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  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find yourself wondering: How did THAT get there? Four score and zero years ago

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  confused that they managed to get Simmons right but somehow messed up the MIT ... aerodynamics testing there, and I was sent on a reconnaissance mission--to get ... , a masters student (known affectionately by many as “Blue”) to get us

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  ShuttleTrack and decide that I would get to work faster if I wait for the ... -- once I tried to get my media out before the autoclave was done exhausting ... vacation since finals ended due to moving and setting up the apartment)... my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  seemed to be, “I feel like I would get different results if I took this ... to know someone’s personality is to...well...get to know them! I’ll let you come to your own conclusions (and read other gems from the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  [dare I say more competent] people working for him while he gets to enjoy ... , we got to add Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and current CEO of Facebook, to that weird, weird group of people. After finding out that my name

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  intersection by getting way into the first assignment for 16.83, which is to ... like to work on -- getting an orbiter to Venus is an interesting ... After I graduate in June, I’m planning to attend grad school and

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  exhaustion you get when you spend a whole day bouncing from class to class ... an important thing. Because otherwise I wouldn’t be able to get through ... right now. Sure, I tell myself that I’m going to get four years’ worth of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  becoming the person that I want to be? Is the pain on the way to getting ... contracted, collapsing from a community to a few lonely souls haunting a space filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  additional living spaces began soon after. Despite an intense desire to get ... west and play to the east. After classes, you could head back to your ... manifestation in 1924. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology goes to great

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  protesting to get. We got it after basically asking nicely, and a few email ... color? Perhaps you still have the ability to see color, but let’s pretend everything around you is grayscale. All of your clothing, furniture, and decor

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  development projects. Most of all, he told us never to get discouraged or give ... . Muti is far from the capital city. It takes a 9-hour bus ride to get to a ... for four hours to get to my father’s village in the countryside, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  your mouth to trigger even more pain receptors), ice (which somewhat ... , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I often turned to pakaprow. To me, it brings a sense of comfort like no

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  medalist, who also happened to get an 800! The same goes for people who are ... to get into MIT" it's not a question I or anyone else can answer ... to accompany and support the claims I had made. As one commenter put it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  community of writers that you have gotten to know through your screens. These ... or were just cool and awesome people, and in getting to know them and ... sometimes worry I get way too excited to see underclassmen compared to how

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  .. I need to get back on the grind 🏃 5 - a ceramic fountain that melted ... paper, this sounds really cool, and I was super excited to get started ... to push any of them over the finish line, mostly due to lack of time

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  sophomore, my friend Carl '07 introduced me to a cute curly-haired aerospace ... August 2006, he asked me to marry him in Killian Court with a bunch of tour groups looking on. I think that gets you caught up.) Adam and I got

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  the raspberry pi to the arduino, the serial communication kept getting ... more stressful to be drawn into the all-consuming pit of 2.009 when your ... to be in a startup, like a new burgeoning start-up that’s trying to get

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  1880s. WXGS welcomes you wholly as you are and encourages you to be your ... Gender Studies. How to get access The Cheney Room is open to all women and ... .[/annotation] In 1882, MIT officially began admitting women to all departments

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  nose to the paper, pencil poised, ready to race across the page as if those 60 seconds were going to be my last, and then loudly putting my ... people were better than me.  By the time I got to MIT, I didn’t have the

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  little boxes on Zoom and everyone seems so calm and ready to start back up ... unsupervised with Dog 2 because Dog 2 tried to bite him once. Dog 3 hates that ... , who has taken her place. Dog 2 sheds a lot, so it's best not to keep him

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020