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  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  applying to MIT were even born. The goal of FIRST, broadly speaking, is to inspire students towards a lifelong devotion to science, technology, and ... -studded team of engineers on the Game Design Committee unveil that year's game to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivery 2021 meet me halfway

  

  Delivery typically happens in your sophomore spring, to mark not only the ... result of the pandemic, we weren't able to have a ring delivery in the ... freaking cool, we were able to get it rescheduled for this fall. It's been

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Picked My First Apple apples, part 1

  

  MIT sponsors an annual trip to an apple orchard in Stow, MA for ... , and now I have enough apples that it would be wasteful for me not to eat ... to pick half a peck of apples, a hayride, a bottle of cold apple cider

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 16, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  visual depictions of my summer i've been a busy, busy bee.

  

  halfway around the world to start my internship, and was housed at a really ... Gardens in Bangalore was used to host flower shows in the 19th century ... -up;   We got up at 3 am to get to Nandi Hills for this view-- And this

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  followed by a one-day sale the next day, to benefit the lab and its ... year to share with you. The pumpkin patch is handblown gradually over ... created by a team of about six artists. In this blog post, I want to convey

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  Hello all, I interrupt the great back-to-school flow of these blogs to deliver a semi-personal, semi-existential rant. I am THIS close to ... I really want to help undermine the value of the physical public

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  0 Days Since Last Fire Alarm Oh noes! Simmons Hall on fire!

  

  myself outside in the snow or in the rain, waiting for the strobe lights to stop blinking before heading back into the dorm to resume whatever I was ... had somewhere around 10 to 15 fire alarms since the school year has

  • by Snively '11
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Enigma Gold Star Winners! Don, tell them what they've won...

  

  To follow up on this entry... Thanks for playing Engima Wrapped In A ... of you met the challenge. Initially we had planned to only award one ... visit the Quadric Designs website. Until the next time, stay tuned to the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Break and Study of Cities Abroad Students in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning enjoy a subsidized spring break abroad…

  

  .027, "City to City." This course includes departmental funding (!) for travel to and from a foreign city over spring break, when students meet with ... the Euro. This spring, the class is heading to Amsterdam, and I think I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Rush photos

  

  harnesses and had to wear helmets. I didn't manage to get a good picture of a rider in motion, but I did get a picture of this rider who was about to start his/her ride. Not every attraction has to be a ride. We also had

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hooked on a Feeling High on believing everyone's in love with me.

  

  , and I almost forgot the best part. Today I was talking to my supervisor, Juergen, about nice places to go in Europe. Juergen said that his absolute favorite is Rome, and that one time he went to Rome and saw the Pope walking

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  , but they also can be things like (but not limited to) athletics ... activities -- make sure you convey that to us. When you describe your extra-curriculars, either in an essay or on the application form, try to make it more than a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  curve. This curve will be what Gabe uses to decide whether he should get ... works. It takes another three pages to derive the social demand curve ... vaccine has on other people. In order to reach the socially optimal

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They’re not just regular artists… ...they're Artists in Residence.

  

  noted artists to campus to work with MIT students. The program is called Artists in Residence, and has been bringing artists to Cambridge for more ... the opportunity to work closely with Tan Dun and also with Guillermo

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  (IBD), which causes inflammation of the digestion tract and leads to ... Issel Lim has spent the past year trying to create an effective mouse ... pathogen that is closely related to Escherichia coli and infects the colon of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  was this: people prefer to tell us about the things they think we ... ahead of me in school, was working on her college essay on the bus to a ... , is that Varsity Club didn't really seem to be an important part of Erin

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  memorabilia from the school year! He has yet to successfully hold ALL of ... , wholesome sticky notes given to us by freshman in the program at the final FAP ... arcade that we went to the last time we hung out with our high school

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIA No More Why I haven't blogged in 23 days.

  

  else seems to be posting screenshots of their calendars, I'm going to do ... IAP trip to India - Taking EMS Shifts (I happen not to be on any this ... Homework, which currently includes: (1) Reading for 9.01 (Intro to Neuro

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  resource right at my fingertips. You see, MIT offers free MATLAB to its ... . The catch is you have to be connected to the MIT network, that's where ... software to stick. I brought it down to the NASA computing center about 3

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tour de Frat house tours of pbe, dke, and sig chi!

  

  Welcome back to another tour – and I hope you're excited, because ... thought it would be fun to show what Greek life is like for them. (You can ... Phi Beta Epsilon! Right next to the tennis courts and other athletic

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 28, 2025