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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  this: Mr. Jackson [was] a father figure to generations of young men in ... . Jackson, a father figure to generations of young men in the house, died of ... " Lewis Gosman, who said his job was to keep the 35 young men "in line and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  it's easy to let our dear old friend imposter syndrome kick in ... . Now, in fall of my senior year (gah that's still scary to write down ... —but getting to read the likes "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  recognition in this blog post. I've found that it's really hard for me to work ... for the server and often get together to get into their "roles." It ... animatics have genuinely..made me want to get back into writing and reading

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  the infinite, only to get ignored. In our next lab session, he asked me ... and Engineering) is extremely flexible! So as opposed to in K-12, when ... have taken advantage of it to an extent in freshman spring and sophomore

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  what you're going to get. But I do expect that my MIT experience will transform me in ways that I never expected, expose me to people I never would ... lags and is measured in carrier pigeons per second ***let it be known to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  get to sit in the same room as the real winners and eat free pizza ... - to determine what the best move is in any given scenario, since the ... closest my team will ever get to a cash prize is the 27 days we spent

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  . Essentially, MIT students get the month of January off to do whatever we please ... lot of torque due to its size. The Nerf Gun In order for this to work, Raymond had to get a hold of a fully automated, fully electronic nerf gun

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  -enrolling in a class, I did have the chance to take a class (D-Lab: Development ... cool experience. Free transportation: MIT students get free access to ... ’s even just nice to be able to get out of the MIT STEM bubble for a bit

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  the blogs and imagining a future in Cambridge—having the opportunity to ... note="independent activities period! four weeks in January to do whatever ... the spring semester, so I decided to change it up this year. In this

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  students their decision letters in tubes, a practice that dates back to when ... -generated (we'll get to that). However, we knew that at least some of the video ... until February, when we came in before committee one morning to record him

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  you get on campus! It's going to be EPIC. As those of you who tuned ... idea to exchange e-mails with your host before you get here, just to get ... the events I wanted to attend at last year's CPW by ranking them in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  quickly tested. It started about 1am that night.  I had been getting in and ... the bowl, and I put in a new bag. I helped her back to her room, where ... get help with managing missed classes. They are going to encourage you

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  . I get to aim at one simple thing, the bulls-eye, and get to ignore ... Is it already the seventh week of the semester? To be honest, I ... 't noticed the time go by, which isn't entirely true: I guess what I mean to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pics from the WMBRBQ! Do You Like College Radio??

  

  MIT. Today we had a barbecue (the WMBRBQ) in the lawn next to Walker ... !! You can listen to WMBR @ 88.1FM on the radio in the greater Boston area ... , because you get to see all kinds of people that you didn't even know were a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  game in a long time I am legit jealous I won't get to participate in a ... If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then ... , mentor, and (now) admissions liaison since 2002. Before I came to MIT, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  meditative to get the soil in your hands and I like that a lot,” Peter said ... : Peter Dourmashkin is a senior Lecturer who came to MIT in 1972. After ... Integrated studies program to Project Interphase and teaching in the Physics

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  some small distractions to help with many weighty things

  

  . like, actually, this man is losing his damn mind in a way you have to see ... link you'd like to share, feel free to put it in the comments :) There ... there is a LOT going on in the world right now -- perhaps most

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  . With Pass/No Record in place to make the transition easier, first ... . The primary time to have fun during the year lies in breaks. Whether ... forward to another great one. Tune in next time for a post about IAP, all of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  must pay $1.10 a gallon to get rid of this oil, which is used to deep ... petro-diesel to create a blended fuel that can be used in MIT’s ... On Wednesday, 70 degree weather spurred MIT students to sport cute

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  conversation in Bangla. I’ll never get to know him. I periodically deeply regret ... three a cappella groups, and was lucky to get into two, but I ended up ... pathologically prone to seeing too much good in people. I’ve been burned many times

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025