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  So we’re actually *identical* twins which is surprising to absolutely ... no one

  

  week ago, we thought Elizabeth was wrong. Because for our whole lives ... that it is not that uncommon for doctors to misclassify twins. According ... identical, and the only way to know for certain is with a DNA test. If the DNA

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wrote a whole post on Halloween and forgot to publish it So here's 2 months of blogging in one post

  

  friend Kristen made gingerbread houses for hall to decorate It's rainbow ... can have food I made meatloaf and Kristen made a fritata for ... ! 🖤🖤 Conversations about death are important but censored by society so thanks for enabling

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • December 26, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  **The idea for this post was originally Abby’s, but she is very hosed ... for frosh and upperclassmen to start hooking up left and right, but I ... . tl;dr MIT has a surprising amount of options for taking care of your

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  ! This summer, I've come to realize my love for a certain being that has ... regular basis. I love music. I played various instruments for 13 years of ... not really knowing what I was in for. And granted, for the first few

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  from the library and is probably trying to make a shelter for the local ... , so much so that it really had bothered me for a long time that my ... weren’t for OCW, there would’ve been nothing else on my application that

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  naturally, I set out for the nearest and most convenient source of soda ... alas, for whatever reason, the cash only soda machine in building 66 didn ... Thursday night, in lieu of prepping for the Career Fair, a group of friends

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  , Wyoming, Nebraska, Kentucky, Tennessee, and South Carolina. For the rest of ... to believe that some people have been waiting for this day for decades

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  dorms when I came up here for an overnight visit, and I didn’t know that ... . They are released at the end of May for the incoming freshmen to decide ... MacGregor as my new number 1 for the wrong reasons—I thought the single

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Mocktails happy new year new you

  

  year ago when I spent an entire day writing essays for a number of ... here in Central Standard Time except for the classy new decorations my ... you who have completed all or some or none of what you planned for the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  person we're going to be for the next stage of our lives. I felt like I ... looked like. For 2016, I wanted to really push for change. I decided I ... plane for a Phi Kappa Sigma conference and spent a week getting to know my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  For many people, the idea of "what do I want to be when I grow up" is ... , president, etc.), but as the time comes for us to truly decide what we are ... you want to do for, potentially, the rest of your life. Even here at MIT

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  über Christa T. (The Quest for Christa T.) by Christa Wolf   ... the good I could do for the world) and would maximize, if I could only be prescient enough to solve for the best combination of choices. Once

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  organization for lost orphaned baby whales in the middle of Africa, speak Spanish ... ideas. In fact for Christmas, some of the faculty used their own money to ... entertain what I would consider an “annoying” curiosity, and for that I am

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  -part post. That being said, I’ll assume for now that academics at MIT won ... think about them changes--for the sake of argument. Though I left my last ... my professors--a move I’m pretty glad I took! Asking for help is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  class with a variable focus, would become a comic script workshop for this ... introduction). Our professor for the semester was Marjorie Liu, a New York Times bestselling novelist who also writes comics for Marvel. She helped us dive right

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  . It's one of my favorite things ever. For more, watch the below MITnews ... . Bonus! While digging through old photos for this blog post, I found ... that Cory gave me for Halloween the year before (so two years ago

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  Institute and our admissions process, particularly for those far ... speaking to as many students as I could. I'm writing notes for my colleagues ... ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;I woke up at 5:30AM and caught a taxi to Logan Airport for my 7:30AM flight

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  half-day sample of the Stanford Experience. Being home briefly for summer ... fundraising for a project called Fuse!box, a "mobile hackerspace" designed to ... aside, those Stanfordites are all right. They're working for the same

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  Below is one of the robots I built for 2.007, MIT's extremely popular introductory design and manufacturing class: For reference, here's the first ... first day of lab and I'm a bit nervous. 2.007 is well known for its chaos

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file? Well, now you can--thanks to a HackMIT project.

  

  second prize (and $2000) for his work. What, exactly, does Project Naptha ... can do this for pretty much every language on the Internet, including ... off, Allan Add Project Naptha to Chrome here. For demos and backstory

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 25, 2014