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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  of the Institute wanted to make a new interconnected technology complex but there wasn’t any room to do that in the Back Bay. In search of a new ... quickly ran out of room. There's an incredibly interesting story to how MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  forgot to bring food in a green take-out box from Maseeh lunch, and ... to thousands of degrees in the furnace. Talk about defective! I tried protesting that the glass must be jam-packed with the energy I need to get

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  cavorting days as a young'n, and not like how I half think I'll be back in ... to party even harder after the test was over. Getting that perfect ... , I was actually surprised to find that I could get credit for them

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  It's pretty hard to live in Boston and not get swept away by Red Sox ... under trees and getting hit in the face by leaves, or maybe you like ... in their underwear. Who isn't a fan of that? Seeing as I fall into

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  to its end. And I do not want to be just an entry in the registrar ... "]far-from-comprehensive[/annotation] list.   A handful of murals. In addition to the elephants I ... it in the window of our main lounge, visible to anyone walking down

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  . The website tells you what MIT is looking for and how to get here, in as ... and shouldn’t be used in essays). This post is addressed to all ... ’re not an applicant this year, but emailed me already, I’ll get to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  story of how my father became one of the few people in the world who has ... . It connects back, I promise. How My Dad Crashed the Internet In ... to test and troubleshoot their products. In the case of an access

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  evening, I left New York on an Amtrak to back to Boston. After getting off ... some things that New York just does better. I had forgotten how ... dining hall. I look forward to these dinners each week – the people in my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Calm Down and Breathe Heeeeeehooooooo

  

  In which my brother and I embarassingly parody a song (first one to recognize it gets some brownie points):  Edit: Evidently I am not so good at predicting outcomes of NFL games. But seeing how this post-season has been

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  'm back in Boston briefly before heading to New Jersey and New York on ... one of my new top choices (that, combined with a major in geography ... to get to know the real you. And definitely schedule the interview

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  to move forward in production. In fact, the full show of World of Wires will be performed in January in New York. So, if anyone happens to be ... fair amount of theater in high school, but I had no idea what to expect

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  . ... Without laws of nature to anchor them, algorithms used in such subjective ... analogies from the past to their lay image of the new technology, create a ... television to broadcasting." In other words, analogies matter. They form the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  going on. As has been said before, MIT definitely does know how to party ... chairs, the rest of the house always pitches in to set things up and ensure ... worked in the dining room being waiters. I wanted to dress up, so I asked

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  three feet per second, and in last decade scientists have begun to ... utilized to connect pieces of the colon in patients with Crohn’s disease, or ... near you in less than five years. The translation from bench to bedside

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Lobby 7 Gotta love it

  

  Here’s a little tribute to lobby 7. Since my start at MIT in January, I’ve walked through this lobby nearly every weekday to get to my ... taking pictures in front of the seal. I’ve stopped to watch the practice

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  HT@MIT: Cantab Lounge Poetry Slam An Amazing Show For A 10 Minute Walk And $3

  

  the National Poetry Slam! While it's generally difficult to get off campus during the week due to the general hustle and bussle of psets, I take every chance I can to drop by Central Square and listen to a few

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  poetry in Spanish, and learning how to code intelligent systems. It has ... to dedicate. But simultaneously I think how much effort you put in ... blogpost in an attempt to talk about it. What is 21E? I am not the first

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  applying to, you can also get in touch with your direct regional ... World Pride in New York City and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the ... reviewing applications, our first duty is to try to understand the world in

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie I love freebies!

  

  each get our schedules and get to talk about our classes, yay! Schedules ... form. Although I'm excited to have new classes and a fresh start, a new ... is where I continue to work on ElectroPlushies and get them up and

  • by Snively '11
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Course Lounges press F to pay respects to the entirety of course 21 and CMS

  

  their own course lounge - a designated space for majors in each course to ... fucking it up, and getting an MIT Confession (the first, and only to date ... , because we're edgy and unconventional, our equivalent to a regular college

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 27, 2019