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  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  *written by Sheila B. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of ... job at the US Consulate where my parents live for the first part of summer, and for the later part of summer managed to persuade Amber H. '11

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  journal. I anticipated that the next ten days in the epicenter of AIDs would ... there was a part of me that was always in South Africa. And through the ... from the Ragon Institute (aka the HIV hub of Cambridge) and Dr. Howard

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  month ago, in the middle of one of our blogger check-ins, Kano asked the ... and then over the rest of the weekend to catch the latest updates! The Journey Begins Why the commuter rail? Well as it turns out, many of us going

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  were there for my dad's work) and chill on the beaches of Chalkidiki. I ... excuse to sit at one of the cafe tables and [annotation note="I was ... city between the hours of midnight and 5 AM. Of course, this was

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Am Excited a day in life of a student

  

  away from proving that the set of all real numbers (R) is uncountably ... Analysis homework contained only four distinct numbers in the statement of ... necessary to marvel at its results and review the pages of in-class proofs

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  , entertainment and media as an industry, and the power of a holiday special. I ... Mrs. Patterson had alluded to all week while we sat on the floor of her ... never seen this show, and was unimpressed by the vintage style of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photo Scavenger Hunt Let's give this a shot.

  

  final day of school in the comments, graduation day doesn't count unless it was also the last day of school) My summer last year was laid ... quite the opposite (except still a whole lot of fun). I've got at least

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 15, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  weekend-long party centered around the overnight roasting of a steer in our courtyard and the subsequent feast. The following description is courtesy of a ... considerable number of alums bring their families to pit lighting and the feast

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Updates, Previews, and My Successor

  

  issue of the MIT International Review at http ... , Paul and Karen, are among the authors. Here's a picture of the cover so ... series. Next, keep your eyes peeled for profiles of the one and only Melis

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  at the clover food truck on the way. i saw lots of real people, shopping and eating lunch. i saw the verizon employees on strike in front of the verizon store, and i saw a farmer's market, and lots of tourists

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Introduction To MIT World ...and my blog's first feature: Akamai, Clever and Cool!

  

  has changed the world, told by one of the founders of the company. Check ... delivers tens of billions of daily web interactions on the web, (including ... Akamai and a Professor of Applied Mathematics at MIT, tells it all - the

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  HI EVERYONE~ It’s the FIRST DAY OF CLASSES and I haven’t blagged ... of June, I went to China for the Masters of China Studies Visiting ... .   In Shanghai, there was a Chinese characters version of The

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  Want a Warhol in your dorm room? This is exhibition week of the ... for the entire academic year one of more than 400 noted pieces of ... beginning next week. Any winnings not collected by the end of the week are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  'm talking about the MIT 150 convocation! The subject of several recent entries ... 'm a little less excited about the art as a whole because every piece of ... hand: the circus! My way of saying that ceremonial robes look silly

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things That Are 20 DID YOU KNOW? 1988 was a leap year.

  

  . * Super Mario Brothers 3. * The death of Richard Feynman (abdominal cancer). * The time it took for Billy Mitchell, father of three and president of a ... . * The image of a benzene ring. * "Price is Right" model Janice Pennington

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Normalville

  

  Fellowship Of The Duck Cookie Monster Dogs Playing Poker An Ax to Grind ... to start solving the puzzles...   We had a wall full of ... ? The honor and privilege of writing Mystery Hunt 2006. I hope to see you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  lived. The grad students had inhabited this dorm at the corner of Massachusetts Ave and Memorial Drive since the beginning of time (i.e. 1938 when MIT bought the Riverbank Court Hotel from the City of Cambridge). There

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  with the colors of a tree: from green, to orange, to white, to pink, and ... less the image of seasons that exists in my head. When it comes to summer ... sandy beach, or scarlet leaves caught in their moment of descent, or the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  The way we interact in our three-dimensional world is frankly kind of ... dimension, I refer to the number of independent directions on your space. The most clear understanding of this may be through the directions on Earth

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  down a ramp that winds straight into the lushest pad of greenery ever ... dismembered chickens, nor whatever other non-greenery mars the verdantness of ... willows echo the curves of smoothly arching bridges and cyclists have the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008