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  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  been used to describe Next House's annual Thanksgiving celebration. I wish I could tell you myself how wonderful it was but unfortunately I was not located at MIT during Thanksgiving break. However, I was able to ask

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  completely innocent and simply limited to showing me how he could use water to ... submitted the video to Hack A Day. (In response to whoever commented, "that ... Almost a year ago, I met a kid who tried to convince me to come back

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Newest Member of Our Family What could possibly be more exciting than prefrosh?

  

  !!! I did not get one (although I was very tempted to do so), but Kayla E. '15 drove Kerry N. '14, Jes P. '15 and I to the animal rescue place in Boston today to help her pick out a little companion for the new semester

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  being rationed) and will argue for how to resolve the life allocation ... able to account for differing intuitions in variants of the life ... seems clearer. Thus, for the maximum principle to be effective in cases of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thanks, man I'm feeling human again.

  

  best to get a noncompliant five-year-old ready for school. Not easy, even ... went to a bookstore in an old white house and looked through old Indigo ... cream too, and called out to two other people in the café just to ask if

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  To everyone who's waiting for a pi(e) day decision: It's all going to be okay. It may not feel like it right now, with t-12(ish) hours until that fated time, but it will be. I tried to think of what high

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Schnitzer Prize Winners! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Buildings with eyes, a drum for the people, and a house…

  

  contributions to MIT life, culture, and academics. In the realm of arts@mit, this ... Jaekyung listening to comedy programs in six different languages (as rated by ... joke. In the bottom left screen, Jaekyung listens and reacts to a Korean

  • by ARTalk
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is ... of life in three parts: to be with each other. To work towards a better ... scribbles in my notebook, a smattering of quotes, points and diagrams: "I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Round 2 less shirts and more interviews.

  

  to me. 2) I was serious about getting an internship.   See ... brushed it right back off thinking to myself "Oh, no one get internships ... was expected of me to get it. That made me feel invigorated enough to go

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  in order to do it. Puzzles have some sort of answer, which is usually a ... answers in order to find a new answer. A large puzzlehunt like the Mystery ... Hello! I'm writing this very, very smol post to tell you that the MIT

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MyMIT is live we're ready for you to begin

  

  Good news!  You can now log onto MyMIT to access the application for freshman admission to MIT. Many of you may have received a shiny silver packet in the mail recently. This is our official MIT Application

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  again in a couple of months. If you didn’t get the answer you are looking ... travelling halfway around the world. You need to challenge yourself in order to ... I’m officially on winter break. It’s hard to believe that the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  the Cold War to mind in entertaining ways. Here's the difference: West ... Bombers or the Cultural Houses in New House). The walls are more likely to ... math and science, never get in trouble, and do nothing but study all day

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  how Ryan describes TOFU: TOFU is a project to explore new ways of ... in reading and committee for the last few weeks. Today may be a Sunday, but it is no different. But before I once again immerse myself in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Schedule Is Awesome & it's better than Snively's / Sometimes completely unrelated entries are posted in pairs.

  

  little seminar where we're presumably taught how to design spaces while ... this semester. In Course 4 I'm much more used to having some 3-hour long ... because I forgot to adjust for the President's Day holiday, oh well) 21W

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays! Pictures from our recent holiday party.

  

  Happy holidays from the admissions office! I'll be leaving in a bit ... wonderful holiday vacations, and here's to a great 2007! I'll leave you with ... LImelight. (I challenge any other admissions office to a Karaoke competition

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 21, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate Can MIT brainpower, with the help of the LHC, finally put the matter to rest?

  

  -100 in a quest to solve one of the greatest conundrums of our time: latke ... recounted how he had been approached about participating in the debate and how ... , the hundreds of people in attendance were permitted to vote on the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  that I can tailor them to my needs. I might also get a minor in ... couches in the lounge Friday evening. I’m used to the cycle of work and then ... magical in the mundane, to see the extraordinary in the habitual. Here goes

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  me in a rigorous academic environment and my need to be really, really ... on David Bowie's "Space Oddity." Everyone in the room sang along to the ... important to this story.) Someone called us about thirty seconds in and said

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  My Talk @ Maker Faire a bit about how we see, select, and support makers

  

  Portfolio at a small conference in California. Last year, before we launched the Maker Portfolio, Dawn gave a talk at Maker Faire Bay Area about how technically creative students ought to pitch their projects to colleges. Last

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2014