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Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for
mascots were going to have varying levels of accuracy based on the data ... and stored the results on Google Sheets. Out of the 45 schools listed, I ... evolutionarily related to each other? Of course not. If you said yes, then you -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.
video on the glass lab, featuring glass instruments, a few of my friends ... The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch is one of my favorite events at MIT. It is annual, put on by the MIT Glass Lab (the people who make the -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones
in on their own. Even in Ishiguro novels that I’m less fond of (Klara ... —based on what I can only describe as the rhythm of the writing, and finished ... , calling to the surface a sense of pacing and beauty—on the sentence level -
Blog / MIT Life
I like romantic things like music and art ...so why don't I have a boyfriend?
and putting fire engines on the top of buildings, and although all of ... of the oven) I had to jump on my bike and race halfway across campus to a practice room so I could work on a performance of Bach's Ricercare a -
Blog / Hacks
Another hack Snow and hacks and exams.
has already increased the amount of greenspace on campus by 0.0005%. And here's how: (The following pictures are a mix of pictures I took on my ... was placed right in front of the main entrance to MIT on Massachusetts -
Blog / Admissions
Open Thread: Admitted Early
?” Well, [annotation note="or now, depending on when you see this"]later today,[/annotation] you’ll receive an email with details on [annotation note="and couple of ways to get to know other 2026s"]what’s next -
Blog / Admissions
Pi Day, Tau Time As the admissions decisions approach...
on Pi Day, at Tau Time (that is tomorrow, March 14, at 6:28pm EDT). Some of you, though, may be wondering -- what's the deal with Tau? Well ... Academy's newest employee? And did you see the story about Sal Khan '98 on -
Blog / Events
emergency blog post because Lilly Chin ‘17 just won Jeopardy and is also the greatest of all time "who is the spiciest memelord?" it's you
Of Lilly that MIT suddenly had a custom snapchat filter activated on ... befriend some of the best and brightest minds in America and around the world ... Admissions officer. CONGRATS LILLY YOU ARE THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME. WE ALL -
Blog / About Decisions
MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online
*Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... Class of 2016 are now available at decisions.mit.edu You can log in ... of the shifting admissions landscape, our applicant pool was slightly -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.
article on the Degas exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), but I saw ... : pretty to look at and nice to listen to (the tagline says it all), 5 out of ... I reached the Huntington Street entrance of the MFA that afternoon -
Blog / Academics & Research
Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet
childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside ... lists of todos, instructions to myself, things to check up on, and so ... set to play on after students’ efforts for Kendall Station" - a bunch of -
Blog / Academics & Research
My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?
semester. On the flip side, most of the Conner 2 freshmen are in that class ... just like in high school presentations (rate the speaker on a scale of 1 to 5 on her level of eye contact), and then left. I was invited to stay -
Blog / Community Projects
[Infinite] Quarter Mile quarters + packing tape + sore knees == help cure MS
The Infinite Corridor at MIT is the pulsing spine of central campus. As the artery which connects most of the main academic and administrative buildings, it's probably the only place that everyone on campus -
Blog / MIT Life
I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.
of graffiti on a chalkboard as I was walking through building 56. Get ... destroy the organic unity of this entry. Anyway, in the midst of this not the greatest week, I was thinking about limericks, which of course led -
Blog / Admissions
ZOMG CPW and other acronyms C.Y.G.W.T.S.F? I.F.C,I.B.Y.C!
be setting foot on campus, many of you for the first time, to experience what a little bit of MIT is like. Can't sleep? Curious about what to ... HOLY COW GUYS! CPW IS ALMOST HERE (42 minutes as of right now) You -
Blog / Academics & Research
This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…
finishing the last of four exams on Monday, I had a pleasant four-hour lapse ... the nonchalant grace of someone who unknowingly steps on a match and ... blood pressure. Addendum: Topping my list of preferred study spots on -
Blog / Admissions
Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference
were many of these panels, on all aspects of the admissions process. But ... also are comparatively dependent on their endowments, all of which were ... back. And so most schools cut back on some combination of hiring, raises -
Blog / Academics & Research
It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.
'T KNOW! I NEED SOME TIME TO THINK! So here are a few of my thoughts on the ... DID YOU KNOW? Norah Jones is the daughter of sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar. So I've got a photographic record of picturesque Barcelona, but I -
Blog / Academics & Research
Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi
, the conference’s content focused on the untold truths of Social ... on the second day of the conference. This is a study hall ... : Impact Investing. Another panel on the second day of the conference