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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  information; first I emailed one of the cheerleaders, Lisa '04, who is currently ... , who got her master's in aero/astro last spring. (Yes, two of the people ... I'll be interviewing there in three weeks. (All of the schools at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  , the other three getting master's degrees at MIT. Tomorrow is ... of did them for the last time, and this time it’s different. As a ... into and out of East Campus for the last time. I still need to take

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  the class now. 98LH was one of the required junior tutorial options for ... final research paper. The amount of work took some getting used to, but I ... research the history of gender discrimination and Title IX at MIT. I first

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to read them. Besides being the language of Rohan in the novels of J ... of unshakable resolve in the face of insurmountable odds. It is, in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  pressures of class and work and what recreational activities does MIT offer to ... get day by day with the pressures of class and work by really trying to ... dynamic place full of lots of diverse people, so the admissions process

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  outside Kresge that was the venue of the College of Computing celebrations ... Criminal,” appeared on the windows of my usual second-floor study spot at the ... announced the founding of the new Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  Dining is such a fancy word. Think of the different mental pictures ... overwhelming number of options that I nearly drowned in at the start of this year ... constricted greatly by where you live, because all of the dorms with dining

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  75% of the pset left to do. I chug along and get through most of the ... make it to the restaurant, grab some food from what’s left of the ... sandwich, eat, and rest before the first segment of the competition, the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  was offering the items (like the jugs of cleaner) to the next tenant ... house, then after some investigating, they found that the source of the ... , along with the report[/caption] A lot of the report was redacted, as this

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  all of this will be going up on the blogs quite soon, but first, a brief taste of what to expect from me over the coming weeks: Famous ... stories told by some of the participating fraternities, sororities, and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  ...Referring to the application fee:“Full name of the applicant must be on the money ... . _________________________________ Q: I have a question about one of the short answer questions. There is ... about that or question the sincerity of the career choice(s) that I may

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  pretty much one of the most popular guys on campus. (Not that we don't love Matt and Nance and all the other admissions officers, of course.) Not ... trays of cupcakes at their dorm, Senior Haus. I was invited to the baking

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  understand the situation this is somewhat a result of more people going to ... anomaly. What I don't quite understand is the lack of preparedness by the ... will be cramped. However, offering this up in advance gives people the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Movies Emeritus out with the old, in with the older

  

  , which offers us a marvelous vintage tour of the Institute, was produced by ... Avenue marketing firm, and was taken "on the road" for the better part of a ... Band composed by Andrew Kazdin. Courtesy of the MIT Museum. MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  after running to Building 35 for a quiz. I've since spent the balance of ... microcontroller labs due over the past couple of days. One of them just stopped to ... 's 22 today) while the other helped an army of hallmates soak him with

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  that end, I want to make use of the handy "blog reaccs only (beta)" feature at the bottom of the page to gather some audience input about which ... retrospective of all the times I've failed since getting to MIT. This one would be

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  earth, or at the very least when Facebook didn't yet offer photos or ... me thinking. So I spent the better part of a month trying to figure ... a Guitar Hero guitar (that's the point of Guitar Hero), and if anyone

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  break, I took large bites out of the Big Apple on my two visits to New ... unassuming, only the giant blue solar panels on the roof give any indication of ... garden insulates the building and offers a quiet haven for residents

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken Burrito for the Lab Rat’s Soul Because a personalized blog entry is just like five dollars.

  

  Market in three weeks and the shelves of my formerly bomb ... that the lady in front of me in line was paying in cash, I decided to ... ... let's do it the harder way." Still, it wasn't a day to remember. I didn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  of the most popular offerings that fill up very quickly include the ... there’s a bunch of IAP offerings on programming. The options include ... Period), it’s basically the whole month of January during which …MIT

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 1, 2010