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  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  shelves full of awards and medals. A Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. sign hangs ... , dangling with flags from all of District 7’s many universities and colleges ... most of us: the PhD physicist-turned-politician, one of two physicists in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness.[annotation note='All text on this blog post comes from the preface and first thirteen theses of Guy Debord’s classic The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cultura MIT students use online collaboration with their French counterparts to learn about each other's cultures.

  

  Gilberte Furstenberg (teacher of French III, a class we're both taking). The homework I'm doing right now is part of a unit called Cultura, where we correspond with university students learning English at l'Ecole Polytechnique

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  than threats." To universally accept this concept, of course, would ... issue of Newsweek about the future of America's global leadership. It ... environment? Newsweek asked 15 leaders in the fields of science, technology

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds of Summer What've you been listening to lately?

  

  still have four glorious days of summer break left, so I will continue to ... Company of Thieves - This is the kind of song that you enthusiastically sing ... . This is completely uncharacteristic of the rest of their material, just

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  So the four year roller coaster called "Quest for a degree from MIT" has come to a close. And of course, it wouldn't be blogworthy unless there was more of a story than that. So this semester I had just one

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SpringFest 2014! Just a quick post about the 2014 SpringFest Concert featuring Capital Cities and Flosstradamus!

  

  It's that time of year again - SpringFest!  This past weekend was filled with fun events like the McCormick Hall picnic and lots of energy ... friends!  There were about 9 EMTs roaming around that I got to hang out with

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 27, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  of my summer before college. i wasn’t really doing anything but also ... all kinds of shops, the preparation takes over your entire summer ... heavy.  my thoughts were torn between the excitement of what was coming

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  In my freshman year of high school, my favorite teacher that year had ... of us a custom version of Dr. Seuss's Oh, The Places You'll Go! Every page contained one of our names on it, saying we were all traveling off

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  unnatural, fake, and caused by reading milenial blogs. After these days of ... fine clay particles of my life, and suspended them into a cloudy mess. It takes a long time for sediment to collect at the bottom of a liquid

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  the first day of classes is Tuesday, YIKES! But I didn't get through ... , a snapshot of the dinner table (me, my mom, and my three younger ... faculty and staff from all around MIT help members of the community practice

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  classes to graduate, an average of one a semester. I waved around that ... enjoying the writing classes and my job outside of class working with polymers better than some of my materials science classes. And it got me

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  were happening on campus. Didn’t see any of my friends hanging out in the ... hang my jacket and I sit down in front of my laptop and stay in my room ... The rhythm sets in. It’s a steady rhythm. Roll out of bed at ten in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  IAP, and trivia answers IAP begins tomorrow.

  

  events tomorrow catch my eye. They are: The History of the Universe in One ... Tomorrow is the beginning of MIT's Independent Activities Period (IAP)! IAP is one of the most fun times of the year. It is a time where

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  Thursday night was my first Central Meeting of the year. Not only did it conflict with the season premiere of Ben's favorite show, The O ... : Number of hurricanes dodged: 1 Meals eaten at Columbia restaurant: 1

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  In this past semester, the definition of "home" changed a lot for me ... we mellowed a lot over the course of college. "I like this Cami," my ... four months. Coming home for the first time after this whirlwind of a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  set on pursuing a degree in course 16 (aero/astro engineering). After a ... classes were just so-so for me. At the end of last spring, I made a major ... ) program. This has been one of the best decisions I've made in the past 3

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  New Years Eve with some of my friends from MIT. Since there's a bunch of ... kind of letter instead of that portion of the application, just outlining ... of a school abroad. My question is: Will this letter put me at a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  .112, the next level of chemistry, which meant in order to keep the 18 ... half-week of classes, and my first problem set, which was intense. I ... now, which is probably better for me since I've taken a lot of chemistry

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  include: calculating the expansion rate of the universe, demonstrating the ... Saturday and bouncing out of bed. I love wearing headphones in a hipster ... squeezing past thousands - THOUSANDS - of middle- and high-school kids and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012