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  Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory AXO Fondue was last night!

  

  (Ashdown House) into an undergrad dorm in 2009 (right after I leave, not fair ... When five bloggers (Anthony, Bryan, Matt, Mitra, and I) all attend ... , my sorority, Alpha Chi Omega (AXO), had a chocolate fondue party, where

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  2024 has been quite a year for the Sun—in addition to the total solar ... geomagnetically active in its 11-year cycle"]solar maximum[/annotation]. In ... friends and I decided to travel to Iceland!! This was my first time ever

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger selection 2008 results We have completed the selection of this year's bloggers!

  

  - Get Set Go Self Defense Where the Hell is Matt? Pulp Fiction in ... reveal this year's new bloggers, I'd like to share with you some of the ... more interesting submissions were in response to short answer question #2

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  water slides. And I was bored out of my mind. There were about 3 people in ... back in puzzlement and continued to stare at the water, thinking. I ... . Come on, help me out. In other news, I finally figured out how I'll be

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  first time I even considered applying to MIT was in January of 2022, when ... Abby 2018 In 2021, my top song was The Monster Mash, and I listened to ... in March and then life happened and i didn't exercise in that way

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  loudly in my ears that I'm not sure if I heard anything he said, but here ... 're a meme!) and I can report that it is truly bizarre to watch Neil de ... &A session, but I'm sure that Neil would be happy to stick around for a few

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  . When I walked in, there were 20 +/- 2 girls sitting on the floor, wearing ... , which meant that I couldn't see myself in the mirror - a blessing, as I ... direction. I stumbled left. Ashley stopped, and tapped her feet in front of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• 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 ... in high school and I think the Romans are ridiculous and really ... there’s minimal homework and free lunch! I worked in an NIH Clinical

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  summer to prepare! Coming in, I had absolutely no idea how weird managing ... I'm excited about the fall! Since sophomores aren't on campus, I won't be running from activity to activity anymore, but I do have a few

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  the horizontal. In an effort to convince Matt McGann that I am an ... transcript follows] Me: I think I'm taking intro class on programming in C. Linda: I took it last year. The problem sets are hard. Me: Really? It can

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  So much has happened academically in the last month! A while ago, I ... , it's not...that great. But I digress. I actually wrote the bulk of this post a month ago, so in the interim, I've also built a ray tracer

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  I am taking 5 minutes out of my life just to let you all know why I don't exist. I don't exist, because this is my to-do list: No joke ... finished today. Speaking of starred items, I between taking that photo 3

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  sometime during high school, but in 9th grade, I was still intent on ... do black holes have angular momentum?” and “Can I time-travel?” and ... audience that I have ever seen in 10-250, one of MIT's biggest lecture halls

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT students launch Camp Kesem Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children whose parents have had cancer.

  

  . The program is open to all children ages 6-13 in the Boston area. I will ... , doing arts and crafts, swimming in a lake- summer camp gives kids an ... have a parent who has died from cancer, is currently in treatment for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 1, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  IAΠ wherein another blogger deposits her January photos (but this time it's in late February)

  

  " graffiti in corinth       wow I can't believe those ... For a good portion of my first ever IAP, I explored ancient sites in ... horses and other quadrupeds (note: these were in every museum. I took

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 22, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  not yet stepped foot on campus, I hope you can make it next year! ... In Ancient Greece, the word “symposium” referred to a gathering of ... symposium that I attended on Friday was quite a different assembly. Held at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  This semester, I'm taking a graduate class in General Relativity that ... cones, sharp-beaked birds, and points.) In four weeks, I'll probably tell ... how magnetization is like a covariant vector. Ex: Me: “Hey, can I borrow

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  for being my number one support system that I can always turn to. We ... professors, thank you for seeing the potential I sometimes didn't see in myself ... in this time. So do that if you can.   One behalf of ‘Tute Airlines

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  weeks. If I can summarize this section in one sentence it would be the ... swept up in the competition. But I can't tell you enough how much better ... I struggled with the most. When you're in classes all day and doing

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Seemingly Stressful Survey The Tech publishes about stress at the institute

  

  Now I get to mention something cool that I do with my life here! It may have casually come up in the times that I’ve written here that I am ... you can be the best you can be during your time here. In the end, it

  • by Stanley G.
  • December 7, 2012