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  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  're a meme!) and I can report that it is truly bizarre to watch Neil de ... session, but I'm sure that Neil would be happy to stick around for a few minutes and answer questions if there are any." We swarmed to the stage

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  leaves me in awe. This time, it is the I/O Brush: [I just realized that ... /O Brush is a project by Kimiko Ryokai in the Tangible Media Group at the Media Lab. Her site describes the invention: I/O Brush is a new drawing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  going to be brief -- the new freshmen remind me of bouncy balls and are ... I went over to East Campus for a rush party (and because Random always ... 't know what the most parsimonious common denominator is yet. So, just to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Procrastination For Finals 2 T minus 53 hours...

  

  , to better grades Take me away, warm summer days There's a place that I ... 's no more Cs in the despair there is hope And nobody fails, there's only ... of orgo I've got a pain and I know that it's all mine, oh, oh oh oh Do

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-Campus Preview Weekend GET PUMPED.

  

  ... and a sense of loss of the warmth inside of me... blah, blah, blah." And while CPW will probably indeed fill you with a sense of warmth and the knowledge that MIT is the place for you, be sure to give other schools a fair

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  the anxiety, but beneath that, there was a layer of community. It ... know that as well. A great deal is involved in the admissions process ... , take it in and experience it for the time that you need to. Then go on

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  want to see is something like a person falling through the floor (via ... is. What’s next, that shoebox on the table is also a quantum computer ... this is to say that I'm taking those classes now, and it'll be an awesome

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Fitting in at MIT as a Latino family weekend 2014, day 2 and what I learned

  

  as a Latino. And a huge part of it is thanks to the ardent strides the ... just that: making MIT a place welcoming to both students and parents. The ... right afterwards. This was the first and only time she had gone to Rutgers

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 18, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  . Cheapness is a nirvana, and the road to enlightenment is lined with random ... excruciating need of a rug on that day. There's nothing quite like the thrill of ... between a chemistry test and a biology test. So at 4:00 PM on the eve of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  that, I think, is the difference: there are so few tests at MIT that ... then this is a CI (communications intensive) class, so that’s to be ... a lecture hall, we had to report to Walker, where there were rows and

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tetacats the furry fish of tetazoo

  

  For context, Tetazoo is the name of the cat friendly hall that I live ... .[/annotation] Within on campus dorms, there are a couple of other halls in East Campus and Random that allow cats. It's a story that gets told at every MIT

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  .) Brain and Cognitive Sciences (or BCS, or course 9) is a small-to ... sets instead of papers). There is often a significant amount of assigned reading. In order to graduate with a degree in course 9, there is a rather

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5n, n=1

  

  (ISEF). I got in yesterday, and last night I decided to take in the ... 's Shawn Estes having a nice pitchers duel in the early innings and a come-from-behind win by the home team thanks to a Troy Glaus three-run home run. Yet I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  is what led Tony Eng, a course VI senior lecturer, to organize the ... event at Harvard, and decided that MIT would be the perfect setting to ... ,” which is one of my favorite books, and added a conclusion to tie things

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  headphones Come back to your dorm room and do a deep clean so that you can ... talking to people bc what else is there to do now Eat a crap ton of ice cream in the dining hall Go to sleep and forget that this day even

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  her a glass of water and some paper towels. On the way back to my room ... , grabbed a bag, some paper towels, and followed him down the hall to her room ... the bowl, and I put in a new bag. I helped her back to her room, where

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  Cailou (a show my young sister was adamant to watch) I'd saunter off to the ... a LOT of television to pass the time. I could hum The Simpsons' theme ... , the irony fell flat in my mind and to me it sounded like the perfect job

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  about the skills that I use as a scientist, and how lucky I was to wind up ... . And then I went to college and learned that research is where the skills ... ) and I have always wanted to read the Inferno, so we put together a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  question), and answered that the Kumail would be a scale of magnitude for the ... entertained? There's really not much to lose. The opening comedian was from ... a poster that said this food truck along with one giving out 'gourmet

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MITE2S, RSI, and more

  

  call from some folks who are there, and apparently the line stretched ... was infinitely long?), and the room is packed full. I'll be back in the ... after a day of reviewing applications to MITE2S. As an admissions officer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 8, 2005