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  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  proof that a post could be hazardous to your mental health. If you walk ... : If you're curious as to where all the puns went: I wrote the first part ... Answer to the subtext: Meta-phor! Also, a clue to the answer to the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Three cheers for the MIT Marching Band Is the band ready? You bet they are.

  

  beavers all. And when we get together, We do the beaver call. e to the u, du ... . Here are 10 things I remember: 1. Taking a good two minutse to cram four ... school it used to take us two weeks of seven-hour band camp days just to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  do funny things to your brain. ------------- On Friday, I got all ... semester. Hold onto your hats (or your teeth - whichever are more likely to ... that I get all the captains on board with what they need to do, schedule

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  the Iron Man expectation. Are you allowed to make mistakes if you’re an ... to live the rest of your life proving you deserved it?  I think now ... ’s a way to balance solving your 'little hunger' with leaving a door open

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  Blasters None of this tame nonsense! Use nerf darts to skip your opponent ... pancakes while singing along to your favorite Disney songs! 08:47 - 10 ... Game Night Build a Dominion in Puerto Rico to prevent your Descent into

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  'm Abir, a prefrosh, and I was fortunate enough to have the BEST host ever ... asked me to guest blog about CPW and I am going to try to give a glimpse ... beaver I am, I decided to book my flight to CPW EARLY in the morning; 6

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  An Olympic Hack Floating rings above Brigg's Field?

  

  Upon entering MIT, every freshman gets a list of "101 Things To Do ... : 2011 and 2008.) On the Class of 2016's list, number 82 tells you to Hack ... : Be Safe – Your safety, the safety of others, and the safety of anyone

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  the Movies" here on the blog on Monday. Your picture will get bonus ... here: To celebrate the movie release, I am declaring this weekend to be ... take a picture of you (and any MIT '12s with you) and send it in to me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  headphones Come back to your dorm room and do a deep clean so that you can ... Places To Take A Nap On Campus, Ranked Barker Library - The pin ... a few months I felt like they needed to be cleaned so I stopped taking

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m laughing out loud cheek. muscles. cramping.

  

  AM to complete your evaluations. And, I know you?ll be pleased to hear ... way to contribute to curricular improvements at MIT. Your constructive ... due, one of my friends slept for one hour last night, I have to submit a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  getting carpal tunnel"]orbital sander[/annotation]to veeeeeeery carefully ... , over and over, trying to get it right and figure out what the relative ... midnight, trying to varnish the wood, getting dust in it and wiping it off

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  getting a 100% and a 70% in a class will show up exactly the same on your transcript. hence, don't try to get a 100"]A, B, or C[/annotation]) or No ... abuse your PNR experience: Go AWOL all semester and then just try to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.

  

  really needed to get started with before Friday and almost no time to do it ... was at the MISTI Gala Dinner for all interns going to foreign countries ... Wilczek. The event ran late, however, and some people had to leave early to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  in  IAP?”, “do I also get to Dance in a lion, or a kaleidoscope ... ’s hard to go through the semester without seeing him, from a poster in the hall to a post somewhere on Instagram. I even have a little sticker of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  enlightening, than a Clay Aiken concert would be. You're not allowed to take ... loves her some frappuccino, so we decided to get right back on the T and ... you're not allowed to photograph the interior of a Starbucks for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  to answer and ask the same set of questions: what’s your name? where ... supposed to leave the lid on your tupperware when you microwaved something ... body to get out of bed at my 8:30a.m. alarm"]I’d once wake up at 5

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  alone. It’s hard to value companionship until you’re starved of it, and ... get used to. Eventually, I made the decision to attend MIT—how could I ... and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  look for the true source, or at least i wasn’t able to get anywhere ... should try to finish as many items on your bucket list as possible, so that ... really just change your thoughts and reactions to the world like that?” i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  them are meaningful.   let's get right to it! https ... stafe, make the most of your quarantine, and don't forget to always sing ... music is really important to me. i swear to god, without Spotify, i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  . Sadly, you're not supposed to bring cameras in, so I couldn't take ... by passing the information to the proper people and getting the ... chapter always angst about this and try to figure out why and what to do

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005