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  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  friends and family are much, much more important to me than grades or money ... ." The fireworks started, finally, to cheers from the crowd and a rumbling ... actually as exciting and mysterious as I tried to make the rest of this blog

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  don't really know how to write it. There are so many things I want to say, and yet so many of them don't attach well to words - only to strong ... always be the city I love more than any other. It's a lot to digest, and it

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting the new bloggers! With a new school year approaching, it's time to pick the next set of bloggers.

  

  this year's senior bloggers: Laura and Lulu. Our objective will be to ... undergraduates are welcome to apply. We hope to hire 3 incoming freshmen and perhaps a couple juniors and seniors (we do not plan to hire a sophomore

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  admitted - and are privy to their strengths and weaknesses much more than you ... friends later forced him to go to law school. And there were a couple of MIT ... hope to start businesses with, develop cures with, or just chill and go

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston Fun Tons of Boston fun, with a dash of Cambridge, too.

  

  - J.P. Licks Does your milkshake bring all the boys to the yard ... . Everything below is within walking distance of MIT -- and I'm not one of those ... Common Ice skating at Frog Pond (in a few months) Sam does his best

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  'd simply raise his left arm high over his head and point to his watch with ... Report (USNWR) released its rankings and MIT fell to the number 7 slot ... were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... -- it is this Monday, November 1. In an effort to be helpful and ease ... center, and expect to have that backlog into November. Do not worry

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  thursday, and damn am i ready to be home"]my flight home ... ) 6.17 am - ??: i try and fail to go back to sleep. ?? - 9.24 am: i ... , debate showering and decide to do it tonight, use the bathroom, and throw

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Events

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

  

  minutes and answer questions if there are any." We swarmed to the stage while Neil walked to the edge and crouched down to shake hands with ardent ... always direct them back to the group who did the work. And then I might

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  very nice and made me much less scared of applying to MIT. I also ... 't had time to blog, and what I've been doing instead. The main reason, though, is that I wanted to write something perfect and meaningful and

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  have? Do you have to do p-sets for Biology classes and if not, what is ... would like to give me to make it much easier on me? Okay, I'm out of dorky ... companies all over the country are very happy to snap up well-trained and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  questions and interrogations to start pouring in any day now. Just kidding ... ; it's tricky to program autonomous robots. To roughly (and hopefully ... (up to?) 16 balls, red and yellow, on this field, and there are red and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  Potter, and I had to get Dumbledore’s help because I was hiding in a broom ... organization, and we needed his help to keep Voldemort from getting in because the blue paint on our walls wasn’t magic enough. And then I had to blog

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  to protrude quite a bit and also has more windows across it, so it is ... to real work, so I made a little Twitter thread about my quest and ... of "what happened to 318 Memorial Drive?" It does not, however, give us

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  , consciously or otherwise, to it. That rhythm was their driver and catalyst ... to wherever they had to go. Tentatively, I took a step. And another ... wherever I feel like. And I walk on, with as much confidence and sureness the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  like some strange hybrid of Stephen Hawking and Rambo (note to self: that ... 's still there). Which means my nights spent shirking responsibility and being annoying to those around me under the guise of it having no

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  managed to get my hands on it once again. And, because my favorite thing to ... . I felt at once an extreme boredom and an extreme lack of motivation to ... submit,[/annotation] and to reflect on the things that mattered to me then

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  ’m probably one of the last few people awake, and will soon be crawling to my ... classes, my dorm and my frat, and it seems like I haven’t really seen much ... is also taking the class and we were able to test-run each other

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Horizons team at NASA launched a space probe to the Kuiper Belt. Nine and ... facing towards Pluto to collect data. Once it's finished, it will turn back to the Earth and begin transmit it. The New Horizons team estimates 16

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  Graduation. I have managed to make it through. And it feels absolutely surreal ... . And just as surreal as it was to hold my MIT ID card in hand, staring ... , welcome to the *Virtual* Killian Court Airport. Local time is 12 PM ET and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021