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• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  't embarrass him by telling you all how old he is =), but I will tell you the story of how my friends and I unleashed a birthday explosion in his office. So in case you didn't know, I should probably tell you that Ben is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  exciting time in the world of particle physics. A week or so before, I had ... in a while, you can pull out something (an "event") which could have ... ." I hope that this gives some sense of how much was riding on the LHC

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  On a weekday, I meet my friend Alberto H. ‘17, who I haven’t seen in ... . I ask him how his life’s been lately. He pulls out his cellphone, and ... who are all staying in the Hyatt. “Yeah,” he says, “and I might go to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  I discuss how to get scientists more involved in advocacy, and what a ... him by name when I passed by in the hallway. Now, I’m in a big room ... one of his constituents, and the last time I was in New Jersey I was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  that I'm conspicuously irregular in my sleep schedule, and I say this ... Avenue, half-groggy and half juiced with adrenaline. Within 20, I'm in ... spots. Now, take the sum of everything that I've just written, factor in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  : "..." Friend: "...I freaking love this city." Here in Seattle, you see, there ... bicycle polo.   And meanwhile, here I am, in the midst of it all. I've been to three or four parades now. I've taken a nap in a park and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  fill in the gaps =) I still can’t believe that they scheduled these ... working in the Biosafety Level 4 facilities of the CDC, and I wasn’t about ... Vermillion in 1962.”) He also joked about how he was afraid that he would also

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  you were doing, you could in theory get observation time on the VLA. I say "in theory," because as you can probably imagine, getting time on ... astronomers I know, writing proposals is a huge pain in the butt; it's one of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  also measures how much information you can process at a time. In short ... the material can. In his May 19 xTalk “The Art of Insight ... specifically integration. It’s complicated (so much so, in fact, that I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  performance within a group. Now I understand how professors feel. I couldn ... ") in charge of one of the three ELL sections. I kind of think of myself ... . Here’s what we came up with (keep in mind that I’m condensing about 2

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  broadcasting. I showed up at WMBR orientation in early September 2016, became a ... around long enough that the station [annotation note="I say this in a very ... around tend to be dependable; [annotation note="I cannot stress to you how

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  limited example of my hall, I will do my best to explain how. On First East ... (Course 18). I’ve sat transfixed in random places in the hallway many times ... Institute in this post, and will return to the topic in more detail soon. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  finally woke up. I sprayed dry shampoo in my hair, and headed to MIT Medical ... him in the basement of the medical building, and Will R. '16 and I got ... 't shower for those four days or the results can get altered. I'm on day three

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Be A Blogger (2018)! welcome to THE INTERNET

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: I'm taking ... ’s like to live in Conner 2, or plan stuff for REX, or UROP, or decide how ... ; In the main, we are looking for bloggers with good judgment who can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  .[/annotation]It turns out, though, that one of the best perks of living in Boston is how ... Hampshire- October 9-10, 2023 I live on floor C4 in Burton Conner, and our ... up on my feed promoting the Boston Book Festival in Copley Square. I

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  that when I got my admission letter in the mail, at first I was excited ... number one question I get from students is some version of: “How did I get ... decades afterward, once I started working in admissions - we all just

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  I'm studying abroad next semester at ETH Zurich in Switzerland! (Or ... friends and I had considered taking part in the Cambridge-MIT Exchange for ... . The following day, I got an email with an offer for a spot in the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Econ Prof Wins Nobel Prize (with video) A pretty exciting week as Peter Diamond PhD '63 is the latest MIT professor to…

  

  D '63 was awarded the Nobel memorial prize in Economics. For MIT, this ... Nobel Prize in Economics (more have won for Medicine, Physics, and ... are the highlights: You can watch the full press conference at MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I don’t like SPAM! Technology to the rescue!

  

  much to bear. You can relax, because today I’m taking the high road. That’s in no small part because I really dislike computer SPAM. We ... I know you’re already thinking to yourself, “Where is Dave going to

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  things people are doing over the summer--you're interested in me, because I ... smart enough to be here. And while I do see validity in these questions, what I think is more important is how they answered--instead of answering

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025