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  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  "IHTFP!" from my (I mean, your) dorm room window. It's to show you exactly ... of my time immersed in the intricacies of addition reactions to alkenes ... chemistry), not to mention the peculiarities of second-order ordinary

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 Numbers

  

  highest overall yield (the percentage of admitted students who decide to ... % international citizens. Many thanks to the International Students Association for ... represented state, as usual, is California (12%). Number 2 is New York at about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  imaginable- brush pens, washi tape, wax stamps, glitter pens, you get the gist ... us how to solve problems using Matlab- the lectures provide the ... fifth time since I’ve gotten to MIT).  [carousel image1="105487" image2

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  I have heard the term “Shoulder Season” to characterize the time ... vice versa). I am, however, going to co-op the term to also apply to the ... group of rising seniors (and other underclass students) who are anxious to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions We're sending out wait list decisions today.

  

  , we've been waiting for all our admitted students to submit their final decisions so we could figure out whether or not we could go to our ... admitted students choosing to enroll at MIT (also known in admissions

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 11, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  , stranger! By this point, it was raining, so I suggested that we go to the ... outside. He flew in late last night (way after Raphael and I went to sleep) and fortunately made it to the hostel without too much difficulty. Our

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding 1000 digits of pi nom nom buzz buzz

  

  social. The pies were oh-so delicious. I want to share with you some ... event where makerspace mentors welded on digits of pi to a steel apparatus ... contributed by spot and arc welding 850 digits of pi. [embed

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LIGHTS. pretty pretty

  

  As you may or may not know by now, this past semester has been a flood of celebrations - all to commemorate MIT’s 150th year. These ... Art, special library archives, etc.) Well I’m here to share some photos

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Events

  July 4th Pictorial FIREWORKS!

  

  So where did I decide to watch the fireworks from? C! The MIT Sailing Pavillion Now I'll tell you why, after I show you everything else ... excited electrons in the sky. I stopped by Ashdown (grad dorm) for free

  • by Bryan
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Won’t Be Long Now… Some pictures to tide you over.

  

  envelopes and packages have been processed by mail services and delivered to ... provides a bit of closure to an important part of the admissions cycle. It won't feel real until Mail Services comes to pick up the packages later

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  somehow managed to kill it very quickly by either overwatering or ... generally measure my mental health by how often I remember to take care of my ... each wing has multiple lounges, where people come to hang out and study

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our friends

  

  students passed away. James E. Roberts Sr. was known as "Big Jimmy" to ... Jimmy memories. Two stories come to mind to exemplify what Big Jimmy meant to me. The first was freshman year. I had a crush on a sophomore on my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  to how the human eye works, how images are stored on your computer, how ... Sudan, etc. While reading an article, I happened to sit up straight, so that my line of sight was no longer perpendicular to the laptop screen; I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  those entries. Instead, I want to focus on something much more grandiose ... poll on Doonesbury.com asking readers where Alex should go to college. As nerds procrastinating psets are want to do, MIT students hacked the poll

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Poetry from 5 AM This Morning Don't worry, I drank an entire MUG of espresso

  

  what I wanted to post this weekend. A month into my time at MIT I can ... week has been a wild ride. To quantify it: Five hours of sleep per ... my hall’s kitchen at five AM this morning, trying to study for a test I

  • by Powers '23
  • September 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  activist joins up with MIT instructor" By Ron Fletcher The Boston Globe June ... solutions to the fundamental, seemingly intractable problems that plague ... focuses on using technology to solve problems in developing nations. We

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  , encircled by the Andes mountains’ snow-capped peaks on one side and the vast ... and plagued nightly by the severe lack of central heating, about thirty MIT students tried to better their Spanish, interned at local companies

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Econ Prof Wins Nobel Prize (with video) A pretty exciting week as Peter Diamond PhD '63 is the latest MIT professor to…

  

  Chemistry). MIT held a press conference to announce Prof. Diamond's win. Here ... .330 Introduction to Numerical Analysis with Prof. Toomre... do any MIT students ... from a red-eye flight from New Zealand via San Francisco; the prize was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  All Hallow’s Eve You're never too old to trick-or-treat...

  

  handed out treats to anyone who stopped by their rooms/apartments between 9 ... , and I still have some other work to finish before sleeping. For the ... . And my friends and I took this opportunity to galavant around our dorm

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Watch this! An MIT blogger alum deservedly gets a moment in the spotlight.

  

  will not link to here.) The folks at PBS's Nova have been producing a ... & Engineers. A now, the producers have shown the good sense to ... , and really important, research work. Would you like to hear the short

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2010