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• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  doing nothing at all. I couldn’t stop smiling. So then, of course, I had ... exciting. I also won’t deny that being at specifically MIT has a bit of its ... too much of the college content out there (or at least the content I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  cinnamon and nutmeg coated fat at the top of the pots. We also needed to ... instead of being 4 inches thick, the pie was about 1 inch thick. At this ... , and a bunch of other people (mentioned below) put too much work into it

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  annoyed at the lack of webiquette. To vent their annoyance they reply all ... better understanding of how student-organized the politics at MIT are and ... went over like a bag of rocks with the MIT administration. Long story

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  a relatively high number of people (28) seeking there. Seeking at ... pleasure of competing in dormspam-the-game! Run by [annotation note="I plan ... -the-game was a series of 5 games played over 5 weeks. The first-place winners of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  time though, it’s kind of crazy how a student who was pretty much at the ... semester was a bit of a struggle. First of all, I got a little off ... really great during your first few months at MIT; I really enjoyed building

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  doubt that any of the pizza places at which I will probably be eating will ... take at MIT that I sometimes regret spending my some of my free elective ... "prawns" in Australia. However, the incident of a dingo eating someone

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Small Things I Like About Autumn A short reflection on a colorful season

  

  of both the colorful earth and shiny blue Charles at the same time ... Autumn is arguably one of the best seasons there is, especially here ... colors of fall leaves mixed in with the unique and historic buildings

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  professor Fernando J. Corbato at the MIT Computation Center in 1963. Today, in my 15.565 Digital Evolution: Managing Web 3.0 class, we learned of the ... is stored, accessed, and shared across a network of servers on the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  One of the biggest events of the spring at MIT is always "Spring Weekend," and the highlight of the weekend is the annual Spring Concert ... PA. The concert starts at 8pm tonight. Last year's Spring Concert

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  in the Griffith Lab which is part of the Biotechnology Process ... of the things that people are also often interested in is how they got ... every professor at MIT who I thought was doing something that could be

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  , I could be a BME major at Johns Hopkins, sat in the nook of some cafe ... reality of situation, though, is that the road is not at all the same. I ... In my freshman year of high school, my favorite teacher that year had

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  job, of sorts. NASA internship So what did I actually do at this ... modeling but never had a good sense of how they really work. Working at GMAO ... out of it. I spent the summer looking at trends in how the GEOS system

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  . Strained arms with sacks of cheap fruit from the Haymarket. Stared plenty at ... week, someone from my hall at MIT asked, “When are you coming home to 1E ... parents. Old friends. Blotches of forest in the neighborhood where deer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  under the "Social Science" category of HASS). Ironically, at the end of ... set of classes to concentrate in. :) Foreign Language classes at MIT ... . Props to people who know what the salt at the end of the video is actually

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• 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