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  IAP is moving along

  

  hallmates Brian '08, Ilan '08, and Matt '08. This year, I'm a TA. I'm in the ... that many friends already do and that I've been interested in doing for a ... better job than I would. "American Jiu-Jitsu Club has been at MIT since

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  than I've seen run for any position in East Campus. We talked about ... generations of students. As someone active in student government, I spend a lot ... beyond their own time here. Of course, as I indicated previously (and in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gustavo Dudamel Conducts MITSO! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Because we are THAT good.

  

  Arts (i.e. $75,000 cash prize and on-campus residency). In addition, he ... . As you might have known, I am a violinist in MITSO, and I experienced his incredible conducting. I was in the presence of a musical genius

  • by ARTalk
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  would like to remind you to treat the psets with great care. In the event ... It’s been two weeks since I’ve been on campus. Two weeks since I left behind my home in Texas to make a new one here. In these past fourteen days

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  am on Tuesday morning I was having trouble keeping my eyes open in lab ... … and promptly fell asleep in the process of setting my alarm.  When I ... finish our code in time.  I had been in lab ten hours already, and there

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  . ’25: My IAP is split in half: I was at home before January 14th, and on ... my IAP, I took a class called "Spanish Incubator" that takes place in ... flamenco workshop (ole!) and eating the best patatas bravas in Madrid :)  I

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Hacks

  CPW 2008: The Hack Edition What!? Already!?

  

  . . . why would there be a chainsaw in building 16? Sure, it's heavily ... enough, sitting in the lobby . . . Students of MIT and CPW prefrosh, I ... students. While traveling down the hall in building 16 you will see something

  • by Snively '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  An MIT Community Vigil for Black Lives

  

  in our CMS, so I ripped it down and reuploaded. The original, with ... ;feature=youtu.be In my last post, I wrote: On a day like today, I find myself thinking ... . Whether you see yourself in their words, or learn something about how other

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  .02, Multivariable Calculus, spring 2003. Professor Michael Sipser: "I have found in my ... about things I'm sure you all think about in bed -- structural chemistry ... is, in fact, the only frequency I can demonstrate." 7.23, Immunology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  intentional change, those of which I’m currently facing in my own life.  I ... ’s important to see the people you look up to engage in self-compassion. I know a ... something, but only if I feel inclined to. In the meantime, I’ll be eating

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  genocide was once again occurring, though this time in real-time, I just had ... exclude securities that would violate MIT’s investment principles [in ... the 1960s. In 1968, a coalition that included 48 MIT faculty members

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  For winter break and the first half of IAP, we are in North Miami ... our socks in pairs. And we have been walking in mismatched socks every ... speaker. We just walked and jammed without a care in the world. - Another

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  group. However, I proceeded to get lost in North Station because the MBTA ... . Gloria: I was actually awake since much earlier in the morning, but due to ... A liveblog on the blogger retreat 2023 (check back in throughout the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic

  

  shortly thereafter at the same link. Because I know a lot of our readers are interested in science writ large, I wanted to boost this event so more people ... a webinar on the science of vaccines, and the role they will play in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston’s 4th of July Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has…

  

  river in East Cambridge. I think the Back Bay area of Boston is very ... Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country ... separates Boston from Cambridge and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  News flash: Thanksgiving vacation is over. I spent my three days at ... . At the time, I knew that two actions were notably absent from my list of activities -- “studying” and “sleeping.” Unfortunately, I have a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  analytical deliberation not to do something often academic in nature. (2) v.i ... skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT (alternatively "How To GAMIT" or "HoToGAMIT"). Since you're reading blogs of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  sprinkle the remaining photos in somehow.) ;-) I was dining in Providence ... everything, 'Sweetheart'?" in the manner of an elderly grandmother. I started ... terribly interested in the core freshman classes -- I mean, really... my life

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

  /or had contributed greatly in a way that people would be surprised about… I ... projects before the Women in NASA set “I kind of wanted it to be this fun ... can find them in stores “LEGO is currently tweaking the design that I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If the roots are imaginary, then the dots will be blue… Diff EQ what now?

  

  board, waves chalk in the air.) "See? Blue." "And now I'm reminded of an ... have a normal, stable relationship, and down here in the third... oh, I ... As it's been nearly a month since I posted (yeah. I've been hosed. I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 21, 2007