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  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  are creative. We express our creativity in many different ways. Some sing. Some dance. Some hack. Some people do all three in MIT's Musical ... that we all work as a community despite our differences in interests

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  latest battle in a war which began when the Internet began an age of ... should ally with Lessig or Valenti in the interminable copyfight. Nor is it ... many other in disrupting our service to protest SOPA and PIPA. Here

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  I'm in a cool HASS (Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences) class this ... box, every political speech, and in the vast majority of conversations ... in 2009 but the President has delayed his decision indefinetly. So

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  travel somewhere in the physical world to obtain information. Information!  Fortunately, you live in more civilized times. Nowadays, when you want to know ... practice in problem-solving and proof-writing.  But I got more than

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  around to playing Braid, which is sort of like Portal in that it involves ... in my last post was misinformed, because when I wrote it, I was relaxed ... , still coughing up my lungs in a mucosal haze of academic slackery, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  first impression I had). With the Percent for Art program instated in 1968 ... located in the Koch Center and it’s called “Through Layers and ... the disease. Another really interesting thing? See the grate in the

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  'll probably be ready to be a real person in a year. Many other nerds seem to ... breakdown. But temporarily being a real person this summer -- living in an ... in a while, and revel in the fact that yes, you only have one class on

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  admitted who don't mind the expense of traveling to boston for the weekend in ... attendees have not been and will not all be admitted (in my mind, I viewed it ... sentence, or anything resembling it, was in my actual e-mail; however, it was

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  : !!!!!!!! Decisions in 6 days! I honestly cannot believe it's been nearly two years ... /Cog) student, I can definitely say I don't feel lonely in either department ... almost every MIT student participates in at some point during their MIT

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Hot Crosswalk Buns free food and football cleats

  

  It's beginning to warm up here - still in the 20s, but sunny and nice - so during a break in committee I took the opportunity to cross the Mass ... burritos from Anna's). But as I like to say in my info sessions, sometimes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Life On Mars and by "Mars" I actually mean "3AB, Simmons Hall."

  

  people playing Rock Band really loud at 3 in the morning. Simmons is about as close to "apartment-style" living as you can get in the dorms. This ... work in peace. In short, I like it here. So without further ado, here

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  season is in full swing and I’ve been kept passably sane by practice and ... previous only works if you say it in one of those movie-trailer voices. I ... , hummus, in large quantities. It was pretty neat-three different companies

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  about three weeks – I’d plug it in, but the battery wouldn’t begin to ... on my UROP, which involves computing statistics about traffic in a ... applications is due in mid-December. Mid-December! I have plenty of time to work

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  accessorizing? Is soft serve an option, or not? What’s my day been like? Am I in ... I saw her in “Desk Set;” she was witty, she was smart, she was strong ... disappear from our kitchen....), but none in the brownie department. Even

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Looked outside my window, and what did I see I probably shouldn't be surprised, but I am.

  

  impossible to try and capture it all in a blog. Never fear though, I'll figure

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  in recent years deferred to spend a year in Israel, others to do ... right up until Registration Day in September (though I strongly suggest ... , too, can request a deferral any time right up until Registration Day in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Bill Gates It looks like you're trying to inspire philanthropy...

  

  examples of how MIT students are already involved in making the world a

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the Colbert Bump MIT's Riley Crane talks DARPA Challenge on ''The Colbert Report''

  

  Remember when MIT beat out teams from around the world to be the first to find all 10 hidden red balloons in DARPA's balloon challenge? Well Dr. Riley Crane, the team leader, was interviewed on "The Colbert

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I have the best girlfriend ever Gifts at MIT rock.

  

  in just for me! I have the best girlfriend ever.

  • by Snively '11
  • December 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  Coming off of a state-of-mind-altering weekend in Maine with people ... profound blog post, so I’ll go ahead and zoom in on some the crazy things ... You know what’s the best part about going to 3.091 [Chem.] at 11 in the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009