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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  trusted my intuition and hoped for the best. I made some wrong turns that ... -blanketed MIT with my camera. I dug out all my snow and winter gear and bundled up from head to toe. Here are some shots: Ready for some exploring

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  : Where did the river go? And now, well...I've been in the house for a ... ?   4. Does a snowman need to have 3 snowball parts for it to be a real ... campus. For some of the puzzles, the first challenge is trying to figure

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  . This is not a best-of-the-year list. It's not a syllabus for literary ... water. It was easy and right. I read it by the fireplace. I stayed up late ... woods. The oaks are the oldest trees in them. For thousands of years

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  awesome.  He brings in new poetry books for us each week and postcards, and ... of the books and watch the rest of the movies for the class. So there ... vegetarian co-op is just starting up again on my hall!  Each week, pairs of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  had to stay up all night working on that (favorite expletive) p ... logged into an online page for my Electromagnetism Class and saw the p-set. After staring at the problems for a couple of minutes, my mind folded into

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Stressful Times in my opinion, the best advice, ever.

  

  were something to be proud of... (It's really, really, really not!) For ... questions to follow. Should I stay up to finish my pset tonight and then feel ... would be ok for me to go to sleep? What goals should I have? BUT I also

  • by Ana V. '15
  • December 11, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  Muhammad Yunus speak. Dr. Yunus received the Nobel Peace Prize last year for ... people who want to set up businesses or avail themselves of other economic ... – for example, “SP.721: D-Lab” and “21A.338J

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2007: I Got Served, and It Felt Grrreat!! By: Seleeke, '11

  

  six steps, set ups, and a number of other breakdancing moves. After ... made my way down to Chinatown, where I went shopping crazy for my peeps back home. I brought home a Chinese newspaper and a few gifts for my

  • by Bryan
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  grumbling for part of them because of having to wake up at 7am. ;-) April 21st is the deadline for freshmen to declare a major. Technically, it ... Sloan faculty heard the desires of the MIT community for a recognized

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  quick lunch, then come back here to soak up the internet. And be lazy ... day, then I'm catching the redeye to Boston at 10 PM. Look for me to answer a bunch of questions later today. For right now, I just want to be a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  the Men's Ice Hockey game for a little Marching Band on Ice action and ... liberated from solid food for the rest of my life by an errant puck. Yes, we ... I think he deserves some credit for the whole affair. And we got

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  couple of examples. Take for example, 18.02, Multivariable Calculus, a ... . Now here's my take on all this (feel free to ask around for other ... the problem sets live up to their names a bit more. They're problems

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Rush and Hall Rush

  

  /Senior Haus/Random Hall (I'm not sure Bexley showed up) Rush party, "Distant Early Warning", which I think is a great name for a party. At the East ... (or burning, for that matter), there was just a lot of evaporating

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  library in 1996, for the simple reason that ''nobody else seemed to be doing ... lending a book out can approach $2 for some libraries; printing out a black ... organization runs up against technical barriers that seem insurmountable, it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  There's a story on the AP wire today (look for it in your local paper ... are developing software for cell phones that would analyze speech ... speed-dating conversations. He can now predict the verdict for 80 per cent

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  Vagina Monologues. For the week following the show, I attempted to put into ... talking about vaginas in front of a large audience. For an audience member ... fundraising ideas, meet the rest of the cast, and then strip to lingerie for a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  for every day that I have neglected my blog. The short story is that I have been traveling around for MD-PhD program interviews, which is one of ... numerical response (or even a string of numbers.) For example, --Laura might

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  /26/2012 00:47-2:17 Adventures in Neverland Never grow up! Peter Pan fights ... Pancakes. Why are we up this late? To feed you pancakes of course! Pancakes ... has room for! Read the title. You're all bright kids.  Foo 11

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  for MITAdmissions Math Month, and thusly there will be some math. And ... _y(x,y) = y$. See the below diagram for further clarity. [caption id ... : Yes. For every point in $\pi_x(A)$, we can draw the corresponding line

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  it's a bit of a big deal for me. My first post, Colorful, is ... for Tagalog. The words mentioned in the post are all Tagalog words, but ... acronym for Original Pilipino Music. It's a catchall term for Philippine pop

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022