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  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  magnitude corresponds to a change in brightness by a factor of ten. The reason ... amount of light that gets through it First, we need to describe what a ... take turns throwing a Frisbee at the fence, trying to get it to pass

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Onion article about Robot Hazing at MIT Robot hazing at MIT *gasp!*

  

  Think cannons are awesome? Check out this hilarious article from The ... that police say involved butyl alcohol and compressed air. According to ... 13 inches in diameter, was reportedly forced to climb stairs built at a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  hairline fractures that race across your windshield when it gets struck by a ... longer under my control. Week four was when things started to get hairy ... feelings that were washing over me in waves. Instead of getting straight to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  ? Parfaits. So, I hope that you have been using the blogs to get an accurate ... , claims to have the largest selection of cold drinks on the East Coast. I was perusing The Tech yesterday evening when I happened upon an article

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

    and laughing at a bizarre article about the "craziest items seized by ... up to get my act together. Showered, dressed, brushed teeth - booked it ... friends for a while (THANK YOU TO XIAOYUE '15 FOR MAKING US ALL BREAKFAST

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  year and thus couldn't get on-campus housing anymore. I used to live in ... plan. WILG also has a meal plan, but it is all cooked by us! We get ... events to your Google Calendar through tinyurl.com/rushwilg

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  wanted to get more work experience, and those things were true, but i also ... strong the urge is to open emails or look at your phone or get up and take ... pace by half a mile per hour. doing so allowed me to try out faster paces

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  things I want to and need to get done than one in a day -- when there are ... year -- I begin to buckle down. I get efficient. I get into it. I still ... form of pork I find to be often more delicious than bacon? Chinese

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  complaints about foul odors and damage to the dorms caused by animals. "We had ... . "Sometimes the custodian will hear it crying or scratching to get someone ... Currently, the most emailed article on boston.com is this piece on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC Presents: Black Panther 2

  

  able to get ready for the screening. During this screening, we had free ... beginning of the semester. We knew for sure it was something we wanted to ... agency to see if we could arrange something, but as this process was going

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  and guidance, I was afraid of being seen as incompetent; unable to get any of my experiments to work. My insecurities are amplified further by ... , most students who do UROPs do not get to publish their results either

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  working to make an awesome video), am doing NextACT (a play put on by Next ... are you prefrosh? Long time no talk, although some of you got to enjoy ... visit from the MIT police before our party's ultimate demise). I write to

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  , there's a story on the John Bates Clark Medal being awarded to MIT ... to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge. Of the 29 Clark medalists to date

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  smiled up at her as I struggled to get back on my feet and cheekily replied ... initial plan was to dance to Make Me Feel by Janelle Monae. It had just come ... we finally stumbled on Magnets by Lorde/Disclosure, it felt too good to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  other aspects of our office. As a counselor on the Visit Team, I get to ... with our check-in process, I get to see many of you who come to Cambridge ... simply getting into a college; your goal should be to graduate. And quite

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  's posts, I wanted to share this reddit post by David B. '11, about his ... . While all your CS friends are going off to Google and Facebook, making six ... interview I've had, I get the question, "you went to MIT? What are you doing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

  as the prime minister. I sent the link to my friends, like, haha check ... entirely sure what compelled me to make a Wikipedia account and add more to ... . Yes, I feel some connection to this entire FTX catastrophe as SBF and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get ... picked up by news organizations across the country. I first saw it at cnn.com/education, but it's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  on an appeal to our logic (logos) by quoting statistics on shot blocks ... pursued by a company called TransCanada, that seeks to invest ~5.4 billion ... means of capitalism. According to a poll commissioned by the American

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  ASAP, we decided to take the ferry over instead of getting there by foot ... across Europe. It seemed like the perfect way to get into bike trekking ... .']solo-backpacking Europe,[/annotation]or something akin to that. I knew that by this point

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023