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  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  my little sister will inspire me to go to more. I’ve found outlets for ... more to connect to. I remember years ago feeling a sort of nostalgia for ... in the chaos of MIT to make room for another. Frequently it takes time

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  my annual pilgrimage to Cambridge for the MIT Mystery Hunt, a puzzle ... something mores, I think, are a way for the writing team to demonstrate that ... Conditions: Play with this for a bit, until you get the idea. Then try to win

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  to waive the application fee for anyone who cannot afford it. But don ... 'll have to wait patiently for the good ol' US Postal Service, who were good enough to employ my father for so many years. I'll keep you up to date as I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  were first popularized. The only way for you to know what you looked like ... person living nearest me whom I've known for the longest—I think we've been friends for four or five years now. The first observation he makes upon

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  [/caption] Do you dare to reach forth and scoop a spoonful for yourself? If you ... )[/caption] Much to my dismay, the instructors conveniently had an explanation for ... ’s drops for themselves? I was just about to pop one in my mouth when

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  lorde made my nyc itinerary and i started blogger beef?

  

  Hi blog! The vast majority of y'all were not here for the blogger ... better Lorde concert experience (he was ahead of me in line and closer to her for most of the concert, but she walked through the crowd and HELD

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 22, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  commentator famous for his opposition to illegal immigration, and you may also ... . Diaz has been doing many interviews since he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, but an appearance on Colbert is always... interesting. For those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection begins Picking the Class of 2010.

  

  stack for another subcommittee to decide on. Then we take the next case ... This afternoon, we began early action selection for the Class of 2010. As is my custom, I wore a tie today, out of respect for the applicants

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  What are my chances of admission?

  unique to the MIT community. We don't have cutoff scores for the SAT or ... As much as we love formulas, you're not going to find one here! We ... a sense of what we look when selecting students for admission
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  farce. It basically allows a government-appointed council to detain a “suspected terrorist” for up to 14 days without warrant. And the bill is ... party for dozens, he gets to walk free. In two different senses, I feel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  MIT – Problem Sets = IAP! Today marks the beginning of IAP 2007.

  

  stands for Independent Activities Period. From January 8th to February 2nd ... dizzying number of activities to choose from. For example, I could ... publication! - Writing a module for the soon-to-be-launched OpenLabWare website

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Jonathan Lii A look at a senior from the Class of 2006.

  

  . Going to him for one on one help really pulled me through 18.310. I feel ... birthday problem. This class really helped me out for my finance interviews ... professor here. He is the coolest guy to talk to about ANYTHING. He has all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  generic name for soft drinks. If you go to a restaurant and say "Could I ... , stepdad, and four siblings in Louisville, Kentucky, and will be there for ... . Compared to most people in the South, I certainly don't. But in my first

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5n, n=1

  

  our glasses on high to pledge our love for thee We join all those of ... I'm in Phoenix for the International Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF). I got in yesterday, and last night I decided to take in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  wherever you go, there you are alive internet theory

  

  year some life I've engineered to the good for all my peers. Did you ... posting this blog [and being home for a week for Christmas], I listened to ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_-9E4AYRGg Where to go from here

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 30, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to ... PhD. There’s a coda to that story. Over a decade ago (!), when I was an ... from being a postdoc to being a faculty member was the most abrupt of my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  found that your busy lifestyle leaves little time for reading for pleasure ... couch reading books for upwards of six hours a day sometimes. Figure 1 ... them!) and my (incomplete) list of 10 books for this coming summer

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  I want to tell you about a friend of mine who is on television this ... . Eventually I got to know him as the guy who lights up any and every room and ... , where he continues to study vision. This evening I Facebook chatted

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  physical place, to an unsurpassed degree - it's a more natural activity for ... to go between floors - and this makes a dorm famous for introverts ... "structure follows function". This is a good axiom for biologists, but it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  resolution to, but kinda forgot, oops. I wanted to go for a "maybe it doesn ... . The narrator refers to the character as "you", for one. The narrator isn ... Spoilers for A Boring Friday, you should check that first

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022