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  My Home Warning: Graphics Intensive.

  

  Welcome to 2008! 2008. In equivalent terms, Class of 2012. Congratulations to all of you that pressed the submit button yesterday and others ... next fall. Regardless of whether you applied early, most of you should be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

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

  

  In Ancient Greece, the word “symposium” referred to a gathering of ... students of a wide range of ages and backgrounds. The event officially began ... by Dr. Roderic Ivan Pettigrew, the director of the National Institute

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

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  I have always been proud of the fact that there is a star and a minor ... result of a $54 check to the International Star Registry. Rather, Emily has gained international recognition for discovering three of the largest known

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  signed up for this class out of the blue, not really knowing what I was ... something totally out of the ordinary, something beyond the confines of computer science or even STEM. The course description read: The history of

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  rhapsodize about a slice of sweet, crunchy red apple dipped in balsamic vinegar ... flesh into a pool of red-freckled $11.99-per-bottle-balsamic, a tableful of faces stared in suspended disbelief, munchlessly unaware of how

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Lost Art of Hand-Lettering Lives at MIT hidden in plain sight

  

  . A lot of doors. And a lot of them with letters on them, like this one:   What you probably don't know is that, since 1994, all of the letters on all of these doors have been hand-lettered by one man, Glenn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’ve Been Staring At The Edge of The {Charles River} 'long as I can remember, never really knowing why

  

  , where I long to be... Okay I'm done now. I've taken way too many photos of ... second of the day, so did every second of being at MIT.  Sometimes, the twinkling lights of the Prudential tower accompanied me into the late hours of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2018
• Blog / Events

  emergency blog post because Lilly Chin ‘17 just won Jeopardy and is also the greatest of all time "who is the spiciest memelord?" it's you

  

  befriend some of the best and brightest minds in America and around the world ... Admissions officer. CONGRATS LILLY YOU ARE THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME. WE ALL ... Of Lilly that MIT suddenly had a custom snapchat filter activated on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 24, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  in France. The students of JSF 2018 and our chaperone, Prof. Perreau (on the right). Photo credit to Sophie de Loubens, one of our JSF guides ... Paris exploring the history and culture of the city and speaking

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  The rhythm sets in. It’s a steady rhythm. Roll out of bed at ten in ... one of these events. Or I’m going to one of my discovery classes in the ... , Thursday, Friday. A march of things to do, every minute of the day wrangled

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / Public Statements

  A letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis

  

  Today, the Class of 2020 graduates — virtually — from MIT. On a ... grass, taking photos and giving hugs. Of course, today is not a normal ... ongoing pandemic, the death of George Floyd, at the knee of a Minneapolis

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  A hack, for cap 🇺🇸 spoilers-free

  

  , so did the new decoration of the MIT dome. Sometime late Saturday ... on the roof of the Great Dome as an homage to the Marvel hero. Via the Globe:  One of the jokesters — they cheekily call themselves “hackers” — reached

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  CASE: Identity and Intersectionality and some bunnies if you hate everything else about this post

  

  vaguely political ambiguity of the previous sentences and would rather just ... . This new group hosts a monthly forum in which attendees discuss issues of ... open to all MIT students regardless of identity. How did you find out

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Blizzard Barbecuing A few feet of snow never hurt anyone

  

  Yesterday Spanish House celebrated Boston's record breaking snow fall with the WTF(Winter Time Fun) Barbecue! Who says a few feet of snow signals the end of outdoor activites. Photo Credit to Hollie O. '15

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vlogging about Course 3 and Applying to MIT A video in which I talk to myself and I am an awkward MIT student…

  

  I did the vlog thing!   I didn't take a video of a cat, but here is a picture of Rory:

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Am Excited a day in life of a student

  

  away from proving that the set of all real numbers (R) is uncountably infinite. That is, it’s on a whole new level of infinity, and this makes ... Analysis homework contained only four distinct numbers in the statement of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  Because my summer plans are about as fluid as one of those squishy ... into a lot of part-time jobs. I’ll need something else to occupy time, earn a bit of money, and begin exploring some random careers. I

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Events

  twerking, MIT style need more be said?

  

  Welcome to another edition of MIT Students Can Be Artsy™, aka We Do ... /confusing names like 50 Shades of Plié and #DTMF.  This year's fall show? DTWERK ... Dictionary.  Or maybe innocence is bliss?) I think the variety of dances

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  MIT is a lot like a bowl of milk. A really really big bowl of milk ... -loving entity of your choice). How big is this bowl of milk exactly? Well, I don ... . The truth is, like perhaps many of the 1,116 freshmen in the class of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Everything I ever wanted to know about making stuff.

  

    Many thanks to the Global Grand Challeneges Summit staff for the photos, and to Ed McCann and Mark Murcko for some of the anecdotes and quotes of the scientists featured here.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2013