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  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

  

  from the r/Jeopardy subreddit     Also, it is Because ... MIT senior Lilly Chin just won the College Jeopardy championships! And she was ahead by so much at the end that this was her final Jeopardy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 24, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  word shows up constantly in our language. But perhaps closure is the ... As Virginia Tech held its Commencement recently, the media once again started using the "c" word, "closure", the all too convenient word people

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  a/n: this post is a little outdated - my hair is currently a faded ... along with me to the drying apparatus, so while my hair was gently warmed, I inspected the snips of mint green hair that had settled on my black

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  me praying that the 6.1200 professors would not force me to write a mathematical proof for why the sky is blue and the Earth is round (Though that ... ="116070" /]   Part 21: This is Where I Yap About What I Learned and What Not At

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  (but make the lines infinitely long). Assuming these lines are not ... represents how magnetic flux flows through the original circuit! Again, this is ... , [annotation note="I’m only counting blogs that explicitly use the LaTeX tag in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ‘Twas the night before Christmas Happy holidays to everyone!

  

  The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. On Christmas ... traditional decorating of the tree. Just a few miles from my house is the famous Big Duck, which always gets all gussied up for the holidays. It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas with the McGanns

  

  The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. Two nights ago we did our traditional decorating of the tree. Just 2.8 miles from my house (according to Yahoo! Maps) is the famous Big Duck, which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  junior and still cares about grades! This is also the first grad class that ... 's stomping a mudhole in me. I think the problem is that German I, II, and III ... DID YOU KNOW? The airport in Portland, Oregon has free wireless. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Programs For MIT Students Planning early -- MIT-sponsored ways to make an impact next summer

  

  on a team Fellowship project initiated by the PSC... You do not need to ... list the ones I know with a brief description, and then I'll write a ... ! ------------------------ 1. Public Service Center (PSC) Fellowships -- the PSC aims "to enrich

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins the Putnam ...for the third year in a row!

  

  of the Putnam--but for those who haven't, it is a six-hour proof ... --has administered the exam annually since 1938. The exam is notoriously difficult--the ... of the team members. The school with the lowest sum of ranks is the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Announcements

  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  : sorry for not blogging much lately. With my new-ish role —  Director of Communications and Special Projects — I am doing more writing than ever, but the kind that is often read by a half dozen people within MIT. It's sort of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Fantasy Feast Fantasy foods and costumed friends.

  

  cake, deviled eggs, onigiri, and pork stew. The strawberry kiwi punch is HP potion. The blue Hawaiian punch is mana.                          ... . Below are some of my beautiful costumed friends and some of the food they

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Public Art Projects An art piece that captures the essence of the title of my blog.

  

  for one of the art classes, but I'm not sure. ... This was today's surprise as I walked down the Infinite. I think the title of this art piece could be "Hitchhiking across the Infinite." What

  • by Bryan
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist

  

  I'm currently out of the office, but back in Cambridge, it has been announced that unfortunately, for the third consecutive year, and despite all intentions to do so, we will not be using our waitlist. Our yield was even

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Upcoming non-MIT deadlines Other forthcoming deadlines.

  

  forget everything that's going on, and sometimes you're not even aware of ... , I should make the juniors (and, for some of these programs, other students) out there aware of the deadlines for a subset of recommended summer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  Ben Jones is a notorious gossip.) We had our wedding reception at the ... ’m Mollie! I’m one of the five or six(?) original bloggers, and I was the ... cognitive sciences in 2006. For those of you doing the math at home, that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2025!

  

  a cool new thing in class, and so forth. The mission of the blogs is ... the mountains for a much-needed vacation, where I will sit in backyards & photosynthesize & float on a river & not think about emails

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  flat on my back. It was very dramatic. Now, the Student Center lobby is a ... On my first day at MIT, I fell flat on my back in the Student Center ... was about to start playing Ultimate Frisbee. The teams stretched

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  texted my friend and told her I might not be able to watch the drama at 10 ... of class a week... so since the deadline for our project is coming up ... with friends, not just in the sorority (I really should go to more of

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy V-Day

  

  Today is Valentine's Day, the holiday where Americans celebrate love ... Cambridge. On campus, there's the Valentine's skate (ice skating is an ... my favorite Valentine's Day traditions at MIT is the serenade. Various

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 14, 2005