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  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  question was about how outreach is valued in the professional scientific ... loudly in my ears that I'm not sure if I heard anything he said, but here ... 're a meme!) and I can report that it is truly bizarre to watch Neil de

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  ....it's MIT, and languages don't involve math and all. First of all, I can ... was held entirely in Spanish, so it was pretty advanced, but I enjoyed ... the word "and" in Italian is "e" (pronounced like a long A). You can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  as is my house back in California. I remember being gently startled the ... alleviate the dissonance in my mind every time I accidentally referred to MIT ... no home and no place and no thing that is perfect. I love MIT in the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  clearly and responds to all of our questions. I like that I can be casual in ... quick recap of how the semester's gone for me so far since I've wanted to ... class. I had done horribly in physics all my life and I knew it was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  Campus, which I can grasp for but never quite reach.  I’m trying to reach it now. I’m living in it. That glow is strongest around EC. It’s in ... went before I gapped, except that then I did not realize how much I would

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  So, hey. I'm Jude - I was hired as a blogger in fall 2017, fell off ... how to get back on - with the end result that I haven't blogged for over a year, and I've been living in comfortable silence for almost all of

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  beads in an empty soda can. I wish I could tell you what he/she/it looked ... , TX to Boston, MA. As the old joke goes: "I just flew in from El Paso ... like Tiger on the links in Tucson. I now understand desert rules for golf

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  friends I already knew, made some new ones, and learned how to parallel ski. In the beginning of the month, I was struggling to figure out how to ... I had gotten used to it and can now say that I have a basic idea of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  this statement can be true when i rarely blog in the first place... oops ... When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first questions was about why I wanted to be a blogger in the first place. Amidst

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Whirlwind Weekend highlights of the weekend (UPDATED!)

  

  auction to benefit a scholarship fund in Louisiana. One of my friends, Mike '07, asked me if I wouldn't mind going up for auction, and I obliged kindly. However, soon after, I began to worry about what my auction price

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  I’m not 21, and the people I polled varied in how much they like the ... . High levels of sodium in your blood can be deadly. Other notes: This is ... media is, in fact, drinkable. It comes in a whole range of pink colors! It

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  Time Machine and jump back 9 years to when I was in 6th grade, every weekend, I ... you have a library card? 'Cause I'm checking you out." "Baby, can I be your DNA helicase? 'Cause I want to unzip your genes." If you can top

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  's pretty cool to look at a page I created and take pride in its...artistic...nature. Right. In other news, I chose a major! It's an awesome choice that doesn ... . The truth is that I never REALLY knew what I wanted to major in. I knew

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Admitted Student Gathering Thank you MIT Club of Northern NJ for throwing a great one!

  

  student in the immediate area, I was pretty excited to meet other 2017's in ... Engineering, which I wanted as my major. It was amazing seeing how much the ... prefrosh asked how I balanced my work, sleep, and social life. My answer was

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a driver, I’m a winner Things are gonna change, I can feel it.

  

  doing now that I've won this most presitigious of awards? Sitting in lab and organizing data to send to Andy in Switzerland so he can keep ... Tonight I won the MIT Marching Band's coveted SPAM scholarship. As

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  E house (it looks wayyyyy better now!) I was struck by how different my ... alliterative small room. Scarily small. I’ve never been in an engineering class ... different my life is now, how different I am. The stakes have been raised

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  friends, in the order they asked. Scretious Scretious is… I guess the best ... this: Bunnies can be found on Killian Court at midnight, and in front of ... gather in groups on our lawns). Sometimes, we can get so close to the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  this post): 1. I have not blogged in quite a while. 2. I finally have a ... get spoiled for me in the comments. [Important sidenote: I watch almost ... , I assume) - so PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE no spoilers in the comments! If

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  questions. What do you see in this sunburn pattern on my leg? Because I can ... pack in a few short days. Speaking of packing, April and I made a pretty ... .01 is going to make my life difficult when I start taking classes in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  I guess there are some things in life you can’t control. For me (and ... with joy. I live here now, right in the middle of if this beautiful ... Picture this: me, three water balloons in hand, running across

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019