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• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  with barnstorming stunts: first, we watched a Fleet Finch 16-B and a De ... Channel. (After a bit of Googling, I learned that he made the trip at an ... do some aerial stunts (I had no idea you could do loops in a Cub!) and

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  listings. For a visual tour-de-SHASS, you can also stare at this gorgeous ... work we do as a strength of the Institute. Hopefully the courses, posters ... ) publishes a list of introductory subjects offered across its departments. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  school Halloween carnival, pin the nose on the jack-o-lantern and call it a ... I saw a very COOL, but rare DeLorean.What surprised me most wasn’t the ... Confession: I had never been trick-or-treating.  Not once. Not as a

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ah, those inspirational Germans! The Magdeburg Bridge in Germany is an engineering marvel and an inspiration to all Beavers!

  

  depressed and start asking yourself "Why am I here? What am I doing with my life?" I was a bit down in the dumps when I got this email from my mom about a recently completed water-channel bridge in Germany. Isn't that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  1967. Haacke decided that he would do a line drawing in the sky with a ... and two other ARTalk bloggers in 21M.A12 (Arts at MIT), I would like to ... ’s Acting with the Camera (21M.624) class and taking a tour of MIT

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  Hey, there, it's been a while. Sorry about that; it turns out that blogging momentum is really hard to start up again after a certain point. I'll be trying to atone throughout April. In the meanwhile, here's a story

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  , and blah blah blah blah blah. "But Google can do this too!" No. Google can not do this. Wolfram Alpha is so much beyond Google in terms of ... aren't familiar with it at all and enlighten you. Wolfram makes a

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  y a une baguette de pain au canelle dans le frigo de boissons. (There's a loaf of cinnamon bread in the frigo de boissons) - Il y a des ... ! - RE: Il y a des petits pains de canneles sur le sactab 12:40am, Nov 4

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leslie Jones Was Here and I Saw Her can't believe I haven't posted about this yet

  

  A couple of months ago I got an email saying that Leslie Jones (from SNL and Ghostbusters and others) was doing a show at MIT and that tickets were being awarded based on a lottery system. I entered the lottery

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  valero-o'connell. you bought it on a trip to harvard square where you ... googled your therapist's name and it came up in a blogpost from 2017 where ... feel like a wound that will never heal.   the problem— grief

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  subject, but the O grade can be converted to a grade of OX” and OX ... simpler terms, if you prefer: O - “You didn’t take the final or do the ... grades, my GPA had apparently plummeted - ?! OX in 14.04, O in 21A.01, ahh

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  to them being like, "wow, I see you :O" 9/10/21 A completely different ... , I noticed the sky was pretty cool, so I took a picture, as I do. 9 ... created this monstrosity. Do I regret it? Not for a second. It made solving

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  with from December to March. It was a full circle experience that we do ... up to only a small sample of MIT experiences, painted a beautifully ... . Early Action decision day was on a Wednesday for us. We honestly can

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  awesome vs. IAP remaining looked something like 1/x^4, culminating in a ... take the test. I'll spare you the exciting details of me doing breakneck ... my things into a suitcase and head for New Hampshire with my friends

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  / June 7, 2009 Edner Paul, a Haitian immigrant and John D. O'Bryant School ... . Edner Paul, a Haitian immigrant and John D. O'Bryant School of Mathematics ... and soon after passed a rigorous admission exam to the John D. O

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  display, but when I googled it I got a different painting as a result. In ... I just checked off #34 on the list of "101 Things To Do Before You ... saw a bull fight there and it actually made me nauseous, to the point

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  in a few weeks, or in a few years, I hope that you can do that too." i ... 's really all any of us can do on a day to day basis: try to make the world ... , Megan worked at Google, where she oversaw Google[x] and Google.org, and as

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  most excited about was seeing a building designed by Frank O. Gehry ... 't forget that it's a Frank O. Gehry building." Ling: "I don't think that you're going to forget that it's a Frank O. Gehry building." I actually really

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  Google calendars in my life. Now I don’t know what I’d do without it, its ... from a fire hose, but as Brian  O. posted a while ago, you get so much ... . (Only 23 hundredths of a year for the same time to come around already

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  . For those too lazy to google it, LiveScribe is a pen that does something ... beauty of it. You take notes just like you do with a normal pen and paper ... you Stanford!!!!* So by now you might think you have a fair idea of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009