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  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  the Self-Assembly Lab; this week we heard from David Sun Kong of the ... additions or deletions in physical traits or behaviors over the course of ... creative exercise (so don't make fun of the stupid science I'm doing here

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  through the 4 years of masochistic glory that is MIT. This is not one of ... background: MIT apparently leads the pack of Ivy+ institutions in Facebook page ... they're whining about is that in 2006, the writer of Doonesbury put up a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  ’s got instincts akin to that of an experienced hunter. Harley is also the ... discretion.[/caption] Now the rest of this post will contain detailed ... to kill, and being one of the most annoying household pests to get rid

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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

  Folding While you wait for decisions...

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  socioeconomically diverse. 2. There is a quota on the number of international ... admitted each year. In each of the past few years, greater than 2000 international students have applied for freshman admission, making the rate of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving Massachusetts is the hardest state to draw.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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
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  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

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  gets what, who ends up on top at the end of the day. I've been listening ... songs put together into one sound. I enjoy the unexpectedness of their ... patterns like the back of my hand and anticipate every next move? What if

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 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
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  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
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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