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  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  heavily polluted system of canals and small lakes fed by water treatment ... by the degradation of the ozone layer, weakens young axolotls, making ... extinct by the time they were identified. In the past decade, 40% of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 1 Two MIT students were chosen as Glamour's Top 10 College Women

  

  exactly she meant by “finalist” (= one of the top 10). Phone interviews with ... the night before, or knowing that you will be spending the rest of the ... Whitney-Johnson (’08) and I are among the Top 10 College Women of 2007

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  digress, you must pardon me - see I came here to talk not of life and dreams But of soap, and its importance to me There's much more to soap than it really seems So there's a store called Target where they sell All kinds of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  ! of our art, some was painted by students and some was sourced from ... and was painted by a freshman, who called it a collection of random ... were painted by the floor. I really enjoy the diversity of art we have

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  excuse to drink ungodly amounts of hot chocolate. Nothing beats sitting by ... Today was the first snowfall of the year! How exciting, I didn't even know it was coming. Two of my best friends from high school were visiting

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Man of Many Hat(ches) Keyword: Free.

  

  So one of the best aspects of being in Boston for the summer is all of the free cultural events that you can avail yourself of. One of the ... a number of other events that despite not having a fireworks display

  • by Bryan
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  really happened to me before. Preschool through college, it was kind of ... ; high school –> college"]pretty much linear direction of my life[/annotation]has kind of exploded into a thousand different directions. Usually, I can

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  Just saying hello from the middle of my peaceful and relaxing vacation. =) First of all, now that all of the early action nonsense is ... messages for you prospective '10s. Congratulations to those of you who were

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Special Edition! Speaking of Valentine's Cards . . .

  

  Hey, so as Shannon just mentioned, all of the EA admits got V-day cards signed by all the bloggers. This means that we sat down, faced an ominous pile of ~500 cards, and started signing. Signing your name that

  • by Snively '11
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  And if I had a million dollars Solve this problem and win a million dollars, SERIOUSLY.

  

  authors of Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich. It was the beginning of ... Read this book. Or you can just solve one of these math problems. The distribution of such prime numbers among all natural numbers does

  • by Bryan
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  snapshot of the last two weeks picture of my brain

  

  unaware of it - the 1975 MUSICAL: the last five years - jason robert brown ... civic media THING I SAW: data visualization by web du bois THING I MADE ... learning is like money laundering for tech - by maciej ceglowski "We should

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 1, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  ). Unfortunately our Memory Mushroom has finite volume. In fact, by the end of ... -every-birthday-card-in-a-cute-box-sentimental type. More like borderline-hoarders-that-have-to-assess-the-potential-value-of-a-random-reciept-sentimental-types. We’ve always kind of been like this, and it wasn’t a problem in high

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Summary

  

  Today was the last day of 2.670. I had wanted to make a really cool modification to my engine by making it a generator, but I didn't have enough time ... engines by using the water jet or CNC mill to etch designs into their

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Bernanke to speak at Commencement!

  

  by President Bush to succeed Alan Greenspan as Chairman of the Federal ... history of the MIT Department of Economics and its graduates. MIT

  • 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....

  

  , you can see what the moon is made of ;-) (thanks to diana for pointing this out) Freshman year, one of my classes was actually taught by former ... To celebrate the anniversary of the first manned moon landing, Google

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

  MIT Movies Emeritus out with the old, in with the older

  

  hundreds of thousands of dollars and was produced entirely by a major Madison ... Band composed by Andrew Kazdin. Courtesy of the MIT Museum. MIT ... , which offers us a marvelous vintage tour of the Institute, was produced by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I started a joke… ...that started the whole world crying.

  

  find the roots." "So, similarilarily, we have to complete the square of this puppy by adding 25 to both sides." "Let's do a rigorous proof of the ... Actually, I didn't start this joke. It was started by my 8th grade

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  to reach the end of the line. Every once in a while, a train passes by ... attend a performance of Handel's Messiah by Boston Baroque, and I think ... [annotation note="By yesterday I mean Thursday. I was hoping I could

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Show your creativity: the Year of the Pig While we continue reading applications full time, another mini-contest.

  

  the Year of the Dog. The celebration featured my favorite dog and admissions mascot, Evie Cummings. This initial photoshopping of Evie spawned a mini-contest, initiated by Ben: As you know if you follow Matt

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Halloween, Part 2 Sometimes it's fun to be somebody you're not.

  

  plumes make everything cooler. This particular photo was taken by some of ... by the 2011 Class Council. What's your favorite costume out of this ... Last week, I promised you guys an update with photos of my Halloween

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 8, 2008