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  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  biological effects of weightlessness, and he trained to fly on the space ... Close up shot of Pluto. (Image Credit: NASA) On Jan 19, 2006, the New ... 's Central Park.   Photos of Pluto in 1930, 1996, and 2015 pic

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  cilantro and cheddar on top and the cheese melted all over the starchiness of ... top priorities of the moment keep getting supplanted as more and more ... with at least four pressing tasks, and the burning question of what to do

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  of these walks, I reflected a lot on my time at MIT and my relationship ... for the past year, and advocating for any number of solutions we could ... semesters. This class was called the "Wilds of Literature," and the main idea

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  the slight urge to huddle under a blanket with a warm cup of tea and ... moment occurs as soon as you arrive on campus. Or in the middle of your third essay prompt on a college app. And it'll probably happen more than

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  I came into my office on Friday and guess what was waiting for me ... reading carefully every sheet of paper in your folder and summarizing the case on that summary card. Then, in a month, we'll bring all of the cases

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  ’d ride down the block on my bike, wave hi to my aunt, and return back to my ... CPW (the preview weekend in April), and on your own doing adult things ... home again around them; joking around, teasing one another, and

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  many times on the blogs. In light of COVID (and post-MIT induced ... . Most of it is spent on classes and research. But I fill the time I do ... apartment just off 24th and Mission. My partner since freshman year of East

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  fellowships, with families at home and a mindset of just getting through the ... I was a kid and pieced together on a “Wonders of the World” puzzle. I ... , and found myself about 10 minutes ahead of the people I intended to meet

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  awareness of exactly how far away all of my deadlines are. Appropriately and ... are over $30,000 in prizes on the line, courtesy of trading companies ... semester’s grind again. Speaking of semester, I’ve decided to go out on an

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  cooler to capitalize on the dual "E.Jones" thing instead of having "E.Jones" and "B.Jones" on the door. Some folks have suggested that it should be 2 ... campus. I'll get to work on that next week, no problem. EC. Matt and I

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  , and there will be ample space in the application to explain any issues ... do to help us (and you) is make explicit in their letters any ... knowledgeable letter on your behalf. A few sentences at the top of a letter
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  MIT for work, wait for a packed train, then bus, and arrive home with the sense of overwhelming relief. MIT has been home, sure, but it doesn ... pay for in full, where you are the master of the domain, kitchen and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  Another CPW has come and gone, and with it the throes of prefrosh ... for me, seeing all you guys excited to be here and the prospect of ... down in your work day in and day out. Of course, CPW brings out the best

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  mom to come Tuesday night and bring me home Wednesday morning. Yeah ... elections a couple of weeks ago, and I'm the new Conner 2 webmaster (or ... new stuff and forgot a lot of old stuff. I'm really looking forward to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  back in east campus jiggity jig

  

  on mae, who recently dropped out of college and moved back to her ... they have some sort of puzzle, and i didn't really have time to think of ... laptop was broken, and put it on floorpi's free food table. hopefully some

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  arrived on campus and proceded to spend the entirety of Dorm Rush on 3rd ... summer, you get to rank the dorms in order of preference, based on ... got one of their top three choices). When you arrive on campus, a period

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  , lived on campus one summer, and spent a lot of time in various dorms ... , kids. I had an exam yesterday, just got out of another exam, and have yet ... 've been doing with my life and which flights of stairs I've fallen down this

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  part of the cycle. Ben is on his way to even bigger things. And that ... quad, and I couldn't help but be reminded of last summer. It was my last summer before I came to MIT, my last summer home, and the one thing I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  together and discuss the layout of their new apartment — two bookshelves, on ... bed, gave me some tomato juice and a kiss on either cheek.  But what I ... ? Doesn’t it ache? How someone can carry the knowledge of someone else on

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Ervin Puskar Bosnia, Ohio, Cambridge. A video news report on Ervin Puskar '10.

  

  math, and now it's paying off. He's preparing to leave for Boston on a ... link to the news video; click on the picture of the video camera] ... Bosnian refugee is going to the nation's number one engineering school on a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 2, 2006