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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  blasting from the boom box. Katherine the climber: Melis the wanna-be ... , check out the Tuscan platter. Now I'm happy to be back at the 'Tute ... Three-day weekends seem like the perfect opportunity to catch-up on

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Hackapult Sieges The Dome

  

  hackapult, to be more precise. According to the IHTFP Hack Gallery: In an ... . One of the lovely things about my office is that I have a window under the Great Dome, overlooking Killian Court. It's a beautiful view

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m still alive And I missed entry #2000 by one! Blargh!

  

  needed to be posted on the blogs. Expect a real post from me this weekend ... the O'Connor Lab, guaranteeing me the shortest commute to work I'll ever have to make. (Yeah, you know I used Paint.) The round trip is less

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 play by play It slices and it dices.

  

  Her name is Betsy, and she got me to the finals of 2.007. This just goes to show you how lucky one individual can be. I actually thought ... yelled my name out as the winner. The finals are tomorrow. 64 -> 32

  • by Bryan
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Bernanke to speak at Commencement!

  

  MIT just announced that Ben Bernanke '79 is going to be the ... by President Bush to succeed Alan Greenspan as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. This is just another example that indicates the strong

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind” ...the cow jumped over the moon....

  

  To celebrate the anniversary of the first manned moon landing, Google ... , you can see what the moon is made of ;-) (thanks to diana for pointing ... astronaut, Jeffrey Hoffman. MIT has also produced the most astronauts than any

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  With the Regular Action deadline just days away, I want to wish all the best to the regular action applicants in finishing up their ... Years Eve! Also, the CSS Profile and FAFSA are about to become available

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2004
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How does pass/no record work?

  Here's something else to love about MIT! The first semester at MIT is graded on a pass/no record basis: if you pass the class you get a “pass” on your transcript;  if not, there's no record you took it. The
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  Hailing from the notoriously hot and humid city of Houston, in which snow-that-can-barely-be-called-snow deigns to appear about once in ten years, it was understandably a big deal for me when last Sunday, in the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Profiles in Courage My neighbor could kill you or save your life with her bare hands.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? There are at least two KISS cover bands in the world ... engaged in some sort of war. Hey all, sorry about the relative dearth of blog entries recently over the past week. Let's just say that today I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 7

  

  into the place to be. Other folks who were eating today's delicious gumbo ... key discoveries. They have found that the jets may be originating five ... speed. "The high-speed jets in nearby SS 433 may be caused by the same

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  feels like it isn't. to see the triangle would be a gestalt, then. but is ... there's this psychological concept, gestalt, the name of which comes from the german word for "shape" or "form". the famous example is kanizsa

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  when the police bring conflict into peaceful protests, I should be angry ... that the world around me is on fire. People are being silenced just for ... cared about one more than the other? Would it be bad if I’m not caring

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  was work to be done! I went to a meeting for the IAB, the Industry ... professors, industry engineers, and GEL staff, so to be in the presence of all ... . As I write this, it is one month to the day since I took my 7

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Another year has begun Welcome to my world

  

  , funded by MISTI. I spent the summer pretending to be a grad student ... the life I lead. I am very excited to be back at my 6:30am rowing ... love to be in. The summer provides opportunities to learn how to navigate

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  From across the Web… Recent happenings across the Web.

  

  microloans and microfinance. Relatedly, you really should check out the work being done at both the Poverty Action Lab and the Program in Developmental ... Some random links I've been accumulating: The New York Times asks

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…

  

  shadows peeling off like blue paint. In the sleep-killing luminosity of a laptop display I searched for comfort amidst the suburban silence of post ... my brain during the last two weeks, mostly typed at within 4 minutes of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing the MIT Application Essays Hurgh. I know.

  

  The secret is... there's not really a secret. Just some tips. 0:18 A lil' bit about me 0:36 Why you DON'T need to stress out 1:21 What "being yourself" means 3:47 The "what do you do for fun?" essay 4:37 The "what do

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  puffy jacket will always remind me of certain backpacking trips in the ... ^"Every patch is a memory, every tear has a tale. These are the ... memories and stories, the same way that a certain song can conjure up

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  he'll be just fine. And I'll have a place to watch the (zombie) Bruins ... 'll be reading the first round of Regular Action apps. I can't wait! Happy ... , 12/17/2011. But I actually wrote that post on the 16th, because on the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012