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  The Class of 2010 Ring Delivery I think Abba said it best when they sang, "Ring, ring, why don't you give…

  

  Rat is one of MIT's most famous tradition, I figure better late than ... then falling off the face of the Earth (I'm telling you, it's flat, I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  's formal. Brian speculates: All my buddies tell me MIT is for a bunch of ... your liberal art courses and still have a good chance of making it in MIT ... , I go to the mall, wear makeup, and own way too many pairs of shoes. We

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Five Years of Admitted Student Gatherings MIT community is getting bigger

  

  *Scene opens* I'm standing in front of a house with my family. MIT branded balloons are tied to the mailbox. There is a poster of the Dome on ... going to one. There's still some happening the second half of this week

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 29, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The Newest Member of Our Family What could possibly be more exciting than prefrosh?

  

  Game of Thrones. The little kitten is so cute! She jumps all around and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  interface has a bunch of different methods and if you create a class… I DON ... always puts super cute pictures of his cute baby son with captions that are related to what we learned about. There were a bunch of him eating spherical

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  untangled the unruly tangle of shoelaces that is my life schedule and turned ... totally a secret fanboy of (Hard News and The Panic Virus are fantastic ... gazillion followers on Twitter, so I'm hoping to pick up some of his secrets

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  Are you interested in any of: making governments work better ... consequences of international trade? universal grammar? Last April, at our Campus Preview Weekend (CPW), MIT hosted the inaugural "Taste of SHASS

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about pandemics and plagues in history 21H.000: History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics

  

  world can freely attend. One of my colleagues sent me a notice about another new class called 21H.000 History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics. It meets every ... across the country (and the world) will speak on various aspects of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  favorites. SEM.142 Sex and the [City] Institute: An Exploration of Gender ... students' perceptions and behaviors. Topics of interest will include: dating ... experiences of characters in "Sex and the City" are generalizable to people of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  syllables of your preferred interjection/expletive pairing. My stomach ... the plastic-shelled handlebar (?) at the cart-pusher end of the grocery cart and vociferously spewed a sonic soup of bloodless terror and regret

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  And miles to go before I sleep. Here we go again.

  

  A friend in the class of mine which has a huge pset due tomorrow ... long night ahead of you." Great. The thing is, I know how to handle these nights. I should anyways; I have enough experience. Part of my application

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Think YOUR research is crazy? Why doesn't spaghetti break in half? There is an answer, because someone has dedicated their…

  

  of the 20 Craziest Scientific Researches. Some of the Craziest ... Organization) It calculated the number of photographs you must take to (almost ... . «Fragmentation of Rods by Cascading Cracks: Why Spaghetti Does Not Break in Half

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  One of my UROPs this summer was exploring the history of immigrants and international students at MIT. The Institute has a long history of ... percentage of foreign students than Tech." At the time, one out of every 15

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Cancer Research The history and future of cancer research at MIT.

  

  school, for more than 30 years MIT has helped shape the field of cancer research, from the isolation of the first human cancer genes to the development of a technique for delivering chemotherapy directly to a tumor

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  in the friendliest sense of the phrase. His trip to Whole Foods ended with a miniature avalanche of lentils, peppers, onions, brown rice, fat pungent mushrooms, like a million thimble-sized cans of tomato paste, tempeh

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  "It has been calculated that if no accident prevented the hatching of ... the backs of cod." -Alexander Dumas, 1873, on the prolific reproduction of cod. "Our data highlight the societal consequences of an ongoing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  documentation more than a month ago. There are a bunch of long, thoughtful, well ... best of the blogs. As they used to tell us in grad school, done is better ... weeks. It's taking sort of list form because I'm a big fan of lists as

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  French class, our "final" consisting of a one-page composition in the past ... naturally at 8 a.m. on a daily basis and I've found a semblance of work ethic again. I also did a fair bit of reckoning, the fruits of which fed this

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MFA Boston A trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

  

  Last weekend, I went to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). All MIT ... last... This ship is part of the "Things I Love" collection, on loan ... 's website: "Founder of The Oxbow Group, one of the top 500 privately held

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  undergraduate mathematics competition in North America. Of the top 5 students ... , Civil & Environmental Engineering). Twenty of the top 75 competitors ... Putnam exam is a difficult set of 12 questions, each worth 10 points for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005