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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s all about the numbers… Jump back into the basements for the first of two entries early this week on…

  

  Here at MIT, just about everything is referred to by its number. To get from East Campus to LaVerde's Market, you enter Building 66, pass ... 'll ask "8.01 or 8.012?". As a celebration of MIT's devotion to numbers

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun with Legos A photo journal of THE coolest room I've ever seen.

  

  So all freshmen are assigned to a faculty advisor who helps them make ... advisor, which is an upperclassman who acts as a something of a mentor to ... , that I've decided to devote an entire entry to it. First things first

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  Well, the last week and a half has been busy, to say the least. I always try to put too much on my plate at once: I was working full-time at ... grad schools to which I'm applying are setting up their online

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Clay Aiken! I'm not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on ... .R.O.C. (the People's Republic of Clay) was generous enough to invite me to Clay ... do not do justice to how Clay-obsessed some Claymates are. I don

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  microspheres that can potentially be used to develop a cancer vaccine. Genetic vaccines work by inducing an immune response to a protein that is produced by ... around three months trying to replicate the experimental results of his

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wheels on the Bus Go Round And Round what do you get when you cross the flinstones with public transportation?

  

  another hint. Typically on my commute to work, I read the Boston Metro. It ... restauarant Mitra introduced me to. There, they'd be talking about the new ... they've done a lot of work with the project and hope to have the

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions mailed;

  

  , and at a quarter to five, the mailman came to post the letters. Sadly, I missed the photo of the postman coming to take away the letters. We have ... , and the applications were simply fantastic. I'm sad that we have to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  On to the questions... Arvind wrote, "'One more favour please', can I ... very interesting.(I have a super slow net connection to download or hear ... . decisions...I am not able to believe that a nobel prize man like prof

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We, the people

  

  the Bollywood equivalent to, say, Tom Cruise/Hanks). When we arrived, the theater was packed. The last empty seat in the house went to MIT ... 't get a chance to talk with him, but as he was leaving I heard his one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  mentioned that I know "exactly how many students from South Dakota go to MIT ... go to MIT is [annotation note="keyword here is somewhat ... the same [annotation note="to preempt commenters: yes, city. it

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  decided that I'm just going to write about everything I'm interested in. Which is everything, including all the dry details that'll be boring to anyone but me. I'm granting you the permission to skip every section that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  to MIT certain of one thing: I would never be an engineer. In eighth ... , erased and redrew, over and over again. I remember taking a ruler to add measurements to my drawings, squinting and counting the lines on the ruler

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  2020 i refused to clean my mouth. i never brushed my teeth or flossed or ... things and merely accepted them. back then i’d told myself that you had to brush and floss every day for the rest of your life to have good oral

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  clothes, my bedding, my shoes, the books I'd yet to read, my crochet hooks ... 02139. My flight was set to leave in the morning from the B terminal of ... 'd yet to navigate on my own. At the ticket counter, I said goodbye to my

  • by Ella T. '25
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  act I: prologue When I was a kid, I used to dread going to sleep. I ... , where I suddenly had an infinite amount of time to respond in a way that ... in a while, I’d open my eyes and check the clock, just to see that only

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  'm going to do the best that I've ever done at this school, and I'm super ... never have to take a specific Course 6 class ever again, which I ... project is to make a music [annotation note="i'm probably going to join a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  A few weeks ago, Ayomide F. 18, better known to longtime blogreaders ... asked Ayo if she'd write up how it came to be so I could post it. She did ... sent my mom rushing into the room, ready to scold me. But when she saw

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  promise to the rational, logic-based region of my brain: a promise that I ... : "But what about going to college and trying new things? Also, Hack Punt Tool was REALLY fun, and even though I can't sing to save my life, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  do funny things to your brain. ------------- On Friday, I got all ... in the dentist chair and looked at the window, trying to concentrate on ... will soon be able to eat nothing but baby food, and I have more work to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  warrants two blog entries. This is not because I want to hog the ... awesome little class that I like to call Toy Design. Also, if you can wrack your brains enough, you'll remember that I mentioned we were going to

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008