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  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  of others, I traveled to northern New England to see the total solar eclipse on April 8th. I had happened to see the total eclipse in 2017 in ... around the mountain west, and it was an incredible experience, so I knew I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  the past month (classes here start early January) and will return to MIT for the fall semester. i decided to do this for a lot of different reasons which i won't go into in this post but the overarching reason is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  culture, with tons of readings, movies, and museum visits each week. The ... the setting we’re learning about. I find myself swept up in the ... ="aligncenter" width="225"] Sao Paulo is full of murals -- we saw this one on the drive

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  Manila, lived three years in Boston, and am now spending the summer in San ... right now I'm in Mountain View, an hour long drive from SF. The scales of the metropolitan areas involved vary. Metro Manila is a well

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  The media portrays spring break in college is super-fun, adventure-filled time, a time to relax, hang out with your friends, and have the ... of the covid restrictions at the time (not that I would've wanted to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  Breathe in. Keep breathing. The prefrosh I was hosting, or my ... talked about logistics; this is how you get to East Campus, this is the couch you'll sleep in, I'm gonna head to class now. The first class I had

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  The second Monday in October has long been an MIT holiday, but today is the second year that MIT has observed it as Indigenous Peoples' Day, and the first that it has been federally recognized as such. Earlier

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  This is the 3rd part of our 4 part Sentimental Objects series! Here are parts 1 and 2 ! As we've described in the first two parts, we have a ... memorabilia from the school year! He has yet to successfully hold ALL of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  -least-favorite day of the year, after moving-out day (which additionally involves ... steps to the process, and all of them are inconvenient and involve lots of sweating. It's also pretty sad to think about all the effort you're expending

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  I spent this summer interning at PlayStation. The office was in San ... time in the city before. Plus, this was my first real full-time job! In other words, the past three months were a completely new experience

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How MIT students are trying to change education by biking across America.

  

  . Who: 9 students from MIT and UC Berkeley What: Biking across the ... hold “learning festivals”, teaching students subjects the cyclists are ... necessary! Science! (a sample of classes: “The Algorithmic Beauty of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass ... , neutral red letters. Immediately inside, the left-hand wall displays a grid of portraits of the 67 individual resident physicists. Each poses in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline MIT's regular action deadline is January 1.

  

  The Office of Admissions is currently closed for the holidays, and is ... !). The office will reopen on Monday, January 3rd. However, with the RA deadline fast approaching, I'd like to use this entry to answer some of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  , talking about two people at MIT who had touched many lives. I entitled the entry "Our Friends," in memory of two special members of the MIT community ... since has been designated for the James ("Big Jimmy") E. Roberts, Sr

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  campus to discover there's been a hack in Lobby 10! The hack is two giant ... pages]. 9:15am: I arrive at the President's Welcome just in time to see ... 's your favorite part of your job?" President Hockfield: "You. The students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  involuntarily, in lab, finishing up a Western blot. I swear, my cells call the shots around this joint. The sort of puzzling thing is that nothing that ... 's all year and still happily gone off to graduate school in the fall. At

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  statistics. Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002 for ... statistical thinking. From Kahneman's Nobel biography: The standard example of a framing problem, which was developed quite early, is the 'lives saved, lives

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  Thanksgiving was a beautiful day here on the East Coast -- I watched the Macy's parade in a tee shirt. Actually, since that one snowfall, the ... morning of reading, I had lunch at the Stata Center (or Building 32, or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Commence the Commencing! and congratulations to the Class of 2014

  

  147 classes have graduated from MIT in its history; today, the Class of 2014 will join them as alumni of the Institute. The 148th ... very own Matt McGann. You can follow the commencement on Twitter, on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 6, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Snowsical The blizzard of February 13th

  

  around our house in New Jersey:     Oh boy, it looks real bad in NJ.  The blizzard is coming up and hitting the Northeast real hard (Déjà vu).  It's a good thing MIT isn't in the Northea...oh wait...      

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2014