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  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  .) have created the first-ever reconstruction of Roman climate. Now, the ... became obsessed with the word consilience. I loved all of my classes ... - and was enamored by the possibility of doing research that bridged

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  myself, I found the old blog that I submitted as part of my blogger ... unread in a tiny corner of the internet, so I can dust off the MIT ... abundance of free time was a given) I’ve been spending less time on the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  attempt to rectify my wrongs of the first class (aka the Snowman ... lol). This blog post is about my journey into the art of glass ... which again by the way IS REALLY FREAKING HOT, and the first time

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  From Charlottesville to Cambridge photos from a gathering for solidarity

  

  Thornhill of First Holiness Church and the Cambridge YWCA     ... publicize their misconceptions in broad daylight. The people of Cambridge ... ; the crowd outside of city hall  

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Events

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

  

  Large Hadron Collider, and how it was the first supercollider of its kind ... audience for questions, the first of which came from a professor to my right ... was the first sign of the Higgs boson. It was a reveal which had been

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  application essays. I saw confetti stream down the center of the page. “well ... the absolute freedom of just being able to paint an institute wall, or ... by the end of this.” “Dude you’re literally going to lose.” “You

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  you are the type of person that would enjoy cute games that largely involve mindless daily chores and where much of the charm comes from social ... pad and acoustic guitar, though i've kind of fallen in love with the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  back? In the end I got a very commanding 4th place out of 20, and I ... geek points built up to get some of the cool expensive stuff (if I didn't still want to save them up!). The point is, $100 of prize money wasn

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7:15PM ET!

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products ... experience.   The effort spans the early phases of product development

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  I competed in the Green Building Challenge as part of this year's Bad ... placing third, with a total of 103 climbs! I climbed the Green Building a ... few minutes on the 18th floor, where we first made sure to record our

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  Being the first three-day weekend of the academic calendar, Columbus ... sleeping marathons. Per tradition, I partook in the first of the three, as ... . Some were worried that the presence of wi-fi for the first time meant

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The word meaning "the closest approach of an orbiting ... Target refrigerator from Omaha, NE in the back of your parents' minivan. It also means that we have the highest per-capita average of fire

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Above MIT The sky's the limit.

  

  . Literally. The likelihood of you seeing MIT quite like this is somewhat small ... of the plane while I was snapping these photos. Rest assured that I was ... ;   This was the first major landmark I recognized once I was in the

  • by Piper '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  . This place is hard, in all senses of the word. It cuts you to the quick. But it can be lovely, too.   When I first thought of this blog ... to be about how you predicted many of the pitfalls of this place. It

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  -known class around the Institvte. As many of you know, 6.001 was a class invented at MIT to teach the fundamentals of how to program. The first class ... Hi, everyone! Sorry that I vanished off the face of the earth. That

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  The Craziest 3 Days of Soccer Ever broken records, halloween practice, and senior day!

  

  On Wednesday, we had our second to last game of the regular season ... step closer to that goal.  But that was not the most eventful thing of ... and unstoppable. Watching her sprint down the left side of the field

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Sneezes a deep and in-depth analysis of an everyday occurrence

  

  is around the time of winter break. I chose to spend my break at home ... defines as the “sudden involuntary expulsion of air from the nose and mouth ... residual sickness, my last sneeze was during the writing of blog post and I

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  lot of other stressful things in everyone's lives at the time, so all ... fun together again! One of my friends is in the Shakespeare ensemble ... and ready D:) production of the Merry Wives of Windsor. She gave me the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  . When we got there, the first thing I noticed was that there were a lot of ... ="attachment_73145" align="aligncenter" width="756"] one of the first things you see ... the Museum of Science in Boston this past Sunday. I love museums, and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Events

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

  

  first Cross-Continental Solar Car race. "One of the very most important ... On Friday, June 5th, the Class of 2015 graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the 149th commencement ceremony in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015