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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Intermission Summer job: just kickin' it. And working at Pixar, too.

  

  you guys, though - watch for a pretty important entry coming up about ... ! Lots of good stuff coming your way from the studio - at the end of this

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Excitement On The Road Adventures in the Princeton Hospital ER.

  

  So Marilee and I spent much of last night in the ER at Princeton ... progression - two emergency vehicles, woot! (I thought of you, Tish.) And second ... importantly, I could have met House. I'll write something about Ivy Plus when I

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 6

  

  Today I got in early, giving me a chance to read my copy of the New ... days, followed by several weeks of solidifying the class, selecting the ... long time, but I assure you, it is better not to rush such important

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  albums i like and why i like them pov: i ramble about music and won't shut up

  

  the albums that I like. So here is a list of cool musical [annotation ... wrestler that the singer (and presumed protagonist of the album) watched as a ... is what I remember:  The creator of this album, John Darnielle, didn

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 8, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  roll into the parking lot fashionably on-time. Most of the other people ... , my eye was drawn immediately to the important pieces of information. I ... *written by Liz O. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  cruel ritual of adulthood to run into an old friend with whom you’ve lost ... brew for me). We jumped right into discussing three of the classic themes ... complete the most important mission of the trip: visiting Paige’s favorite

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  of the nucleus and into the endoplasmic reticulum. In the endoplasmic ... teaching three iterations of a three-hour-long class called Hands ... -long assortment of classes for middle and high school students organized by the MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  important part of The Tale of Tsar Sultan, the opera it comes from. Paavo ... I’ve potatoed so much over the past few weeks of break — lounging in ... -quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn a lot of trivia — time on

  • by Phi A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  like a turtle in three pairs of sweatpants and two sweatshirts and a lot of sweat trying to get over this ridiculous cold-flu-thing - let's just ... of time for blagging. Good thing they got Sniv to cover it as well. But

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  I can’t believe it’s been a year since I first delved into the MIT ... three days felt like the longest three days of my life. My total sleep ... 's atmosphere of absolute energy. I remember a large bouncy castle and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Lost Art of Hand-Lettering Lives at MIT hidden in plain sight

  

  . A lot of doors. And a lot of them with letters on them, like this one:   What you probably don't know is that, since 1994, all of the letters on all of these doors have been hand-lettered by one man, Glenn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  vaguely in order of decreasing personal importance: Physics. I’m taking ... The theme of my (very short) MIT experience so far has been that ... interesting. EVERYTHING. I’m exaggerating, of course, but only a little. There

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  give y’all a little recap.  For starters, it's important to know that the season is basically broken up into three mini seasons: Preseason ... for games. Regular season: where we play all of our official games on

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  , having never taken advantage of the "hey kids, look at my schedule!" post ... hosed again, here's a picture of an otter for you." (Oh man I love otters so much) So, let's take a look at the schedule of a first

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  's your favorite part of your job?" President Hockfield: "You. The students." They talk back and forth about Sam's dream of becoming an astronaut and surgeon. 9:28am: A parent's question: "How important is it to choose a major

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  your way upward into Minister of Magic, or some other high position of ... are other messages too, of course. You should be hipper. You should be ... more powerful.” one of his implications is that if you have an ambition

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  While I’m sure some of you have a good sense of what I do as an ... more agonizing) - that is all actually just a portion of my day ... other aspects of our office. As a counselor on the Visit Team, I get to

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  , one of the most important aspects of being here is the world directly outside MIT. The "M," if you will. After graduating, I kind of felt like ... school case of little town blues - that's just not worth it to me. Hey, we

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  ridiculousness of the Garden Wall Trail when it came into view, and I could see people very high up on a tiny trail cut into the side of this massive stone ... . Anyways, we had two motivations for this trip, and one of them was hiking

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  World Pride in New York City and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the ... reminded of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera – Black and Puerto Rican ... trans women of color) is that progress has not been as drastic for their

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019