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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

  

  Jeopardy, and featuring Lilly as she sat in her extremely tricked out dorm ... answer:       I have been privileged to know and befriend some of the best and brightest minds in America and around the world

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

  Walter Lewin ESG Lecture Oh, you know, only one of the most famous Physics Professors of all time

  

  further ado I present to you "Walter Lewin ESG Lecture" in all its 68 ... Earlier this year I had the pleasure to meet Walter Lewin at an ESG ... , Lewin turned an ordinary lunch into an unforgettable memory that I was

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 26, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Liveblog from Apple Store I copy Paul, 3 hours later.

  

  the Mac store in about 40 minutes so I should leave before this place ... Hello world. I too am at the new Apple store at Boylston street. Unlike Paul, who was probably using his own computer, I am using a fancy

  • by Snively '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  visceral. human rights abuses happen in silence; technology can help us break ... within cities built by the sweat of their brow. Can you see them walking in ... conference is happening all weekend. check out the livestream at

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  , shoot in whatever stance we wanted to, try things out, whatever. I tried ... breath, aligned the sights as best as I could, and then let the breath out. Then I took another breath in, tried to clear my mind, focused on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Past Enrollment On A Map [updated as to not freeze your browsers ^_^] My final project for 4.502 (Design Scripting).

  

  Rhinoscript, which you can use to program pretty much anything in Rhino 3D, but ... of making weird shapes in Rhino, I decided to use Processing to turn ... that I've gotten the hang of this (note: I've never really programmed in

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Undergraduates by Major AND Professor Auroux. Don't miss it.

  

  : Sometimes, it seems like MIT people only speak in numbers. You'll hear sentences like "I have 6.001 in 10-250 at 2:30, then my Course 9 UROP in ... Auroux, who is a simply outstanding professor. I was actually IN THE SAME

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 28, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  UROPs in the lab to meet with Professor Langer for a pizza dinner! I ... Last week, I blogged a little about how MIT's student body really distinguishes the Institute from any other university that I know. On one level

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  , representing the Hamentashen team. In order to understand his slides, I’ll ... fried potato pancake (can you detect my bias?) What makes this debate ... their position. The three professors in favor of the hamentashen were

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Brief Taste of Orgo Basically, Sam Maurer is a prophet.

  

  In today's 5.12 lecture (in English, that's organic chemistry), I couldn't help but chuckle when I picked up the notes outlining the topics ... 's the bottom line. Works for me. In other news, since I last posted, I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  Sorry I haven't blogged in a while -- I've been hosed with the deluge ... international development, rest assured that no matter what you major in, you can ... buddy Tiffany, a Course I junior with a terrifyingly robust sense of work

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Itinerary: IAP 2017 4 weeks in a suitcase and carry on

  

  2016 into several boxes. I left it all behind in Boston as I embarked on ... lunch. Still a work in progress -- I'll keep you guys updated.   ... the 8th, I flew into NYC and settled down in an apartment in Manhattan

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  , she has a perfect academic record at M.I.T. She has done research in ... in tissue engineering. She also is editor-in-chief of the M.I ... University in England. "I'm tremendously excited," Anahtar, 21, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  (+) years of hard work in the classroom, and months of filling out ... in 4 months as a real, live MIT student. As a high school senior, I ... assigned to Next House (I still run into my host, and I ended up living in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m in New York Picturesss on flickrsss

  

  Staying with my friend Larisa in her and her mom's swanky apartment across the river from the city. And taking some pictures. Finals seemed like forever ago. Taking the train back to New Haven tomorrow.

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Bonn, Games, Bonn Wherein we teach the world the true meaning of democracy.

  

  reenactor like that one episode of Amazing Race 4 in Vienna. I took this ... valid hot dogs. Interestingly enough, in München I ordered the special ... mustard that I have ever tasted in my entire life. See, Ling '07 approves

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  It seems like every six months or so I discover an MIT video that leaves me in awe. This time, it is the I/O Brush: [I just realized that Laura blogged this almost two years ago! Where have I been?] The I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  write. You can read the first essay in the book, "Time and Distance ... in Central Square and lost it on the plane back home. In between, I ... I went. I sat across the breakfast table from a friend in a downtown

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  because I was in lab until 7 tonight -- yes, on a Friday night -- and that ... . (What more do college students want?) I'm a big fan of Alpine Bagel in the ... , because it's cheaper and healthier... also, I live in a dorm with no dining

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  For the next two weeks we will all use fewer words here

  

  the ten hundred most used words. I told them they can write about ... It is a New Year now and I hope it is good for you. Ten years ago ... students who went to this school in the past and used to write for us, could

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 15, 2024