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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Thanksgiving Gobble gobble!

  

  (From 6.00 lecture on Tuesday - clearly, my mind was on the lecture...) Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Hope you all are enjoying the holiday weekend - spend some good, relaxing time with your family and friends

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 25, 2010
• FAQ / First-year application

  Where can I find admissions statistics?

  If you're looking for admission statistics that's a good sign because ... students, and SAT/ACT score ranges for admitted students on the Admissions statistics page. The International Students Office has interesting stats on
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  It's more likely than you think! To understand this hack, you need some background on recent happenings at MIT, so please bear with me: An art installation went up recently on "Walker Lawn", also known as the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  living here. According to them, somebody had first smelled smoke in the ... chemical burns, but luckily these burns were considered minor (according to ... few weeks ago, a friend and I decided to figure out what had happened

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day!!! 3.14159!

  

  .14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510..................... How many digits do you know? More to come later today about how MIT ... : What do you get if you divide the circumference of a jack-o-lantern by its diameter? A: Pumpkin pi. Don't forget to celebrate Pi Day (3

  • by Bryan
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Issel Lim: IBD Research Issel Lim has been trying to create an effective mouse model for ulcerative colitis, a…

  

  (IBD), which causes inflammation of the digestion tract and leads to ... researchers are focusing on hereditary and environmental risk factors. Senior Issel Lim has spent the past year trying to create an effective mouse

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yet Another MIT 2010? Alex Doonesbury needs to choose a college.

  

  Doonesbury is still deciding on colleges: RPI, Cornell, or MIT? Now, her ... aren't made this way?). For the next week, you can vote on Alex ... cartoons indicate Alex will take a gap year, either to "consult for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Varsity Blogging As mentioned in a previous entry, I made some end-of-year presents for my bloggers -…

  

  some belated b-day wishes when you get a chance... Also - I'm still accepting pictures for this entry (and just added two new ones!).

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Lost Art of Hand-Lettering Lives at MIT hidden in plain sight

  

  . A lot of doors. And a lot of them with letters on them, like this one ... letters on all of these doors have been hand-lettered by one man, Glenn ... to campus, which are highly visible even while his labor is not. As

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train(wreck) of Thought

  

  . :-) BUT I had to share a particular incident with you today as I was walking back from working on psets. I walked by the LSC announcement board (LSC is a group that screens movies on campus) and one of the movies was

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Bloggers invade LA What should Sam and I do in Los Angeles? Suggestions welcome

  

  instead of a suitcase. On our to-do list so far, we have 1. Roscoe ... and I are flying out to Los Angeles today for a one-week stay in the ... fun running up and down hills and looking for grammatical mistakes on

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Highlights Highlights from the Hunt complete with the first puzzle we solved!

  

  -P-E-E-D O-V L-I-G-H-T" Pete: "Hello, I'd like to speak to Agent Chitty Chitty ... .2 SMOOTS On one side, it says "NCIL SACOEBBD FM TH RDC AEUEF DDQNCQL AM GANKDRED HQ RJ UFEG". On the other side, it says "ZMIZ SIYYEZDF LY TV VLG

  • by Bryan
  • January 15, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do letters of recommendation have to be submitted in the MIT application portal?

  Our preference is for recommenders to use our application portal to submit documents. However, they do have the option to submit their ... how the recommender intends to submit their materials, because it will
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  A question for you… No seriously I have a question

  

  to understand? I'm going to try to doodle explain it the best I can (I'll explain why later) in a blog post. Some categories to think about ... to quantum I'll have to rope in my Course 8 suitemate) "Engineery

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 22, 2012
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  news with your community and loved ones! We hope you feel like you're walking on sunshine, and we'll have some additional, cylindrical

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." -John Keats ... beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe ... in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is

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

  Scenes From Admissions Round One What's going on in this picture?!?

  

  Occasionally I'll show you a picture and give you some clues to see if you can figure out what's going on in the scene. Often I don't even know what's going on around here, so this will be fun for me as well

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Lodger Third in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring the country of Moldova.

  

  I inexplicably neglected to get a picture of, featured a real mosaic ... bear. We're right in between the United Kingdom bear, who appears to be ... , who was once asked to "say something in Georgian" while teaching SAT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 15, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Marjane Satrapi and French Breakthroughs The author of Persepolis visits MIT, and my French professor is famous

  

  will present an evening with Iranian graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi on ... very informative and entertaining event. I am going to have to ... 's definitely something to think about. This event, like the French Hip Hop I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two Cool Projects

  

  In this second-to-last entry, I want to encourage all of you to check ... Kendra Johnson '09, Sacha Yaku aims to empower the women of Santa Ana, Ecuador through the sale of their jewelry and ceramics. It is analogous to

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 31, 2008