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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  back east toward the rest of campus and made our way to Story Time with ... the Ascend MAX TNT—a name which, by the way, is not something you should

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  , I elbowed my way to somewhere near the front of the line, eager to ... pay close attention. Either way, I’m reassigning the Munroe to measure

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  across the front of the student center and almost all the way to Mass Ave ... for them all anyway. I pushed my way to the muffin baskets, which were

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  without experiencing the college firsthand, there was no way for me to know ... experienced other colleges firsthand, there’s no way for me to know whether or

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  . Milton was revolutionary in other ways: he wrote a treatise advocating for ... ways of God to men." and one can't read that passage without wondering

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  English knowledge required!) and in a single semester will work our way into ... advantage of MIT's subject offerings any other way.

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  outside. He flew in late last night (way after Raphael and I went to sleep ... leading the way: Here's the sketchy wooden ramp, which took us across the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  a good way,  not always, but mostly. I'm still sorting it out in my ... , the way I'm talking to you right now. My next blog post, in one week

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  find a few ways to pass time. I wrote. I wrote a lot. I taught ... realized this the hard way. I distinctly remember the metamorphosis of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  After talking to my friends during the first week of senior year and getting cold glares cast my way each time I shared my schedule, I ... 've done/learned and ways that I've grown, but suffice it to say that I'm now

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  way more time in my dorm than usual. Sean Collier's memorial service was ... truck was trying to find its way through security (good luck.) When it was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  With Apologies to Dr. Seuss why MIT is amazing, a la buzzfeed

  

  PLACES YOU'LL GO! You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights ... ! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So...get on your way!' &

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  the MoMA: On the way in, Kandinsky tells the visitor what to think ... - but the scene dragged on way longer than was actually necessary to make

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  -1410 AD" and found that yes, these people had found a way to preserve ... didn't stop talking about consilience until we had walked all the way

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  , but two thirds of the way there I realized that I had forgotten to print ... . I clicked my way to the PE site, saw that yoga was offered in the T

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  brain was left with two conclusions: 1) In no way was this "ditching a ... seconds to tug them the rest of the way up, before sitting back down, cheeks

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  me from momentarily feeling that way. Then I scheduled an appointment ... 's a way to hack it here, given the right perspective, and I hope my own

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  circumstance would be hurrying on their way - all stopped to pay tribute to a ... some way, however miniscule, it will contribute to their healing. A

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  -I've-fallen-into-the-deep-end-of-knowledge classes I've ever taken. And that's in both a good and a bad way. At times ... thankful for having stumbled upon a new way to break out of food-related ruts

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  more depth. I decided way back in freshman year that my concentration ... in no way detracts from the professor quality, either in research or

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012