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• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  this blog and is trying to tell me something. So here are the highlights ... , despite never having seen these words before and abandoning my studies to ... , including pencils, cough drops ("You can take one in your mouth, but you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  An MIT Community Vigil for Black Lives

  

  , accompanied by her brother Steve and Darlene Washington as the ASL interpreter ... , and the nation, to do better. So I wanted to make sure we shared it here ... . If you don't have time to watch the full video, you can [annotation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  !) just in time to help the 213 suite put together a study break. Every ... for everyone to enjoy while, as the name implies, breaking from their studies. Since we hadn't actually planned anything, we just ran to La

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence... illusion only is sacred, truth profane. Nay

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  In the comic Doonesbury by Gary Trudeau, the character Alex Doonesbury is still deciding on colleges: RPI, Cornell, or MIT? Now, her ... cartoons indicate Alex will take a gap year, either to "consult for a

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

  Mystery Hunt begins tomorrow A fun puzzle to solve.

  

  The annual Mystery Hunt (history here) begins tomorrow at 12:17pm in MIT's Lobby 7. To give you a flavor of the Hunt, I decided I'd post ... does, however, come with a title: "Cookie Monster." The answer, by the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Food We Made! a photo dump of non-aesthetic pictures

  

  stores over the course of two weeks. It was also quite the mission to get ... to try to take nice pictures of the process and final result. But since coming to MIT, we mostly stopped cooking/baking because we no longer

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 29, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Y U NO HAVE ROLLERCOASTER this is why

  

  time, that EC had to get a licensed structural engineer to sign off all of its construction plans in order to obtain Cambridge building permits ... If you weren't aware, REX (Residence EXploration) is going to be in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  , are making their way to the largest of MIT's annual career fairs. Today, 300 companies are on campus trying to recruit MIT students to come work for them, or to do a summer internship. The companies span the spectrum

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Engagement Party Salsa dancing with Benjamin Franklin and Optimus Prime

  

  MIT, and at first I was going to spend the weekend in NYC, but then I ... knew I had to attend. I put down "Jane Austen" for my favorite historical ... figure. Not only did we have to figure out who the person was, but also who

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Black Panther 2 Plot (Totally Real) (Not Clickbait) (Please Click Anyway Though) Not a fanfiction about Black Panther (because I am not a fan)

  

  seems to have tickets to see the film when it premieres. Before you ask ... been revealed to us so far (mostly from watching out-of-context trailer ... like not a lot to work off of, but I assure you that it’s more than

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Missy Cummings on The Colbert Report At the end of the interview, she and Stephen face off in Rock 'Em Sock…

  

  Colbert Report: it's important to understand the context of the program and ... Colbert Report is a spin-off from and counterpart to The Daily Show that ... named Stephen Colbert, played by his real-life namesake. The character

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Procrastination For Finals ...so I cooked dinner instead.

  

  rice to get the consistency you see in risotto) 1/3 can of beef stock (in retrospect, it might have been better to use vegetable stock because beef stock ... on Tuesday, Wednesday, AND Thursday morning). So to procrastinate on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  seemed to find the session helpful and informative. I did get one question ... the time I was trying to answer the question, I wasn't thinking outside ... meeting did it occur to me that he could have been asking about some of our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  … locations, we set to work. This isn't our first rodeo, and by now we ... ="108229" /] In honor of holiday meals at home, I want to share a holiday meal away from home. Aka, it’s finally time to post my (extremely belated

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  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 blogged earlier, is also sponsored by the French department, part of MIT

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  . During my overnight stay in Milan, I travelled the roads of time to meet him at "Casa Verdi," a resting home for retired musicians built by one ... . Casa Verdi, known by its full name Casa di Riposo per Musicisti

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  view:     It's good to be back to campus, now as a senior ... , reconnection to friends, and eagerness for a fresh academic term is a permeating ... . During retreat, the scientific community gathers to present research and

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Why I’m Leaving the MIT Admissions Blogs it's been a good run.

  

  day wait.   *static---commercial break* Be the life of your ... , which is all I needed to "make" a few hacks of my own. Enjoy!     What was the best April Fool's Day prank you've pulled? Love to hear in the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT TechTV: Incredible videos from the MIT community YouTube has nothing on us.

  

  I have three final exams this week, so what better time to be ... ://techtv.mit.edu/about/)! If you think MIT students are too smothered with work to let their ... Monoxide — http://techtv.mit.edu/file/94/ Which one is your favorite?

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 20, 2007