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  Blogger selection 2008 results We have completed the selection of this year's bloggers!

  

  12.5% "blogger admit rate," it was almost as hard to be selected as a blogger as it was to be selected for MIT this year (11.9%)! Before we ... : "In a paragraph or two, describe to us a YouTube video, and why it is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  Victims.” I bet you have heard of Noam Chomsky before, seeing as how he is ... is to focus on direct relief to its victims.” Present at the lecture ... videos about his story. It’s really tragic, and the fact that we don’t hear

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  It seems like every six months or so I discover an MIT video that leaves me in awe. This time, it is the I/O Brush: [I just realized that ... the brush into a local classroom for about five weeks to see how

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  : Procrastination Technique #5: SLEEP I can't tell you how nice it is to sleep more ... " has come to a close. And of course, it wouldn't be blogworthy unless ... ninety minute final, open book, open note final exam in cell biology. It

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  Mission Log 3042007 It's 6 o clock in the morning, and I ask myself ... time to the Berkeley area, so it was all new to me. First Stop: Cafe ... . Don't knock it until you try it. Although, I also acknowledge that if I

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  : Dog, it was just okay for me. You want me to keep it real, right? Alright, it just didn't work. The curriculum was just too big for you. You ... . Simon: When you do math in public, how do people generally react? Is this

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  you can figure out how to do it without making them mad. Usually. 21M ... ice cream. It was all quite delicious, even if a certain member of the ... not when it comes right after the else command?) so I'm not really

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  Can't Deny It" and "Breathe," and you may know Lloyd Banks from 50 Cent's crew G Unit. While there are always awesome concerts in Boston, it ... , "The piano drop was first enacted in 1972. It was conceived by a Baker

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  It's that time of year again. I have a love-hate relationship with ... - what you'll get involved with, how you'll contribute to our culture and community. (This last one is a bad idea - with such a low admit rate, it

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedules are up!

  

  't think it counts as my favorite day of term.) I know for sure that I'll be ... evaluations. I'll also be taking 5.60 (Thermodynamics and Kinetics), because it ... looking forward to it. Multivariable calc is a prereq. Eep.) I also have to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  'll just come right out and tell you: Ben made me choose it. But I've grown to really like it, for a few reasons. Certainly, it is a swiping of the ... recall how the topic came up, but as we were talking, I was applying

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  The Craziest 3 Days of Soccer Ever broken records, halloween practice, and senior day!

  

  be like without them. I had never really considered how it would be ... Hey, everyone! It’s time for everyone’s favorite update… soccer ... ="105264" image2="105266" /] Thursday Thursday was Halloween, which means it was

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  last concert

  

  the day of the concert - they bring in their own equipment, set it up ... overkill since our group only had 13 members total, but it was the right ... mixer to the amp to the speakers, and it worked! it was cool to actually

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  out what to do after we graduate.  It’s scary.  For the past couple of ... from Frozen 2.  We watched the movie with our 7 year old cousin, and it ... will be okay” headspace. It immerses you in a story, beautifully crafted

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  and with a full schedule. Here is a look at how I am keeping busy for ... starters, I wasn’t in a huge lecture hall filled with hundreds of people. It ... ’t know anyone. I started the first homework assignment last night, and it

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  school i've been back on campus for about two weeks now, but it feels like it's been so much longer! it's been a busy but not overwhelming ... change that warrants its own post--basically, i feel increasingly like i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  the kids trudged past to their classes, and I wondered how I would have ... it must be a draw for many other people too. Yet somehow I made it to ... -minute remedy. From the course description I judged it right up my alley, my cup

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  program, I spend a lot of time there. It's a research facility that ... communication between man and machine. And it looks like the USS Enterprise merged ... . Good enough view? Not for me either. So I got a closer one. Its a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  it back to campus just in time to hear Sal Khan tell his story to ... talks about how he started out, what he thinks of MIT, and why Khan ... the West Coast, my boss would say, 'It's not about working hard, it

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  noon, he'd give the posters flaky biscuits. Now, the reason it's hard for ... GOING ON AT ALL TIMES, that it's overwhelming to narrow it down to one or ... rewarding summers of my life, and a lot of it was thanks to MIT. I spent the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012