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  So @mitblogs_ebooks exists 'as you might know, i am a full time internet'

  

  Some of you may remember @horse_ebooks, a Twitter account which ... collection of source texts. Some of my favorites:   Crying is great ... not, @horse_ebooks helped inspire an entire genre of surrealist _ebooks

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Splish Splash ♪ ♫ great programs at MIT and beyond!

  

  at the University of Chicago called Cascade. I would have never learned ... several of my Saturday mornings after I found an old CD containing Bobby ... starting my own company? Heh...nope. I played "Splish Splash", of course

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  community? a university town? Sometimes I'll use the power of the web to help ... , or or Wednesday, or a Friday, or possibly another day of the week, so it's a "Reading Day." I have already picked up a big stack of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  . I'm a member of the Class of 2007. I was born here in Massachusetts ... in Baker but that year, I also joined ZBT, one of MIT's fraternities ... , I'll give you three statements and at the end of this entry, I'll tell

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  More than anything, I'd say that MIT offers a merciless crash course in time management.  You've got tons of things to do, as well as even ... time for anything. Fortunately, there's two periods in which most of your

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  Davidson Institute offers many programs of interest to the kinds of students who would be thinking of MIT, including the Davidson Fellows Award for ... database of resources for gifted students. The Institute offers many programs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  of luck, I got an offer to join their team for the summer and am ... of news and found the New York Times. I was enamored by their graphics ... of my sorority sisters -- Nicole, Rebecca, and Ruisi -- in a cozy

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  HT@MIT: Cantab Lounge Poetry Slam An Amazing Show For A 10 Minute Walk And $3

  

  campus during the week due to the general hustle and bussle of psets, I ... hours of wonderful original content. But before I continue you may be ... their poem to the best of their ability. After they've finished a few

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  -lecture on "What MUJI and Design Can Offer the World of the Future". They ... watched the second presidential debate. How do I make the most out of MIT ...  MacArthur 'Genius' Grant winner - held a reading of his new book, This is How You Lose

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule ... out another aspect of MIT or talking to the potential students. Rule #3 ... part of CPW for me was talking to other prefrosh getting to know the

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  , not-so-involved career. I got my start in the second half of senior year, when my high school staged its production of Guys and Dolls (this will be moderately important later). But let's get to the heart of the matter. Let

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  200hz in the unseen hours of the morning. University faded into universe ... is usually incoherent, a bowl of liquid gelatin wriggling with light ... five precious seconds of my life. 10:25 pm: Someone has sent me an email

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  HAS A HEALTHY AMOUNT OF CAPITALS AND EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!!!   ... students, so it's best for everyone if logistics are handled ahead of time ... today! And third....the CPW weather machine appears to be in need of some

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  any point in time, someone in our room was rustling and some degree of ... beginning of this year. Two of the girls I had heard about in a very ... sided sheets of paper with prompts like "Who do you want to live with

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  degrees, in every career field, with the obvious exception of the five or ... During a pset party last night, one of my hallmates called her own ... that impacts millions of strangers. A biologist can publish a paper that

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  wasn't a result of sleep deprivation. I was bored out of my mind. The same thing will happen with Lord of the Rings, Chronicles of Narnia, or pretty much any other science fiction or fantasy movie or series of movies

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  the sheer lunacy of the idea). The Admissions office is chock full of brilliant people, some of whom you know from the blogs and others you don ... Admissions we don't lie about MIT. That kind of Zen-like simplicity is on par

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  eyes to the Schools and Universities of Europe And there behold the Loom ... general idea of religion which was that of a universe ordered by a supreme ... think the true definition of drinking from a firehose is to be learning

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  You'd think that if anywhere offered great computing help, it would ... resource right at my fingertips. You see, MIT offers free MATLAB to its ... , though, is no big deal. Lots of people have done it. Last summer, oddly

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  "It has been calculated that if no accident prevented the hatching of ... the backs of cod." -Alexander Dumas, 1873, on the prolific reproduction of cod. "Our data highlight the societal consequences of an ongoing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007