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• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  chanties) came first, but the original spelling was chanty, and was later ... to.  The Golden Age of Piracy was from 1650-1739, and the Chanties as ... , and it wasn't like Captain Hook and Mr. Smee. Also, most of the shanties

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  , And if we’ve no place to go, Let it snow, let is snow, let is snow! The first big snowfall of the year has coincided with the first of four final ... are about five inches of the snow on the ground right now, and traffic

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  , particularly during first semester; part of it stemmed from trying to find the ... little pockets of the MIT landscape. And I stayed in some, and realized ... of intense workloads and the difficulty of transitioning to a new

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Pumpkin Drop Trick-or-treating is not enough.

  

  landing? You may neglect wind, viscous drag, and the altered aerodynamics of cold, wet pumpkins for the sake of simplicity. This past weekend’s wind ... that it reaches the peak of its trajectory one meter above the roof of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  down the page at this point) about increasing class size at MIT, and how ... number of rooms and allow the individuals to decide for themselves. I also ... if MIT had to go the way of large state schools and begin having

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  dull thing," and I think that he's kind of nutty. First of all, the ... Biology of Culture: Bridging Art and Science Straight from the ... to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  year I had brought the potato cannon a few friends of mine and I had made ... ).    And of course, the main event:         ... shot, with a rundown of the safety features and design performed by Ken

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Introduction To ARTalk An introduction to the ARTalk guest author blog by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director…

  

  [by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director of Arts Initiatives, and Ken Haggerty '11] MIT is at the center of one of the most original and ... making, performing, looking at, and understanding the multitudes of formats

  • by ARTalk
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  conversation between the page and me, and that journey won’t disappear simply ... learning about the craft of writing, I certainly understand the frustration ... the same (and a quick glimpse at Twitter would prove that they

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  disparity of wealth and afforded healthcare in the American population. In ... of four (69.6% of the patients are below this income level) and 200 ... medical staff and the scarcity of interpretation services there (even though

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  with excitement and wonder. Of course, the honeymoon didn't last forever ... my cohorts and I were escorted to the FAP lair on the fourth floor of ... orientation winds to a close and the impending doom of endless torrents of work

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  syndrome this summer, and I can’t tell if it’s because of the team I worked ... . I went to a comedy show and golfed for the first time. I went to the ... Somerville for the summer and spent a lot of time around Porter Square. I went

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  trips to Denmark and the UK, when she encountered lots of people who made ... corner of the couch and work on debugging code for my UROP. 6:15 p.m. We ... feeling pretty stressed and mentally out of it for a few weeks so I’m hoping

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  think one year into the future, and there’s a fuzzy semblance of what my ... South Africa and witnessing the migration of dolphins, sharks, and whales ... , and cosmic magic. Part of the team trying to send humans back to the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  language. And it’s the only language that all of us in the world understand ... of the important ones engrained in our memory. And those ones in our ... number which is also placed on a map by the degrees of longitude and

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  to learn more about the genesis of different friendships and how ... . He is an alum of the fellowship and is also Ethiopian. I reached out to ... face-to-face interactions in the hallways and classrooms. Obviously, this

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  . This year, the first meetings are in Maine, Connecticut, Ohio, and Rhode ... about in a future entry, my first meeting isn't until the very end of the ... Beginning Wednesday until the end of October, my Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  all kinds of snacks and critically analyze the goods like the food ... 'm finally here to enjoy all of the great things it has to offer! For all of ... (and actually like a 17 min walk from Next House which is the furthest

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Case of the Disappearing Admissions Officers Where have the Admissions Officers been lately?

  

  's been lots of other exciting news, including the production of the first 1 ... ambitious and inspirational project is headed up by Nicholas Negroponte of the ... (and Ben and Nance) been? Reading applications. Lots and lots of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  ,500 applications this year, what is the probability that one of them read your ... gets two reads, what is the probability that both of them read your ... February 28.) Salvador takes 5 days of vacation in December and 2 days in

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005