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  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  is happening! Science is happening! And I decided not to twitter ... a riddle for today: You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1 ... , leaving 2012 0.3-kg resealed mollusk shells in that jar. You need to figure

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  work. Here's a link to that snowflake. If you view the snowflake on the ... my recent snowflakes, which is so big I had to convert the GIF to a ... work? The answer has to do with winding numbers. A cut is a closed curve

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder ... place. I freaked out, and grabbed the girl next to me; a shout-out to ... afternoon, my host and I took a walk around the area, to clear our heads and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  's pretty exciting to have an awesome concert a minute from your dorm ... can be dropped from your schedule up to 10 weeks into term. A tradition ... Baker House. [How To GAMIT 2004] Bruno - A unit of volume equal to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Metabo lite s Why the Broad Institute is inspiring my exercise goals

  

  metabolism. I’m on a mission to figure out what the heck is going on here, and ... to do a less chewing and a lot more moving. ... I’m getting married again in a mere five months and I cannot fit in

  • by Kris Guay
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Mr. E. Hunt In which I return to blogging only to learn that I forgot how to blog,…

  

  deliver* a sandwich to the first person(s) to solve it from scratch**. *The ... Truth be told, I have no idea how to use the MIT admissions web ... be told honestly this time, I've actually forgotten how to write

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  , quoted verbatim from a letter left to her host before she departed MIT ... QUOTE: "Coming from Stanford [before MIT's CPW], I actually bought a ... now regret that I even bothered to spend money on that, haha. I really

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  NOOOOO! It's so sad!

  

  I've found my excuse to write a new blog entry. Remember way back ... maybe my entry may have persuaded you to pick the red chair. It was a well ... installed in 10-250, MIT's most popular lecture hall? If not, take a quick

  • by Snively '11
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  , but I miraculously passed and am now a teeny bit closer to graduating ... International Development Network, a community network developed to promote and ... again. There's so much that I want to do (especially now that I'm a senior

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  , there's a story on the John Bates Clark Medal being awarded to MIT ... to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant ... , which seems just so MIT to me: ''Whenever I see a problem, I become

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now (Actually) Available Online

  

  Update: the once-in-a-century alignment of Super Pi Day appears to have fired a cosmic EMP directly into the heart of our server farm. Working to restore flux capacitors...please stand by.  Update 2

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by ... celebration to a puzzling punctuation in the calendar. Hmm! I say to the mirror ... physical DVDs to your house. The Higgs boson and gravitational waves were a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pics from the WMBRBQ! Do You Like College Radio??

  

  MIT. Today we had a barbecue (the WMBRBQ) in the lawn next to Walker, and I signed up to be a photographer! These photos will also go on the ... , because you get to see all kinds of people that you didn't even know were a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  to do with myself. Today was a day of different feelings. Hope ... . Ten people that stopped in their lives to help a disoriented, highly ... . Subconsciously, I've been feeling a lot of feelings. Sadness. Despair. Hopelessness

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  , there are a lot of things that need to happen before an application is ready for review. It takes a lot of time to do all of these steps -- think ... to happen: The document arrives at MIT Mail Services (in Building WW15

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Far and Away I was going to get philosophical, but then I thought about Hugh Jackman.

  

  think it was edited from a two-hour movie down to the point where it was ... credits if you happen to see it. Which isn't a bad idea; you get what you ... !! Also, Sam's Mom was benevolent enough to buy me a digital camera, so this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  hopefully no one is looking for a grand unified theme. First, I would like to ... It is 2:30 and I already stained my neurons and nail-polished them to ... Center for Biomedical Research. So I'm a) alleviating boredom, b) avoiding

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  introduction to chemistry for, say, a chemical engineering major, usually take 5 ... want to. In the Friday's 3.091 lecture, Professor Sadoway delivered a ... Yesterday one lucky prefrosh got to be hosted by me through the MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  physics). Just a heads up to the 4 other people in the world who test out of ... exclaimed, "Hey! You write a blog, don't you?" I was quite surprised to hear ... , here's a shout out to the Lego Lab for being cool enough to work with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  I think I'm going to be fixating on food for a while, at least until ... 've only ever been to Next and Simmons, and they're okay. I mean, there's a ... even going to a fast food restaurant. The food in the residential halls

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005