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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is ... find a few ways to pass time. I wrote. I wrote a lot. I taught ... during Christmas. We got to stay near a beach, and watched the waves pound

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

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  . I just don't get it. Anyway, I thought I'd wrote a quick little entry ... planning to write a little feature about MIT mailing lists in the near future ... ? That's really short! I haven't had a chance to contact the coach yet." I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  antsy, so I wanted to make a quick post and point your attention at two ... illustrated story of a lonely alien sent to observe Earth, only to meet all ... happiness, all while learning to feel a little better about being an alien

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  is a LOT of work to be done. But how could this be! It's Christmas ... fully explicate, this semester has been a blur, passing by faster than I ... way from pre-registering classes to finals… A parallel (or antithesis

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  , from 9 AM to 5:30 PM four days a week (which I took last year). This ... get CPR certified, or learn to take blood pressures, or not pass out ... 49 hours a semester, but if you want to be really good at your job you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  to different stores for different foods to get the best deals, a ... because most people aren’t taking classes. For a month, we get to catch up ... tourist-y trip was to Target to buy a swimsuit. No regrets there: turns out

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  ’t get any closer to a mental model that would allow me to paint like that ... abilities and get Sanatan’s. You would have had to step back and build ... they asked me what i would want to become a magician in, and for a while

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  upon by a great collection of butts belonging to the also awesome friends ... my brain full of knowledge by 10:05am. Unfortunately, what I ought to ... late nights are precipitated by something concrete and urgent: a pset, an

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  walking down the Infinite and can’t wait to get back to your dorm to catch a ... hallways leading to the rest of the polisci floor. You get up to take a ... ."]Washlava[/annotation] app to start the washing machine, you get a text message from your

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  I have a theory: free food is positively correlated to quality of ... everything from Chipotle to liquid nitrogen ice cream, but also made a binary ... , witnessed a giant CRT TV implode, gone to Six Flags of New England, won a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  year ago. It was a beauteous midsummer morn, and I was filled to the brim ... FPOPs, chances for freshmen to dabble in a huge variety of subject and ... -offs). Contrary to popular belief, MIT is not a dystopian wasteland devoid of art

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  , so it would be more difficult to get a high score). What made 8.02 a ... !. Taught by the same professor that I went to Spain with, Spanish 3 is a ... actually get assigned a letter grade by your research supervisor for the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  much. Prom is a nice excuse to dress-up, see what your friends look like ... mail a month or so ago, and I was surprised to see that it was exactly ... actually going to the ball went by really quickly, and before I knew it, it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  BMX, but there are a lot of people here who like to bike. Let It Bleed ... that it comes back to me?" If you take single-variable again, you get ... pull a four or a five out of my ass I'd want to take physics all over

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  'm getting a lot of exposure to the prof's intuitions, the psets haven't been ... On time and noise I've been meaning to write a post recently about ... wrote this post that I really enjoyed, and related to a lot. Notably: I

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  living before you get to campus. Personally, I had taken a special liking ... expected them to. Have a few anecdotes!! Expectation: I start using my dorm ... – it’s a difficult adjustment to the college lifestyle, with the food

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  up to:   (1) 2.670 (Mechanical Engineering Tools) A class!  But ... class). Plus, you get to machine your own flashlight out of aluminium ... like to put a nerdy spin on things. During a lesson on food and water

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Update Stories from the parties today; more stories, and questions answered, tomorrow.

  

  top choice, and a couple of days after receiving my acceptance to MIT, I ... as start to get to know the people I'm going to spend the next four ... 's Admitted Students Parties. Tomorrow, I hope to answer questions. So, in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aeroastro privilege all-expenses-paid tour to seattle and los angeles

  

  to the AeroAstro Centennial (which closed with an Elon Musk Q+A). We get access to our own machine shop, laboratory, and lounge in the ... biggest building in the world by volume. It's perhaps difficult to visualize

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  HT@MIT: Foodie Edition The Friendly Toast, Oasis and Teriyaki House, my three favorite restaurants

  

  , while I frequent the latter, getting to the former is more of a luxury ... fries and you flag down a waitress to get your anticipatory doggie bag ... Hey guys, I'm back to blogging once a week after a ridiculously crazy

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 15, 2013