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  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  trips to Denmark and the UK, when she encountered lots of people who made ... as I imagined for water a few degrees off freezing. We stay in the ... sequel to Junior Lab). In the spirit of peer review, each of us has to read

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  here's just one example of a) how hands on the class is, and b) how it ... ? Charcoal is the product of incomplete combustion of organic matter. This ... causes the organic matter to be carbonized instead of burning away

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  psychic. Not only did I successfully predict the 2021 Pantone Color of the ... midterm in the middle of the term, but instead 2-3 midterms plus a final ... the others? Never did I think that even the wrath of MIT could shake my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  History. It’s a special class, offered for the first time this year, with the purpose of documenting East Campus culture and history before the dorm is renovated. The class, now labelled STS.051, will be offered this

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  's degree. [...] Do I have any chance of getting in to the Physics M ... advance of the deadline. 3. Relax. Here goes ... , more than half of the freshman class places out of single variable

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Public Art Projects ...for your amusement.

  

  campus or on the road, you've heard me talk about MIT's 2+ miles of underground tunnels. On mornings like these (3 degrees when I left the house), I ... mentioned one of the 4.301 projects in his blog. Knowing that these were

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.

  

  semester. Unfortunately this semester, I left the selection of my HASS ... models of policy-making. Considers the significance of the democratic ... Space and Society (M) Focuses on how the spaces of the modern city relate

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Our thoughts go out to Virginia Tech.

  

  All of us here are quite saddened by the shooting at Virginia Tech. I ... [email protected] To Members of the MIT Community: Yesterday's tragic events at Virginia Tech have shocked and saddened all of us. We offer MIT's condolences to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  and obscure lore about the history of the T. This is not that post. However, in the process of doing research for it, I read a book titled ... with accompanying passages about the history of Boston's public transit

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  , Georgia, but the Dukes of Hazzard TV show was filmed in my hometown of Covington, as well as In the Heat of the Night, certain scenes of Remember the Titans, and countless other things you haven't seen. At the risk of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weather Sensitive I know you think that I don't care, but I really do.

  

  're walking through forty degrees of nitrogen, oxygen, and ice cubes, but that ... said, I present to you three pictures of the view from my window. Early ... posting anything over the last couple of weeks! Don't worry, a happy entry

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Holding out for a piece of Pi because there wasn't enough to go around the first time

  

  Over a week has passed since Pi day, and the reality of the MIT ... at the beginning of May, when an enrollment decision must be made ... piece of MIT pi, and opt for the path less travelled. Some simply elect

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 26, 2012
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  THEME “Who is John Galt?”… which was the entire text of Atlas Shrugged and the winning team in 2013']different name for each year of its existence ... . There was something about the combination of meaningless chaos

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  . While we appreciated the beauty of the rural American West, the real magic ... of Wyoming. I was thrilled to join the planning team and attend the ... institutions outside of their home state.  Planning the 5 stop college fair was a

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  a firehose. Here's a quick look at my calendar and a recap of the ... since the end of first semester. After my last final, 18.02/Multivariable ... the Skating Club of Boston or at the MIT rink, or the Burton Conner or Z

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Refactored

  

  buckets of mail, plus all of the online application pieces. It's pretty ... ; Alumni goal: Leon Hsu   Sadly, a loss in our first game of the ... officers. The conference was quite interesting. Some of you might be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  degree (for example: I took Systems Biology, where a large focus of the ... ="Project Laboratory. one of the communication intensive offerings in the math department ... topology, which is the study of flexible shapes like knots or rubber surfaces

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2021 Wait List Today, we have closed out the wait list for the Class of 2021.

  

  The May 1 reply deadline has come and gone, and we know many of you ... at MIT (also known in admissions parlance as the "yield") of greater than 76%, which left very little space to admit students off of the wait

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  The berry of the West African Synsepalum dulcificum (miracle fruit ... .42 kilodaltons of carbohydrate, 21.2 kilodaltons of protein) binds to the sweetness receptors of the tongue and activates them in response to acid, making sour

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Settled It's good to be back!

  

  and all settled in to my new room. Last year's non-existent view of the ... summer and head off to what I think will be one of the best weeks of my ... their individual profiles. I'm part of the camp group called the Egyptians

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 20, 2010