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  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Binzel, a New Horizons mission co-investigator, is also professor in MIT ... Pluto. In measuring how much the light dims during an eclipse, Leslie ... Pluto, much crisper than the 1996 Hubble photo. Right now the probe is

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  would be worrying about how much stuff there is still to do tonight." I think it's true. ----- Five days ago, I was tucked away in a lounge on ... me in terms of not traveling to NYC at all. That's saying a lot

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  be smart and I knew how much I liked the people in the admissions ... , how competitive and unsocial it is. I’ve only been here a few weeks and ... terrific universities (including MIT). I never aspired to have a career in

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  past midnight. These days, my Fridays tend to be a bit more low-key. In ... Line in Porter Square. It was a snowy night. The grimy piles of snow ... Annie team mentions their goal is to “be a center for community.” I think

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  in the beauty of the fall and the warmth of my friends. MIT is a ... ="105944" image6="105945" image7="105946" /] In the evening, a few of us practiced ... first apple straight off the branch. This is SO much better than the ones

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. The LHC is a massive particle ... without much to say. Here, someone in the back of the room had just pulled a ... blogging momentum is really hard to start up again after a certain point. I

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  little ways back in my history (what history I have), not too far, just a ... was a black sheet and stars were holes in it. And that suited me just ... every once in a while it takes on new meaning that makes it all worthwhile

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  promised much excitement. Someone rolled a large TV from their room. We watched Pitch Perfect, a film in which freshmen know what they want to do ... found a calling in rap. Soon the first three tracks of our (yet unreleased

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  ; 1. “The sky is the limit” - Mom Since I was a very little Gabe, my ... must have heard her whisper “the sky is the limit” in my ear thousands of ... . I’ve learned so much from Hardi and consider him a mentor, but nothing

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  advise you that learning how to deal with those feelings in a healthy way ... . Everybody knows that job recruiting season is, in a word, awful. Getting a job ... summer is stupid. Although I genuinely wanted to spend a summer in a city

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  . They had appeared in our yard back home lonely and hungry, and in just a ... . Just a couple here. On the drive up to MIT: In bexley: Some of ... that?" "How much to feed 2-3 month old kittens" "Best kitten diet

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  the biological engineering building, there is also a store room in the ... 39 tabs open in Chrome (which is apparently the threshold at which the ... : cavernous cement cylinders wreathed in shadows and coated in a moldy film of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  , which i participated in from eighth to tenth grade. it was a good program ... main one I want to talk about is fencing. I had a complicated ... only be a big deal in a children's book--but to me, it was my official

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  which point I started work in the Traverso/Langer Lab. Because Binbin is a ... definitely a long-term project in a research direction that the lab is not ... do it in-person this week! so how did we get here, anyways? Last

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and ... interested in adding a few new winter sports to the mix, and the one I've had ... your feet into that same ice sheet to stand on. Climbing is a motion

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  going to run a HALF MARATHON!! I live in BOSTON!! This is so freaking cool ... Church of Corinth, and he talks about running races and running in a way is ... too much time on youtube or (if i'm feeling particularly productive) a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  the speech, and thought how perfect it would be if I threw in a “Bon ... is what led Tony Eng, a course VI senior lecturer, to organize the ... Child was a cook, not a chef. She grew up in Pasadena, CA, went to Smith

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  queries: I'm a little concerned about MIT's degree of toughness...is it ... /enjoyment in the work and what you're learning. Is that true? (I dearly hope it ... people, and never showering. This is definitely not the case - as a matter

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  what it is about yet. In a Harvard class I took years ago, the lecturer ... I'm in Washington, D.C. today for a work trip, so I write this blog ... my seven a.m. flight to DCA, which is one of three airports that serves

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  known how to save a life. I listened to this song so much in high school ... . This is a subtle mention, but enough that I included it. It's Tóng Huà in ... . Arcade Fire) – My Body Is a Cage From in remembrance of the body. Another

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023