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  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  : Dozens of enormous, frozen pumpkins are dropped from the top of the Green ... my head (with more of a "swoosh" than a bang.) The hat looked like ... blowing out the candles. 2: I was mass 1 of a driven coupled harmonic

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you ... .875 ceiling tiles in each of the three showers; outside the showers we have a ... volume of the comics The Adventures of Tintin. The mural was painted by

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
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  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  ; Anthony Stark was born on Long Island, the son of Howard Stark, a wealthy ... , entering MIT at the age of 15, and graduating at the top of his class ... ." In the movie version of Carl Sagan's Contact, Ellie Arroway was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  the concept of students completing elaborate “paint by number ... , I can not argue with the logic of trying to discover the formula for ... formulas.  When you combine the idea of creating an image based upon numbers

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
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  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  has the dorms, the student center, and most of the athletics buildings ... campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that ... campus. These parts are defined by roads. Everything to the west of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
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  tell your friends you love them for we are but blips in a timeline

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 9, 2024
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  Leaving Massachusetts is the hardest state to draw.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 24, 2013
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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 / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  am referring to the 6 stem classes that must be taken (or tested out of) by all undergraduates"]girs [/annotation]done following the advice of ... lot of [annotation note="the ones who showed up to class"]familiar faces

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• 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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  , women made up 1-3% of the MIT student body. In 1964, Katherine Dexter McCormick—a MIT biology graduate—funded the construction of Mc ... watched this documentary about the uprise of female faculty at MIT, and it

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
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  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