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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lewis Music Library Tra la la

  

  room for a Super Bowl party, but no such luck. (Since I took this picture ... disc players, and DVD players. No, you can’t reserve this floor for your ... I don't think the headphones would fit over it, so it's a good thing

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  graduate students from the local university to our house for a Thanksgiving ... .  I came into MIT feeling that I was at a huge disadvantage being from ... left the table for a little bit, and my sister and I had a short sibling

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT hacks Caltech

  

  fire it at important events. Guess where the cannon is as I type this ... Building. There was a pretty plaque to go with the cannon. As you can see ... decided to have a little fun with Caltech. You see, Caltech has this famous

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Wish I Was an Astronaut I was a nerd even back in 3rd grade.

  

  chose to do a rap about him. This only demonstrates how nerdy I was even ... Beats from the Playground, Vol. 3 MIT has a set of it's own astronauts as ... Not really...but I used to. I wrote this little diddy back in 3rd

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  some photos from friends who were more brave than I was (click for larger ... photos during the actual storm (I also thought I’d be fine with a sweater ... professions, in a way Santa and Poseidon both have a lot to do with to snow. I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cultura MIT students use online collaboration with their French counterparts to learn about each other's cultures.

  

  homework I'm doing right now is part of a unit called Cultura, where we ... things that come to mind when we think of a "good job," for example, in ... observations, ask for clarification and chat with the French students on a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Fireworks over MIT’s Great Dome Fireworks and music and Dome, oh my.

  

  As I noted two entries ago, MIT has a front row seat for Boston's 4th ... around. And now, you can watch a excerpt of the fireworks over the Dome, online. Click To Play   Thanks to MIT TechTV for posting the clip!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  up my alley in terms of what I do for my UROP, so I gave it a shot this IAP. For context, CycleGAN is a conditional image-to-image translation ... -CJ, and I wondered if it might make sense to try using a Cycle-GAN to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk: messy person edition not sponsored

  

  containing a draft of [annotation note = "I meant to revise this throughout the ... notebook I made freshman year Writing Irresistible Kidlit a Pusheen ... laptop cases? this is not that post. this is a post about my desk, which

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 19, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  End of May updates More waitlist admits, no ARML, Bollywood in Boston, technical theater at MIT.

  

  students from the waitlist on Friday. I don't know if we'll take more people from the waitlist; I'll let you know when I know more. Some people do remain on the waitlist.Unfortunately, I have to take back what I said in a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Off to Zambia

  

  demonstrations. Sodis uses a method of water disinfection intended for the ... used (location? design? stigma?). In a community in India (I think?), well-intentioned development workers saw a need for water in an area with

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  Amicus briefs and the ABCs of a diverse MIT A SCOTUS filing with Stanford et al, and a strategic action plan for an inclusive…

  

  litigation practices, an amicus brief —  from the Latin for friend, also known ... —  and only for the reason —  that it is "narrowly tailored...to further a compelling interest in obtaining the educational benefits that flow from a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  In my previous entry, Joan Tran from Louisiana asked for some general ... , it looks for attributes that you can demonstrate in just about any ... gained from it, how it has changed you, etc. Another piece of advice I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  inevitably reach for a whiteboard marker, which is why I've never seen a blank ... ’s name here] for help with [some math class with a fancy name that I don ... all my heart. I also happen to have a particular soft spot for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  First of all, apologies for the radio silence. I've been sequestered in reading and committee for the last few weeks. Today may be a Sunday, but it is no different. But before I once again immerse myself in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  I went. I sat across the breakfast table from a friend in a downtown ... . This is not a best-of-the-year list. It's not a syllabus for literary self-improvement, nor is it a list of books I think you'll like, although

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  2020 Admitted Student Gatherings Get a vision of your future at MIT

  

  events scheduled this week. For a full, detailed list of events and ... With Campus Preview Weekend just a few weeks away (sign up here if you haven’t done so already), early spring is an exciting time for

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2016
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  mentioned it for about 1/4th of a sentence, but I like to prolong my fleeting ... actually a bunch of beets. I swear, I must have been absent on the day in ... , blend, stir, and sample for two and a half hours until dinner was served

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  buddy Ben, you see, has had - for as long as I've known him - a slight ... plushie I had won from a school fair years ago. And I knew instantly ... remember most is how my friends and I used to play volleyball every week. A

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yoga The joys of physical education

  

  . In class, I can't stand like this for more than 30 seconds or so. Try ... (I can file an entry on Yoga under "Academic" right?) Today I ... Thursday from 12 to 1, I am in the T Club Lounge, sprawled on purple yoga

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 25, 2005