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• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Twins Chandler ‘13 and Taylor ‘13 The fifth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  -valedictorians set for MIT Originally posted on: Friday, May 29, 2009 by Adam Freeman ... school, so it's just wonderful that we're able to do this together and ... don't even think they're twins. They don't look alike to us. Their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  somewhat arrogant and definitely premature [annotation note='Link to previous ... . Now, allow me to present the sequel to my assortment of culinary ... the MIT dorm kitchens and subjected on campus students to a dining hall

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  !) just in time to help the 213 suite put together a study break. Every ... for everyone to enjoy while, as the name implies, breaking from their studies. Since we hadn't actually planned anything, we just ran to La

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence... illusion only is sacred, truth profane. Nay

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yet Another MIT 2010? Alex Doonesbury needs to choose a college.

  

  In the comic Doonesbury by Gary Trudeau, the character Alex Doonesbury is still deciding on colleges: RPI, Cornell, or MIT? Now, her ... cartoons indicate Alex will take a gap year, either to "consult for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt begins tomorrow A fun puzzle to solve.

  

  The annual Mystery Hunt (history here) begins tomorrow at 12:17pm in MIT's Lobby 7. To give you a flavor of the Hunt, I decided I'd post ... does, however, come with a title: "Cookie Monster." The answer, by the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Food We Made! a photo dump of non-aesthetic pictures

  

  stores over the course of two weeks. It was also quite the mission to get ... to try to take nice pictures of the process and final result. But since coming to MIT, we mostly stopped cooking/baking because we no longer

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 29, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Y U NO HAVE ROLLERCOASTER this is why

  

  time, that EC had to get a licensed structural engineer to sign off all of its construction plans in order to obtain Cambridge building permits ... If you weren't aware, REX (Residence EXploration) is going to be in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 27, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  Reading is one of the few real hobbies I've managed to hold onto throughout my time at MIT, not that I have much time to read during the semesters. Still, it's nice to look back at the past year, which has been a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  occupied with the crutches to hold an umbrella. So, by the time I hobbled ... lobby. Rewind four weeks, to a field in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I was about to start playing Ultimate Frisbee. The teams stretched

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  —and all others forced to bid periodically for their next opportunity ... . Some turn to exposure therapy, or perhaps the simulated version, maybe even a literal game to conquer, in a pressing effort to desensitize

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  back in east campus jiggity jig

  

  i moved back to east campus last weekend, and to continue the kinda ... slightly less smooth than last time, because i had to carry boxes up three stairs rather than down three stairs, but it was fine. piece by piece

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  Luckily, thanks to our friendly Senior Haus GRTs I was able to acquire number 1, and thanks to the obscene amount of tuition I'm paying MIT I was able to attend number 2 (and am also missing number 3), which is why I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Engagement Party Salsa dancing with Benjamin Franklin and Optimus Prime

  

  MIT, and at first I was going to spend the weekend in NYC, but then I ... knew I had to attend. I put down "Jane Austen" for my favorite historical ... figure. Not only did we have to figure out who the person was, but also who

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  To make up for the apparently unlucky (but ultimately normal) Friday the 13th, fate decided to rain upon Sam and me loads of good luck last ... Avenue Saturday (avec Sam): a lunch in Chinatown a visit to Trump Tower

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Black Panther 2 Plot (Totally Real) (Not Clickbait) (Please Click Anyway Though) Not a fanfiction about Black Panther (because I am not a fan)

  

  seems to have tickets to see the film when it premieres. Before you ask ... been revealed to us so far (mostly from watching out-of-context trailer ... like not a lot to work off of, but I assure you that it’s more than

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Business As Usual

  

  Virginia's scenic New River. And now it's starting to get cold here in ... my camera. I stepped out of my room the other day and had to traverse ... fairly often. We try not to walk barefoot on the splinters and shards, but

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Missy Cummings on The Colbert Report At the end of the interview, she and Stephen face off in Rock 'Em Sock…

  

  Colbert Report: it's important to understand the context of the program and ... Colbert Report is a spin-off from and counterpart to The Daily Show that ... named Stephen Colbert, played by his real-life namesake. The character

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Saturday Night in Simmons it's so busy here tonight [i really need to study or go to sleep]

  

  Y'all. Simmons is bustling tonight. I realized while going to get ... post! So I went to snatch my friend, Caleb M. '27 's camera, and here are ... enough space to run around. And some good shoes you can hard brake in. I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  Procrastination For Finals ...so I cooked dinner instead.

  

  rice to get the consistency you see in risotto) 1/3 can of beef stock (in retrospect, it might have been better to use vegetable stock because beef stock ... on Tuesday, Wednesday, AND Thursday morning). So to procrastinate on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 13, 2009