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  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  ’s history helps with your consideration of committing to MIT in the present ... Previously on the blogs, I’ve written about MIT’s commitment to ... other institutions to do the same (more here). I’ve also blogged about the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  't know why I'd chosen to come to MIT, where everybody seemed to just talk ... about my choice to come here was that sometimes I would visit my friends ... believe them."]incredible stubbornness in getting things done

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society studying humans? studying computers? porque no los dos?

  

   hyped for it, so I'm attaching it to the bottom of this blog post in case you're ... concentration in Computing and Society that I am stupidly geeked about and want to ... scaffold whatever major(s) and minor(s) your little dork heart desires

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving in England Celebrating a North American holiday in Britain.

  

  to be honest, instead of thinking, "Wow I've been in England for 2 ... here so we didn't get any days off. Rather, we sat through classes ... invited as well as the students who went over to MIT last year. Cambridge

  • by Cambridge
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Business As Usual

  

  Virginia's scenic New River. And now it's starting to get cold here in ... my camera. I stepped out of my room the other day and had to traverse ... fairly often. We try not to walk barefoot on the splinters and shards, but

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  that I was an MIT student definitely helped me get hired. I arrived in mid-June. I flew to Geneva and then took the train to Lausanne. I ... . And this, as you might be able to guess, was burial grounds. After I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biochemistry at its finest!

  

  giant lecture halls) to watch Yaffe cover crazy amounts of information in ... that prevents you from bleeding to death after a measly paper cut ... platelets congregate to repair the cut by creating a clot. What you may not

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  seeing it. At the very least, you’ll get to see people run through a wall ... [by Emily LaVerriere '15] First of all, I need to second Miren ... fair amount of theater in high school, but I had no idea what to expect

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  [by Davie Rolnick '12, Guest Blogger] Glory be to MIT! The Arts Scholars went to see Wagner at the Met! A weekend-long trip to New York ... utterly awesome - perhaps my favorite opera of all time. I tend to listen to

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  exciting time to be around MIT, because it is Nobel Prize week. For me, this week is routinely characterized by setting my alarm to wake up super early to check the website and see if any MIT folks won. I have to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  the time to host the events we need to get the hype around Loop again ... the corridor-style, long, empty hallways to the doors an walls barren ... word and some of these unfavorable conditions should be attributed to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Burton-Conner long live BC

  

  years—namely, windows that don't scream whenever it gets even the ... important to floor culture, so this is pretty tragic. Thankfully, efforts to ... murals may be restored. Also, sliding wall panels for students to paint on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  to do well in Orgo? It's supposed to be the most basic of all my ... 'm getting a far better grade in 7.05 than 5.12) - but I'm seriously struggling ... differentiation that you had to learn, and there were so many things that didn

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  remind your reader. But sadness for a fictional character is very real to ... realized that according to many theories, we shouldn't be seeing anything ... kind of conference I was attending. But when I told him I was going to a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2021 taking on the legacy

  

  the grip Spotify Wrapped has on society is truly astounding. time to contribute to the buzz with another year of blogger wrapped! minutes spent ... listening to Spotify constantly. this is not true because i am at the lower

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 9, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  Fidelio. Tonight we had the Burton-Conner Trivia Competition. Prior to the competition, I sent an e-mail to my floor telling them to keep three things in ... -of-consciousness prose and doing chemical kinetics homework that it will have to wait until

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They’re not just regular artists… ...they're Artists in Residence.

  

  noted artists to campus to work with MIT students. The program is called Artists in Residence, and has been bringing artists to Cambridge for more ... the opportunity to work closely with Tan Dun and also with Guillermo

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  . Deadlines, however, remain. The Frosh will get used to those eventually. And ... just another roof to pass. The Frosh counts the days until departure from ... school), the Frosh can say, “I’m not going to finish this homework,” and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Horizons team at NASA launched a space probe to the Kuiper Belt. Nine and ... made its closest approach to Pluto. It sent back a preliminary photo of ... facing towards Pluto to collect data. Once it's finished, it will turn back

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

  Halloween Tag In which I do a YouTube thing for a (bonus) Halloween vlog

  

  to don costumes and wander around to all the MacGregor GRTs to get some ... college life sometimes. My dad decided to send me a surprise Halloween ... the holiday, and before this year I didn't really have enough time to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2014