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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  struggling to take it all in. Don’t get me wrong. I love it here already. Sure ... overwhelmed by the barbarians (thank you Dictionary.com for your invaluable ... is one supposed to describe the experience of plunging headfirst into

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  clubs and activities. They also learn about the resources available to ... through hard times. We even have a play put on by students to provide useful ... Water War and for the Top of the Sponge roofdeck party. It's funny to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  start with the starting materials, it's strenuous and difficult to get to ... arrow goes from the nucleophile to the electrophile. Enantiomers can't be ... living in a universe of Organic Chemistry. To the point where Orgo and real

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  influenced by the majority votes. I don’t intend to delve into my specific and ... report to the CEO. This time however, “No” gets reported to the CEO and the ... many of these subjects hold influence over what gets reported to the CEO

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  ? Whenever you get a chance, try to read as many of those as possible. You ... called “The iCampus Student Prize”. This blue piece of paper stapled to a ... what I was getting myself into at the time. You see, back when I arrived

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  getting to page 104 in The Giver, making me the only person at MIT who was ... this week, but I was just never really in the state of mind to finish ... worried little kid, because we all had to line up at stations and get our

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  have to drive a long way to get to anything. This was the first time ... people in attendence in Denver, by far the biggest crowd we spoke to on ... Albuquerque, but we had decided ahead of time to break up the drive by staying

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Time Traveling and Teleporting

  

  The Time Traveler Convention keeps getting bigger and bigger. Now, three of the media outlets I most respect have covered it -- NPR, The Economist, and, this morning, the New York Times -- on page 1 of the national

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  train, went upstairs to the main terminal, and were greeted by this ... getting everything all organized we headed down to the trains. (That ... time to get back on the subway to ride around some more. This is when it

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

   flickered back on, and I happened to find myself looking down the lecture hall at ... , picked up a piece of chalk, and turned to the chalkboard. Those of us ... , explaining that he "wasn't expecting to have to get up and teach." This earned

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  have a lot of time that we don't know what to do with. in fact, in the ... changed SO much since then. at MIT, you don't really get time to read unless ... sophomore year of high school but decided to pick it up again because of the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  computer died. Or the time it took multiple hours to get a simple piece of ... research project...or the time I spent literally ten hours trying to get a ... benefit of having the tools you need to get the job done. On the other hand

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  . the rain started to get worse and by 8pm, lightning crackles in the sky ... the spring."]close-to-back-cover page of genki 1,[/annotation] though ... again in order to not disappoint aikawa-sensei. the story goes like: i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  introduced by Ikea, the Korall Fisk, to a picture taken in 2006. Then in 2008 ... by your side if you want to discover the world below the surface of the ... to be SO interesting. Perhaps one day I’ll join the ranks of video

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  , or understanding the progression of disease in humans. I also want to ... , from TV shows and video games to social media and the concept of spam ... , how to navigate the seemingly unfathomable internet and hone my voice

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  bound to your decision. To change your mind (by the end of sophomore year), all you need to do is fill out a form and get it signed. Basically ... major by the end of their freshman year. If you're really, really unsure

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  to include an element on the ring was sometimes by thinking from that ... was also wonderful getting to meet and work with the other members ... a line of almost 1000 people, first to get raffle tickets, and the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  input the melody to a song, and then it automatically generates a harmony. Clicking the Compose button links you to a page where you can record a piece ... imagine the winners page on the web.lab site will get updated soon, so make

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  MIT password and asked him to check for me. I got to experience the torturous thrill of waiting for the admissions results page to load by proxy, via my ... applied early to MIT. We of course wanted to know if the other had gotten

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  about serious science; it's also an opportunity for the MTL community to get together and have fun before the spring semester starts. Unlike ... , when our blogs were restricted to use only the top 1000 most common

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025