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  An Online Going-Away Card for Ben Jones Today is Ben Jones's last day at MIT. Comment here to wish him the best.

  

  fantastic new job (Vice President for Communications!) at Oberlin College. If ... in at least some small way. He created this community and made it what ... he has befriended hundreds of MIT students, alums, and parents, not to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Unveiling the New Varsity Weight Room let's get buff !!!

  

  now open! Accessible to all those who participate in a varsity sport at MIT, the new VWR is now double the size, has double the number of racks, has a new turf speed and agility section, and a bunch of other fun

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 23, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  mind: “At the end of his wits, his mind reeling from all of the bad news ... I can see the end of my first reading season from here, and it has been a humbling experience. I am full of gratitude to you, our class of

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  Meeting Of The Year. I woke up at 8:30 to my alarm, turned it off, and *actually* woke up at 9:30, this time to the aroma of cinnamon rolls. One of ... of finishing all my requirements at the last minute like that has been

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  What Should I Do Next Semester? i'm making a list and checking it twice

  

  Okay, so I'm sort of cheating - I already wrote this post on my ... different audience and see a different set of responses.  Here's ... spending a year at Cambridge taking amazing classes that didn't fulfill

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  will love it. At this point, I am really scared of technology. It ... Hello all, I interrupt the great back-to-school flow of these blogs ... ordering an e-book reader (the brand of which I will not specify but you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  No scissors allowed: OrigaMIT You never know what cool stuff is going on around the Institute.

  

  I am notorious for showing up at the right place at the wrong time ... a room full of people doing origami (turns out I was an hour early ... flying grasshopper). OrigaMIT, the origami club of MIT, meets once a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  existed, and I'm kind of glad I didn't because I think I would have gone nuts. Now, I'll admit I was kind of shocked by the number of posts that were along the lines of "Chances at MIT." I guess I was just a little

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Ultimate Showdown Making important college purchase #1

  

  parts - Sometimes more powerful The Cons: - Not mobile - A lot of equipment to keep track of LAPTOP The Pros: - Mobile - Lightweight - Can do most tasks of a desktop The Cons: - A little more expensive than

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…

  

  , Jefferson Tester, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT, says he ... -scale method of dismantling prions, the proteins that cause mad cow disease ... spread via the common American practice of feeding rendered animal parts

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an infinite nine year old and the infinite nineteen year old he became

  

  grabbing fistfuls of it, throwing it at my sibling and giggling as I ran away ... at MIT always brings a smile to my face. It’s a small modicum of life ... ’—an infinite one, at that. Dramatically, slash if I were into telling fables, I

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  We’re So Back a collage of preseason

  

  is a span of two weeks in the summer before the semester starts, where ... for the fall season. This period of time is when the hyphenated word of ... -student. No school – just a soccer practice at 8 am and another at 2 pm, mid

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  . Staring at them, I got the sense of a one-man industry. He said the work ... printer at the start of last year (after his internship with 3D Robotics in ... white under the wintry fury of snow). As he stared at the dome, it finally

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

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

  

  make a person feel at home. But acquiring a sense of happiness, sense of ... 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

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 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 / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  see, in my family of five, we all like apple juice so much that if we ... was a limitation on the size of the cups we could use to drink apple juice. I’ve been waiting most of my teenage years for the freedom to drink

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT has a radio station!? [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Yes, it's true!

  

  for the rest of Cambridge/Boston to enjoy!). It's located in the cozy yet unfamiliar basement of Walker Memorial. It was one of the first ... name of my show conveys the unique combination of music I play; that is

  • by ARTalk
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Lip Sync ‘08 Because I want . . . you . . . back

  

  of Friday and all of Saturday completely off. Yes, that screws me for today, and possibly all of next week (Playsentations soon? Do we have a ... phone vendors hocking products, lot's of bustle. Saturday evening most of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  just a sampling of groups at MIT, and don't forget that a lot of the cool ... I conducted my first of ten meetings this fall in Hartford this week ... row asked me what else you could do in labs besides classes and UROP. At

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon! Yay for the class of 2010!

  

  Whew. I just spent the last 4 and a half hours calling up as many of the Early Admits to the class of '10 as I possibly could. And it was seriously a lot of fun. First of all, I finally got to meet Alia and Mike

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2006