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  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  events for this week, all of which were made possible by the Dalai Lama ... of his fellow panelists, by playfully pulling up their hoods. The ... defined independently of any given spiritual belief - but not necessarily by

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  of the Patriots Monday Night Football game by myself this week). But my ... I like eating. I like eating a lot. By which I mean both that I greatly enjoy eating, and I also enjoy eating great amounts of food. When I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  Hailing from the notoriously hot and humid city of Houston, in which ... midst of 30-something-degree weather, it began to snow. Much to the amusement of floormate Swetha '13 and with the full support of my roommate

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  to fifteen hours to finish. When we emerge from our cyclic periods of ... , it's not...that great. But I digress. I actually wrote the bulk of ... . A ray caster, if you care, is one of the most basic conceptual layers

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  't stress that enough. A lot of times, I see students getting charmed by ...   Ahh summer. The fresh air. The copious amounts of free time ... being at school I've lived in many different parts of the housing system

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  Institute's history. At and by way of the ceremony, 1,054 undergraduates and 1 ... everything works, and by showing them how to be kind instead of cruel, and ... On Friday, June 5th, the Class of 2015 graduated from the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  the inky blackness of words on a page because honestly, when we have 198 pages of lecture notes to get through, the last thing we want to concern ourselves with is the existential crisis of some whiteness. But when something

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Varied states of the basement A roundabout trek to an underground level of Building 7 leads me into areas very…

  

  ... and arrive at one of my favorites -- I mean, just look at the pattern on ... a picture for you. Various areas of Building 6's basement are under ... , so keep these in mind. We're almost out of Building 3 as we pass

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  embrace. I didn't dye my hair purple because I felt pressured by all of the ... taught “Don't give in to peer pressure!”--an oversimplification of a ... , come to think of it, I can swim across the Charles... My point is: peer

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  , by the end of 2006 I think the answer to that question will be quite ... introspection, sometimes they creep into my life nonetheless. (I'm the daughter of ... completely not-sappy movies like March of the Penguins and Sahara.) Today was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week: Anjum Sharma A salute to one final senior.

  

  time with Matt McGann and the rest of the advising group freshman year. I didn't like the way the bobas tasted so I started shooting them out of my ... into a shooting competition with another one of the advisees and it made

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  that of a graph, a collection of nodes connected by edges ... by no means all!) natural phenomena occur due to the accumulation of a ... properties of organisms controlled by a large number of genes.   

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  by cancer. Each summer, a combination of kids and counselors (all of ... entirely by a coordinator board made up of ~15 MIT students; this board ... color, premature death by cancer. I didn’t know exactly what kind of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  Consulting Group. This was kind of out of the ordinary for me and by far the ... often dominated by men. I felt really comfortable and at ease in all of ... One of my goals for my sophomore year was to do all the things I was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Lilly Chin The Spiciest Memelord

  

  so readily frequented by my floor that we have a stash of Beantown ... one of her top college choices, an intrigue reinforced by her time ... took part in Jeopardy last year, she got intrigued by the possibility of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 27, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  One of the strange things about being 10,000 years old is that, while I've been tooling away judging teens, some of my classmates ... academia. Some are even professors! And, as of this term, one of them

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  12 years of public school education could do for me. I started applying to college. I kind of went about it in a semi-orderly fashion, but I do think that during the whole process with all the brochures I

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  Recognition of Science and Technology) was founded by inventor Dean Kamen and ... Hockfield, the President of MIT. The award was introduced by Dean, but then a surprise address was given by Arne Duncan, the Secretary of Education of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  give a reading of his new book and talk about his writing process, which ... . This is Professor Junot Diaz. This is a book that wrote, one of my all-time favorites. When I accepted my offer to come to MIT, one of the first thoughts

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? i^i = e^(-pi/2) Sorry for the lack of MIT ... unpacking. Instead, it just makes me want to get out of my room as much as ... sure that I wasn't taking more than Lufthansa's legal limit of 23 kg per

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006