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  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  of the universe dribbled into the drabness of real-world practicality ... I'm the type of person who never wins the lottery. Were this a ... -enviable genetic makeup is devoid of lottery-winner DNA, and (3) I've heard that it

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  In mid-December a friend of mine, Jared '10, asked if I'd be ... official description of the class is: 6.270 is a hands-on, learn ... robot that will play in a competition at the end of January. The goal for

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  On Monday night, instead of studying for finals, I went to church ... for Weird Culture, so of course I had to go. blurry and far away He was full of great one-liners and aphorisms, but one that stuck out

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  In the midst of a whirlwind-like semester I promise to eventually blog about, I had the chance to connect to Vaishnavi at one of the ... Course 9 – Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Outside of classes and UROPs (that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  .) In a weird convergence of universes, I ended up teaching a class that ... Lydia is a kind shepherd of the blogs who puts too much trust in my sense of judgement, and I have taken advantage of that trust. While I can

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  It’s nearly the end of October, and autumn has finally begun coloring the city of Boston. Baker’s annual piano drop (this time, filled with ... school who also ended up on the East Coast for university, see Big Fish and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 26, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  Boston university, the Berklee College of Music, plays tenor and soprano ... unmistakable weavings of a live saxophone. When the game disbanded I followed the sound. At the bottom of the steps of 77 Mass Ave was a lone saxophonist

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  You may know Conan O'Brien, host of the popular late night talk show ... airing without the benefit of writers, due to the strike (soon to be settled?) by the Writers Guild of America. Without writers, the show has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  colleges: Rice University. I make no secret of the fact that I think MIT ... I've just finished in New York City, where I did my last two days of ... where, with all of the admissions officers finally together after a long

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  tomorrow) on a bit of Media Lab research called the Jerk-O-Meter (?!), which comes out of the Human Dynamics Group, run by Prof. Sandy Pentland ... other end of the phone is really paying attention? The "Jerk-O-Meter" may

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Every IP address of the form 18.x.x.x belongs to MIT. Thus, MIT effectively has 1 / 256 of all the IP addresses in the world ... , and walking around on the floor of 10-250. Okay. This was especially

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  background for most of my junior year. I'd had my eye on the closet door it ... moods, and this was one of those times -- but this one was definitely catalyzed by a sense of urgency: I was leaving MIT so soon, and I felt like I

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  kitchen of Random Hall had melted from a relatively-docile social hub into a ... slowly deep-fried our brains over the relentless course of 63 hours. Before me sprawled a miniature metropolis of snack foods inspired by the great

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  , offer advice, joke around, and tell all of you, face to face, that if I ... Dear prefrosh, Today, Friday, April 17th, is the first day of ... "]CPW[/annotation] 2020, except it isn’t. It’s the first day of CP*, a virtual answer to

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  time of my life – outside in perfect 75-degree weather, the one jacket I ... , we fail at finding them though, so instead of gazing open-mouthed at elegant stone terraces, we trekked up a mountain, at the top of which was a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  are a bunch of different classes, each of varying degrees of difficulty ... . I'm discovering something about sophomore year, well, a lot of things ... taking a lot of classes over a wide variety of disciplines. These are known

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  #NoBanNoWall

  

  the members of the MIT community: The Executive Order President Trump ... the United States is already having an impact on members of our ... for those of our international students and scholars who are directly

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 29, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... Class of 2018 are now available at >>>       ... of these students were academically competitive and well-matched, this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Flip Side I'm a host instead of a prefrosh this year - but CPW has still been…

  

  crazy-successful at taking advantage of everything CPW has to offer ... year instead a prefrosh's: there's less of the aimless wandering, the ... of the sleep loss, the mingling with prefrosh, and the unreserved

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 10, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  Hello! Sorry for the recent lack of post! After an epic trip around ... approaching (of couse, after the horrifying super intense final week for people ... , class of 2011. Both of us are members of Sigma Kappa sorority and that

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012