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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  There’s been a decent amount of turbulence in the past couple of ... “dorm culture” was a thing. I wasn’t (and still am not) in any MIT 2020 ... which dorm they think they’d best fit in. I'll admit that a few of the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  Well, I'm back home in the great state of Ohio, getting ready for ... will pile in the Family Vehicle and drive past several cow farms (but not ... to be home for the first time in six months, and I'm looking forward to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  icy winds across the bridge can grab free tickets to select concerts. In ... found out Seiji Ozawa's fantastic salmon recipe in the BSO cookbook ... actually her fourth concert in a week, after Patti Smith's fantastic

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  's worth sharing: after all, MIT has one of the best medical systems in the ... price in September, mononucleosis in October, vaccinations in November and February, and a series of three major throat infections in February and March

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  For the second year in a row, I am teaching a class at MIT. A real, for-credit, in-the-catalog-of-classes class, at MIT. That I teach. On math. Let's back up a moment. The (Loose) History/Background In

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  . Also, don’t be like me and buy so much stuff in the coop that your ... CPW last year in your shoes. Well, I had never been to Boston before, so ... confusion. I read in the itinerary that MIT would be bussing us from the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night ... floating safe in slimy pink buffer instead of withering into a translucent, crunchy mass on the countertop over Labor Day weekend. I stayed in bed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  usually in such good condition that you can't even really tell what's wrong ... and a half hours in the pouring rain to lose a field hockey game. Bleh ... says that now she doesn't have to buy it. See? April gives me food, I let

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  ...and have you seen "Underworld?" My friends in Harrisburg and I ... Allison's new [Video Retailer] Movie Pass in hand, I vacillated between ... MIT's 28 fraternities in the fall of my freshman year--while I had no

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  more modern feature length films. Simultaneously, we also learned the ins ... an amazingly framed short film, i discovered as we screened it in class ... more modern tech in the form of a Canon 70D. For our final project, we

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  ... In December 2020, I learned about the MakerLodge training that first-years could participate in, and I immediately did the online portion of the ... different. In digital fabrication, you learn about 3D printing and laser

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  if you fit in. Below is a list of events happening at Random this ... wrong. This list has many more events than the list in your puny booklet ... /26/2012 00:47-2:17 Adventures in Neverland Never grow up! Peter Pan fights

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  , disappointment rapidly setting in. I refreshed the website a couple times to make ... home that day, and I was competing in two events: student congress and ... decisions before I gave my speech. I would go in and talk about Imelda Marcos

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  , you could answer in a multitude of ways and I wouldn’t be able to say ... of the bad question that is, in essence, unanswerable. Now, if you ... MIT freshmen for them to answer in a single semester: “How would you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  ?" etc etc) I've gotten more exposure to politics than I ever had in my ... In ...Yeah. So, you probably recognize that slogan because it seems ... I will say that I believe politics are relevant, and in my mission to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  and face masks and indulging in a bit of luxury. "self-care is buying ... i've been thinking, recently: in times of need, who takes care of me ... 're in right now. i have been ruminating on care, in all its forms, and it

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  Today in Boston it was 41 degrees Fahrenheit and rainy. Random Hall ... geese and seagulls from the bank. I spent Thanksgiving in Myrtle Beach ... . Four years ago when I was a senior in high school I tried to learn how to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  described:   Founded in 2003, the MIT Laboratory for Chocolate Science ... , appreciation of, and indulgence in our favorite substance to the community.   In today's (Wednesday's) edition of the Boston Globe, the second major

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  machine in Random Hall's basement, so I couldn't wear it. Thus, my intent ... laundry server for the latest news on conditions in Random's washers and ... episode in which I spotted a motorcycle rearview mirror lying by a parking

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  cells exchange their water in the matter of milliseconds. Proof?" The Science Problem: How fast does water get in/out of cells? 1:31 am: I ... : these physicists have modeled some perfectly smooth aquaporins in a vacuum

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022