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  Multi-Day Weekend at MIT

  

  ! -- the applicant Class of 2010. As for me, I spent a good part of today ... Red Sox game (first pitch: 11:05am). The idea is to have the crowd from ... Maine for a relaxing rest of the three day weekend. Mmm... lobster =)

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  outside of Milan. It was the first of many instances where it seemed to me ... : Ciao, Italy. Because of the snowstorm in the Northeast of the U ... of Boston were cancelled, so after arguing with the American Airlines

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  fame on the MIT Admissions Blogs- send me a picture of you and your card, and I'll add you to the post. :) It's kind of a fun way to meet your ... with his card. Le sigh. I suppose it happens even to the best of us. But

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  teaches us about the FUNdaMENTALs of design and we have guest speakers share ... included the Chief Engineer of General Motors and an engineer from Texas Instruments who designed a sensor that detects the weight of a passenger and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  THIS. IS. 18.02. "We will wield our triple integrals as one!"

  

  In case you haven’t been able to tell by the lack of bloggage across ... sort of wandered around the floor for a while trying to work some of it ... here lately. But it’s not like we’ve just been working. With the end of

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  of, basic first aid and over-the-counter medication. The idea is that ... , probability, and diff eq. - We're in the midst of freshman orientation, so now ... staff (who works in admissions, maybe, or in the Office of Undergraduate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  test certificate at the first class. Squash Introduction of the basic ... charge of the physical education (PE) requirement that MIT students have the privilege of completing before grdauation. You can read more about

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  , though, was another one of those IHTFP, !!! IHTFP !!!, weeks. The same day ... Junior level, though I had the comfort of the good ol' P/NR. Getting ... and trek over to the Skating Club of Boston, a 20-minute Uber-ride away

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s All Work Together Easier Said Than Done

  

  scenario. And then right of the bat, we faced our first contender: the ... failures of the AC unit for the car leading to a few occurrences of smoke and ... cause of failures and redesign the part, but rather outline how the

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  what finals week did to the 213 suite. First of all, everyone is always eating and never doing dishes, so the sink looks like that. Second of all ... of dry-erase boards, they improvise. This is the wall of 5.12 (organic

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  there are two popular approaches to moving a cart. the first one is ... : the second is to stand in front of the cart and pull it such that it ... pushing allows you to keep an eye on both the cart and the direction of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  Reading is one of the few real hobbies I've managed to hold onto ... rather difficult one, and remember all of the good books I found time to ... Tumblr, because I really loved it. The novel tells the story of a secretive

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  first round of tests on the undumped-upon freshmen. It's been a rough week ... It's October. Cambridge is cozily snuggled into the cusp of a cold front, the air is crisp like tempura in the cracks of a deep

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  version of Madeline, who acts as a somewhat antagonist in the first half of ... the first video game I've picked up in months, mostly because my friends ... , and the biggest threat of all: herself. Celeste makes it with a limited

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / Events

  What can I say, it grew on me . . . (Guest Entry) Now I'm a beaver believer!

  

  entry. MIT is intimidating. This was the first thing that I saw from the ... staying on The 5th floor of The West parallel. And, I was at The MIT. It ... icebreakers Thursday night (he's the one in the gray sweatshirt). The three of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  first week of classes. It was a fun time, in the sense that I enjoyed ... , essentially, first-year students at Next go through a process of exploring the ... better by now. These are the basics of being at MIT; these are the first

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  My life in the bush of ghosts The long-awaited chronicles of my life as a vegetarian.

  

  something to write about on my blog someday. Kind of. Over the past year, I ... definitely missed eating meat nonstop for the first week, but after that I didn ... chicken gyro in line ahead of me. I'd also get cravings only for the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  Music Room (the name of our TV room at Skullhouse) at 2 am watching ... chill on the fifth floor. Skullhouse is five stories and from one of the ... large amount of smoke coming from behind one of the buildings. Not sure of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Is this real? The party called IAP continues.

  

  debuted it's first pilot in December. Basically, the premise of the show is ... comment. As Matt mentioned earlier, on this season of The WB's Beauty and the Geek, one of our very own MIT alums, is on the show. After LSC

  • by Bryan
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In ... and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of ... will have "warm-up" activities prior to the beginning of the Hunt, and at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005