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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  bestowed upon ten leading researchers from four different continents for ... is more-or-less floor-based--usually money is allotted by floor, so you ... , I mean, it's actual free money. As a result, most people end up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  ’m raising money for the National Organization for Rare Disorders. I have ... organization that puts on the Marathon) for the past two years. [caption id ... -Marathon in November.[/caption] For various reasons, I don’t want to specify

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  NSBE MUSE Colloquium my first video

  

  , information sharing, and networking for aspiring young Black engineers ... money to help support their continued research. 1st Place won $500: 2nd ... . I promise to get a better camera for my future productions. ;-)

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  , and really opened up. I played music in front of people for the first ... now. For better or for worse, everything about me has changed. I want to ... playing with synthesizers at the Voxel Lab. It’s cute that old Mimi and I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  Today, November 3rd, 2020, is Election Day in the United States. Many ... their ballots today. Here at MIT, employees are guaranteed time off for ... exams to help students have more time to vote. For students and staff who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  , blend, stir, and sample for two and a half hours until dinner was served for 30+ people. By which I mean that I pretended to be Mark Bittman and penned dining section articles for the New York Times in my head while

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  a lot of charities for whom you can raise money to circumvent the ... Boston runners, I've run (and paid for) a few other marathons, and I ... (water, road closure, medical facilities) paid for by the entry fees of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  A letter for you (yes, you)

  

  think of it as an invitation. For some, it will be an invitation to see how MIT can play a further role in your story. For others, it will be an ... amount of gratitude toward you - yes, you! - for applying. I love learning

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  everything i think i’m not (rush, part 2) and what it would take for me to be it

  

  : the events.  Rush, really, boils down to a big game for everyone ... Interfraternity Council, or IFC, which acts as their collective government for the ... each frat sets up a table under the tent on Kresge that’s used for

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • November 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  supposed implications for all forms of human text generation. For reasons ... . However, it certainly does pose interesting questions for pedagogy ... /W is also the departmental home for the MIT Writing and Communication

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  time with my brothers by playing the games we always used to play. We ... to do laundry by myself or to know which medicine I should take for ... I had to wake up early enough to clean and prepare for their arrival

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  , and e-mailing me for my first year at MIT. It all started when I got a ... translated into "M.I.T." Then I got a dreidel and geld for Hanukkah and some kind of delicious Kosher jelly candy for passover, both stuffed into my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  of not having money than about actually wanting money for something. in ... dialogue for each episode is taken from a series of real-life podcast ... magic or not. for instance, at one point the characters discuss how oral

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  , but life got busy and I only opened it in early April 2020. For my first ... (infamously) asked me that night if I wanted my own pie. This is what I get for ... was told by a now-graduated member of the class of 2020 that a lot of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  that for another time.) One of the reasons I was drawn to MIT was for its ... what? I built a loft from scratch!!! Been sleeping on it for two weeks ... ) are able to take some of the wood and reuse it for their own ends. When

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  Expansion Director for LTI (pretty much the guy that facilitates LTI ... focus on student leadership and provides many opportunities for students ... and service program for Boston-area high school students. The mentoring

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  up, and we played lots of board games. Or the many times I’ve eaten ... IAP began. The week before finals week, I started asking people for ... were going home for the holidays, and that I only knew six people who

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Introduction To ARTalk An introduction to the ARTalk guest author blog by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director…

  

  for Visual Arts, artists-in-residence, the Center for Advanced Visual ... events they have attended, courses they are taking, plays they have acted ... about the arts at MIT? For one: the students. The energy MIT students put

  • by ARTalk
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  games, we went out for dinner and got delicious Greek food (while ... own Canadian format, called Reach for the Top, so I didn't (and still ... super excited to start practice for real this year. Once or twice a week

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  steakhouse (after the wedding) - Learned to play a card game called Hands & ... : - Played with my eight year-old brother - Watched most of the complete series of Firefly, which I got for Christmas, with my sister - Seen King Kong

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006