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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  land on the vastness of the Charles all at once. It's hard to see in the ... the glittery Boston skyline reflected off of the glossy black surface of ... romanticize rain when I'm indoors listening to the drumming of droplets on my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  last friday a lot of my friends walked at commencement after a speech ... at roughly the same time and grew in some sense of togetherness, and ... complicated sweets at all kinds of odd hours, sharing them with your neighbors

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  disappearing into Terminal 3.14 at Logan Airport. Meanwhile, I have compiled a grand master list of links for any and all of you going to any college at ... own tumblr blog, so maybe 1/4 of this is still content that I wrote at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  this all in one go in my remaining 47 minutes on the train, instead of postponing for another 47 days of drawn-out anguish at the accumulating height ... writing is concise and takes time, or at least a round of editing. But

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  COINCIDENCE he was going to climbing at the wall that night, and the rest of the ... circumstance, this would have been a mere blip on my daily radar of Shiny ... of rock climbing. So while the blip was more like a bloop, it was still

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  great. But quite a few of them have not, or at the very least have been ... So I'm currently at NACAC in New Orleans. I'll post more about the ... months, in the hope of generating some kind of useful conversation here in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  On the Coming of Winter in Boston November peels away like buttery sheathes of apple-crisp, sizzled brown skin off a roasted turkey that your grandmother accidentally stuffed with snow As you can see, the existence of the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Odds & Ends Concerts (on & off campus), doors (on campus), and lectures (also on campus).

  

  , at Morss Hall in MIT's Walker Memorial. Ford International Professor of ... Hijacking of the Global Food Supply CMS Colloquium: Animation at the Beijing ... and professor of doctoral studies at the Animation School of Beijing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  So one of the perks involved with being an MIT student is the ability to get into the Museum Of Science for free. A few weeks back, Diana, Evelyn, and I went to check out some of the exhibits. Now probably one of

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005