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  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  Williams College. Long before I became politically conscious, he told me a ... couldn’t locate Tibet on a map. It seems comical, even absurd, that people who can’t locate Tibet on a map would clamor passionately for

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  up a global warming research center in Antarctica.” “Why ... established himself as a techie par excellence. His 6.170 team won the award for the best Gizmoball game in Fall 2005, he completed a competitive

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  cheerleader, I a member of a group that is shockingly underrepresented in ... , I think, is what you really want in an undergrad school -- a place ... for worse. Tonight I am highlighting the differences between me as a 17

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  “It’s just so effortless!” Apples and ziti and pies, oh my!

  

  ...I probably slept instead. I'm not much of a baker, anyway. There was plenty of ... freshman dinner... We had to cook for about 30 people, so we started with a ... mixed, it was time to bake it. Hence the name "baked ziti." I grabbed a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivery 2021 meet me halfway

  

  ."]brass rat[/annotation] but also the halfway point of MIT. Obviously, as a result of the pandemic, we weren't able to have a ring delivery in the spring. But because our [annotation note="Ring committee - a group of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vote for Ksplice! MIT's spirit of entrepreneurship and collaboration in action.

  

  Forbes "Boost Your Business" Competition. Their concept is actually a ... " Competition!) One of the aspects of MIT culture I most enjoy is the Institute ... to make the world a better place. Another cornerstone of MIT culture

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus, version 2.0 More pictures!

  

  fourth floor: This is the door to GRT Vikash's room - The 4th HNC ... stairwell opening into the third floor, there's a mural of our banner with our motto. Sport Death! Here's a view of another room, this time a double

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Marjane Satrapi and French Breakthroughs The author of Persepolis visits MIT, and my French professor is famous

  

  AIDS, there is a lot of joy. And life without joy is pointless." It ... about life and criticisms of American foreign policy. All in all, it was a ... Satrapi said something along the lines of: "We live in such a conservative

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Ducks vs. Army Men! Remember the good old days when you used to play in the sandbox?

  

  At the beginning of the year, Rick '09 and I had a marathon carpentry session. We built a loft for James '11, and a table for each of us. Okay, so the barstools never got made. In fact, the lumber is still stacked in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  have given me a good opportunity to catch up on some work-related reading ... School of Dreams (a case study of Whitney High School in Los Angeles ... come to a section about a student coming in for a mock college interview

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  flocked to HackMIT to crowd themselves into a gym for 30 hours and make ... a steady flow of snacks that ranged from burritos to late-night "insomnia cookies" to breakfast bagels with half-and-half milk. Toss in a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Classes of Semesters Past, Present, and Future since you asked.

  

  you leave a post with your course history? I want to take every class eventually and I can't decide!" So, here's a post with my course history. It's a nice record of my transition from pre-med/brains to astronomy. More

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  as a perfunctory check than anything else, and low and behold, there actually was a hack there! Floating in the center of Lobby 7's dome was a ... embellished with a QR code. Now theoretically, if one were able to scan the code

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Incentive to Drop Out Two MIT students get $100,000 and lots of opportunities in a two-year fellowship.

  

  harmful effects of inflation. I can add a little more about each. Laura is ... Weiss Lab and Glenn Lab. She is a sister of the Sigma Kappa sorority and has a blue belt in Tae Kwon Do. Jeffrey is also a sophomore, majoring

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2011
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2023 i3 videos megapost

  

  like a glimpse into how MIT students describe their own communities to ... As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome

  

  how. By day, I work in South San Francisco. Last night, I took 101N ... , and down 24 to Berkeley. I had dinner in a lovely Italian restaurant ... in the office at 8:30. I AM A MACHINE. For some background on me

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  about MIT: Other than Matt McGann's blog? [seriously, this is what Ben wrote. Honestly, I'm a bit embarrassed -mm] Without a doubt, the students ... favorite things about MIT is hacking, but it's been quite some time since we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT IreneCam tracking the storm - here and on the web.

  

  memory leak (always a possibility) it should remain up. Killian is ... avoid flooding in nonapocalyptic scenarios, is almost certain to lose power for some time because it is surrounded by an intricate interweaving

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Five Years of Admitted Student Gatherings MIT community is getting bigger

  

  *Scene opens* I'm standing in front of a house with my family. MIT branded balloons are tied to the mailbox. There is a poster of the Dome on ... futures. At one point, we sat down and listened to a sophomore tell us

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 29, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  that the official requirement for a raft on the Charles after sundown is ... succumbed to a four-hour soak in liquid described by writer Bernard DeVoto as ... , deluxe'd out with a cupholder and five disco-colored stripes underneath a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009