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• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  . After stopping by a bakery to buy some roll cake (for breakfast the next ... Currently listening to Currently with: Raymond, Lucy, and Shannia ... course, Thanksgiving weekend. I have...a lot to be thankful for. Mom, if

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Events

  twerking, MIT style need more be said?

  

  poppy R&B... ...to ballet-ish... ...to an Indian folk dance by ... Welcome to another edition of MIT Students Can Be Artsy™, aka We Do More Than Psets! Really!™, aka Things to Do On Saturday Nights at MIT

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 8, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Walter Lewin ESG Lecture Oh, you know, only one of the most famous Physics Professors of all time

  

  Earlier this year I had the pleasure to meet Walter Lewin at an ESG ... lucky enough to video tape. Covering topics from why he majored in physics to the ONLY reason someone wouldn't like physics, Walter Lewin never

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  which I cheered and Sam trumpeted -- and, due to a malicious ball of burning gas 93 million miles away, I am now burned to a bright red crisp. On ... it's physically impossible for anyone but me to get a sunburn. And yet

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I track the progress of my application?

  days to be processed. Materials are not automatically loaded into a student's application—all materials have to be processed. We ask for seven business days to process materials at the busy Early Action and Regular
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Update State of the mail, application numbers, and more

  

  Midyear Report is an online form that is required of all students, and is to be completed by you, the applicant. The Report serves two purposes: to ... -date and to be patient as we process thousands of documents. By not calling

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  soon joined by others, who seemed to have had the same bright idea. We ... exciting is that??! They TALKED to us. And we didn't get arrested! Or shot by ... snow-that-can-barely-be-called-snow deigns to appear about once in ten

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  't afraid to speak up, as evidenced by the huge hubbub that sparked from ... My employer recently sent me to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women ... .  It was a great opportunity to see some wonderful speakers, connect with

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  tunnel. The reason all of these things need to be done by next Thursday is ... I am taking 5 minutes out of my life just to let you all know why I don't exist. I don't exist, because this is my to-do list: No joke

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  can do anything" or the world is open to you, and then be told that there are dues to be paid, you must accumulate a certain number and type of "tickets" to be able to do the thing you want to do, you have to

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Soymilk 豆浆

  

  Yesterday I was at the grocery store. I needed to get soymilk, because it is lent and I am fasting. I try to fast like my father does, the ... , that she would make for me and serve hot. She soaked the dried beans in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  . But I've been trying to examine what actually makes me happy, and how I ... . Mostly, I'm glad to be here, and to be free to make mistakes and learn from ... 't intend to make this connection when I started writing!), I'm iterating and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  't really my goal. All I wanted was to make somebody on the judges' panel ... Author's note: The original title was going to be "I DUPED THE COOP!" but I decided that was too much. I still wanted to mention it though

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.

  

  cracking each card. I estimated that I could expect to make about $600 a day. That's not bad. But to be honest, I make more as a consultant, and I find ... defect in the game: The visible numbers turned out to reveal essential

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  make 3D models. Basically, we modeled a cafe on AutoCAD and sent it to a ... ’s pretty irrational - computers are meant to be used, aren’t they. But still ... digital age that I can't take an architecture class without having to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  to take the next bus with Gloria who also didn’t make it with the first ... weekend to see the latest updates!). Background Slack Messages Earlier ... begin. (Also deep thanks to Kano for the planning and brilliant execution

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  . Ask yourself questions -- enough to make yourself see your own personal ... 's something I want to convey to you. MIT is not for everyone!! It's not that ... impossible to satisfy everyone, you know? For example, if you really wanted to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  technological edge that you need to really make progress." These days, he said ... genetics. So now, he said, it makes more sense to locate brain science in a ... Friday, MIT plans to dedicate what it bills as the largest collection of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  wanted to write it anyway, so here I am. I considered just not writing this post and moving on to the 5000 other topics on my to-do list, but I felt it would be disingenuous to present the fall semester through only

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  been used to describe Next House's annual Thanksgiving celebration. I ... not located at MIT during Thanksgiving break. However, I was able to ask ... seems to have grown each year. This year, we had around 70 signups and we

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016