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  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  also happened to have my laptop with me...and there was wireless in the ... 'm currently sitting in Kresge, ready to liveblog! There's just five minutes to ... the person in front of me, who decides to turn around and give me a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  experience using take-home mini-experiments, or "goodie bags," in 3 ... Matthew Perry in Japan in 1853 with the purpose of “opening up” Japan to the ... to do with the differences in the two countries’ writing systems, with

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  months in whatever way life directs them to. Some students rejuvenate ... students. So if I send out an email to all of the dorm mailing lists, I (in ... things to happen at certain time frames. But what we see in the stories of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  offer. And in the midst of all of that, take some time to get to know the ... like to finally be on MIT’s campus. As my Uber pulled up on Mass Ave, the hustle and bustle of the street had a certain magic to it. The cars were

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  to build my list in August of my senior year. We had done the campus ... in, so I decided to apply early action. My dad went to MIT for ... pretty much tied in terms of campus culture and workload. I want to major

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  beaver I am, I decided to book my flight to CPW EARLY in the morning; 6 ... festival in the Johnson Athletics Center; I got to meet some really ... 's really incredible to see the diversity in student activities available at

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  In 1965, Jocelyn Bell arrived at Cambridge University to earn her Ph ... 's coming at us from space, or b) out in space, that aren't what we ... in orbit around the Sun, which causes the Sun to take four minutes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  become the best statistician in the world may try to take every statistics ... this class? Will I thrive in the class? As much as I would love to be ... in that regard too. Most lab-based classes also require me to be in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Want To Play Music @ MIT? (informally, that is.)

  

  to college - I played solo in coffeehouses, as half of an acoustic duo in auditoriums, as part of a band in various bars & clubs. I sang ... looking to hook up with other musicians in contexts other than the "official

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  campus to discover there's been a hack in Lobby 10! The hack is two giant ... pages]. 9:15am: I arrive at the President's Welcome just in time to see ... the hardest thing is which of them to explore. [...] We do things in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  , though, I’d like to admit that, in retrospect, five classes was definitely ... , eventually, but I’m pushing them back to either junior or senior [annotation ... "]P/NR.[/annotation] And it was, in some ways. PNR definitely made it easier to get into the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  2024 has been quite a year for the Sun—in addition to the total solar ... progressives made it crime for us to labor in the mines ... geomagnetically active in its 11-year cycle"]solar maximum[/annotation]. In

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  ; on the unfulfilled or shattered promises our nation has made to ... work to enhance their presence in our community in the future. To the ... Native communities to create a relocation governance framework based in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  that used to be very normal, like studying at a certain spot or bumping into people in the hallways or dancing with 30+ other people in the floor ... , in retrospect, and I hope that I'm able to participate in at least one

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  of year for end-of-the-term dinners, and I've been to two in the past ... seems to have taken a rather enthusiastic interest in mentoring the course ... Adam is rude and/or Professor Durant is very gracious. We went out to his

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  hours when you consider the hours in advance you have to spend at the ... When I applied to MIT, I had a good idea of what I wanted to do when ... intended major. I was reaching for the top -- what better place to study

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  the blogs in 4th grade or so. I, for one, was definitely not one of ... interested in MIT freshman year when I got to be on campus during ESP's splash ... school"]was willing to bet my right kidney[/annotation] I would not get in

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  's in part due to my winning combination of Pepto Bismol chased down by ... drew some blood to do a blood test, put me in a bed, and set me up on an ... to do in my busy schedule of having a fever and sleeping it off. S^3

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  ago, where you get to see TWO plays or operas in New York for FREE with ... writing this to share all the awesome ways that we have gotten involved in ... augmented reality animations in the MIT tunnels, the main goal of which was to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ADITL MIT's Technique spearheads one of the most interesting projects I've seen on campus recently.

  

  on campus were doing the same thing with the same purpose: to take part in A Day In The Life, a project open to the entire MIT community ... , and staff alike have been uploading their photos to the website, which

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 25, 2009