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  Hug Your History Teacher Because it's 9/11

  

  enough to remember. I'm old enough to remember sprinting home in fear, even in San Francisco, because some news suggested that the Transamerica ... tower is still standing with that huge gaping hole in it." And then

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MyMIT is live we're ready for you to begin

  

  silver packet in the mail recently. This is our official MIT Application ... personalized teacher recommendation forms. In your packet, and on your My ... learn something new about yourself. We’ll be in touch over the

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  explanation is in the next section. If you ARE familiar with it, skip ahead ... , etc. In my last blog post, I said that I would write up an explanation ... = Green In other words, blue is the absence of yellow, red is the absence

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Get to know Tim the Beaver! Tim shows off some moves at an MIT men's ice hockey game

  

  arrive on campus in a month and a half! Get pumped!

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Attention local high school students interested science and engineering! Have you heard about BeaverDash?

  

  to invite new friends from all over the world onto our campus. But in ... participate in the exciting annual engineering competition, BeaverDash. Beaver ... competition to compete later in the day for great prizes. Free t-shirts and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  treadmill... You're only human after all. Eventually a routine sets in. You ... feel like I'm in that situation, I keep running. I tell myself it's all worth it. I take it all in and try to just do it. Sometimes I fail

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  name, got his Master's in City Planning, and in a way, he planted the ... . A pack of Brass Rats, in their natural habitat What's that? You can ... fairly recent tradition; the first redesign of it came about in 2008. But

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  are creative. We express our creativity in many different ways. Some sing. Some dance. Some hack. Some people do all three in MIT's Musical ... that we all work as a community despite our differences in interests

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  latest battle in a war which began when the Internet began an age of ... should ally with Lessig or Valenti in the interminable copyfight. Nor is it ... many other in disrupting our service to protest SOPA and PIPA. Here

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  I'm in a cool HASS (Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences) class this ... box, every political speech, and in the vast majority of conversations ... in 2009 but the President has delayed his decision indefinetly. So

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  travel somewhere in the physical world to obtain information. Information!  Fortunately, you live in more civilized times. Nowadays, when you want to know ... practice in problem-solving and proof-writing.  But I got more than

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  around to playing Braid, which is sort of like Portal in that it involves ... in my last post was misinformed, because when I wrote it, I was relaxed ... , still coughing up my lungs in a mucosal haze of academic slackery, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  first impression I had). With the Percent for Art program instated in 1968 ... located in the Koch Center and it’s called “Through Layers and ... the disease. Another really interesting thing? See the grate in the

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  baggy t-shirt to p-set in. I sort my pile of clean laundry. I sort my pile ... something often academic in nature. (2) v.i. To be in the process of not doing ... guilty about getting nowhere in lab, I felt guilty about not blogging, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  'll probably be ready to be a real person in a year. Many other nerds seem to ... breakdown. But temporarily being a real person this summer -- living in an ... in a while, and revel in the fact that yes, you only have one class on

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  admitted who don't mind the expense of traveling to boston for the weekend in ... attendees have not been and will not all be admitted (in my mind, I viewed it ... sentence, or anything resembling it, was in my actual e-mail; however, it was

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how ARe you today? Do you Nintendo? On an unrelated note, part of me thinks this and this might…

  

  . Basically, in a ploy to get people carry around their new 3DS systems ... on the street or in the hall, data (avatars, game stats, points, etc ... ) abilities. With a certain predefined image displayed in front of the 3DS

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  : !!!!!!!! Decisions in 6 days! I honestly cannot believe it's been nearly two years ... /Cog) student, I can definitely say I don't feel lonely in either department ... almost every MIT student participates in at some point during their MIT

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Hot Crosswalk Buns free food and football cleats

  

  It's beginning to warm up here - still in the 20s, but sunny and nice - so during a break in committee I took the opportunity to cross the Mass ... burritos from Anna's). But as I like to say in my info sessions, sometimes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Life On Mars and by "Mars" I actually mean "3AB, Simmons Hall."

  

  people playing Rock Band really loud at 3 in the morning. Simmons is about as close to "apartment-style" living as you can get in the dorms. This ... work in peace. In short, I like it here. So without further ado, here

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 15, 2011