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  The Ethicist

  

  who thought this was a good idea, I'm very disappointed in you. ... . Reading the Sunday paper is a favorite part of my week. During less busy ... these students' names on a website. This is not ethical (also, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)

  

  → macgregor august 2021: macgregor → ec (this post) as is tradition, here's a picture of my old room, with my key: and here is my room now. i am in a ... in a double, but this year we do have people in doubles, so i am now in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 18, 2021
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How does one attain a Pirate License?

  —but students that complete courses in archery, pistol shooting, sailing, and fencing are granted pirate status with a tangible certificate. Blogger Abby H. '20 is one of the students who has earned official MIT Pirate
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  's always great to meet and talk with someone who is not only successful in ... . Anyway, she gave a talk on Thursday night here at MIT in 10-250, which is ... 'll be addressed in my next post. The upcoming week is a little scary - two

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  that I guess is on a lot of people's minds: Q. So how do you pee in space? A. Up in space we use a vacuum. I always tell kids it's not something ... Cady Coleman: She graduated MIT with a bachelor's degree in Chemistry

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  with this is that I am literally in a pair of free Crocs I got at Notre ... following conversations can literally happen nowhere else in the world. So a ... around Boston in this outfit, so I borrow one person’s jeans and get a

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got this video. Or rather, this sad excuse of one...

  

  Side note: Am I the only blogger who still uses a paper planner? Am I the only one in my programming class who takes notes on paper, not on a ... ??? Here's a video in which I attempt to eloquently answer questions that you

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  , mirrored last year in a paralyzing way. And maybe this is a sign that I'm too ... some psets, did yoga in my P.E. class, worked on a blog post, attended ... the answers, especially this year. I've been dabbling a lot in being

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  piece of parchment lodged in the mouth of a dazzling, sparkling horse of ... -backpack-wielding sophomore. (That WAS a long time ago, wasn't it? You're free to imagine me sitting in a rocking chair, spiderwebs from 4 B.C. winding around my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  sequence. This is a data sample of a portion of the Arabidopsis metabolome. The rows are the variating Arabidopsis lines, and each column is a ... When I tell people that I'm majoring in Biology, they typically

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2020!

  

  summer in Cambridge, it is still true that: my neighbor's adorable and ... weightlifting (more on this later) it is time for those of you who might want to ... communicate what being a student at MIT is like. You should interpret this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2020
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  about being in a country where nobody has electricity or regular access to ... about safety - and saw the city in a whole different light. The majority ... our last night in Haiti. The last few days were all such a blur - I got

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Pictures that don’t belong anywhere else – Part I because i'm a slackslackslackball.

  

  . Truman, who loves to eat hair and sleep in beds like a person. His favorite ... This entry is a lot of things. Read! First here are some pictures ... REUSING some of the pictures I took for the viewbook.) A double in East

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 17, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  ="attachment_110852" align="aligncenter" width="400"] the one in the back is a matcha ... : I didn’t go in completely new–I’d attended a wheelthrowing workshop ... down in steps: 1) Pat the clay into a ball and lob it onto the wheel

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  Mass Innovation Nights is a monthly product launch party for local Boston entrepreneurs. Each one is held in a different place, with this one ... donates, they earn a badge that they can display in their email signature

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.

  

  . My clever little paragraph up there is just a cute way of saying that a ... questions in a separate entry. Read it all here. Number 2: If you haven ... ; A kiosk in Lobby 7 that usually runs informational videos about MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  PumpkiNerd Carving My dorm had a pumpkin carving contest, and categories were funniest, scariest, geekiest, most original,…

  

  As I pasted in my previous entry, my dorm had a pumpkin carving ... in? Here's Veena '06, who lives in Baker House. Look at the expression on her face -- she obviously is a fruitarian. (I suppose

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hits from the ‘90s ♪ Why can't we be friends? ♫

  

  ! Honestly, I'm amazed, I have tweeted exactly 10 times in over a year and I ... I, like most college students, have a Facebook account. Actually, for ... use all of them. They're just good to have in case of an emergency. That

  • by Snively '11
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  will respect their time. So whether your application deadline is about a ... write your letter, and to have a conversation about it. This is a much ... , and have teachers who are not English fluent, this is okay -- you can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing

  

  went to danger!awesome. danger!awesome is a laser engraving and cutting ... walked in to danger!awesome, here are the other people who were there ... -dimensional ship's anchor an older dude in biker swag who was helping two 10 year

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2012