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  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  colony again?” – Anonymous MIT student #924, COOP employee “I have a bad ... facing its wrath. “i'm not lactose intolerant, i just don't like milk ... (ASS). “Hi! I am very passionate about mad science, and I have even

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  I've mentioned briefly on this blog before that I'm part of a ... campus are doing this virtual semester. I loved that idea because I think ... campus! (OK, I lied, here's a small amount of ado: an important caveat is

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Burton-Conner long live BC

  

  I'm a proud resident of Burton-Conner, a lovely dorm with nine floors ... , and although I'll [annotation note = "I really don't know how the COVID ... 's living communities. And that's why I'd like to showcase/preserve some of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 25, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)

  

  nights that turned into early mornings. It marks two.. whole… years… I can ... fancy. But in my case, I mostly ran around and took pictures (as displayed ... bathroom on our floor (*classy*). I remember seeing the sophomores last year

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  at MIT, I am taking not one, but two PE classes, back-to-back: Fitness ... ," I'm pretty happy I doubled up. Saves me time not having to cross over ... all the exercise and meditation, I photodocumented my trip back home

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Because Racecar Guest post by Kevin C. '17 on the MIT Formula SAE team!

  

  friends and I traveled to Europe for a different sort of attraction: single ... US competition in Lincoln, NE each June. I’ve worked on five of our ... in different countries. While I could wax poetic for days about all the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 2, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  production mechanisms. (I'm a physics nerd; not gonna apologize for that ... Channel. (After a bit of Googling, I learned that he made the trip at an altitude of 250 ft above the ocean; I expect he was buoyed partly by very

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  First: Hello! Long time, no talk. I feel like each of my entries this year has started off in the same way: "I'm so sorry for having disappeared off the blogosphere!" And it's true - I am sorry! I don't know what

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  and two other ARTalk bloggers in 21M.A12 (Arts at MIT), I would like to ... onlookers into the piece. I found myself staring intently at the soft light for a while, even though, after a few cycles, I knew which phase of the

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  your first experience test-driving real life. I say test-driving because ... your adventure but I think this 12 step plan will do you some good too ... 've been doing. Brenda '12 (Mexico): "I'm doing optical characterization of

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  ) -- I hope that you have already asked your teachers if they can write a ... -- teachers in this country are seriously overworked and underpaid; I hope you ... now or very soon, if you have not yet done so. I recommend that you find

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MEng (Masters of Engineering) Learn about the masters plans of Phil '05 and Laura '06.

  

  : What made you want to go to a different school for your masters? I had ... , so I already knew all the professors, attended weekly meetings with the ... speaker seminars, worked on a grad student's thesis as a UROP . . . so I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  cultures. You see, I have this theory that for MIT dorms, function follows ... Campus/West Campus divide. As I've mentioned before, culturally speaking ... would have likely sought anyway. I have always regarded Bexley as a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  based on how many people take them? With the latter approach, I'd say it ... archetypes, if you will: [annotation note="Because of how I chose to divide the classes, I'll mention grading a lot. Of course, grading is only a small part

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  ’t suck! I’d never been a big fan of film back in high school, but watching ... projectionist for the club. After all, I reasoned, college is a time to try out new things. I signed up for a training slot, and before I knew it, I was

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  blogging momentum is really hard to start up again after a certain point. I ... exciting time in the world of particle physics. A week or so before, I had ... ." I hope that this gives some sense of how much was riding on the LHC

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  to Boston from a family vacation in Toronto, I took the T back to MIT for free like I always do. When I first came to MIT I was terrified of public transportation. It was only a few years ago that I stopped taking

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  other end. “Well, I couldn’t quite tell you, because I haven’t heard. That’s why I had been hoping—” Mrs. Concord sat down on the bed closest to the ... the otherwise silent houses. Normally I would put this at the top of

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

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  foundation for much of the social science research I love best. In his article ... not by much. ... I thought that what was happening to us was ... was valid. I was reminded of visual illusions, which remain compelling

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT What?!? The Long and Illustrious History of the MITMB, as far as Kim knows.

  

  ://web.mit.edu/kimfad/Public/rightsize/MarchingBand/crrazy_640x475.jpg" width="520" alt="I<3MITMB"></p> < ... eventually got red t-shirts.</p> <p>If I were to tell you about the next 17 years, I would basically be pulling things from <a href="http

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 10, 2008