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  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  'm told is currently a super hot topic in astronomy! The goal of the ... eclipse is observed by a big drop in intensity in the light curve readings ... astronomy, then these is a freshman astronomy seminar (see an old entry about

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Business As Usual

  

  it is occasionally a problem. One guy is drilling holes in a glass ... the Media Lab), and the other is building a tricycle thing (allowing for different levels of recline) for a Mechanical Engineering class. This is

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 18, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  , feel a bit less homesick. Butterstick's human, Shannon, is a Residential ... This is Butterstick. Butterstick weighs 10 pounds. She was named for Tai Shan, the giant panda born at the National Zoo in 2005, whom a

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  is barely holding together. As events unfolded a number of questions ... still support Black Lives Matter?" "Is there even really a race issue ... time a comment comes up saying “Racism is dead, they are angry over

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  musical, but I assumed that when I came to MIT, music would play a much ... solo for the audition, and there was the Concert Choir, a much larger ... decided I wanted to be in an instrumental group and a vocal group. I didn

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Women’s Week 2005 Learn about both the mission and events associated with this year's week-long promotion.

  

  knowledge - everything from "Name the top 3 reasons a condom breaks" to "How ... 's Week 2005 November 5th-10th "To promote a model of femininity that ... -1pm, Hotel @ MIT The UFLC will be a forum for active student leaders

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Xanga Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part one.

  

  is true about you. 01. I have a cell phone. 02. I am addicted to diet ... 't have. 13. I'll be a kid forever. 14. I've seen the Backstreet Boys 2 ... . -BJ) 17. I wish I had more friends. 18. I have more than a couple

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  . Lausanne is a very Olympics-oriented city. The IOC is headquartered there ... I've been promising for a while that I would post some pictures from ... with my other entries. I spent the summer working as a research intern

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Night with Cranium Myth debunking and Cranium!

  

  MIT: Where we make "nerdy" things fun. Exhibit A: Mystery Hunt Team ... entire weekend was not enough, our recent team party included a night filled of Cranium. Some of my favorite quotes from the night: In a "Club

  • by Bryan
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  For Those About to Dew (Also eligible for salutations: those currently rocking, those about to rock)

  

  right... Some weeks you only get to choose one. It's a lifestyle not for ... : For the sake of not scaring my parents too much, let's pretend that ... 's complement & bitwise ops are a good way to wake up. Oh, by the way: today

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A, Vol. II A sort-of guest post

  

  ... aren't you supposed to be in school?" which is totally a legitimate ... what that was all about)/It's-the-Boston-Marathon-and-the-city's-a ... ' stuff I want to tell you guys about (including a video of the Simmons

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  without explanation, in the middle of a vast desert--how surprising was that ... Labs, a program that gives MIT students the chance to teach students in ... decided to visit Doha, Qatar, with Jade B '26, a friend also going to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  Read Read Read Read Read Read Write Such is the life of a HASS major ... idea, there is a way to fail. There are readings that illuminate ... their format is shocking after a year at MIT. It’s odd not to pset here

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Weekend Update A couple FAQs and others tidbits.

  

  Director of Admissions to Associate Director of Admissions (yes, this is a ... 'Grady, which is a lot of fun (and you can watch the episodes online!); I'm hoping to get more folks to watch it, since the director/producer is a friend

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday at the water park

  

  This is a tale of two college kids from two completely different worlds. Actually, it's a story about going to a water park. But the reason ... ridiculously good skiier (that really is him, by the way). I'm from a beach

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  think it would suck to be a penguin... I'm not so much a fan of the -80 ... ! The museum, besides being a great place to immerse oneself in biology ... -track minds), had two exhibits to thrill the animal geek in me: a new baby

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  career fair haikus this post contains your Daily Value of sodium

  

  handshake A spit shower 🗣 and quick talk This is all I got ... job be mine?🎶   Please accept me please I want a job so badly ... weekends” Pray they don’t swipe left ⬅️   “Are you a course 6️⃣?  Cause

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my day in pictures

  

  a lab assignment due tomorrow.     6.111 aka "introductory digital systems laboratory" aka "digital death" is super cool! we started off the semester with basic stuff, like incrementing a number when

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Sneak Preview

  

  awesomeness Interseting story: My mom was seated on the plane next to a couple with a newborn baby. They all (well, except the newborn) chatted about their reasons for visiting Boston, and it turns out the wife is running

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biochemistry at its finest!

  

  ! Basically, everyone knows that when a blood vessel is damaged, a bunch of ... know is that this process is facilitated by the formation of a mesh made out of a protein called fibrin. This fibrin is formed by a long and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 9, 2006