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  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  amiable to the point of insisting that we call him by first name, in which ... ) prior to Monday, I was under the legal lottery ticket purchase age, (2 ... 's statistically improbable to win things that aren't in cereal boxes. Well, it

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  tote bag tour i have so many things to carry

  

  's all of the bags I have... for now. But I'm always trying to get that bag ... floppy rectangle of yellow there. I tried my best to retreat under the guise of functionality: this one’s dark enough to hold tubes of paint, and

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 2, 2024
• Blog / Events

  FUP!!! I spent my first official week at MIT as a FUPPER!!

  

  at MIT a week early to participate in FUP, or the MIT Freshman Urban ... various community service events, while also allowing us to do all these awesome activities like go to a Red Sox game and explore Boston and eat

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s here! The post you've all been waiting for, or at least until you saw Snively with…

  

  . Well, we finished the something awesome months ago, but we wanted to keep it under wraps until its official release. Today, I'm finally able to show it to you, since the Next Big Mailing has officially been shipped

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Evolution of Physics Physics gets harder as you get older, go figure.

  

  Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 Blogging Scholarship for $10,000! I don't like physics. A lot of people seem to think I do. I'd like to ... sorts of majors here at MIT to choose from that have nothing to do with

  • by Snively '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  I am writing to announce that, due to the ongoing pandemic, our ... /ACT, or who can find a forthcoming opportunity to do so safely are encouraged to submit their scores with the understanding that they [annotation

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Story of the 5 Wits A look back on my externship at 5 Wits

  

  temperature to drink by mixing hot water with ice. Memory, who couldn ... Once upon an IAP, there were 5 externs* who were lucky enough to be selected to work at a magical company called 5 Wits Productions, where many

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  , em-dashes and alliteration. Why? There is a good argument to be made ... powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.” I’m not going to make ... destructive because of the force behind it. (If it were, by Newton’s Third Law

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Rush & Recruitment 2012 Evan and Denzil weigh in on this hectic week

  

  options this busy week! I'd like to leave you with one part(y)ing shot. You're ... 'welcome to MIT' freshmen experience, began on Saturday. Today, Denzil Sikka ... their words. They'd like to write about why 'Going Greek' was the best

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I GOT TWENTY DOLLARS IN MY POCKET (because I got a press pass to SpringFest 2013, of course. photos inside!)

  

  As Matt wrote earlier, today was SpringFest 2013!  Or, to put it in ... awesome violinist (Rebecca Zeller) who had to switch bows after each song ... Fest sold more tickets than any in recent memory.  And by "recent memory," I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT honors Officer Sean Collier (photoblog) photos from today's memorial service

  

  turned out by the thousands today for a memorial service to honor fallen ... memorial service found other ways to pay their respects: Rest in peace ... Memorial Fund, which will support a Collier Medal to be awarded to people who

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 24, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Pics or it didn’t happen? It happened!

  

  in our stories. The contestants, from top to bottom, left to ... , "From Generation to Generation" // Bruno Faviero, "Vision" // Bruna Moscol, "Our Essence" // Jennifer Wang, "Two Poems by Taylor Mali"    

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2006 Day 1 Campus Preview Weekend has begun! [photos]

  

  : Registration began at 9am with a huge influx of people. It was great to see so many familiar faces! Mitra helps to check in one of the first students to ... brought along their pickle-powered VU meter to show off. 2x4 Jenga! The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  documents that would come to be known as the Pentagon Papers (Ellsberg was a ... ; activism has largely been confined to a few small groups, many of which have ... awkward situation. While it didn’t want to appear indifferent in the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  quick post about that experience, written as I continue to deny the fact ... : Here we are at Gullfoss! From left to right: Ryan B. '18, Mitchell G. '18 ... ". On the second day we drove to the village Vík, where our hotel for the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  The Festival of Learning is an annual event organized by the MIT Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology ... the Festival last year here. This year, I wanted to be more involved

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Jonathan Lii A look at a senior from the Class of 2006.

  

  professor here. He is the coolest guy to talk to about ANYTHING. He has all ... . Going to him for one on one help really pulled me through 18.310. I feel ... was awesome because ZBT gets all the awesome local bands together and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Greek Way What I did for a Klondike Bar, caesar salad, chicken florentine, mushroom ravioli, chocolate torte,…

  

  -hazing agreement, but you can use your imagination as to the kind of requirements for ... Engineering. Today I decided to do start doing things the Greek way as I was ... actually called the ceremony, but it used the word "covenant" enough times to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  to pursue interests in the humanities at MIT -- I mean, the name of the ... opportunity to meet with Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences (HASS) Philip Khoury, to help us talk about and address the quality

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT’s Once-a-Century Party

  

  , but boy does MIT know how to throw a party - I'm told the weekend was a $10+ million event.  It's not every Saturday night that you get to see ... rehearsing the lights for MIT's 100-year-anniversary of its move to Cambridge

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 8, 2016