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  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  During my first pass through the Logan Airport security line, I was wearing my purple MIT Splash t-shirt. TSA Agent: Why does your shirt say “Splash” on it? What is…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  At about 10 am on Thursday there were about 100 people in lecture for 7.06, cell biology with Professor Iain Cheeseman. We were learning about how proteins made in the…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  -off event (See Kate R. '14's post), Taco Bell Eating competition, Exotic Meat

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  Overheard at MIT (Fall 2012) (complaining about the ratio of male to female bathrooms on MIT campus) MIT female: Also, BUILDING THREE. Average number of men’s bathrooms per floor: two…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  I’M SO EXCITED I’M SO EXCITED I’M SO EXCITED and you should be too. WHY? Because the soundtrack to Hack Punt Tool, a musical about MIT students by MIT students…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  H. '14 actually posted about it and another advising program a few

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  The media has been buzzing about the Fundamental Physics Prize: nine physicists worldwide just won $3 million each for outstanding contributions to our understanding of the universe.  One of those…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  This summer, I’m working part-time at the Division of Student Life (in addition to still blogging for MIT Admissions – sorry eager blogging frosh-to-be, my spot’s still taken, but we’re…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  On June 1 (where my last post left off) I hopped on a plane and left Boston for the summer. One fistfight later*, I landed in DC, fully resolved to…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  Last weekend was crazy. Crazy good. So good, in fact, that I needed a good week to get my thoughts all organized. (And to realize, whoa, I’m nearly halfway done.)…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  Both my father (MCP, ’87) and I spent some time here at the Institute. My dad, as you might deduce from the letters and the year next to his name,…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  Even though I’m now two years out of high school, I still keep in touch with one of my favorite English teachers – indeed, one of the best teachers I’ve…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  as a consequence of the Big Bang about 14 billion years ago. However

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  into Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar whom I met when he was

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  More than anything, I’d say that MIT offers a merciless crash course in time management.  You’ve got tons of things to do, as well as even more things that you…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Techiya and Beyond.

  

  [by Jessica Noss '14] While MITSO, MITWE, and Chamber Chorus all have a very high level of musicality and are full of virtuosic musicians, my favorite group is Techiya. As an a capella group, Techiya does not

  • by ARTalk
  • May 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  Peer pressure gets a bad rap. Since elementary school you’ve been taught “Don’t give in to peer pressure!”–an oversimplification of a generally good principle: don’t let other people tell you…

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  Time to state the obvious: the world knows MIT pretty dang well for its contributions to science. That includes the obvious disciplines falling under the term: every branch of engineering…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  A little over two weeks ago, MIT’s news office released a statement on LGBQT life here. The short story: MIT has renewed their You Are Welcome Here campaign. For those…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Update The latest on app tracking, app numbers, etc.

  

  undergraduate early action applicants has again increased, by about 14 percent

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2010