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  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  made a pact to share the fruits of their research and resources in a ... Catherine: we shall see who will roflstomp whom! Or, so scholars believe. In ... to them. The teacher would lecture on a particular theme or event – for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  oh two two" Electric fields and charges: mystery Unknowable to me in ... impossible to clasp There's elegance in here; there's symmetry And solving problems can be in my grasp. 8.022, my love makes me a fool Since I, to you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  to the page. One instance of this happened in high school robotics ... nothing. This difficulty in depicting "real" things led to my interest in ... drawing in my application. I badly wanted to take this class, and am so

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  having classes and tests during CPW, we still put in the effort to throw ... Independent Living Groups) in general put on a lot of events to dispel the myths ... Vesuvius, not to be confused with Mount Vesuvius in Italy, is a blend of myth

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  snow-that-can-barely-be-called-snow deigns to appear about once in ten ... exciting is that??! They TALKED to us. And we didn't get arrested! Or shot by ... various other locations in the building, hoping to continue following Obama

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  . Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of ... brain cells. (*In the past two days, I've been taking study breaks to the ... , MA 02139. Please mail excess pillows to address above. 9:20 AM

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Econ Prof Wins Nobel Prize (with video) A pretty exciting week as Peter Diamond PhD '63 is the latest MIT professor to…

  

  didn't happen in a fancy board room or anything -- they held it in a ... 's historic World Series win in 2004. In responding, he made reference to the ... D '63 was awarded the Nobel memorial prize in Economics. For MIT, this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  So, in Massachusetts, there is a law called “An Act Relative to ... Massachusetts will vote to repeal or keep the law. As a transgender woman, my ... or REX. Queer West Queer West is an organization that wants to "make

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  , which, being devoted to make-or-break exams, means students there don't do ... to fill in my calendar. By the way, as promised, I have the answers to the places pictured in my last post. I admit some of the pictures

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  renewal and other synonyms for “change” that I don't have time to look up in ... go back to the student services office. “But then I would get stuck in ... , of learning how to cook and work and clean and enjoy your life in a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Application Materials? What to do if your MyMIT tracking shows missing documents.

  

  , it will be appropriate to send in an additional copy of this missing ... more you need to do. I assure you we will have your scores in plenty of ... action. We do not expect to have finished processing these materials until

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The REX That Was a review of the most recent confusion

  

  with the (soon-to-be-introduced) new bloggers for the Class of 2020 to help get them ready to start blogging. But first! The last two weeks or ... .g. TDC for 2015, 2014, and 2013). This year, in an attempt to make REX

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 6, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  : Peter Dourmashkin is a senior Lecturer who came to MIT in 1972. After ... Integrated studies program to Project Interphase and teaching in the Physics ... undergraduate degree and attended the University of Chicago to attain a PhD in

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  Have you ever wanted to be a performer but can’t sing or dance? Why ... screen or talk to one of our personnel after the show. LSC – it doesn ... ://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19318310[/caption] To project all these reels with no noticeable breaks in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  will unmistably help in my attempts to tame the beast that is MIT. I mean, I didn’t even think I was going to come here in the first place ... didn’t refine my short answers for hours or give them to a second party

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  clean, or at least in navigable condition. To this end, I have a much ... feel the week or two before term are the best weeks all year, due to the ... disappearing again. But the first week was still of note due, in part to Rosh

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  . Whoever the new housemaster is, I'm only going to have to live with him or ... . And the students also figure that they're going to be gone in a few ... goes down to green, but where they increase in intensity when something

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  three things i made recently lasers, radio, and a chocolate chip cookie loaf

  

  in session yet. the snow's only just turned to rain and we've had two snow days in the last week, which meant lots of indoors time. it's kind ... it comes in through the antenna. people have also used these to pick up

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 15, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  comes to mind when think of MIT... I don’t blame you. In some ways, it ... important thing I can say is, in my 3 years on campus, I have never had to ... here? That is something you can’t measure in wins or awards or NCAA

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW on the Web CPW comes to you...ON THE INTERNET

  

  awesomeness is how to keep track of it all! In the past, we've given our CPW ... it is on campus. The ability to "favorite" or "bookmark" events that ... Phone, or want to do something with the schedule data yourself, here you go

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 2, 2010