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  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  initiative. Because I was involved a bit at the beginning, and because I think a lot of our prospective students will be as excited as I am that this is a thing, I asked Christina to write up a brief history of how this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  all the shenanigans they involve deserve a longer post than I can do right now, so I'll leave that for later. For now, I want to make a list of ... . And then there’s my cooking fails. I’m not on a meal plan for reasons

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  for checking this: give your essays to a good friend and ask if they can ... (maybe the most underappreciated thing a good college applicant can do is ... the world you come from; for example, your family, clubs, school

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  participating in art, dance, or theatre for just as long. I mean, you ... thought I might want to play the piano. But I saw a lot of my parents ... composers! (Can you tell I never got into piano after all? Such regrets

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  Laser Graffiti I found something cool on the way home.

  

  leapt onto a bench for a better view, trying to figure out which room in East Campus it was coming from. The laser pointer drew a monkey ... A Cosi smore-eating fest is a French House orientation tradition; we

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  , but I’ve just been too lazy to start. So when I got the email from the ... friends are moving away, waiting for grad school decisions, etc. I wrote all that because it'd be funny to write a serious justification for whatever

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  memory. Set a reference frame there for now. What do you see? In one of my earliest memories, I'm climbing the steps to where I used to live and heading ... . If you can do that to just a handful of people, imagine what you can do

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summertime Science Got that summertime, summertime science...

  

  up a fake science show where Ryan and I would do experiments in our ... : (This is how I brainstorm most of my doodle entries, for those of you who ... summer, I did as any nerdy sister would do to remedy the situation of a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  One of the economics electives I have signed up for is 14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test - Field Experiments in Economics. From what I ... , persuasion, corruption and voting. (See the syllabus on this site for a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  greet. You get a quick spiel about the entry from the GRT(s), and then get ... they can find out in a minute or so, before they pass you off to another ... final entry and room. While this system seems a bit harsh from both

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let the good times roll here is where my summer adventures take place

  

  Here's the skinny on my summer. I got a fellowship from the MIT ... to create a "Think Local First" campaign^^ for this island. I’m working ... like this Tom and I created a survey for consumers to gather insight

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • June 18, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We are artists & writers extracting creative talent around campus

  

  in a literary magazine in high school, I knew it was something I want ... a beautiful magazine at the end of the school year. I personally like ... limits of fantasy allow. Certainly a change of rhythm from the chaos of the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faster than a speeding locomotive. E=MC^2 serving up the most delicious physics problems since 1905.

  

  's science, suggestions for further reading, and other resources. A detailed ... No, I'm not talking Clark Kent here. I'm talking about the speed of light! I'm talking about what happened 100 years ago today. Don't tell

  • by Bryan
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  architect of a venerable One Direction fanblog full of gifs and drama (i ... . In the meantime, I want to thank everyone who applied to be a blogger ... August, a committee of senior bloggers, recent bloggers, and a few staff

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  2.009 LIVE BLOG 2025 w/ Kayode D. '27 and Veronica P. '27

  

  start, I was doing some thinking and came up with a pickup line. We may be ... they came up with! 8:52 -- Back to Kayode...with a short word from Janet ... be taken from a nearby bench and quickly deployed to provide chest

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • December 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  This past March, a few days after my birthday, I spent a Saturday ... with a huge capacity to extend and improve human life. For the most part ... we extract it from a vegetable or fruit. Here’s all that in vivid

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Put a Ring On It 2013 RING PREMIERE!

  

  with which every MIT student hopes to graduate (aside from a diploma, of ... on my UROP. I distracted myself briefly with a 30 minute nap and a trip ... About three hours ago, a large majority of the MIT Class of 2013

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  -respect for watching reality shows. My hypothesis is that you can create a ... computer lab on campus"). I particularly love the warning "this is not a ... for American Idol 2, but I don't think he got to appear on television as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  , so maybe I'm not a mad scientist. But, when people ask me where I am ... write a paper based on the research I’ve been doing for the past year and ... my response. I am taking the following: 7.02- Biology Lab- A notorious

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  I wait by the door like I'm just a kid Use my best colors for your ... .   champagne problems "This dorm was once a madhouse" I made a joke ... 't like a gold rush, gold rush I don't like anticipatin' my face in a red

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020