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  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  the Featured Speakers panel on Friday of CPW. Her message to the ... and listening to one of my favorite programs on public radio and the ... begin to ask the questions and reflect on our use of technology, if we

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  before me, had a shiny cube on the table at the front of class. i looked at ... think about some of the conversations i have had on my floor, both that i ... in the past couple of months, my floor has found itself back in the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  Friday night when I ran into a couple of my sisters. Them: Where are you ... sell on the let’s-do-something-besides-work front. Anyways, the problem with this is that I am literally in a pair of free Crocs I got at Notre

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  theatres, and I met the author of the book the movie was based on, Margot Lee ... professor of the class, Mark Bear! On the right is an MRI scan of Prof. Bear ... 's always so much to do on campus! Here's just a partial selection of events

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  turns out that, much like a gourmet pretzel, life is full of twists. On ... of the world's foremost experts on general relativity, as well as a ... -up involves non-quantum-sized mirrors (as in, on the scale of 40 kg) and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• 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 ... walked into the gray Sunday of Boston. 昨天，我在杂货店。 我找了豆浆，因为现在是四旬期

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  , fast forward all the way from 1958 to 2023. How did I end up here on this ... only light on the Harvard Bridge coming from the streetlights and the ... than usual. I am holding pallets of bright green, yellow, and purple

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  Today was the major flight day for most of the teams at the Design ... that Wichita was dead-set on making sure flight was as difficult as possible. We wanted our plane, Corn Dog, to fly all three of our missions

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  Make your way through the most puzzling of MIT’s dorms on the path to ... , fast-paced combination of math, shape, and word puzzles set within the ... to the end! 9:00 PM - 3:00 AM Top of the Sponge Raise the roof /on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s All Work Together Easier Said Than Done

  

  systems integrator on the next iPhone. A common perception of MIT students ... deliver on both of the labs I led that day. But slowly, I am seeing myself ... from different living groups, activities, walks of life. Our “Tiger Team

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  -grown trees on the walls. Just on the other side of the hill is a modern Buddha ... night in a hotel that had run the internet wiring on the outside of the ... Education Office) and the last for research on village reconstruction projects

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  small changes feeling big my winter in Armenia

  

  and teach 9 out of the 10 days mostly on my own. (don't worry, she ... mix of fast and slow places. Here are some pictures... Yerevan day ... experiences is one of the reasons I chose this MIT, especially because I didn

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 17, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Miscellany In which I talk about my life and Fancy sportsball DNA folk songs

  

  on par with a Dalai Lama/Noam Chomsky kind of lecture. In case you don't know who Lil B is: he was featured on XXL's Top Freshman of the Year in ... today, so there's still plenty of time to jump on the bandwagon and offer

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  "] Me on my actual first day of high school! T-minus two months to the ... in on her with this sort of cock-eyed, confused look.   She didn ... climb I fear I'm bound to drown on the Firehose of life  Let alone the

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  of it all. When I strapped on my helmet and pads, in my mind I had the ... trip, because the majority of our time was spent crawling on my face ... As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  ' take on this program because it's one of those "you get what you give ... . Matt '11, another GEL, was featured in the winter 2011 issue of MIT ... being evaluated based purely on coursework. The value of the GEL program

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  students a discount on all three of these brands, these will be the laptops you see the most of on campus. Each has its benefits and each has its ... card, screen size, etc). While most of these features don't really matter

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  importance of not going too fast. Because math classes often rely on ... enough time to practice enough, depending on what the rest of your schedule ... understanding of all the concepts that the concept at hand relies on, but to no

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  moment, all of the episodes, and you realize that it didn't go fast, that ... Simmons Dome and Green Building Tim Flopped on the Bridge (reminds me of ... of my blog entries and you'll see that my role on these blogs isn't to

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  Longtime readers may recall that I am a big fan of the His Dark ... think my entire theory of the blogs, and what we try to do with them, is inspired by a line from the Amber Spyglass, as the ghost of an old woman

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019