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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  typically often used as a verb. It refers to an action or a series of actions ... had to stay up all night working on that (favorite expletive) p-set." Punts take various shapes, from kittens meowing on Youtube to the entire

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  and soaking in the Boston sun on one of those early spring days where the warmth still feels like a tiny miracle. Campus is starting to ... whizzed by like a door violently swinging open on its hinges, revealing to

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas the night before the 8.01 final and all through the Haus, everyone was studying like nothing else. Including me. Just not…

  

  , on my way to the Student Lounge off the Infinite, I saw that this hack ... - it is for a class) had been moved to the East Campus courtyard ... explaining: Or you can just watch this, a video of an interesting phone call

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Stress

  

  's own Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones) Speaking of parents: to the parents reading this blog, is there anything you'd like me to talk about, or ... Two pieces that stressed out parents and students may want to check

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  outside of the Gulf Coast moves on, and the Office of Admissions is still ... disaster, and it's just too early to tell what the best course of action will ... or displaced by Hurricane Katrina. We can only imagine the extent of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  that it's taken me an hour to summarize and pull out all of the ... to live within walking distance of MIT, but then I got old and traded ... rail on a Saturday or a Sunday and do some exploring (you can easily get

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  Tissues - One 12 page lab report on the superposition of effects of ... , a lot of the problems I worked on this week had real life applications ... by Professor John Bush on the math of sports balls. I actually had

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What it’s like being back

  

  School is back in session, and I know the question burning in the back of everyone's mind is "Chris, WHAT have you been doing?" (or ... ). Then there's that dizzying moment on the first day of classes where you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  And the winners are… 2010 Blogger results!

  

  of bloggers. So without further lamentation or LOLcat shenanigans ... . I'm looking forward to a year of joyriding along with the bloggers we ... ) doodads to share life at MIT in new ways. * This is not actually true. I

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  Last week I saw someone screencap my blog post and post it on /r/ApplyingTo ... with 👀, but do I want to dox my Reddit account to all of you? No. I ... to be interminably on the internet: Cambridge weather sucks. Why would

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  humility, all of which she displays so effortlessly. I'm grateful to have her ... . One of the few such tools is optical tweezers, which use the momentum of ... -time PCR on patient DNA to determine the breakpoints of their large deletion

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  V Storms the Senate One hack is not enough.

  

  , right? Not at MIT. Allow me first to set the scene. As some of you may ... Association (or the UA for short, because MIT students love acronyms) aims to ... . The hack was also featured on the front cover of today's Tech. Many

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  , which gives "MIT students the opportunity to learn about ways that they ... campus. Groups and organizations of all types set up booths to display ... offerings related to International Development. The Fair is also the flagship

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  corresponds to exactly one perfect number. If you're even a little bit of a math ... this year will be published on Tuesday. To make this a little fun, we ... A quick entry, before returning to reading applications... I am

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Students Welcome Events Your first MIT experience is closer than you think

  

  Tuesday • Put a bird on it at the admit gathering in Portland, OR ... new admits in the ATL Be sure to check the listing on your MyMIT account for the most up to date information and RSVP if requested. There is a

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gotta Catch ‘Em All! A DUCT TAPE COW!!!

  

  I used to play Pokemon. I won't lie. One could possibly say that Boston is a living GameBoy game this summer with the Cow Parade. All across Boston, the Jimmy Fund has been sponsoring The Cow Parade which basically

  • by Bryan
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Free-For-All Week! Movies, Music, and Baby Names.

  

  asked some of you to sit on it, in 2 days flat we'd have a flawless 30 ... It is clear to me that I COULD NEVER WRITE ENOUGH ABOUT THE ... the top 5 songs and/or top 5 CD's of all time. (You can mix and match

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  say, and yet so many of them don't attach well to words - only to strong ... to really process all of this. In a nutshell: after four incredible ... , it needs me - in many of the same ways that MIT did four years ago - to

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  king cake and a run-on sentence busy week

  

  Gras (which is technically still today) and it felt weird adding yeast to ... you to have a wholesome Ash Wednesday David S. '21 is only eating the cake because I told him to Brandon F. '19 put on a shirt just for this

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Odds & Ends Concerts (on & off campus), doors (on campus), and lectures (also on campus).

  

  they put on a darn good show. Of course, this being Boston, lots of ... inscription translation is now an open question to be answered by you, as is the ... noticed that there was an abnormally large number of interesting lectures on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2005