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  Match Game

  

  questions, too. I hope to answer many of those questions soon, but today I ... 's mission. The founding mission of MIT was to improve the world through ... the "Task Force," which was formed during my time as an undergraduate to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Picked My First Apple apples, part 1

  

  experience is mostly with pumpkin patches, but I have also spent many hours of ... . Here is the moment that I achieved my dream of IRL own-picking: [caption ... to pick half a peck of apples, a hayride, a bottle of cold apple cider

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  the time of that statement, this would correspond to Wilt having slept ... the greatest Michigan accent of all time, chose to teach the class such that every Wednesday, we'd bring in our compositions and get to work on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  lot depends on definition of geek, which to Wired is more a compliment ... ? Is our President-Elect Obama a geek, nerd, or none of the above?   ... concerned about the financial state of Iceland and wanted to lend his

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  precious to me.  To be honest, my hair has always been a source of pride. Or ... enviably shiny. It was one of the few ways in which I felt like I was able to ... out of my hair. I’m sometimes a minute or two late to class because of

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  the entire School of Architecture+Planning is pretty small. The school ... leading to the Bachelor of Science in Art and Design degree ... everyone thinks of when they hear "architecture major." We learn how to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  to your web browser, and the best part is pictures are now super-easy to upload. You know what this means? Photos of kitties! This is ... flower attached... it must have been made of something sweet, chocolate or

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  One of my NRAO friends is a big fan of the band "Drive-By Truckers." I had previously listened to a grand total of Zero alternative country ... happy to tag along. (It is very telling that when the crowd started

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  : "Today is the last day the world will only have 5 Harry Potter books to ... able to get a copy of the book. For entertainment, the party had a "Make ... . Even the dome was in the mood to celebrate the release of book 6. I

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  your memories before you move on to the next great adventure, full of ... hopes of selling it later this year, which included repainting the doors ... stagnate with an old version of myself.   . . .   Painting is a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  think of to do for this post is one of those drawings where you smush a ... until that fated time, but it will be. I tried to think of what high ... a video game, or goofing off with friends to listen. If you want some

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Together in Service MIT community working collaboratively

  

  week of symposia that is free and open to the public and organized by ... in the Sloan School of Management who is using an algorithm to help ... Voorhis, Associate Professor of Chemistry, who is working on solar energy

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 20, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  -joke: unexpected and irrational enough to elicit the obligatory chuckle of ... kind of way. The Festival of Bad Ad Hoc Hypotheses (or BAH!Fest for ... front of a panel of distinguished judges. To the victor go the spoils. And

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  years. So here it is, what became the biggest dilemma of my day: picking ... When the most stressful thing in your life is having repetitive conversations about your future, life is too easy and things become a big deal

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  one test towards the very end of the semester and no final, which is ... problems, all of which combined is a very exhausting process. And we didn ... spend time with our family that still lives there (which is most of them

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  Almost three years ago, I wrote an entry which was very special to me ... this: Mr. Jackson [was] a father figure to generations of young men in ... Technology fraternity said. Here is the full text of the obituary: John Jackson

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions We're sending out wait list decisions today.

  

  final decisions so we could figure out whether or not we could go to our ... parlance as the "yield") of over 74 percent, which left very little space to admit students off of the wait list. Today, around 5PM Eastern

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 11, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Patriots’ Day Rejuvenated by a Reenactment

  

  suggested biking to see the Battle of Lexington, I was THRILLED! We woke at ... muscles which had begun to rust in place... We arrived at Lexington just ... of people: those standing in front, those perching on ladders

  • by Kim D. '09
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  of Monday May 9. i had to present a project, which wasn't great, but as ... days of doing nothing at all! on Monday, i went to a brewery in seaport ... things into EC storage, which is prone to many mysteries including

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  favorite movie. If I saw or heard anything Tarzan-related, I'd beg them to ... clueless is normal. We are beginners in everything we do, from reading, to ... intended to major in here at MIT. [annotation note="Of course, it makes sense

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019