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• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  mark of how focused I was on crossing the border that I did not stop to ... Last Sunday, some friends and I walked across the state of Rhode Island! This idea originated last year, when my friend Xavier and some of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT salutes Harry Potter ...the best way we know how, with hacks!

  

  many, this is the end of an era that started with the release of the ... celebrated the series a number of times in the way we celebrate: with hacks ... of Harry Potter-related hacks, courtesy of hacks.mit.edu. Harry

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Rush photos

  

  I've been remiss in posting about Dorm Rush or Hall Rush, both of ... , I'll cover Hall Rush with 5E Rush photos. Most of these are actually ... rode the rides that people built. Most of what we build is made of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Match Game

  

  of interesting discussion after my last post, and lots of good questions, too. I hope to answer many of those questions soon, but today I ... 's mission. The founding mission of MIT was to improve the world through

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  one degree of separation away. Other times it's distant and foreign ... angry with." These work with varying degrees of success.) I hoped to ... This all starts with a minister by the name of William Archibald

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  . Crossing roads. Back at home, if you’re on one side of a major intersection ... , stop in front of the crossing, smile at you, even wave. Back at home, you ... from home, like the weird practice of tipping, or how there’s functional

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  degrees all winter so when we had a couple inches of snow my town forgot how ... the last 26 days in my hometown – Columbia, MO. Located in the heart of ... a living out of doing these things.” Maita: “Like being a housewife

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  News Office reports, "Acemoglu is the fifth member of the present ... , "Number of Nobel prize winners among current and former members of the MIT Economics Department in the past 5 years: 5 Number of John Bates Clark Medal

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Watch this! An MIT blogger alum deservedly gets a moment in the spotlight.

  

  If there were an MIT blogger Hall of Fame, Mollie would definitely be ... with degrees in Biology and Brain & Cognitive Science in 2006. Today ... community as member of the MIT Cheerleading Team (yes, MIT has a Cheerleading

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  undergraduate mathematics competition in North America. Of the top 5 students ... , Civil & Environmental Engineering). Twenty of the top 75 competitors ... Putnam exam is a difficult set of 12 questions, each worth 10 points for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness.[annotation note='All text on this blog post comes from the preface and first thirteen theses of Guy Debord’s classic The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds of Summer What've you been listening to lately?

  

  still have four glorious days of summer break left, so I will continue to ... Company of Thieves - This is the kind of song that you enthusiastically sing ... . This is completely uncharacteristic of the rest of their material, just

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  So the four year roller coaster called "Quest for a degree from MIT" has come to a close. And of course, it wouldn't be blogworthy unless there was more of a story than that. So this semester I had just one

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  “we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:

  

  choice of MIT, I mean it. I'm on a mission to spread the New England winter ... shenanigans. Exhibit A: On the last day of finals, as if to celebrate the vanquishing of our most sinister adversaries exams, we received a glorious dump

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  of MIT's Cross Country team, so he can afford the calories, and he ... Sunday night. There are many hundreds of thousands of women across the ... Aiken message boards, and hundreds of dollars on hotel rooms, tickets

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  , passionate people. Go figure - I just described the vast majority of the ... . With ~10,500 apps, it is likely that I never personally crossed paths ... how/why decisions of other admissions officers - it would be impossible

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  the first day of classes is Tuesday, YIKES! But I didn't get through ... , a snapshot of the dinner table (me, my mom, and my three younger ... faculty and staff from all around MIT help members of the community practice

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Maseeh! A look into MIT's newest dorm

  

  's extremely convenient that I literally just have to cross the street to get to ... that is a blend of the other dorms' cultures here. The diversity is definitely why I love living here! And that concludes our short tour of Maseeh

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  classes to graduate, an average of one a semester. I waved around that ... enjoying the writing classes and my job outside of class working with polymers better than some of my materials science classes. And it got me

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  on a patch of ice; of crossing the Harvard Bridge and staring into the ... …[B]ut string dozens of great events together, and none of them would ... what was previously new is now normal; that the wonder and mystery of MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020