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Blog / Academics & Research
Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time
In 1981, Gerald Fink was a professor at Cornell and a member of a visiting committee at MIT. At the time, MIT faculty and administration were split over the idea… -
Blog / Challenges
Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious
. '22 and Emily H. '22), so I had printed out all of our train tickets and -
Blog / Academics & Research
9 / Headache 68 days to go
To set the mood: i'm so tired... by lauv & troye sivan What a headache Where does the time go?! We're somehow halfway through the semester already. I envisioned my final semester to be ~ c h i l l -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
[Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large
Growing up, I wasn’t always a fan of movies. It may have been an aversion to enjoying “mainstream” culture, but I always shied away whenever family friends gushed over their… -
Blog / How to Human
talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice
I’m halfway to my bachelor’s degree which is exciting but also nerve-wracking. You don’t really get a chance to redo college, but that doesn’t stop you from wondering how things… -
Blog / Miscellaneous
on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing
'm using a standard style. (ok, i'm lying a little, CI-H classes also strived -
Blog / Academics & Research
Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2
street, Boston—"natural water" is way more expensive than regular H2O -
Blog / Admissions
hey kids you should apply there's still time!
Sinus pressure and general malaise have prevented me from typing up this post as eloquently as it could be, but the story below has been bouncing around my head for… -
Blog / Academics & Research
Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)
I G H T – animation assignments. So the long weekend Saturday, 10 -
Blog / How to Human
[Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share
A friend of mine (whose honesty, even under cover of anonymity, is something to strive for) wanted to release this into the world, as it has been an interestingly prominent… -
Blog / Admissions
Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*
Not every writer is an artist. Not every piece of writing is a work of art. I realized this last year as a high school senior when I was frantically… -
Blog / Events
This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!
Fight!!! @ MacGregor Shoot people with Marshmallows with H Entry, then -
Blog / Life after MIT
One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello
Hello from Barcelona! I’m here for an astronomy conference. (You may be wondering: who is this girl and why is she talking about astronomy? Does she even go here? The… -
Blog / Athletics
Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)
As you may have gathered from these blogs and/or any time you may have spent here, MIT has a lot of completely amazing people. One of these people is my good friend Lauren H. '16, who (among other things) happens to -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism
in my update on Lydia's blog -- I'm Melissa H. '13), and the burnout -
Blog / Life after MIT
MIT: Round 2
So I think that the goal was that this post be filled with wisdom and enlightenment from the generations gone by, ready to fill eager young minds with the knowledge… -
Blog / Events
I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare
This is what Websis has to say: Wow. * * * I’m on the train with my family, and Boston is now out of sight. I… -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!
Last week, I raised my right hand and exchanged a Vulcan salute with Leonard Nimoy. “That greeting originated in Boston,” Nimoy said, to cheers from the Boston Symphony Hall audience.… -
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
From the MIT Lit dept’s Spring 2014 course catalog: 21L.705 (Major Authors): Old English and Beowulf hwæt ƿe gardena in geardagum þeodcyninga þrym gefrunon hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon… Those…