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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  No scissors allowed: OrigaMIT You never know what cool stuff is going on around the Institute.

  

  flying grasshopper). OrigaMIT, the origami club of MIT, meets once a week and is open to people of all levels. Jason Ku, the president of the ... little sailor being grabbed by the giant squid! Check out some of their

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  upon while on campus. I spent a good chunk of time during rush with the brothers of Alpha Delta Phi. One of the rush activities was a pizza dinner at ... the superiority or inferiority of crunchy peanut butter compared to

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  , because I don't actually have to think about the implications of anything I ... this paper, since I've done basically all of the work on it; my postdoc ... author. Morgan, the professor in charge of the lab, gets to be last author

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  Halloween. I then ignored all of your votes and went with the most popular ... confident I could pull off. But thanks to the wonders of google and my credit card, I ordered some of the necessary components and had them shipped to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  would be reluctant to go seek out the company of others since the ... of people since even though the question pool is the same, the ... you're equipped with the insight/perspectives of friends from previous

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  , but for the most part, you can just imagine it as a bunch of people ... of my novels growing up. I found that the character sheets really ... in the story. I've watched about three seasons of Dimension 20 so far

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  textagons!!). So anyways, I kind-of sort-of dropped my camera down the ... throughout the entire weekend at CPW, I took all of, like, fifteen pictures. Yup, kind of pathetic; cue the well-founded exclamations of "WHAT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  I'm taking 21W.744, The Art of Comic Book Writing, taught by Marjorie ... -- descriptions and dialogue that can enhance our understanding of the world and the ... first assignment of the class, we were challenged to write a script for a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  in my arm, pulled the needle out of my arm, and gave me a Band-Aid. The ... the image of Sputnik and talking with friends about math and economics ... ; Common symptoms of the flu include fever, cough, stuffy nose, fatigue, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  . This man taught the first ten lectures of 7.03 (Genetics) and is the head of the Course 7 (biology) department at MIT (he’s also an alum! Ph ... of mutations in the shibire gene in drosophila – when you heat them up

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  only stay here for one night. I got up at the crack! of! dawn! to catch ... them feels left out. On the flight, I read more of The Lying Life of ... said that the ending of a story defines what it is about. And I haven

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The DHL Fiasco I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who turned…

  

  figured out how to track all of the admit packs going to international ... person. That right was compromised here, which is the bulk of why this was ... Hi folks. Hope everyone had a good weekend. Mine was good until the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Over Spring Break A flattering video of MIT Women's Tennis derping around California

  

  For spring break, the women's tennis team travelled to Southern California for 7 days, playing 4 matches and spending the rest of the time ... more time I spend with each and every one of them, the more grateful I am

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 11, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pulse 2011 [by Nathan Kipniss '14] A lot of talent under one roof!

  

  Culture and watch performers from all over the Boston Area. Some of the ... another. While some of the energy translated in the videos, all of the ... literature and speech can often be overlooked as an art form. One of the texts

  • by ARTalk
  • March 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The name of the "avocado" comes from the Spanish ... whatnot. Let me tell you the story of when I got my admissions decision ... and Sam's Mom told me that it was coming the week of the 22nd. I think

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  in swim class, our instructor emphasizes the importance of relaxing. "you're in the water and your body tenses up. why? it's because of the ... muscles will help you float. but it doesn't. you've got to let go of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  is the heaviest one yet for me, both in terms of academics and non. So ... 's fantastic). The kicker is classes for the rest of the world start first week in March, and ours have been going since the beginning of February, so

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Replay… Who says you can't go home again? Or at least go back to school...

  

  I arrived on the MIT campus in August of 1982 with all my "stuff ... was the place where I would happily spend the next four years of my life ... ring and I got involved with lots and lots of activities. Over the years

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  requirement for course 12 (earth and planetary science) majors. as part of the ... the data they need as part of a larger project. the class ends with ... optical infrared telescope part of the SPECULOOS (Search for habitable

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  On the Coming of Winter in Boston November peels away like buttery ... grandmother accidentally stuffed with snow As you can see, the existence of the ... is kind of awesome, even if the requirement descriptions are written

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008