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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  modeled after commentators like Bill O'Reilly. And, to help with context in ... commentator famous for his opposition to illegal immigration, and you may also know want to know what a triffid is. If you've got all that, enjoy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  [/annotation] even when you fold it in half. To appreciate just how cursed this ... . During the dinner, Petey also mentioned (in response to my initial distaste ... wood-fired pizza made from a 10-year-old sourdough starter, A4 is the go-to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  they're awesome. For 21W.755, I get to write a short story every week ... later, I presented myself to my mother in shame, fully expecting to be ... at her in open confusion, which only served to intensify her mirth

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / Events

  What if You Didn’t Like CPW? is MIT still the place for you?

  

  of fun meeting a you future froshies in person. Today I wanted to ... friends if you wanted to, not the things you'd have to participate in if you want to have fun here. When I came to MIT in the fall, I met so many

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Of Dancing and T-Shirts (Guest Entry) Who had fun at CPW? I did!

  

  sure this is condoned. Just to get everybody in trouble, clockwise from ... 't get over this. Fortunately, the videos were preserved. When I hopped ... was great, students were tossing a frisbee, and music was blasting in

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Untitled "The work is untitled because meaning is always changing in time and place." ⁃ Félix…

  

  are very close to my heart. Most recently, I was involved in an ... devious in staging an anonymous performance, (how do we call it art, if it ... ;Untitled." Now more than ever, the divide has formed in contemporary art: those

  • by ARTalk
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Democrats, Republicans, sportsmanship, books The unbearable awesomeness of literature at MIT.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The combined weight of all the termites in the world is 10 times the combined weight of all the humans in the world. Confused thanks to Ariel '09 for sending me a text message at 2 AM with only that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  for a reason to admit you. In other words, we don't connect with pieces ... am. All that without going to one of "the top ten schools in the world ... , English & Environmental Studies double major, minor in film Favorite things

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Update It's been an amazing year!

  

  had to name one aspect of myself that has changed the most in the last ... continued to learn. I wanted nothing more than to carve my own niche in my ... what's been going on in my life so I thought I'd throw together a giant

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  right here?!" The kid right next to us, though, took the cake. In a voice loud enough for everyone in the area to hear, he shouted, "NICE MOVE ... that he was standing right next to two people who could easily put him in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  without the booklet as it contains, in addition to useful maps of campus and ... their fellow mortals, only get to attend a fraction of the events they ... group was getting quite hungry, so we decided to head to one of the

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Saw a Sea Turtle !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  (still maintaining our distance) to get a better sense of her size and ... forward a bit and we saw the small cavity she made in the sand to drop her ... edit the brightness in post, but it's still pretty hard to see because we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN! Feel free to drop a note yelling in the comments below, but also, and more importantly, to go celebrate and be happy with your loved ones.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN! Feel free to drop a note yelling in the comments below, but also, and more importantly, to go celebrate with your loved ones.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Deferred Open thread for deferred students.

  

  In the near future, we'll have some advice here on the blogs for students who have been deferred. In the meantime, feel free to use this forum to chat.

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Waitlisted A forum for students who were waitlisted.

  

  In the near future, we'll have some advice here on the blogs about being waitlisted. In the meantime, feel free to use this forum to discuss anything waitlist-related.

  • by Decisions
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Waitlisted A forum for students who were waitlisted.

  

  In the near future, we'll have some advice here on the blogs about being waitlisted. In the meantime, feel free to use this forum to discuss anything waitlist-related.

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Technology Happens My computer is hiccoughing.

  

  So sometimes in a computer's life, it decides that it wants to enter eternal hibernation and refuse to function. As in like...today. Thank goodness there's Athena. Return I shall, and soon.

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred in EA

  

  will reconsider your application anew in Regular Action. We will have some additional advice and instructions for Deferred students shortly. In the meantime, please feel free to use this forum to chat.

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  almost completely unrelated to the previous discussion” Explanation: In ... ‘insignificant.’ In math contexts, though, ‘trivial’ generally refers to something ... escape the trivial. 8/10 epsilon Example: “It’s getting warm, I’m going to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024