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

  

  one that is very near to my heart." Random astronomer: "Can you repeat ... ended up in a comic: If you have sharp eyes, you'll notice that he was ... pointed at me: "yes! question?" Me: "You talked a lot about how the public

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

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  . "Pistol?" Pistol, as in guns. That's right, you may not know it, but buried ... ammunition, and more guns than you can (or would want to) shake a stick at. A ... stopped them You will live to see another day PacMan In the end, I went

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  can prove who you are to other computers on the network, and your ... . If you look in the Zone Cell, you'll see a series of very explicit ... with how AFS and Kerberos work. In the Zone Cell Challenge, you start

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  May the Force Be With You Use the "mass times acceleration" wisely my friend.

  

  performance tomorrow, but for now, I leave you with probably one of the most interesting things I've seen done with butter in a very long time. Yes

  • by Bryan
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  in town that you can do those things on a budget.) After that, we went ... A few entries back, Lena asked "How did you get the job in the lab ... . Generally, you'll get more freedom as you work longer in the lab and prove

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  very thing that you hope to deny exposure to the light can often grow in ... ? How do you hold seemingly contradictory ideas in your head at the same ... with built in Dolby Digital) and watch the latest pay-per-view selection

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How Do You Mic A Stripper? [by Harrison Bralower '11] It's a great question when you really think about it.

  

  without it looking too conspicuous? When you're not wearing anything in ... year of high school. Theater is a wonderful experience in which you meet ... ) spring production of The Full Monty. It's a great question when you really

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  .Eng program in Course 6 is something students can apply for in their junior year ... !) You can see the blue jello version of the Charles River flowing through ... Numbers 1: MEnging I graduated in June, but I'm not gone yet! Due to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  and what you guys do sounds really cool. Can I have a UROP?" It couldn ... paper for a class, I'd be in hot water right now.) If you've ever taken ... things until we close on the 9th. If you're in the area, come see us! It

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  ; I would probably be crying in a hole right now if you weren’t here ... things we learn in class can actually translate into changing the world in ... else that calls the Institute home, and MIT said, “You can do it

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to ... , recording—all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  you can't get home! You'll be trapped at the Institute before you know it, so go home while you can. ... K. '18 has (almost) all the logistic info you need to have an

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  . obviously i can’t prove this is what happened in each scenario, but i believe ... closed nature of most summer programs means you can scheme without much ... damaging ways trust, i’ve decided, is really about power. as in, i can

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  reasons in doing so. ----- For current students, I strongly encourage you to apply to Burchards if you have a strong interest in the humanities ... QUOTE: (talking about her daughter when she lived in McCormick as a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!

  

  Obama's speech in person this afternoon in Kresge Auditorium, you can join ... technology. These lights can be fabricated in a simple molding process ... President is expected to begin his remarks around 12:30pm Eastern time. You

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  NM – u? Sometimes there just isn't that much crazy in my life. Splish splash.

  

  several small balcony sections from which you can get a nice view of the ... interesting things about which I can't wait to blog. The rest of the weeks ... , so I curled up in Hayden with Moll Flanders. I usually sit up on the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  , not really, I was just kidding." "No, seriously, you can bounce, get in ... , plugged in the air blower, and *poof!* we had a Moonbounce! Something you ... MIT you can do this too, or even something more awesome if you have the

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing Spring Break a trip to Charleston and why the sailing team is awesome

  

  sailing on the Charles River (which, in case you didn't know, is dammed and ... because you can learn a lot from each other. We had groups of people team ... My spring break consisted of some of the things I love most in this

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • April 7, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  ’re so little.” “You’re mine.” “I can see the fear in your eyes.” “I’m a ... , pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb ... keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  When it comes to MIT you can put everything you do into one of two categories "for classes" or "in the spirit of having fun". While the two aren ... . With Pass/No Record in place to make the transition easier, first

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012