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• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  was passed to get an ice cream machine for Simmons, but the plumbing to ... ). My dad tells all of us to take a turn doing something cool for the ... propose a way to spend Simmons funds. Sometimes it’s for things like

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission, but only if you are ... 't plan it. You can only prepare for it. Learn to improv. Sometimes really ... those skills. You may be surprised by the things you like to do, and the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  than part of your life.For me, by the time I got up to go to class, I ... intimidated by going to office hours, perhaps in part out of pride, for not ... idea of how to approach it. Luckily for me (and for some of you), MIT

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  advice blog (written by someone who went to all her Tuesday classes with ... dreaming of schools where they didn't have to worry about getting wedgie ... room to get a drink and trip over freshmen psetting together in my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  too much on, worried about not getting the opportunity to rest enough ... , for having had time to form friendships and find communities in person ... -whose-number-I-don't-know by Killian. I can imagine taking my lunch outside, maybe walking to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  to my homegirl Jessica. She was my prefrosh hostee for an overnight ... 't get to be Tim the Beaver, which cut me pretty deep. I haven't updated in a while. What have I been up to? For one, I went to West Virginia

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  opportunity to see what it was like. For all you skeptics out there, MIT ... , which mostly everyone went to, as evidenced by this picture: There was ... food at the CPW festival, which was just a taste for what was to come

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  I think I get my need for notes from my mom. Every day of my ... set to play on after students’ efforts for Kendall Station" - a bunch of ... student hiking Appalachian Trail to raise money for diabetes research

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  king cake and a run-on sentence busy week

  

  cake because I told him to Brandon F. '19 put on a shirt just for this ... around 6 but stopped by desk to pick up a package from Amazon (canned ... should take a shower and I take long showers so I'll get to bed at maybe 2

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  CPW doesn't get boring, even for current students. Despite many of us having classes and tests during CPW, we still put in the effort to throw ... them into the fire and have to start over. Sometimes we get creative

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  've gone through Rush enough to get a bid, you probably already know ... heuristic get to you. MIT fraternities are very different from fraternities in ... finally gave out bids to some awesome freshmen (and a sophomore!). They'

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sore Subjects state of affairs isn't so good. But here are some telescope pictures!

  

  light, is definitely by far the fewest number of units I've stood to ... emitted by gases in distant parts of the galaxy to derive a rotation curve for the Milky Way, and use that information to map out some of its

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  most of it for her. We hurried back from dinner in order to make it to ... most well-known around campus for being the go-to-woman for questions ... perfectly honest, it depends exactly what you mean by "not up to par," which

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  is referenced by name rather than number (although for reference, the ... to this blog post :) (Hence the title) Also, for more on maslab, I ... And, for your amusement, a recent test video (that's not my voice, by

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  loftblogging 3: liberation via customization i <3 process

  

  ] friend Hanu for help. At first, I had an ambitious plan to build a king ... —it's liberating! I was free to decide on the dimensions of my loft, opting for comfortable 68 inch posts to allow for flexible head space above and below. Free

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 26, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  , when we saw this recipe, we knew we wanted to make it by subbing the beef ... were intrigued by this Bon Appetit recipe that seemed to be another take ... impatient to wait for multiple more hours for them to actually become squishy

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Lobby 7 Gotta love it

  

  Here’s a little tribute to lobby 7. Since my start at MIT in January, I’ve walked through this lobby nearly every weekday to get to my ... ;   It’s a magnificent lobby all on its own, but even better for the

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  have to kick it into high gear for my 6.042 exam on Wednesday. I spent ... hours of sleep/studied for 20 hours/went to office hours and still failed ... studying harder and harder and harder for each exam but my scores never get

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  led his team to two New England championships. Gethers will now travel to Oxford University to read for a degree in the Philosophy, Politics ... as "the oldest and best known award for international study," includes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Moving Across The Pond From One Cambridge to Another

  

  . Patiently waiting to be interrogated and yelled at for misplacing all my ... long time D&D/MTG player in HS, it's been nice to get back into the ... DOTA2 players Tune in next time to learn about how I managed to get

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 6, 2014