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  Orientation Wrap-Up Reason #457 why I love Orientation: I don't have to pay for food for a…

  

  advantage of our free rides on the T, we went to JP Licks. Susan Hockfield ... So Orientation is pretty much also a week of free food. The saying goes that you should not have to spend any money on food for at least

  • by Bryan
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Go White Sox! I'm absolutely giddy that the White Sox are in the World Series and I had…

  ). Even though Elgin is northwest of Chicago (and most northsiders are Cubs ... being able to share all of this with my parents and brother. It didn ... pictures of the games as well as my dad's scorecards (he keeps score on his

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

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  MIT doesn't provide names or contact information for current students. To learn more about MIT from a student's perspective, please spend time on our site learning about academics and life at MIT. Through our
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to ... founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks ... of IDE: International Development Enterprises) spoke to my D-Lab class

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s snowing, and “It’s Raining” K-Pop and Prof. Henry Jenkins.

  

  It's snowing here tonight, so when I got home I decided to curl up on ... flow of cultural goods around the world," there is a "new pop cosmopolitanism," according to Henry Jenkins, professor of comparative media studies

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does my transcript count as official?

  entity. Our Transcripts page has information on how to have your counselor submit your transcript to us. Please note: If you send us a copy of your ... Transcripts must be sent in by your school counselor or another
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Public Art Projects ...for your amusement.

  

  If any of you have attended one of my MIT info sessions, either on campus or on the road, you've heard me talk about MIT's 2+ miles of ... beginning to pop up, I wasn't too surprised to find this on my journey this

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  ” made of other types of cells to faithfully recreate the organs found in your body. Khademhosseini is applying his micro-scaffold to grow ... Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto, he came to MIT to pursue a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why It Pays…

  

  , that is." "According to NACE's Job Outlook 2005 survey, eight of the top ... meant downing gallons of coffee, but that math- or science-related major ... scientist or engineer might make you the head of the department,' she says

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Post-Valentine Blog Roundup Valentine's Day capped off by a serenade.

  

  Confectionery Company), right next to MIT's Random Hall dormitory? Ah, many of my finest memories of walking to class in the morning from my dorm were on ... on. Right: Mari and Gisele watch the serenade. Also related to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Money

  ew taxes the new zealand government owes me money

  

  taxes, or save part of your paycheck for the government overlords. In New Zealand, this happened as well; they took away roughly 30% of my paycheck ... March 2018. From September 2017 to August 2018, I lived in Auckland, New

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  to thousands of degrees in the furnace. Talk about defective! I tried ... everything melts onto it… or so they’d like me to believe. 2. Glass Frit Doesn ... glassblowing, we used glass frit – tiny shards of glass – to apply the colour

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Sneak Preview

  

  Coming soon: An entry on The Tech Nomads But first: 26.2 miles of awesomeness Interseting story: My mom was seated on the plane next to a couple ... . And speaking of awkward moments: I ran into a professor on Wednesday

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about pandemics and plagues in history 21H.000: History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics

  

  description is below: This class exposes students to the study of history for ... list of short, optional readings related to each week’s sessions is ... across the country (and the world) will speak on various aspects of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  amongst the stars a comic

  

  in NYC.  In an attempt to get back part of my soul after what ... , inspired me to draw the comic above. There are a lot of nebulous feelings I ... on the Internet. So I'll just say that I wish I could skip to the end

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  Olympics. Now I know that many of you may be thinking that MIT is more likely to be in the Science Olympiad or the International Math Olympiad ... "Steinbrenner" is quite familiar to baseball fans: George Steinbrenner, and his

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Crotchets and Quavers The evensong tradition

  

  day but to different music. In fact, most of our job is constantly ... [by Patrick '09] On Tuesday, I went to Trinity College chapel for ... , each meant to serve the every need of its students. Most of them have a

  • by Cambridge
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  of Simmons, so he’s constantly on the run. The first time I tried to ... him to arrive. He breaks down on a regular basis, much like MIT students ... ="112863" image3="112864" /] Celevator is my home elevator as a resident of C Tower

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  "soda". Some people said "pop" (I'm still unclear on what region of the ... several of my MIT friends were incredulous when I explained it to them. By ... . Compared to most people in the South, I certainly don't. But in my first

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What Am I Forgetting? A helpful guide.

  

  to go to or from MIT...so I would, almost inevitably, forget one vital ... friend Waseem '07 introduced me to this little site he made, which has ... I'm leaving for Boston tomorrow this morning. As most of my friends

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 25, 2009