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  The sun is out but why is it so cold outside?

  

  of my toothpaste and finally confronted the task of getting a new tube ... expensive, it's just that time of the semester. Any MIT student will tell you ... class. Rhetoric is not a HASS I recommend for the particularly faint of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  The MIT Club of Great Britain invited us to cream tea recently. Here ... tea was when I went to this event. But the president of the club kindly ... doing very well. One of the alum in attendance is from Hong Kong and just

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  campus culture we have all come to know and love. The traditional image of a college professor is, I think, something along the lines of an ... 's actually just one of the many, many completely amazing professors and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  sundresses, flip-flops and shorts. Today, we are in the midst of a winter storm ... control. A small group of MIT undergraduates forming the group Biodiesel@MIT chose the latter option, and they were awarded the grand prize of $25

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taste ai has no taste.

  

  [judgment] is in brackets, meaning it isn’t part of the original quote. From ... exposure to develop your own taste, so you may mimic the taste of those ... the corpus of human society, and presumably since society has deemed

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 20, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2020 are now ... . Because of the competitiveness of our pool, we have already informed 2 ... deep breath, shake it off, and go crush the rest of your college

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Under the Dome A full day of free fun at MIT

  

  FREE activities as part of its day long Open House (also the kick-off event to the Cambridge Science Festival) What kind of free things you ask ... 's 150th anniversary by members of the National Puzzlers' League Or an

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  this institution and the work of admissions has meant to me, is too ... mark the passage of time. When people ask me how I got my start in ... into the teeth of the Great Recession, I applied to 63 jobs that spring

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  of the content and a deeper appreciation for the creators. But even if ... to be SO interesting. Perhaps one day I’ll join the ranks of video ... the cuddly plush that many of us know and love. Blahaj’s wide pink smile

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  cloudless and the temperature was 73 degrees Fahrenheit. I had only two ... beautiful spring day... ...when pushed off the roof of a 7-story dormitory ... should have tossed the upright piano onto the baby grand instead of the

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  the sense I got from friends on social media was a general consensus of ... terrorism were one of several dark pockmarks on the face of the bygone year ... arbitrary demarcation of time, removed from the actual content of our lives

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  Putting the definition of punt at the end of my last entry got me skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT ... students and alums, you should learn a bunch of the jargon that we MIT folks

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  It's Sunday, and the beginning of the second full week of June ... college degree (whenever I'm not lazy) instead of making millions of dollars ... . But hey, don't get me wrong - you can do a lot of other things in the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  don't get at the end of their time here - a degree. And so Paul had the ... salad), the Next Big Mailing represents a lot of decisions you'll have to make for the future, and a lot of those decisions involve advising. When

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Science is Delicious! Zen and the art of hot chocolate

  

  admissions veterans were probably speaking in the IHTFP tone: that mix of dread ... 't know that I'm at the "embrace" stage of my MIT evolution (I think I ... Chocolate Science has come to the rescue! The Lab offers free hot chocolate in

  • by Dave McOwen
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Fair Season

  

  on the Time Traveler Convention. Anyway, check both of those out. Last ... , and I didn't lose my voice =) The most popular question of the night ... 's Department of Architecture is the oldest school of architecture is the United

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  weeks ago, and spent the first week in the comfort of my relatives’ home ... , touring, eating lots. There in Chengdu, capital of the Sichuan Province, I ... traditional streets of Chengdu... are not statues! ;P Moving on... the real

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week The beginning of the final week for MIT's Seniors.

  

  final week of excitement at MIT. Events include "Breakfast with the ... representative of the class as a whole. They are not random, but rather students ... -representative things can be seen: two of the students will be working for Lehman Brothers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions We're sending out wait list decisions today.

  

  decision. Out of the 437 students on our wait list, 26 were offered admission ... from the wait list. This year, we had a record-high percentage of ... parlance as the "yield") of over 74 percent, which left very little

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving and a Small Hack Quick updates from tropical Boston

  

  my hometown - 5 degrees Fahrenheit with 6 inches of snow - puts the ... We’re approaching the end of the semester with remarkable velocity ... classes have already assigned the final pset of the year. Post

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 27, 2014