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• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  the time; I stare despairingly at my ceiling for another 14.82% of the ... , Sir, just at present—at least I know who I was when I got up this ... the point of unwritability. I would probably still be re

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was I just graduated!

  

  bio/about section of my blogger profile, which I wrote in either August or September of 2016. I thought, in the style of my last blog post, I ... if any of these thoughts feel unorganized, my brain is unorganized

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  course), “This does not seem trivial at all and some of us did not have ... . Its residents barely bat an eyelash at the appearance of sentient ... achievements of your friends, current/future classmates, professors, or even

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  At this Friday's Campus Preview Weekend Keynote (10am, Kresge ... their talks, I'll feature a mini-interview with each of them. Prof. Nancy Kanwisher received her Bachelor Of Science in Course 7 (Biology) from MIT in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  of an actual call—and numerous parodies. Not all the songs at ... [by Susan Shepherd '11] For me, one of the greatest things about MIT is the culture. It's hard to describe, but there's a peculiar mix of

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Profile On The Web: Can It Hurt You? Responses to questions on Facebook and other internet profiles and how they can affect college…

  

  a copy of our correspondence: Do you believe what students put on the internet can hurt them with college admissions? (Not necessarily at MIT but ... simply because of an internet profile? Do you think it is fair for that to

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  puberty, and I wasn’t always in the greatest mood. I was at a point of ... intersected with notions of romance for the first time. I was at a point where I ... recognized when I looked at my parents or any set of couples, but as something

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  honestly a lot of fun – frustrating at times, but (at least for me) nowhere ... failures (or perceived thereof) of public housing projects in the US. At the ... "]careening series of events[/annotation], I took an ill-advised courseload of 8

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  Meet the baby bloggers! you have to read that to the tune of meet the flintstones

  

  Hi everyone! It is that time again, the time of my[annotation note ... "]annual[/annotation]excitement: I get to introduce you to this year's crop of baby bloggers. To hire ... wonderful group of people. And now you, like us, get to laugh, cry, and lose

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT: Progressions what the students thought of the place in 1969

  

  film. It's especially obvious when you look at the demographics of the ... appearances of Professor Chomsky, Kenny, with the help of the MIT Museum ... what's amazing to me is the salience and relevance of this film. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 18, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Together. thoughts on today's tragedy.

  

  loudly at the finish line.  No cowardly act of terror can break this spirit ... This was supposed to be a happy post. It was supposed to be one of those after-CPW posts, celebrating three straight days of liquid nitrogen

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Pumpkin Drop Trick-or-treating is not enough.

  

  that it reaches the peak of its trajectory one meter above the roof of ... landing? You may neglect wind, viscous drag, and the altered aerodynamics of cold, wet pumpkins for the sake of simplicity. This past weekend’s wind

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Today is a Super Important Day This is kind of a big deal.

  

  Today is an important day. The end of an era, the beginning of a new ... almost a year. Today marks the beginning of a change we can believe in. Today, we celebrate the power of democracy and the power of the human

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Like Burger King – Only Not (Guest Entry) That ain't no Etch-a-Sketch. This is one doodle that can't be un-did, homeskillet.

  

  CPW were a mix of And you know what? I ended up at half of them ... 's kind of what going back to MIT feels like. So I visited back in February, had probably the second best time of my life (getting accepted and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s all about the numbers… Jump back into the basements for the first of two entries early this week on…

  

  Here at MIT, just about everything is referred to by its number. To ... through Buildings 56, 16, 8, 10, and 3, and emerge from the basement of Building 7. And when you register for classes, you speak of taking 3.091, 8

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Issel Lim: IBD Research Issel Lim has been trying to create an effective mouse model for ulcerative colitis, a…

  

  About one million Americans have a form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which causes inflammation of the digestion tract and leads to ... weren't bad enough, IBD increases the risk of developing colon cancer and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We, the people

  

  As you know, I'm a big fan of Indian Bollywood movies, and last night was the premiere of Swades, the latest film from Oscar-nominated director Ashutosh Gowariker (Lagaan), starring Shahrukh Khan (think of him as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  convince you of it, that's fine - it happens at MIT. That's why we have all ... 're still you, at the end of the day. You still have weaknesses, even if they ... sit together on my mom's desk at work. Obviously it proves that her

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  gets lost in the rigor of premedical academics is that, at the end of the ... finish before Monday. I'll have more ready at the end of next week, though! ... In comparing the beginnings of each of my academic years, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Be A Blogger (2018)! welcome to THE INTERNET

  

  expect you to blog at least once every two weeks and create other kinds of ... advantage of running around the Charles River (and all the public water fountains alongside) There are lots of smol nerds running around the various

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2018