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  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  , who mentioned it in an email to me: I saw the car after it had been ... If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... yourself wondering: How did THAT get there? Four score and zero years ago

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  us in the heart the way nothing else can. Another HUGE factor is that ... we should be majoring in. Currently, we are majoring in Course 21E, or ... major too; we are interested in the storytelling and writing classes

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  ’s campus, especially Stata. I personally love the dissonance in the ... ’re walking in. I spent a few evenings last summer and this winter so far ... the Charles River was through a downpour, when I was temped in Mac

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  me, who am I? Hello? Why am I here? What’s my purpose in life? What ... sensation in my . . . my . . . well, I suppose I’d better start finding names for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  feels awful. Instead, tell yourself: "In my circumstances, I tried my ... , whatever works). Let's do it together: In my circumstances, I tried my best ... We were deferred when we applied early to MIT, and remember how

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  , he vanished in an instant. It would be another year until I saw him again in person. I didn’t make it quick, after all. After spending a few ... , in perfect condition. I had no choice but to assume this copy of the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  , I took part in my first hackathon- The Assistive Technologies ... team and I met at 8:30 AM in this cool lab space called Beaver Works. I'd never been to the space before, but I was impressed by how funky the space

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled ... have UBER simplified some genetics concepts in this explanation. I want ... Hello beautiful people. I know that one of my previous entries hinted

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  . You'll understand what I mean if you ever become course 6. In the ... something useful to your profile in the near future, I experimented with an ... spend a night cranking away on it." In other words, organized, unpaid

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grown Up Well, not quite.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  . At 10:30pm, I was psetting in the lounge near my room (yes, on my ... and ridiculousness emerge in costume form. Reason 3 of 1 bajillion: An ... creativity and ridiculousness emerge in pumpkin form. Reason 5 of 1 bajillion

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  will be helpful. In anticipation of our 10-year reunion, I emailed all ... responded; I have listed all responses below in the order that the emails show up in my inbox. I think it is very interesting! Check it out...  

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Folding While you wait for decisions...

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cynic This is mainly a reminder note to myself.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  CPW Problem: What Can People Wear? CJ pragmatically writes concerning poor weather

  

  (Condensed pre-word: CJ pens without constrained phenomenon within comments. Perhaps written clearer? Proceed warily.) Campus Preview Weekend, commonly pronounced/written “CPW”, progresses. Welcome, current prefrosh, welcome! CPW’s putative weather contraption prevents…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tell your friends you love them for we are but blips in a timeline

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 9, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  ? (Edit: I've recieved confirmation from a couple of alums in the comments ... I was in third grade when those students were running around MIT), and ... , I trekked over to the admissions office to pick up this: And my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
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  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  things I love about the hack in the hallway of Building 14. Although it ... Approximately two weeks ago in Building 14 (the one between Building ... in [annotation note="School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  fourteen students, were killed in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Over the past week, student activists from Stoneman Douglas have spoken out loudly, often, and in public

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  articles ourselves. but in between the late night pranks and the casually ... . kids who do research in government labs and kids that expect themselves ... that build roller coasters in their backyard and computers in their spare

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014