

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  For the past three days, I was at the conference of the National ... professional association for guidance counselors and admissions officers, and once a year they gather for a conference. This year's conference was in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-med, Everybody’s Best Friend If you are considering a career in medicine -- and not as a pharmacist.

  

  it, and we met in the Anthropology Department's conference room for ... week, and back at home, I kept referring to Shirali '05 and Farhan '05 as ... it's bad to eat within 2 hours of going to bed, so late at night when

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  Lab at MIT's Center for Cancer Research studying the delivery of small-interfering RNA (siRNA) in mice. It may seem odd for a student like me, who plans ... MIT. I arrived at MIT bushy tailed and bright eyed at the prospect of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  in my head for the last few days. I wonder why. Last night I did some ... 's mother deserves an Academy Award just for her bizarre facial tics and for ... delicious." Anyway, I think I've analyzed this movie aimed at ten

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  truly at home and welcome at MIT for the first or second time the feeling ... six different vocal lines at once in different octaves; the nice and simple joy of learning new tricks for running rehearsals while being a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  lyrics--Taylor Swift’s voice. For at the least the past eight years ... intersected with notions of romance for the first time. I was at a point where I ... … Taylor Swift’s songs came to me for the first time at exactly the right

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  for that discovery (every once in awhile I will see Professor Horvitz at ... classes are 12 units at MIT), and I have been spending well over 30 hours every week in my lab, looking at worms, running gels and blots, and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  for responses. See? On Christmas morning, I sat down at my kitchen ... standard for geeks to possibly live up to." All the nerds at home can at ... for the past few months. Well, I’ve been in Cambridge, same place that I

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  class again at MIT. MIT usually does not offer credit for classes taken ... this is great for MITers, but it seems rather arcane to the outside world ... kidding, but since we do have a lot of numbering systems at MIT, and since

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  Hello everyone! I thought up this title as a metaphor for how the week a few weeks ago hit me, but apparently said week hit too hard for me ... ’s a discussion for a different blog."]five[/annotation] classes this

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021