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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the ... :20,” (end stop) to “The last sentence of Dostoevsky’s White Nights was ... with the family of one of my students, and they were warm and welcoming

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  "]Boston proper,[/annotation] you have to walk across one of the city’s many bridges ... , I have had to cross the Charles at some point. Each of them are so different, both in [annotation note="the width of the charles varies wildly

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  This post contains minor spoilers for the structure of MIT Mystery ... The beginning of the end The final runaround Help me because I don ... puzzlehunt? The MIT Mystery Hunt is a puzzlehunt, the biggest and grandest of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Democrats, Republicans, sportsmanship, books The unbearable awesomeness of literature at MIT.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The combined weight of all the termites in the world is 10 times the combined weight of all the humans in the world. Confused ... middle of a field. "How interesting", observed the astronomer, "all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The famous Pioneer Zephyr trains of the 1940's were ... professors. During the first week of my product design and development class ... 't. Granted, most of it probably has to do with the sweet beard that I've grown

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  who knew exactly what they want to do with life. I was terrified of the ... will get to the place that is right for you, not just because of merit, but also because of fit. And the MIT decision does not reflect your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  -quarters classes (45 credits), which is the smallest number of credits that I have ... , fantasizing about a place far away known as MIT, and the kind of things that I ... adventure. Now, I am sitting in front of the wooden desk in the room that I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  Great Gatsby, “the Great American Novel”, is a book most of us have to go ... wager that half of the successful and famous people will tell you, “just ... the love of his life. Forgive me if I spoil the ending, but “Jay Gatsby

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  pretty much like the Chuck Norris of all floors. If we were on Heroes, we ... individuals to belong to. They're the kind of awesome people who'll be up with ... pretty much the biggest loser); they're the kind of family who'll be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  was the cost of film and processing. Digital cameras are cheap and you ... classes that have nothing to do with your major(s), purely for the fun of it ... to be present in the now. You won't get the most out of college if you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the spirit (but without the inspiration) of Ben's big lists, and following up ... Globe's list of the top 50 "ideas, inventions and innovators that helped

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  many "failures" served as catalysts for personal growth. In the wake of ... and the process of making new friends. I hated being confused over ...  Draftback to extract a log of my editing history on my agenda. The log contains every

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to ... under the nose of the administration while quite possibly breaking dozens ... you're walking through campus and you see something a little out of the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  In 1965, the U.S. government awarded George (MIT Class of ~1923) and ... birth of a child by centrifugal force." You are familiar with the ... University in Toronto ("The social life of donuts: Commodity and community in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  . We are here to celebrate the ideas that are borne of this insanity.”[annotation note="The only true part of this quote is the first sentence. Winter here ... brains to the limit. Here is my experience at six of them! I. 2^n cookies

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Operabots with Personality Ahhhhh.....music to my ears

  

  The fact of the matter is that MIT is just plain cool. This is not an ... ……errrr uhhhhh……you know what I’m trying to say. MIT is cool. One of the things ... the fine & performing arts in high school, over 60% of accepted

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  while I stare up at the sky. I break out of my reverie and I cant help but ... watched the moon begin its eclipse with a group of other residents. It was ... . Afterwards, a group of us went down to embark on a long and cold journey to the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  One of my favorite of MIT's 500+ student groups is called the ... (LCS) is a student club dedicated to spreading the appreciation of ... , appreciation of, and indulgence in our favorite substance to the community.  

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  waterbath and grab a bucket of ice. 9:10 AM. My postdoc and I discuss the ... wait until some of the other postdocs come in. 9:15 AM. Since I can't transfect yet, I calculate the amount of each DNA which will be added to my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  , Fear Level is inversely proportional to The Number Of Seconds I Think I ... ; they suggested naming the band "The Band Of People Who Can't Play Solos" in my ... before the start of the solo, he would give me a smile and a nod. I would

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011