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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  job, exercise, drink 8 cups of water, consult your doctor, and resurrect ... process, with all the tranquility and order of the Republican National Convention, except that at the slightest hint of instability we throw out our

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aeroastro privilege all-expenses-paid tour to seattle and los angeles

  

  basement of building 33. And this year, for the first year ever, the Aero ... Grumman. So there we are, the students of the sophomore "aeroastro boot camp" known as Unified Engineering, smiling in front of a 747 at the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  of alumni friends messaging you to tell you that their company could ... pumped up about going to schmooze with a bunch of companies who, I felt ... major works takes up all of the time allotted for a standard

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So @mitblogs_ebooks exists 'as you might know, i am a full time internet'

  

  Some of you may remember @horse_ebooks, a Twitter account which ... collection of source texts. Some of my favorites:   Crying is great ... not, @horse_ebooks helped inspire an entire genre of surrealist _ebooks

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  , it means: Meh, was a busy month; definitely first week of February. On ... resolution this year. -- It’s 2014! 2013 was the year of Wrecking Ball, What Does the Fox Say, the premiere of the Class of 2017, the finale of the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  But first I'm going to talk about the Toons. Some of you might recall that I'm in an a cappella group with a lot of really great people. Well, that a cappella group is having our last concert of the semester

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thanks, man I'm feeling human again.

  

  the mountains with their shadows. I'm sitting on the porch of a coffeehouse in the railyard with a spoonful of melted ice cream, accidentally eavesdropping on the telephone conversation of the pretty lady behind me, watching

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  Hello! One of the first things I wrote about as a staff blogger was ... there were a couple of things that I needed to ensure my happiness, sense of belonging, and community. I had already found the perfect coffee

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  July and Unified O.O and lots of pictures

  

  of time speeding hazily by. I've been...  Trying to cook food more without setting off any alarms (a sure sign of sophomore-ish maturity, or so I think) Getting my first taste of Chipotle with the bloggers

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  Greetings and salutations! If I'm a good judge of time, and I like to ... release of the MIT Application at the end of summer.  I know during the ... many of you will do a fair amount of reading as well. Before I go too

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  ". To which I thought, "You're darn right, pal!" But of course, now that I ... instantly became acutely aware of the fact that I could not gauge the weather ... time progressed and I became more aware of my surroundings (and somewhat

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing documents! FAQ: What happens if part of my application isn't showing up yet?

  

  The most popular question in all modes of communication -- blog ... showing on MyMIT yet AM I DOOMED?") Let me respond to this series of ... and lots of materials, many of which were postmarked before the deadline

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my dad and two brothers for a few days of skiing at Breckenridge. It was ... generally agree that almost anything can be improved if it is shot out of a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  The berry of the West African Synsepalum dulcificum (miracle fruit ... .42 kilodaltons of carbohydrate, 21.2 kilodaltons of protein) binds to the sweetness receptors of the tongue and activates them in response to acid, making sour

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Splish Splash ♪ ♫ great programs at MIT and beyond!

  

  several of my Saturday mornings after I found an old CD containing Bobby ... starting my own company? Heh...nope. I played "Splish Splash", of course ... pretending to be becoming the master of a new kind of swing/slide-jazzy dance

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  his very first documentary. Of course, I would have loved his ... of teens at his school. It is about gender and how kids are choosing to ... , I’ll link it here.) And speaking of diversity, there are a few things

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  top priorities of the moment keep getting supplanted as more and more pressing Ideas Of The Now pop into my head. Today, the pecking order ascended ... with at least four pressing tasks, and the burning question of what to do

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Metropolis and the Alloy Orchestra "The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must be the Heart!"

  

  event. There was a sold-out showing of Metropolis (1927) that I had the pleasure of attending that evening. If you have heard of or seen Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, then you’ll know that it was one of the first

  • by ARTalk
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dell-icious. MIT students and the Dell Social Innovation Competition

  

  '13 came up to deal with the problem of inadequate communication and ... same field of interest, in the same area, with the same target population, at the same time. Which more or less sounds like massive amounts of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stayin’ Classy Workworkworkworkworkwork *deep breath* workworkworkwork.

  

  It's been 13 days since the school year began, and already, many of us are gasping for a break. There's a definite pick-up in the amount of ... with a painful lack of time. My friend's Facebook status currently reads

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 21, 2010