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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  for an inch of rain and a thunderstorm in the White Mountains, Joe '08 ... wind chimes for a while, Joe demanded that the cashier find the very best ... secret room in the back and found a display copy for us to play with in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  https://soundcloud.com/user-192959956/memorial-for-a-dorm i felt the ... 't be on campus for a while i'll be in et, and the next time i'll be back ... right now i felt the need to do this because i will miss you, in a way

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The name of the "avocado" comes from the Spanish "abogado," or "lawyer." This is because the Spaniards who came to the New World couldn't pronounce the Nahuatl word "ahuacatl," so they simply chose

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  least be Bryan O. '07, '12? So the purpose of this entry is to somewhat ... to our central goal of developing a high throughput bioreactor for ... for admission to the Class of 2012! By the time I graduate, I will have

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Just Saying

  

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  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  Newtown, CT. I got home that night, ready to study for the final that I just ... the phone that night. "I'm about to watch a movie," he hastily answered ... makeshift memorial concert for the victims of the shooting by saying

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  . I got a JOB here, people! In Admissions. Me. An adult thing. Here! The ... end up leaving MIT, but instead ran this program for a while. Fast ... . Do you need a tissue to mop up the tears of joy you have shed from

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  , but they're there. I don't go back to the blog post for a few more weeks ... Part I August 2020: I read a stray comment in the blogger slack that ... stops I look at the words I've typed and I see my own vomit on a screen

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  to implement tools for research, so it was a lot of coding with the ... ). Course 6-9 (Computation and Cognition) is a joint major between the two ... sheep brain. After camp, I forgot about neuroscience for a while, until

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  were a lot of people contending for seats in the observation car earlier ... same. What else? A seventh vote for Speaker of the House is starting ... for a few, before dropping off the call. I managed a few small things

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  to play in the pit orchestra for Assassins, a show performed by ... , who also wrote the lyrics for West Side Story. It's been a year since I ... tubes. I've also had to play a flugelhorn for the first time.  

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  personalized signature for the new Fight Club 2 graphic novel, and a pre ... the book for my sister at a discount, and personalized signatures from ... , the Harvard Book Store opens its Somerville Warehouse for a weekend of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  ? The more general pattern is that the number of units for a class is a ... . That’s why we have CourseRoad – a website for planning what classes to ... information about the requirements for each major, when classes are offered, and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s for dinner? The joy of cooking

  

  proponent of the dining system (or lack thereof) at MIT. I’ve eaten in a ... Saturday mornings), but the convenience factor is a huge plus. Anyway, back ... . Once a month we post a calendar on the wall near our kitchen with the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship for future engineers Chance to win $2,000

  

  ? Want to be an engineer? Then consider applying for the 2008 Future ... amount of $2000. The deadline is May 30, 2008. For more information: http://ashraeboston.org/scholarship-info.html You can also apply for this scholarship if you're a first or second year

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  a little distracted as of late. Thursday night, I read the news for ... voting for the first time. In 2004, I'd worked as an election official, on ... the night, by flashlight, for some reason, after the stragglers have

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  curricula were similar to that of a Soviet university and that “the kind of ... , educa-tional, and labor. There is a concerted effort to increase the ... . Democracy as we have known it for more than two hundred years is the fruit of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  takes a while for the flash to go off, so I probably would have timed it ... , which I have been working on for over a month. But this entry is ... and Barrel is about a 30-minute walk from my dorm. For those of you who

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  Center, a Halloween party from the SPXCE Intercultural Center (for queer ... , so it's important for you all to take the time to find out what MIT can ... in the comments we didn't get to answer (watch the webcast for the ones

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  next semester. This week, it's time for a slightly different discussion ... a life in the tech industry." "MAS.863 - how to make almost anything ... , and how I look at the world. 6.172 taught me a lot of technical things

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019