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Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 1 Two MIT students were chosen as Glamour's Top 10 College Women
’s typical to neglect your appearance after working on a problem set until 4 am ... day in lab. So you may be surprised to hear that 2 MIT students, Alia ... chosen by GLAMOUR Magazine. This annual competition has featured fifty -
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iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.
Almost a year ago, I met a kid who tried to convince me to come back to his room with him to see his hydraulic door. To this day he insists ... completely innocent and simply limited to showing me how he could use water to -
Blog / Admissions
Updates And Shannon’s Formula Random mid-week fun, and a few small updates for admitted and waitlisted students.
should arrive very soon! In the meantime, please don't forget to register for Campus Preview Weekend via your MyMIT account by March 31st. If ... them to call as soon as possible. There's more information for parents -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Stocking Up Completely random but fun.
to a warehouse club in the area. The house manager just delivered a brand new refrigerator to our kitchen, and we figured the time was right to christen it with frozen goods in bulk. :) It's pretty economical to -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity
's edition of TechTalk, a newspaper published by the MIT News Office. Why ... , cultures, and so many other things as well, so we wanted to capture small vignettes of this to communicate how diverse this campus truly is. I'll spare -
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making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class
that i was taking the class nanotechnology: from atoms to systems (6 ... like magic to me - in the sense that the material was so far beyond my comprehension that it was indistinguishable from magic. that turned out to be a -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
what i drew this summer i took an art class
a scholarship.) I missed drawing. I used to draw a lot as a kid; I ... much else to learn. But in the last year or so, the old dream of doing a ... to make my own manga. A few years ago, I took CMS.301, Critical -
Blog / Life after MIT
MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.
. According to a Johns Hopkins Magazine story, capped off his history minor by ... research teams raced to map the Universe by locating the most distant ... acceleration is thought to be driven by dark energy, but what that dark energy is -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?
[by Susan Shepherd '11] Choosing a set of colleges to apply to can be ... (thanks, Mollie!), MIT rose to the top of my list. Even so, I couldn't help but worry as I waited for the Admissions Staff to send back their reply -
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tim’s wardrobe legend has it, TIM changes clothes annually
meant to make it the same color as the ones we wore, but I didn’t get the ... I’m going to pretend I have not been AWOL. Life updates shall come in another blog, so for now, let us get on with the content. Each class year -
Blog / Admissions
What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.
course, you won't get to see all of the date-specific events from the rest ... Preview Weekend (CPW), I figured it would be worthwhile to spend a little time helping to set expectations for the weekend. Because CPW is such a -
Blog / Events
APPLE BAKE channeling midterm stress into baking, sculpting, and completely destroying apples for decades
: the Apple Bake. This annual event celebrates fall by having the floors of Burton-Conner compete to create the best apple dishes and apple art ... to note on the entry form what you swapped!) Apple Core of my Floor -
Blog / How to Human
a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz
in Boston is a nightmare, so it took us over an hour to get to her ... 't bother trying to venture out into Boston very often. over the summer ... few weekend trips to New York. these helped me realize how feasible -
Blog / Life after MIT
An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!
created by students just like us. It was incredible speaking to alumni ... and Tom Delaney came by to grab some food and say hi to our alumni and ... taken by Acrefoot (Michael) M. '11 The cats were also very excited to -
Blog / Life after MIT
Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time
degree program, and head into the “real world”, by March 2013. Prior to ... finally moved from the present to the past. But, for some reason, this wasn ... to be more elation, more joy, and more optimism as I looked toward the -
Blog / Academics & Research
The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001
conspiring, which means that I need to put that to an end. In the next little while, I'll try to do a recap of last term, which was fantastic, but ... invented at MIT to teach the fundamentals of how to program. The first class -
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Spring Term 2006! Spring Term Oh Six starts today (music video included).
is really too early to have class; unfortunately, all semester I will have to take it like a champ. So today's schedule went a little like ... , Prevention, and Treatment of Human Disease So to tell you the name of the -
Blog / IAP
Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.
How To Love Him" is remarkably similar to that of the second movement of ... same sequence of notes. There is so much I wanted to do for IAP for no other reason than so I could blog to you about it, but the incredible -
Blog / Events
“Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*
blogging momentum is really hard to start up again after a certain point. I'll be trying to atone throughout April. In the meanwhile, here's a story ... was only beginning to take off as common slang, and MITx, which is now