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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  scribbles in my notebook, a smattering of quotes, points and diagrams: "I ... flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated ... in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lounges: An Interactive Experience It's almost like you were here!

  

  The 3D Lounge Experience For this part, I ask you to settle in a ... really in front of you. Munch on some (free) lukewarm fried plantains. For ... in from building solar cars, ballroom dancing, psetting, and UROPing

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  . Exhilarating! Remember that scientific discovery you always wanted to discuss in ... in dubious or passionate affairs with upperclassmen (or even classmates) until after Halloween. In time, you will appreciate the November Rule

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  , but I’ll be too busy celebrating and reveling in the streets, regardless ... take a break from the sit-all-day-locked-in-my-room studying technique ... - we’re literally across the river from the biggest college city in the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  Octopus, Apocalypse or Iron Man, we were always left in awe. In this piece ... question. New York Apartments To Finally Be Hospitable Having lived in the ... /size/neighbourhood trade-off that living in a city brings. In this article, the Media Lab

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  Materials for Biology, which hopefully will be a blend of my interests in science and media. But, in waiting for the summer session to start, I ... coffeehouse, back in the day when this space on the 3rd floor of the student

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  /Build/Fly competition, and as hats flew and hair rippled in 30+ mph wind, it became clear ... we arrived to the competition site, a brisk wind decided to settle in and loiter in the airfield for a day or two. Let's be clear--wind is bad

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  't worry! Me: ...great! TSA Agent: In some ways. Me: Great! Well, here are my ... back where I started - at the check-in counters. Turns out that my gate ... Agent 2: Do you have DNA in your ears? Me: ....excuse me? TSA Agent 2: DNA

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  figure out why they’re actually important, but you will. In fact, learning ... times over winter break, but I wasn’t particularly getting anywhere. In fact, I wasn’t particularly interested in doing a whole lot of anything

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  I got my first piercing in eighth grade, at Walmart. I had done horribly in a Mathcounts competition, so my mom and I decided that I should ... little more training than a stapler) to put two new holes in my ears. A few

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  semester. Early in the school year, I kept getting emails about spending IAP  all-expenses paid in Korea, teaching kids science/English. I never gave ... during IAP. But one night in September, I was checking my emails, writing

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Deferred Applicants Q & A Have a question about your MIT EA deferral? Read on...

  

  .) What should I do now? Should I send in extra materials? The only thing ... available on MyMIT in January. On the Midyear Report, you will provide us with ... updates in other formats, including mail and email, but the Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  to share a bit of my own culture with you. It is, in fact, my home ... is simply a case in which Australia got it backwards (or perhaps upside ... supermarket shelf. This is, however, a cultivation (and not just in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  The first year is finally done! Woo! I'd put that text in some < ... building for using such a cheesy html gimmick in a reputable post. But trust ... final exam in psychology. Even more conveniently, my room had a lot to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  Even in classical mechanics, physics tells us about relativity, where ... observes one's surroundings. Even if you're circling the globe in a plane 20,000 feet in the air, you feel deceptively little motion; you'd only know it

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  . Matt '11, another GEL, was featured in the winter 2011 issue of MIT ... lounge, one of the upperclassmen in my dorm stopped by to comfort me. “Don ... of laughter and sympathetic looks. MIT does the best job in the world

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results bang it here for the latest updates and stats

  

  : In no particular order: Don't worry. We have your mail. We've been ... igloo of them and am posting from inside it right now in fact. This ... should be keeping the Midyear Report in the back of your mind. All Early

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  in the 8.012 section had an exam. Proctor (smiling): "8.012? Are you sure you're in the right place?" Me: ... Proctor: "Is 8.012 even in this building?" Me (bristling): "Um, yes. 8.012 is DEFINITELY in this building

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  sudden decrease in sunlight as temperatures plummet; and of course beards ... tradition known as the Novembeard ("No Shave November" in some regions, or ... , manliest beard you can in the span of one month. Leonidas is the patron

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  ’s his duty to chat about the Yankees and the Red Sox with the person in ... for the record that this is the first time in my four years I’ve been ... didn’t get their farecards in advance. Meanwhile, my sister and I, with

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010