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  AIDS Walk San Francisco Shameless solicitation -- join the fun

  

  Gate Park. 9:00 a.m. Sign-In opens 9:30 a.m. Aerobic Warm-Up sponsored by Kaiser Permanente. 9:45 a.m. Opening Ceremony in Sharon Meadow. 10 ... fundraising: This is a very important issue to me so I have set an ambitious

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  campus.  The RingComm chair is at least the 3rd in a row from the same ... One of the hardest things to avoid at MIT is a sense of jadedness ... in all of us. It’s the event where the Brass Rat for each class is

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  arrived in another world. The rainforest is a solid block of plants. There ... this year during IAP. January is the wet season in Brazil, and it rains a lot. Next to every building is a deep groove in the concrete caused by

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  /drinking? A Dunkin' coffee I make at home in my favorite mug is all I need. My ... , I like to read at my desk which is in a corner near my apartment ... about where I'd end up in just a few months. The only way to give each and

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  Harvard to small highway to Watertown. MIT is in a prime location for you to ... "prawns" in Australia. However, the incident of a dingo eating someone ... entry was originally titled "Trimalchio in West Egg." About a month ago I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Tips for a Pleasant Olfactory Experience how to make your room smell good

  

  priority in housing preferences."]having a single[/annotation] has been great ... -smelling room is either: a room lacking any perceptible scent, or a room having that has just a slight fragrance. Avoiding bad smells is pretty

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedules are up!

  

  taking 7.31 (Current Topics in Mammalian Biology), a seminar-style upper ... looking forward to it. Multivariable calc is a prereq. Eep.) I also have to take 21A.100 (Intro to Anthropology) -- I'm concentrating in anthropology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  From One Cambridge To The Other A year away from the Institute

  

  did this mean getting to spend some time in Europe but it also meant a ... got a list of what colleges we'll be living in and I'm going to be ... From EC to Trinity Hall Last year First East was graced with a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  A friend of mine ended up studying lit at a nearby college here in ... like a pretty interesting place (SPOILER: It is.) and I happily obliged ... is belongs to a class of acronymically redudant phrases (or ARP phrases

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  is glorious, as you too might realize after spending 16 hours in a ... , but for a Set of Inexplicable Reasons it did not go up in time and has ... up being a student at X or Y school is also something you can

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Events

  A Burton Jew Thanksgiving Because I'm game for any excuse to eat stuffing.

  

  that I could never be a good Jew in the case I decided to spontaneously convert. (Lack of bacon creates a positive Δ in the reaction of my becoming ... . This isn’t a big deal in normal life- I mean, you just exercise a little

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  stake in the whole thing is general mechanical design, specifically as it ... 1st, I'm currently competing in a high-stakes race through classics of ... maybe "high-stakes" is a bit of an exaggeration, but it's a ton of fun

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  really, really use a person like you. Knowing People Who Are Real Adults in ...  me. After all, even if a company is only actively recruiting course 6 majors ... The MIT Fall Career Fair is an intimidating thing. Over 350 companies

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Beautiful Day

  

  It's really nice in Boston today. I've just returned from a walk along the Charles River. Lots of people running along the river (doing a ... really miss sailing. Sailing, in my opinion, is the best PE Class you can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  was originally meant to be a one-off post, but in writing it, I found ... hadn’t really considered math as a subject in its own right, outside of ... applied math in its own right, as a field I might be interested in.  

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  This started off being a comment in snively's entry. Then it branched ... that advice. I do it myself sometimes, usually when I'm in a terrible ... , some of what ends up being said is tongue-in-cheek, but the implications

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Paternity Leave I'm back! A few words on the Harvard Admissions Institute and such.

  

  networking/social periods, and a few other things thrown in. (Check out the ... hello. So what do admissions people talk about for 6 days in a row, 16 ... experiences in this profession have given me a ton of stuff to think about

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  There are two books in my backpack right now. The first is a little ... . This was a pretty good whim. The second is a novel written by Gabriel ... ), retaining the grammatical flow of a new language is something that has been

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

  math textbook: The sum of three cats is a dog. It only works on female ... two solutions. Here’s a huge hint, in black text on black background, so ... math problem, a video about how my week is going, and my most recent

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  Influenza A, subtype H1N1 is the most famous swine flu virus. It is ... ten years. The influenza B virus is less common than influenza A. It ... vaccinated almost 3,000 people in six hours. The process is remarkably

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011