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  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  interactions with strangers are at an all time low of impersonal. Gone are the days of awkward small talk over the counter at Target, or small smiles ... , the residents and business owners of [annotation note="a colloquial name

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ides of March Among other things, I now have the power to kill Macbeth.

  

  Day celebrations, but I'd like you to join me in celebrating the birth of the woman from whose womb I was untimely ripped a mere twenty years

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  't previously know last night, and the topic of school came up. (SIDE NOTE: that ... think the problem stems from not having a good word for "friend of a friend". In the interest of furthering the human language, I propose we

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  it's about time I tackle some of the more difficult things for me to ... , however, a freshman only lottery over IAP. I was one of the lucky ones to ... taking 6.145 at the time and I wasn't sure I could handle the commitment of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  incidence of these accidents from peaking, the Japanese railway authorities ... inspired Japanese to resume the study of English. The President's notable ... fathers are seen clutching copies of Obama's speeches on the densyas and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  The Great Dome, Marriage Equality, and a Proud Hack Better yet, all three in one picture!

  

  For those of you who didn't notice, the Supreme Court of the United ... Great Dome is one of the most iconic pieces of architecture on campus, and ... Dome as a medium of art, commentary, and celebration. The Dome has been

  • by Joel G. '18
  • June 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  the “sleep through it” way, but rather in the “harbor a feeling of ... (that’s 46.5% of the total class load!). The ones at MIT were: 17 ... . Two of these made me love social science. The rest got me two summer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  so happens that christmas coincides with the end of the fall semester, which is the second-best time of the semester. mit has several a capella groups, and this time of the semester is when they all give their

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  , nausea, and other TMI that I'll spare you the details of, but basically, I ... and Bring It On. Most of the dorms have free movies you can rent from ... , since that doesn't exactly fall under the categories of "no strenuous

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train(wreck) of Thought

  

  intensive project hence (most of) my absence from the blagosphere. BUT I ... back from working on psets. I walked by the LSC announcement board (LSC is a group that screens movies on campus) and one of the movies was

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fear of Flying Shake the haters off.

  

  probably one of the happiest people on the face of the earth. Unfortunately ... MIT had made a mistake or was admitting me on the basis of something ... my experience really reflects the desire for some of the people who

  • by Bryan
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Class of 2009 note #2

  

  The i3 project features all 11 of MIT's dorms. The preliminary housing ... funding for the very first i3 project, and several of my very close friends were the "fathers/mothers" of the project. I'm happy to see it continue

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy 4th of July! Glorious red, white, and blue

  

  Ah, glorious government holidays! Happy Fourth of July! Enjoy the day ... bacteria this morning (for the MCATs, of course), and I noticed that the names for the shapes of bacteria -- cocci, bacilli, spirilla-- sound

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  Financial Aid. The last thing that may be an issue of going away from home ... truly am. Allow me to share some of the things I did learn though! Maybe ... learned where both of my parents went to college, what their degrees were

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  . Lucky that I did, because the thing was FREAKING COVERED WITH A COLONY OF ... took it back to the bathroom to wash it off. 10:12 -- There's a bag of ... 's on the list. I hope something more interesting than this bag of Oreos

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• 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…

  

  Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country ... middle of the Charles River, across from MIT. See the graphic I made below ... in front of MIT, approximately in front of the Sailing Pavilion and

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

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  class, it’s the first time that the number of hours my classes are supposed to take is less than the actual number of units, although it’s a bit ... then for the remainder of the semester, you and your team build a fully

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  Athena, Deliver Us From Finals And lead us not into temptation of crying ourselves to sleep at night.

  

  Late on Sunday evening, just before the first day of MIT's finals, hackers erected a giant statue of Athena, the patron goddess of wisdom, in the middle of Killian Court. Alerted to the hack by email and word of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 20, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Dark Side of the Moon And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the…

  

  eclipse of the moon, in fact. The last one until 2010. You should go watch ... of the eclipse totally unworthy of viewing, and hide them from all of ... , however, get a fairly decent photo of those people who decided to watch the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

  nothing but ramen noodles and slept in the basement of Stata like ... Toonz 🤮, the  t h i r d  dimension, and lots of Neon Genesis Evangelion ... ??” So now we have a Pi Day video in the style of the Neon Genesis

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 12, 2023