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  The Great Gatsby In all its pixelated glory

  

  While browsing through my news feed the other day, I came upon a post ... Gatsby as a video game?? So cool. After doing a little digging around, I ... . If you're a little sad that you can't actually be on campus to enjoy

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  ? There's a feeling that goes something like "ugh, if only I'd taken more ... in three or three-and-a-half years, four years feels just right to me ... together to finish my degree. In fact I can proceed at a comfortable pace. I

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  one or this one? Craig: The symbol on the left is not a letter, sir ... is that it's a play on the town Duxbury. Anyway, this is a long way to ... Malkovich (a great but disturbing film, if you haven't seen it), where John

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  eyes widen. “Is that blue cheese?”   Four strawberry frappes, a ... location closest to MIT, is closing permanently :( Like many others, I ... ’all. It made such an impact on me, I even set a scene there for my novel

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  My Talk @ Maker Faire a bit about how we see, select, and support makers

  

  the Maker Portfolio, Dawn gave a talk at Maker Faire Bay Area about how ... We've had makers on the mind here for a little while. Earlier this ... wrote a white paper for the White House about technically creative

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  You should live in EAsT camPUS A few of the basic things to know.

  

  type? 1. You can learn how to cook. What better way to learn how than to live in a place where you can have a big, awesome kitchen with personal ... known to make a home out of EC as well.. 3. Residents live in doubles or

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • July 31, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Piece of my Heart Hey, look, a Turkish internet cafe.

  

  apparently caused by a law requiring any restaurant with seating to also have ... pretty well set up here--I opened a bank account, almost entirely in German, until the lady got tired with how incredibly stupid I was and started

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Concert / The View

  

  One of the interesting things that I do as a commonplace concert goer that non-concert goers may never understand is waiting. I wait in line, a LOT. Just as you would wait at Disneyland for two and a half hours to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Events

  MIT’s Once-a-Century Party

  

  , but boy does MIT know how to throw a party - I'm told the weekend was a ... transformed into a huge sports stadium, with gigantic spotlights emanating from ... a fistfight (I believe that's Feynman trying to knock out Packard

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 8, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Not Admitted A forum

  

  There were a record number of applications for Early Action this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down a great number of incredible students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  vaccines work by inducing an immune response to a protein that is produced by inserting beneficial DNA into the nucleus of a cell. The tough part is getting ... mentor, Steve Little, to no avail. That is, until one day when he changed a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Everything’s coming up Milhouse! This one goes out to the Class of 2010. Fire!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Madonna is 48 years old. Seriously. Guys, I need a ... , and usually the entropy of activation required for that process is just ... during their Freshman year." That must make me a failure. Good thing I have

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.

  

  . My clever little paragraph up there is just a cute way of saying that a ... Sometime late last night and/or early this morning I received a ... do sleep. Really. Just not during normal hours.) *Jack Florey is the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The best Metro station ever The Metro does it best.

  

  blotting in a Metro station! (By the way, a Western blot analysis is a biological technique that helps you detect a protein and get information about ... station, which is located next to the NIH and my house, I saw this

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caps Lock Pancakes DINNERISH.

  

  For the past four and a half years I’ve lived on an all-women’s floor ... tea, and a few times a semester we bring two thirds of that activity to a summit in a co-cooking, potluck-style floor dinner. Ready? Go.                             

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Document Deadline Extended to Wednesday

  

  documents to this Wednesday, February 1st, at 5 PM ET. This is a mighty good ... .687.9184 Fax is the most reliable way to get us a document. It is automagically ... Based on a high volume of document submissions generated by my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 30, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  writing thesis.  Alan: Every Sunday, Fatima brings a poem which is ... sestina. Fatima: If you didn’t know, a sestina is a poetry form consisting ... return to a topic over and over again. It is a form whose flexibility

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends Tonight, It Ends Tonight On this evening / I give the final blow...

  

  .111 pset. One all-nighter. Wish me luck. ;) The semester is really coming to an end! Freshman year is almost finished...wow. I'll be back tomorrow ... much about them. ;) (just stress out about Physics C, Calc, and English

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  -filled apartments is quite steep. For $3000-4000 per month, you too can live in a one ... conservation in office equipment and lighting, while Leon Glicksman is using a ... is supposedly setting a new standard for environmentally friendly

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  learning style is definitely different at Cambridge and requires a great deal ... thus the pace is certainly more intense for a given semester at MIT ... a single year at Cambridge, than in my first two years at MIT. This is

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008