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  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  A few weeks ago, when I blogged about the commencement of the Class of 2018, I made a note about the address given by Colin Webb, President ... ). It was a remarkable speech that really brought everyone to their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  ’s probably clear from our avatar, but we are going to be blogging as a duo ... not knowing who’s who). It’s pretty funny though, every time we meet a ... stands for Freshman Arts Program – is a weeklong FPOP (freshman pre

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  .R.R. Tolkien, Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) is a language of long, cold ... poignant account of the Crucifixion (The Dream of the Rood), and a host of ... a scene from Tom Stoppard's 1993 play Arcadia (which MIT is currently

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  In June I'll be celebrating, along with my MIT classmates, a pretty ... quite a few years ago. Seeing the MITLeaks announcement on Monday reminded ... . Before the magic of the internet we actually got a real letter announcing

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  deep underneath a basketball court, behind several locked doors, and ... ammunition, and more guns than you can (or would want to) shake a stick at. A ... (dodgeball, flag football, air pistol). Not a lot is said about these, I guess

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  know something is Really Important: Now, MIT has hosted a pretty ... hosted the infamous Ollie Smoot '62 (for a lecture about Smoot's Ear ... expecting Neil to be here by now. There is A few people start clapping (widely

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  regard to our engagement. If you are a person who likes this sort of thing ... future reference. A cool thing that I find amusing We went over to the ... space over the main entrance to the museum are the vehicles Daedalus (a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ripping shirts and other clothing mods

  

  shape the world around me, and clothing mods are a great part of that. So ... ="96640" /] b1 had a craft REX event (tie dye and embroidery) est. time: 60 ... est. time: 2 hrs I found these black cargo pants at a thrift store in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  the tagalog word for "older brother". tagalog does not have a lot of ... kung saan Ikaw ay laging mag-isa Kami tuloy dito nag-aalala [It's been a ... In a different country, where You're always alone And so we're worried

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  a 45% on the 3.091 final. I could write about the classes I loved. The ... academically. Therefore, community is virtually required. There's a phrase I hear ... share memories of friendship in the form of a poorly formatted digital

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  for a couple days, the bulletin boards begin to look familiar. You ... , even if you don’t actually take it, because you can guess. You’ll get a ... ’ll be right enough that you’ll never be truly surprised where a hallway

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait

  

  more important. In a few hours from now, you'll read the decision ... truth is that there are uncountably many factors that go into a decision ... . They are all great posts, but here are a handful of my favorites: Into

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  been fantastic in a lot of different ways. I'm back in Cambridge, I did a [annotation note='this is a program run by CAPD which has, in the past, been ... actually find me in a photo in this post!']micro-internship[/annotation] at a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/19/20, 3:14 PM ET

  

  and a Slack message from Petey appears saying, “Kellen, I need you to ... ,’[/annotation]it’s anime. Can you do this for me?” And, with a tear in my eye, I looked at my ... email us at [email protected] and a friendly guy named [annotation note

  • by kellen manning
  • December 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  home. In the Spring of 2019, a Harvard student named Denisse C. '22 ... year she was (a freshman, like me) and what her major was (she said ... was really happy with her answers, given that I was also a freshman girl

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/14/19, at 12:14 PM ET

  

  I've stopped watching this video of a tiny hedgehog being bathed and ... receive a decision on the 14th, you should visit decisions.mit.edu and try ... saturday but you're just a tiny baby who hasn't verified and it doesn't work

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  flight to boston. this summer went by weirdly fast but in a way that i can ... a friend who's an LA native about this feeling and he said that it ... and it's like you're caught in a time loop. i don't know if i like that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Evaluate your MIT Student Experience Dear {{FIRST_NAME}}, Every four years, MIT surveys all undergraduate students about vario...

  

  enhanced while a student at MIT? How do you perceive the sense of community ... -being? Please take a few minutes to participate and provide your perspective. To ... presented in a way that individual respondents cannot be identified. If data

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 27, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  , is that we learned that Elizabeth’s “mistake” was actually not a ... to a study: They found that 191 couples — 14.7 percent — were ... told they were identical. Here is a diagram to sum up the relationship

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 27, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

    Earlier this month, here at ETH, we had our spring break a ... embarked on a journey to warmer, sunnier lands down south. Two weeks before, however, my exchange friends and I did a pre-Spring Break weekend trip in

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018