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• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  streaming diagonally across the piazza, splashing rays of golden yellow onto ... squabbling over pieces of bread, the plaza is deserted except for an eccentric figure, dozing against one of the sandstone pillars with what appears to be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updating my blogger bio because its no longer accurate

  

  Simmons Hall, we somehow stumbled upon the topic of my blogger bio, to which ... county, from a city about 30 minutes outside of LA called Norwalk. I ... to Cambridge, home of actual seasons, Mae's Asian Eatery, and most

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 24, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  composed of representatives from companies who then offer interviews to ... My computer reminded me of what we're all thinking. Independent ... 2 classes for credit. I took 8.01L, which is a version of physics you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  protested “the militarization of university research,” and in November of the following year, another group chanted, “We won’t ... Studies [CIS]). In 1971, following Daniel Ellsberg’s leak of the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  Yo, I've been getting a lot of questions lately in the comments and I ... my head. "MIT's music program is like the fugacity of water in a water ... done this weekend instead of studying for finals, exactly? Well, what I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  of offering ''universal access to human knowledge," and, in pursuit of ... plenty of time to read both the New York Times and the Boston Globe. The ... Brewster Kahle '82 (right, courtesy Library of Congress) and the Internet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  Just got back from the inauguration of MIT's sixteenth president, Susan Hockfield. Both of the office cameras were checked out by others, so ... was fairly packed, with much of the MIT community representing, as well

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  collection of these for a while, and will start leaking them out) MIT Student ... , probability, and diff eq. - We're in the midst of freshman orientation, so now ... campus right now. Basically, each freshman has an advisor: a member of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Design in Boston [By Doug '14] Events that showcase the creative capital in and around Boston.

  

  though of how everything around us was “designed.” I took 2.97 during IAP of 2011. I am currently more and more involved with classes that ... of the world. On October 6th I went to my second DMB event where The

  • by ARTalk
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  the offer details, and sent me the offer letter to sign. I still kind of ... The end of the semester has come and gone, and although I meant to ... trip to India drained me of all motivation and I basically just sat

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  We're closing in on Pi Day and still in the midst of making decisions, which I know many of you await with varying degrees of anxiety. But while ... complete overhaul, probably exceeding in terms of potential transformation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  of it I remember. 6.006 - Introduction to Algorithms; One of my major ... -S requirement and luckily for me 9.00 is offered in the spring time! I'm really ... majority of the time exploring different psychological experiments and tests

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  perhaps it was because our school was 80% Caucasian and in the heart of ... most of my time doing math. I haphazardly dyed my hair at home and ... mother offered that she had once dated a Chinese man who was very nice, as

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  answer," he says. Fan websites offer plot summaries of all the books, and ... the release of the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series ... time around, but on the morning of July 16, 2005 -- when the sixth book

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  digits of pi? Or maybe there's a mysterious tradition that even I don ... ) "On the 14th of March, MMXXV, The High Elders foretold a cursed festivity. The Moon shall glow ablaze, like a dragon’s eye, A drop of scalding

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  I'm approaching the end of the first month of my internship at a ... adjusted to the lack of actionable emails. My new thing is going to work and ... the mechanical routine of a [annotation note="closer to a 9:45ish-to-5

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  be interesting to explore some of the less-than-optimal decisions I ... which (especially the second one) had the overall effect of lowering my GPA while also not being very useful while also causing a lot of stress

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  degrees and the skies are probably going to be blue for the next three months. As this week comes to a close, so does MIT's week of finals. This ... people are ready to take it on without the training wheels. Both of my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  that is literally thousands of degrees hot. You also learn how to "gather ... 's a walkthrough of all the different things I made this semester and some of what I learned! If you're interested in learning more about

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  3-108, which was part of the [annotation note="Now that we're no ... passageway between buildings 3 and 10."]complex of rooms along the Infinite ... ="Overlooking...Chipotle."]new office,[/annotation] on the second floor of a new building, E38, which is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021