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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?

  

  see. After we sat down, we were treated to music by Rambax, MIT ... by an iPad, and the necessary 8000 or so engineers have gathered to ... Answer to the subtext: Meta-phor! Also, a clue to the answer to the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  because I enjoy them. I'm getting better advice, or at least I'm learning to ... of time to shower (hair soaking wet in the Boston winter), get dressed ... to force myself to go to more office hours next semester to get over

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  MIT – Problem Sets = IAP! Today marks the beginning of IAP 2007.

  

  stands for Independent Activities Period. From January 8th to February 2nd, MIT students get the chance to enjoy everything that MIT has to offer ... dizzying number of activities to choose from. For example, I could

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 2 just another excuse for me to talk about how much i love music tracking software

  

  ; we took some of them to get Green Building hot chocolate the weekend ... long time Let's Not Shit Ourselves (to Love and to be Loved) by Bright ... playlist to commemorate that concert Crush by Cigarettes After Sex

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  promised to get back to her on that. Class plans are mostly useful for ... . Thanks! I stopped by the Academic Resource Center the other day to ask ... -wise)?"), the rooms are about 8 feet by 15 feet. EDIT, in response to comment

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and ... something like trying to get up cold vertical stuff using axes and crampons ... hands and feet to get up not-that-cold vertical stuff. The gist of it is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  'm probably going to hurt myself if I continue getting carried away with these ... the last to get up. After I get up I go to my job in Building 46, where ... 're full. (If you came here for tips on how to get into college, I'm sorry to

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

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  lot of the experiments I do involve getting cells to take up foreign DNA ... hand? when do you get to learn how to do all this anyways? Yes, you can ... 's happiness, but they're just trying to get everybody into a HASS-D/seminar. So

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  you get to pretend to be an adult for a couple months before returning ... ." Get a place to stay. Hostels are usually the best bet for students ... producing results. Get in there and demand a challenge. And never be afraid to

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

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  and get right down to business. What's happened since you last heard ... to get on a reality show? However, Sam's Mom convinced us that this ... togetherness more than one million dollars, so we decided not to get there until

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  PSA: there’s a new mit.edu!

  

  aesthetic: a single “Spotlight” image surrounded by links to sites ... people and get them to click through and learn more about MIT.  ... This is just a quick blog post to tell y'all that there is a new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  supposed to be a priority, somewhere up there with getting good grades and ... -- whatever ... and when they get here, they feel an immense need to release ... -qualified enough to get into a top university, chances are he or she worked pretty

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  geek points built up to get some of the cool expensive stuff (if I didn ... has decided to get one (ahem, Chris) and everybody I've talked to who has one loves it. Ta-ta for now, I'm getting back to doing nothing

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  these essays is to get to know you, the applicant. It's not to be wowed ... to essays (see, e.g., this post by me, this one by Krystal, this one by ... prompts for the forthcoming cycle, so I'm posting them. I want to be clear

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  manner, by which I mean that I had probably forgotten how to add properly ... at MIT happens more often than some people do laundry. Best to get it ... you guys can get back to thinking about regular action decisions. A

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  and feet. Cracked decided to promote clean streets and recycling by ... . Traditionally, all visiting artists get a tour of MIT by CAVS staff, however ... Cracked has begun to host monthly workshops taught by members. We had a

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stealing from the Class of 2016 And you'll have to work to get it back

  

  lists. It's impossible to avoid getting added to many MANY mailing lists during your time at MIT. By the end of my four year stint I believe I was ... allow people to contact a large number of other people whom all have a

  • by Snively '11
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  always seem to happen when one person or another is in a Zoom call, by the ... somewhere dry or else it gets a really weird color to it, etc. 8. Trash bags ... get too tired to cook or order out eventually. It's surprisingly good

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?

  

  One of the first things I did when I came to MIT was get myself on a ... LGBTQ community, and with “food at MIT”  just to name a few. This last one is one of my favorites and I get a number of emails in my inbox from

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 23, 2012
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  journey in the time since. I wanted to blog some wise words shared by prior ... nothing to lose. That's not something you get when you get admitted RD, nor ... threads for applicants to celebrate or commiserate about this decisions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023