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  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  finally worked up the nerves to ask a question in his class, only to confirm ... . Silbey let out a huge, surprised yawp before proceeding to lay on the desk ... relative, though it seems as though he was a great one to many other people

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  addition to his major in Physics, Riess also picked up a minor in History. According to a Johns Hopkins Magazine story, capped off his history minor by ... -accelerating rate. The discovery came as a complete surprise even to the Laureates

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  least a decade, but has since been abandoned for wayfaring students to ... installation. a complex installation that would take several months to build, no less. the project, which Karyn refers to as a "20-channel Frankenstein

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  , and it's been...exhausting, in a sense; I miss being able to bump into ... went to campus recently to get a [annotation note="all students were ... Mocha Moves members to choreograph a piece for our virtual set a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Events

  How Many Liveblogs Can We Get Onto One Page?! Mystery Hunt Part 3.5

  

  WRAP-UP! As a favor to everybody who worked on the puzzle remotely ... puzzles I wasn't able to show you. I hope you all had a good time, I know I ... 's a completely new kind of experience! Thanks again, more to come later

  • by Snively '11
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Reischauer Scholars Program For those interested in Japan or international relations.

  

  week's topic in a virtual conference (you're literally talking to about ... sees her kid talking to a computer). If you're interested in Japan or ... Don't you hate it when your computer freezes and you lose a huge

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  to watch a movie from Mike's massive DVD collection, but there were six ... whole do-mi-mi, mi-so-so business starts to lose a little of its charm. In the end, it came down to A Mighty Wind and Hebrew Hammer, with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft

  

  I just wanted to quickly share something that brought me a lot of ... best we could to do honor this tradition was talk for a couple of hours ... configured a music bot within Minecraft and were able to play some bops

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2016 Ring Delivery! MY RING IS SO PRETTY!

  

  friends in my class that I was really excited to see! We had a great time, and afterwards a bunch of us went to Bova's Bakery to get Cannoli ... ! We even got to take a series of prom pictures! We also took

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  to the mix, whenever I take a study break to call my mom and complain ... wore a t-shirt nonetheless, it's only because I have a jacket to wear ... awesome, has a scheduled UROP ice cream trip this Friday, thanks to the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  I am delighted to join the impressive cadre of admissions office bloggers - a source of insight into MIT that I hope is of value as you consider applying to or attending the Institute. Since this is my initial

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  to underline that we feel like we still never had a *deciding* moment ... Algebra We both have to take this class because we need a REST (Restricted ... , we get to learn how to code a variety of image manipulations from

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  here is not a right, but a privilege - I might even go so far as to call ... to sacrifice a few other things to get there) or manage to finish the ... philosophy that I would apply to a bunch of schools, find out where I was

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  't getting anywhere with my biochem studying, I decided to take a break and ... Speeches, etc) - but also feel free to stray a little bit. The point is to get to know other members of your class - so if that means missing a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dancing Days Nerd love, as the summer evening grows.

  

  how to dance. You know what that means? When you go to a party and there ... teacher. Here, whenever I get the chance to go to a party with dancing, I ... appreciate my one opportunity per year to see a real sunset because they were

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  some new sounds, check out what the bloggers listen to, a good 2019 ... ’m sorry. Sorry to Bother You: a psychedelic look at modern day race ... , snowy day: Doesn’t it make you want to just crawl into bed, a cup of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  close knit and tend to spend a lot of time with themselves. Burton ... figure out which IFAFs to do due to a delay in getting the budget finalized ... the last possible day), we were all set to have a Moonbounce BBQ IFAF

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  requirement, where students have to take a certain amount of HASS classes before ... 's assignment we had to submit a pitch for six different story ideas that we ... state that I have been reduced to[/caption] For people who aren't caught

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Weekend in Kendall Square I know I work here all week, but hey, it's MIT

  

  cranking  (even when it's too warm out), I flipped to a big section titled 24 ... pick a weekend in March to hang out in the city?" she asked again. "Well ... stopping a half a dozen times along the way to see what's going on around

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Replay… Who says you can't go home again? Or at least go back to school...

  

  to the place although I really didn’t have a spot to call my own on the ... when I was a student. I took my ice skates to my office recently, I know ... giving me a great chance to be better informed about what life is like for

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 11, 2008