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  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  '36 The Human Genome Project, for which MIT's Whitehead Institute ... costarring in it! I've been working all week rewriting some web content for the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  when I first moved here, the density of people and place was new and ... , however, and one of those can be access to nutritious, affordable food. For ... ='Which, nothing against WF —  I love the spicy mango and pineapple salsa too —  but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  Northeast of the more frequently mentioned Harvard Bridge is the Longfellow Bridge, which connects MIT to Boston from the Stata Center side of campus. Here is the view from the Longfellow Bridge from the MIT side. MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  can be deceptive. For example, Massachusetts Avenue, which bisects the ... broke the other day, and I went down to Wheelworks and hung out for 45 ... , commutes, communities, and the world for the better. Come ride with us!

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  for the past 10+ years, I have had no need for a car and have instead ... learn how to drive on the highway. I took a couple driving lessons for ... for the ‘Gram? Yes, he would.” Then I muster up the energy to go to see

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  :59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in love. I came to MIT for the people here. I've had wonderful experiences ... least partly captured in our ceiling tiles. Below are the ceiling tiles in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  Hackathon (or ATHack for short). The goal of ATHack was to pair teams of MIT ... gathering the materials we would need to build the framework for our walking ... device for the first time. We're so thankful to have worked with our

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  on this post alone for the past six days. Most of it, I've been writing ... . For me, the Save Point hack was one of these. The simple phrase "You may ... the future. Preparing for the struggles that are to come with any

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  I really really really wanted to go to MIT. The love for that place I ... out there just for you where you will strive and thrive and be the best version of you that you can be. And if that place isn't the place for you

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  math, he actually got a 600 on verbal. But lucky for all of us, the MIT ... on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written ... in the case of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II -- wait, are you all too

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  struggles. For some reason (mostly the fact that I'm a media dork at heart), a ... artists I like, and hoping for the best. So I might try to include a mini ... all the references... including a couple cheesy direct nods to MIT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  transcript of the video for those who might want it (I may have changed a word ... less romantic than it sounds. For the first time in my life, I'm hundreds ... This is the way my hiatus ends This is the way my hiatus ends This

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  preparing for the future. The number of decisions you have to make as an ... The fall semester has just started, and the 2025s have poured onto ... them are still bubbling with questions about their dorms, all the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  for the name John Underkoffler, and write down what he is credited as ... On Friday, the movie Iron Man opened (and opened big: a $100 million ... from my friend Wally, via my friend Lisa, about photo stills from the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  multiple times and i promised i would write up a longer answer. the question ... student? it's no secret that coming to MIT is signing yourself up for ... little bit of time every day to have to yourself—the unsatisfying answer is

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  [/annotation] came into my head, and i thought the words were really fitting for the ... i've been thinking about pi day and decisions lately and the song [annotation note="i debated with myself for such a long time on whether or not i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make something for myself. I'm still not sure this is "good." But it's beginning to delve into some of the things I've been feeling this year about

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  eagerly joined with them. Unfortunately, there wasn't enough funding for the ... is Latin for "Mind and hand". Now, in most cases, a school motto isn't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  chair kicked by the screaming kid beside me (a stereotype for bad flights everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The ... . Things change. Except for the screaming child. He's still here, ensuring

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006