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  For Newtown

  

  makeshift memorial concert for the victims of the shooting by saying ... Last Friday afternoon, I - like many of you - learned of the awful ... MIT's Infinite Cooridor. I met up with a handful of other MIT Symphony

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for transgender students in light of the military ban and our ROTC program(s)

  

  banning the recruitment of transgender people to the military. While the implementation of this order is still under review, its prospect has caused a lot of uncertainty and consternation. I write today, as I have in the past

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Stomp the Yard, MIT style The Divine 9 and NALFO organizations on campus

  

  , Incorporated was founded on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, NY by ... proactive by reaching out to the Brotherhood. Men of Alpha are the first of ... spring of 2001, the Chi Undergraduate Chapter was established by Hermanas

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • January 26, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  , the “score” is determined by word2vec, a cool way of quantifying the ... of a word, and then everyone tries to figure it out by iteratively ... Like many of you, I have been playing Wordle, a game where you try to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Adventures in Time Travel (in the Library)

  

  Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke in the Hayden library stacks this afternoon. This is the weekly magazine The Nation. This is the first half of ... ’s observations on climbing plants and the similarity of their strategies to those

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Are you a high school student? Do you want to learn more about MIT or possible career paths? If so, read…

  

  Event Outreach Chair of MIT's Society of Women Engineers (SWE) - one of ... school students to participate in an exciting annual event presented by the MIT Society of Women Engineers: The Exploring Majors Fair. "Through

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  18 and Counting Congratulations, Professor Diamond!

  

  excellent age for wine, or so I'm told by the sommelier app on my phone. It ... ago now (goodness, I'm old). And it's the age of many of our excellent applicants - meaning, all y'all! It's also an excellent number of years for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coffee Talk Random things I love about MIT #1

  

  One of the things I truly love about MIT is that you never know when you'll learn, stumble-upon and/or be run over by something new. While ... modular design, scalability and the potential and weaknesses of

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 13, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Bloggers invade LA What should Sam and I do in Los Angeles? Suggestions welcome

  

  When I woke up this morning, I made myself my typical bowl of Kashi ... the last bit of my milk, which may have been a problem tomorrow ... Break starts today! (Does anyone know if milk is okay past the Sell By

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Random notes A little bit of this, a little bit of that.

  

  'll be reading them this week and posting some of them next week. Good ... movie adaptation of the book about the MIT Blackjack Team. Kevin Spacey is ... it in all the pre-deadline craziness, but a recent entry by Melis

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  trying to make me call them by their first names--one of my friend's moms ... by their first name just because you e-mailed them once, you know?. Of ... software Picasa, unsurprisingly affiliated with Google? At the request of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome

  

  how. By day, I work in South San Francisco. Last night, I took 101N ... , strolled down the quaint streets of Berkeley, covered my eyes through War of ... episodes of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. I woke up early this morning and was

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  comfortable standing in front of an audience and trying to convince them of ... 4-5 minutes to engage a panel of judges (representing all 5 academic schools at MIT) and a lecture hall full of eager audeince members. The

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  provided by basic examination of internal organization of sentences, words ... 9 and course 7). Most of her course 9 classes have been of the cellular/molecular neurobiology type, because that's her field of interest

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  laughable awkwardness of the situation is magnified by the dazed expression on ... by your side if you want to discover the world below the surface of the ... anyone with Internet access can contribute their own version of a meme. By

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  Growing up, I wasn’t always a fan of movies. It may have been an ... winners. I didn’t quite understand the draw of film buffs to the black and ... culture myself, and took a few weeks in the start of the summer after my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  numbers you can multiply with a direction (specified by a list of 3 numbers ... by Fatema’s older brother Sayeed, also an MIT alum"]my friend Fatema ... hand”. You see, I’d spent way too much of my free time last summer holed

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  harder, driven by a lack of breaks and the persistence of pandemic ... by the number of commitments he had. Intending to provide him some ... 'm taking "5 real classes,” even though, by units, I’m in the equivalent of 6

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  this post had nothing to do with Portal, but that's sort of like stating ... around to playing Braid, which is sort of like Portal in that it involves ... metaphorical plot, it's a true inspiration for my secret pipe dream of becoming

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  of the year frenzy when finals come rolling out, and everyone was too ... to be expected from MIT right? But I made it through... of course, aided by PASS/NO RECORD!! I'm going to miss ol' P/NR next semester, but

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012