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  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  being offered to meet the caloric intake of every student on campus. Plus ... thought this excerpt from Chris’s post about applying to be an admissions ... is to allow our bloggers to express to the world what being a student

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  ’d be guests from serious organizations like OpenCourseWare, MITx, and MIT ... magnificent ceremony for all students (who each created a video), and there’d be ... second, which would be comparable to a human running at 330 km/h (210 mph

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  be wondering: who is this girl and why is she talking about astronomy ... this "work" place also be "home"? Now, I take the bus from home to work ... , our residential life culture is a rich component of being a student at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  in their workplace to stand up and be recognized. I was really ... issues to some extent (being the only girl on my high school robotics build ... with old friends that I totally didn't realize were going to be there

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  -hop and samurai). Professor Condry, being fluent in Japanese, translated for ... want to be a writer, you have to write--but it also helps if you have ... --I'll probably be in lab all week with the Design/Build/Fly team as competition day

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  review, I'm deciding to be at home. I'm taking stock of the semester that ... high school days--not because I wanted to be in high school again, but ... keeps. I went back to Santa Fe, where it could be t-shirt weather with

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  &A session, but I'm sure that Neil would be happy to stick around for a few ... turned out to be a fabulous idea because the auditorium filled up. In the ... attention to the memes people make of him, so I encourage you to go out and be

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  is whatever consistency you want it to be. Chop up a banana, mix it ... eat the wrap. You can also be adventurous and add the tomatoes to the ... minutes after the water boils, it should be a darker color. Add the frozen

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  research, and want to be part of the astronomy research community. What is ... conclusion: I have a lot to do over the next few months. I would not be ... read 1-2 chapters of whatever fiction book I happen to be reading. This

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  at home, doing nothing, being nothing. Eternal nothingness. I did ... , atmospheric gases of power I could contemplate, be overwhelmed by, but not fully ... little while. I was a lot better after that. Feelings should never be

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  I would be happy to teach him the basics, sometime, and gave his ... 'hanging out with an enthusiastic brilliant adorable little kid' to be. But ... Point slides lighting up my face. What a privilege to be able to teach and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  . Similarly, migration between the British Isles and Norway have be mapped out ... ...right. The same migration pattern can be traced by studying a genetic condition ... cemetaries, women can be found buried with chopped-up pieces of Irish

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  , since it ended up being completely false - but I'm getting ahead of myself ... professor began talking. I passed Eric a note asking whether it would be ... redder than they were in zumba. Tomorrow morning, I'll be back in the T

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  fresh. Maybe I should be working or worrying over due dates, but my ... fast, sometimes, especially in calculus, but I'd rather be a little ... pajamas, there's no question of going out again. Here, you can be in your

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  , and is said to be growing into a small city. Purple mountains shelter us ... high school, when I was lucky to be introduced to genomics by Dr ... be home.

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  head in. Lisa: Anna, does being born on Halloween mean that you're a ... 't, go find one. He or she will remind you how exciting the world can be ... (as babies do) with my pinky in a vice grip - while being fed through a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  state something: our advising seminar might be one of the coolest classes ... sequence would be coming next. For a piece of machinery that is very ... ;Haacke deliberately designs his ‘systems’ to “evolve in time and be

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  direction of the Ethernet cable, before I realized I was being stupid. So I stopped being stupid. I looked up the make and model of the check scanner ... wouldn’t work. *sigh* I know you must be wondering, "So, I know all about

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  me to be for the three or four hours when school was over and work wasn ... State, but since both my parents are professors it turned out to be a ... ’s exciting to be here. I live in Random Hall, MIT’s smallest dorm. I am

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  out to be so bad, and I had a good reason: I was in Israel. Going to ... campus, it was time to leave again. I decided that this winter would be the ... be very difficult, if not impossible to not float (some guys in my

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011