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Blog / How to Food
[Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2
somewhat arrogant and definitely premature [annotation note='Link to previous ... . Now, allow me to present the sequel to my assortment of culinary ... the MIT dorm kitchens and subjected on campus students to a dining hall -
Blog / MIT Life
hope springs eternal a warm feeling
,[/annotation] and it may be a few more weeks before we see leaves begin to return to ... are already signs of life. People have, slowly but surely, began to ... everyone, and I know that there will continue to be restrictions, I cannot -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university
quickly ran out of room. There's an incredibly interesting story to how MIT ... almost closed again, only to be saved by a last ... ," which allowed it to move to Cambridge and build the core of the -
Blog / Academics & Research
MIT (Maker) Women Rock We are what we celebrate
traumatic brain injury, the NFL continues to sell photos of "big hits" and stupid sportswriters continue to laud players who play through injury. What we celebrate, and whom we praise as heroes, becomes what we want to -
Blog / Academics & Research
Classes—Fall 05
It's always awkward to post an entry about my classes for the ... at my blog. If that applies to you, um, Hi. 14.41 Public Finance and ... opposed to normative, not as opposed to negative) way, we examine health -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
[Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24
brownstones to tea and scented candlelight. Yet some are always late. They ... of rain. Rat. Squishy soles. No time to stop. Enough time to smile. Through moments like these, I’ve come to realize the back alley is my -
Blog / MIT Life
i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman
okay, it’s a bit early to proclaim my love for this place, especially ... Chinese, and spending an obscene amount of time on Facebook talking to my ... regular day, to a CAMPUS with PEOPLE e v e r y w h e r e was so much -
Blog / Admissions
CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!
to prefrosh, welcoming them to our home. This is CPW. I already wrote ... incredible this experience is, and how grateful I am to live in a place this ... how I can help people, and I've had so many great ideas about how to -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.
Laboratory for Chocoloate Science. According to their Wiki, LCS can be ... (LCS) is a student club dedicated to spreading the appreciation of chocolate on campus, and to bringing opportunitites for learning about -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
welding 1000 digits of pi nom nom buzz buzz
social. The pies were oh-so delicious. I want to share with you some ... event where makerspace mentors welded on digits of pi to a steel apparatus ... learn to spot weld 5 digits of pi, and mentors/staff can arc weld them -
Blog / Life after MIT
seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures
was a working adult, living the 9 to 5, subconsciously looking forward to the paycheck every other friday. [annotation note="the 9 to 5 i didn ... feeling of transferring income to a savings account. by august i grew to -
Blog / Uncategorized
Open Thread: The Final Countdown a noble tradition of posting all day on the internet
making it hard to blog right now. So, in order to not have to migrate n ... Charles in frustration over these EE bugs, this post is going to carry us -
Blog / Academics & Research
def hackMIT(); cool code & company
P.S: This is the only bit of coding I did this weekend. Stay tuned for the next three HackMITs to hear about a possible project ;) -
Blog / Academics & Research
Jaden Smith was in my 3.091 lecture!!
How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren’t Real -
Blog / About Decisions
Fall 2017 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today May the Fourth, and also your transfer decisions, be with you
applicants, receive decisions via email from our office to the address listed ... students applied to transfer, and we have admitted 24. And as usual, we are ... about those we could not. As a former transfer student myself (not to MIT -
Blog / Events
Lilly Chin The Spiciest Memelord
coupons attached to one of our refrigerators and an entire system for ... --which is indeed, as heavenly as it sounds. It was introduced to Beantown by ... guaranteed to win no matter what, and subsequently decided to grace us with a -
Blog / Academics & Research
2.007 Robot Competition 2016 robots dump (replica) tea bags in the (replica) Boston harbor
was inspired by the American Revolution. The competing robots had to ... like ejecting a mini robot to complete a subtask. Aside from the ... early 1970s. His approach to a hands-on mechanical engineering curriculum -
Blog / About Decisions
Fall 2015 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today May the Fourth, and also your transfer decisions, be with you
applicants, receive decisions via email from our office to the address listed ... students applied to transfer, and we have admitted 22. And as usual, we are ... about those we could not. As a former transfer student myself (not to MIT -
Blog / Admissions
In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family
Today, MIT dedicated a memorial to Officer Sean Collier, who was ... , and part of the MIT family. It is not the first memorial dedicated to ... Hampshire quarries near which he loved to climb, this memorial to Sean will