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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  when I was in high school, I would have said something like “prolly ... numbers involved, in spite of writing memes all day”. After that, I wandered ... Phantom with the Reawakening at East Campus. If I had to sum it up in a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tour de Frat house tours of pbe, dke, and sig chi!

  

  Welcome back to another tour – and I hope you're excited, because ... concept, but what’s even crazier is that we actually have 26 of them in total! A lot of my friends ended up joining frats freshman year, so I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  Here's the story: Long ago, in a land far far away (far from Hawaii at least), there was a magical dorm where hundreds of grad students ... Massachusetts Ave and Memorial Drive since the beginning of time (i.e. 1938 when

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Chocolate Tasting Nuts, olives, and 99% cocoa

  

  In honor of some holiday, MIT's Laboratory for Chocolate Science hosted chocolate tasting last night. I went to a similar event in IAP 2004 ... pieces. I found "seafood" in one piece that Sam thought tasted like "olives

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Term time again

  

  Institute Requirements in a blender and added basic neuroscience - I have to ... topic I last saw in 18.03 (Differential Equations). 9.14 (Brain Structure ... There are two or three backlogged entries that I want/need to write

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Everybody LOVES a math joke Math jokes for a Monday chuckle!

  

  in an email: I've definitely felt like doing this before.... ... Judging by the facebook group "I Wish I Were Your Derivative So I ... ...here's one she loves to tell (copied from an article in the American

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  have in common? They are the only two people in the world who can put a ... I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers ... Quadir (head of MIT's Program in Developmental Entrepreneurship and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  elephants what I've been up to

  

  in macgregor so I'm painting on clear contact paper try not to paint ... I've been pretty busy lately doing stuff like this a little of ... of this. But this blog post is about the elephant in the room (read

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 27, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  was pleased to find that I wasn't too far off in any of my ratings and recommendations - and in many cases I was dead-on - which means that my "calibration ... We had our reading season kickoff meeting today, which checked in at

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  THIS. IS. 18.02. "We will wield our triple integrals as one!"

  

  . I haven’t slept in 2 days. So last night, I had 3 Monsters, and I just ... . In the interest of full disclosure, I have had a mild crush on him ... In case you haven’t been able to tell by the lack of bloggage across

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Soup Dumplings, Fever Pitch Yesterday after work I headed downtown for the evening. First stop was one of my…

  

  (and most expensive) movie theater. When I walked in, I saw a big crowd ... won it all in 2004. In the last couple weeks, though, I have seen some ... Yesterday after work I headed downtown for the evening. First stop

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faith Embracing uncertainty as the world changes around us

  

  peace in my cozy little hospital room. I drifted into a deep sleep. I ... minutes, I gave in and pushed the orange button. The nurse fluttered into ... disappeared underneath the skin on my left arm. In a few moments I was relieved

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Hot Crosswalk Buns free food and football cleats

  

  - so during a break in committee I took the opportunity to cross the Mass ... burritos from Anna's). But as I like to say in my info sessions, sometimes ... applications that this is my first free food in...well, long enough that I was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  like "I am cat" and don't care about anything in the world. Anyway, we ... The other day, I had an interesting conversation with Kayla E. '15. She asked me if I wanted to go to Canada, and I said yes. About 24 hours

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  children of weight 15-35 lbs. I am fully aware that the shopping cart in ... mph in the gaspingly brief time required to scream barely the first two ... recoiled along a vector perpendicular to Massachusetts Avenue as I gripped

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST POST! You guys are totally right.. that WAS really tempting.

  

  I would love to take credit for the brilliant entry title, but unfortunately it was all Spam's idea. Thanks, Spam. Unfortunately, in the mean time, I've forgotten how to blog. So in true "first post" style.. there

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Events

  A Morning With Sir Tim Berners-Lee This morning I attended a lecture in Stata, given by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the guy…

  

  This morning I attended a lecture in Stata, given by Sir Tim Berners ... people understand each other." Sometimes I think the best ideas in the ... awesome. But I digress.) Tim was pretty fascinating, so I checked out his

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I list standardized test results?

  the "Add new test scores" link in the application portal. We accept
• Blog / Events

  TELETHONNNNN brought to you by Domino's

  

  person I called, but I understand if we caught you off guard or in the ... After my kickboxing class today I ran to the Bush Room and just ... balmy January evening? "HimynameisConnieandI'mafreshmanatMIT... and

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caps Lock Pancakes DINNERISH.

  

  For the past four and a half years I’ve lived on an all-women’s floor called BMF (badass mother—s) in Random Hall. Most of our social and home-academic life happens round the clock in the kitchen, over food and homework and

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