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  The State of Things Deflated, that about sums it up.

  

  describe my last couple minutes for you. [background] I've just woken up at 11 o'clock after going to bed at 6. I drag myself up, into the bathroom ... , slightly delirious, and posed for a quick picture with him before he grabbed

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Strike! Strike! Strike! I. H. T. F. P.

  

  , meaning any host in 8.02 just completely ignored their prefrosh for the ... "What am I doing here, I suck at MIT, I'm going to fail, I hate life, tell ... engineering isn't about how good at written tests you are, it's about building

  • by Snively '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Remember, Remember the Fifth of November Celebrating Guy Fawkes Day as only MIT can.

  

  foiled at the twelfth hour, the conspirators nonetheless secured a place in ... fireworks, and devouring a variety of delectable treats. Here at MIT, a few ... , no doubt, by the recent blockbuster movie V for Vendetta. The email

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re Not Alone Even if you think you are.

  

  :00 PM: Astronomy Lab Lecture 2:00 - 3:00 PM: Frantically read for my ... was awake. "Hey Boone, I went to office hours for ICE tonight." "Cool ... wrong. Can you come over and help?" Yeah, I can come over. We worked for

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • October 17, 2007
• 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,…

  

  The debate over nature versus nurture has raged on for decades, but ... Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and ... Review’s Top 35 Young Innovators of 2007 for his inventive tissue

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  ://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/...ding_out.shtml The first step (Mollie): Asking for help at MIT http ... should I do in order to know MIT better?" A great starting point for how ... , which makes me incredibly sad -- why did I go back and fix the code for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter two Week two of school away from school as I learn about and work on transportation…

  

  've got several train cars parked at the main entrance -- these are fully-functioning conference rooms used regularly for business purposes! There's a network of ... (the one who had me over to his house for dinner, after taking me to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Return of the Nance Effect The Summer Update Edition!

  

  prepares to take their place as matriculated students at MIT, and future ... represents the changing of the guard for The Nance Effect. Many more of those ... . This is, after all, a community designed for and about you. When I began

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  remember at this time of the year. No matter how things turn out for you when ... mailed out on Friday!" It seems Mother Nature had other plans for me. I got ... Boston today, though I missed the day at work. I can tell you, though, that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  months of SAT subject tests and trying to figure out how to apply for ... ="perhaps somewhat naively though I think it was for the best"] I[/annotation] stopped ... stop spinning for just a moment. I didn’t know what direction my world

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  for some drinks at a nearby bar. (Actually. Those last 2 sentences were ... (which is at home, anyway) so I have to rely on Sarah for my gaming fix ... 2 MIT alums (including a former blogger) for a week on the west coast

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  For our very last semester at MIT, and our very last course 6 class ... happy with the prospects for your last semester at MIT! The last two ... best bet to be able to spend our last semester at MIT pursuing and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  terrible inside joke for people who went to MIT at the time of Spring ... for Christmas. There's an IAP class at MIT where you can learn how to ... attribute it to a few factors. The sun goes down at 4 pm. It's cold, so you

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  , or at least they were smooth enough for human eyes and neat enough for ... bedbugs had chiseled at for hours and for weeks before that. The bedbugs ... ending for you. A while ago, at the start of summer, I was making my bed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  to give a colloquium at MIT. Kip, for the biology students reading this ... included about half of the astrophysics faculty at Caltech and MIT, which ... database of acronyms. I vividly remember that Professor Max Tegmark at MIT

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  at it. No, really! Okay, so unlike some people in the dorm who live ... worse room than the year before. At this point everyone thought I was ... before (furniture rearrangement). Also, there is one very lousy window at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  then I found the statistics! For example, out of the group of 7 countries ... tickets to Berlin for the weekend of the Finale. So, I realized that I hadn ... program so far. I figure you can go look at pictures of the French Riviera

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  a house tour of mit sororities! meet aphi, axo, and theta

  

  few of our sorority houses here at MIT. Thanks for coming along! ... , sorority life is a thriving community here at MIT, with about ⅓ of ... us spend so much time hanging out at our respective sorority houses, I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT IS … reflections of a bright sunday afternoon

  

  ’ve stood in line at Maseeh’s dining hall at 12 pm for a halal burger. I ... naps into 2 hr naps. I’ve repetitively failed at responding to free food ... news. And bad news. But most importantly, it’s being there for one

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Five Years of Admitted Student Gatherings MIT community is getting bigger

  

  typing. If at any point you stop typing for more than 5 seconds, ALL of ... talked about MIT, New Jersey, cool things to do at CPW, what we enjoyed ... futures. At one point, we sat down and listened to a sophomore tell us

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 29, 2017