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Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for
finicky when I only have Google to get my source material from. Different ... student thing to do." This is the best compliment I've received in the past ... evolutionarily related to each other? Of course not. If you said yes, then you -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
A…an…uh…a cappella concert? MIT's got non-Petri dish culture, too
A cappella is one of those things that is really weird to type. It's one phrase - "a cappella", Italian for "in the manner of the church" (thanks, Wikipedia) - but it's two words. Which means that you get weird -
Blog / Academics & Research
Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college
’ve made while in college... 1. Trying to go for the computer science ... an electronics class, or simply gotten ahead in my requirements to ... load in about a year, and communicate when I need to take time off from -
Blog / MIT Life
Yo quiero… A Spanish themed entry?Ok, not really.
good, because I was starving. I decided to get adventurous, so I bought ... Today I took a nap fom 5 AM to 9 AM. Then I went to class. When I ... alarmed. Today was "Laura's going to catch up on sleep" day. I don't usually -
Blog / Admissions
CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!
incredible this experience is, and how grateful I am to live in a place this ... I am sitting in the coolest little corner of our courtyard I've ever ... to prefrosh, welcoming them to our home. This is CPW. I already wrote -
FAQ / Academics and research
What is the Koch Institute?
develop new insights into cancer, as well as new tools and technologies to ... scientists, clinicians and others, to bring fresh perspectives and an interdisciplinary approach to advancing the fight against cancer. This multi -
Blog / Events
Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.
, threw my shoes in my backpack, and skated down to the Longfellow bridge ... enough, a line with 2 people in it (as opposed to several hundred, as was the case in my current line). I wandered up and walked right up to the -
Blog / MIT Life
Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.
, an amazing pizza restaurant in Kendall Square that you should all go to ... Last summer, when I lived in East Campus and these were my backyard ... Biology, 7.S390, through the summer@future program, which allowed me to live -
Blog / Academics & Research
See, I Am! (CI-M) Communication-intensive economics research. (If that sentence doesn't make you want to read this entry, I…
?) paper was due on Friday. In addition to the two communication ... CI classes in your major: CI-Ms. I invite you to join me on this ... . First, we had a pun in our title. (Also, note the colon. Do we get +20 for -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!
gets painted back to white eventually and the curved walls some of the ... students to customize their rooms is actually in the furniture. From my ... matched in a way that made them very easy to stack. All you need is a -
Blog / How to Food
Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1
with friends in Washington, D.C. and wanting to save money for future endeavors, I've decided to get my shit together and actually learn how to cook ... dump it in while the egg part is cooking/nearly done. This allows me to -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
djent is not a djenre or is it?
Sometime in high school, I was trying to break the ice at a group ... girl in red?” Music taste is revealing. It gets you perceived. Just look ... discussion to work out our differences. While djent does have its roots in -
Blog / Academics & Research
Juggling Act When you're used to life in Hell...
- easy access to the Undergraduate Math Office in 2-108. Why is the ... in the Building 12 Athena cluster, where I've been working to finish up ... realize that I have ten pages of thermodynamics ready to turn in to my TA in -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."
1914, Lester Gardner of the MIT Club of New York proposed a mascot to ... the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in freshman ... contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a typical year; one -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?
turns to the camera in the corner comically) Did I just walk into a kid ... passengers to be seen in Mr. Conner”s taxi cab, am I correct? ARTHUR: I guess ... all the music she listens to, so she must have really good taste in -
Blog / Events
Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."
also happened to have my laptop with me...and there was wireless in the ... 'm currently sitting in Kresge, ready to liveblog! There's just five minutes to ... the person in front of me, who decides to turn around and give me a -
Blog / About Decisions
Telethon Live Blog Where we call you --
roll your eyes at us. In all actuality, I am really excited to call you ... all the people that get in! 9:00 pm Successfully called Marc R. after ... relatively long streak of getting automated answers! So the telethon seems to -
Blog / Admissions
Meet the Admissions Officers With today's next post, I'll begin a summer-long occasional series introducing you to the MIT…
introducing you to the Admissions Officers for the 2005-2006 school year. Some ... . We'll be gaining four new Admissions Officers, though, over the next ... those new staff members: the awesome Alia Burton. -
Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English
Applying Sideways (in Chinese) 橫向申請 / 横向申请
traditional Chinese characters, in the hopes that it might be more accessible to ... that was my [annotation note="Audacious, in retrospect, given that I had been an admissions officer for a single cycle."]attempt[/annotation] to