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  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  laureate, a spiritual leader, and one of the foremost advocates for peace and compassion, but because he has an uncommon way of both disarming and inspiring ... Center for Ethics and Transformative Values. Within 10 minutes of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  for admissions officers and current students to share their stories. It's also a place for y'all to carry on a conversation with us and amongst ... , email, your comment, and a captcha. It then populates the big long list of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  quickly. Case in point: in the past two and a half years, I've learned the ... perfect 100% of the time. (3) It's easy to feel sad and miserable about work, psets, and consistently staying up till 4 am or 5 am. (4) It

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We are artists & writers extracting creative talent around campus

  

  -notch engineering and science programs, this school actually has the resources to ... , and that is RUNE, MIT's journal of art and literature. Having partaken ... MIT students (both undergraduate and graduate) who really enjoy creative

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 12, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.

  

  + Valentine's Day card. End memo. First, and most importantly: BEN FOLDS IS ... last day to drop classes and have them disappear from your transcript (April 23); AXO Lip Sync, which Snively has blogged about (April 24, and

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Phi Omega Leadership, FRIENDSHIP, Service

  

  ?" And there was Xavier '11, with a bag of Bertucci's rolls. (Bertucci's is a common source of pizza and rolls at MIT.) And that made my day. Xavier and I know each other because I'm his Mommy, and now we're Brothers

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  Classes started yesterday, which means I became immediately and ... violent downward spiral hugging the porcelain god all night, and as such I ... jokes aside, I am actually sick, and I haven't been this sick in a while

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Win Sam Stuff! That, amongst other things.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" +…

  

  next year, I got back from work yesterday and spotted a tour group making the rounds so I hopped in and joined them. It's always nice to hang out with prospies and tell them how cool MIT is. I'd been on the tour for, oh

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  History and Literature-- interdisciplinary and brutal like we'd never seen ... , essays, tests, revisions-- to and fro like clockwork. When the bell sounded ... desks- packed with papers, binders- to gather pens and notes, to close the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Fabulous Festivities & Fireworks for the Fourth The annual Boston Pops concert and fireworks show.

  

  , and MIT has a front row seat. Each year on July 4th, a concert by the Boston Pops is combined with an amazing fireworks show, and is televised ... separates Boston from Cambridge and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon! Yay for the class of 2010!

  

  Whew. I just spent the last 4 and a half hours calling up as many of the Early Admits to the class of '10 as I possibly could. And it was seriously a lot of fun. First of all, I finally got to meet Alia and Mike

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let the Rush Begin On Greek Life at MIT.

  

  fraternities and 5 sororities. The fraternities make up the Interfraternity Council, and the 5 sororities make up the Panhellenic Association. When I ... outside of what I'd watched in movies, and I didn't really plan on joining

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  promise I do other stuff too. So early last week, my friends and I went out ... with a nice steak. Our waiter didn't ask for her ID, and I was a little ... somewhat reminded of the day I turned 18 and tried to buy a lottery ticket

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  Artist on the other two Star Wars prequels, and Revenge of the Sith was his ... digital animation work on his first film. He is working at Pixar, and is a Technical Director on the forthcoming film Cars. Both my ILM friend and my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  I'm so jet-lagged! And completely slap-happy! Yayyyy! Today's events ... , since it wasn't a very full flight and I had a whole row to myself. 7 ... undergrad and grad school), and she offered to drive me back to the dorm, an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [live blog] BLUEPRINT 2025 by the Blueprint Team // come see what we're baking!

  

  ="HackMIT's annual high school learnathon and hackathon, where we spend a day teaching local-ish high schoolers about CS skills, and then spend another day ... i've asked some of my lovely team members to give updates and let you

  • by Janet G. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  question: What is my best and worst trait? He admittedly didn't answer with my best trait and instead replied with my worst, saying that it was my meanspirited nature and anger. He thought I was really mean and while it didn

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  started this job! It was always fine, but not thin, and very blonde and soft ... Supercuts or whatever. In the summers I’d get a buzzcut to stay cool, and my baseball coach would rub my head and call me “chemo kid” because it looked

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i got a cat he is so small

  

  friends and family over winter break, and found out one of my high school ... face. He looks like if you took a wet, lint-covered sock and turned it into a cat. When I first got him a week and a half ago, he was about the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2026
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  Trinity. Rock, Paper, Scissors. The Plastics. And for Simmons Hall, our three elevators, Alevator, Belevator, and Celevator, each named for the ... . All three elevators have a board full of posters, and the floor

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025