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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  . Dora: On a scale from super chill to 0 chill. I don’t know. On a scale of ... related to what we learned about. There were a bunch of him eating spherical ... and Tim scrambled to finish 18.03 which was due at 12:55pm. We finished

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  decided to take on. It seems this want to draw is shared amongst many MIT students, because this is one of the few classes that requires you to apply ... piece that would be added to our portfolio. Here is a selection of mine

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  day of classes. I therefore had eighteen days' worth of summer to spend ... . That's not to say that I didn't absolutely love every second of the ... today?" and then do it. The rest of this post has nothing whatsoever to do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which apparently means that I'm going to be ... cool projects, one of which involves running mice (this one is named 9M2) through a maze, and the other of which is concerned with examining protein

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  campus is to the left of the frame; you can see the Green Building on the ... that role. There is no threshold of age or coolness after which you are ...       On the evening of June 6, 2012, a satellite

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Flavor of Love As a wise woman once said, "Free is my favorite flavor."

  

  -mail list, which is really cool (although half of the messages are like, LOTS OF KETCHUP PACKETS, 33-541!) I'm going to be getting free food five ... to name me Ishmael, but somebody managed to talk her out of that one

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  , mostly student-driven welcome to you, on top of normal schoolwork, which we ... hussies", because you are the best judge of which school is best for you, I ... 'm getting at is that you will likely be able to find a variety of student

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  areas of Western Massachusetts. This kind of snow, which is unusually ... widespread loss of power is that many prospective students to MIT who were ... still require you to submit the application by the old deadline, which is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  from him, on the other side of the hemisphere. Or just how nerve ... habitual, like stopping for a cup of coffee on the way out, or grabbing your ... , but nothing else changed, or seemed to. The amount of light in here was

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  concepts of damped harmonic motion and centripetal forces, which is to say we ... watching Queen's Gambit, which is a show about chess. I happen to enjoy chess ... calling a trapeze a 'trap' is a universal thing or if it is just what my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  mutations that give rise to cancer or sustain it. Proponents say a databank of all such mutations, which would be freely available to researchers ... Genome Project, which mapped the human genetic blueprint. It would seek to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  time, she’s been one of my role models. The why is a bit tricky to ... does is write great music, and put real smiles on the faces of millions ... Mass Ave, from Random Hall to wherever the exam will be held. A lot of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  of time on it though." "Personal answer is definitely 11.011 or 6 ... taking some of these classes in the future, whether on OCW or at MIT ... fabulous experience which challenged me to stretch the limits on my ability

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Party of One A fun day trip idea when you're getting tired of homework.

  

  or in Kendall Square's own Food Court. A favorite stop of mine is ... called the "Portland Explorer," which took me to the heart of downtown for ... One of the great things about living in Boston is the close promixity

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  'm thinking of all the work I should be doing instead (which is something I ... " - answer email, be attentive to the MIT forum on CC, etc. To me, this is ... which context affects everything. I love imagining all of you at MIT

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

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  relaxation, Friday is the greatest day of the week. But as the last day of the ... weekdays. Sure, Monday is a pain. Tuesday is kind of meh. Wednesday at least ... -day. Friday, on the other hand, somehow finds a way to wedge itself between

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  photographer, writer, fimographer, and visual artist. On top of that, she is also ... Art Scholars, which is a group of people at MIT of all ages, of all ... of not know where it’s going to go, or how it’s going to affect people

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  wanted to live on Clam, the loudest, rowdiest, coolest bunch of people you ... Hall is not our roofdeck, or our numerous amount of fridges, or our ... Hi! Welcome to my comprehensive documentation of my time here in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  to the East Side Gallery, which is a kilometer-long section of the ... exploring the city in my free time. This blog is meant to be a slice of my ... wrong, my ability to troubleshoot is quite limited. And a lot of things

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  ?) What I usually do is go to the Coop, write down the ISBNs of the books I ... , which is linked from your MIT ID card. When you want to buy some food somewhere on or around campus, you get your card swiped and the amount is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006