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  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  :30PM ET!"]progress to a live game show[/annotation] to compete for $399 ... 1: Hide and Seek Rules You are the player. You choose a place to hide and a place to seek from a list of 20 locations on MIT's campus

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  does lead to a lot of clay that doesn’t make it in. So if I started with ... ] My second goal was to make some bowls! The steps for a bowl versus a ... to make a teeny espresso cup or ring dish :). Do the first few pulls

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  problems can be in my grasp. 8.022, my love makes me a fool Since I, to you ... need to give you some context: a ridiculously eventful Thursday. A BRIEF ... due to the sleep deprivation. Not only did I have a powerful urge to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• 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 ... to be employed in the future. (And is a fully hardworking, productive ... by the Glasgow Coma Scale, in which I make no such promises. I have

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  ! Unfortunately, when you put in enough work to make a bomb calorimeter stop being a ... react to surviving a semester like this by thinking of me as smart and ... successful; working gives me a reference frame to force my thoughts into some

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Story of the 5 Wits A look back on my externship at 5 Wits

  

  tool to make their shield puzzle pieces and even a stained glass window ... selected to work at a magical company called 5 Wits Productions, where many ... temperature to drink by mixing hot water with ice. Memory, who couldn

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  their families to take part in a few time-honored traditions: huge, home ... everyone makes sure to catch the very end, when Santa makes his appearance ... , but her 2 brothers live out of state and only make it back to Jersey

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  working in a haze trying to make sure I was completely caught up in my ... Haley’s experience teaching Splash, a weekend for high school students to come to campus and learn a variety of topics from MIT students. Hope you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  overwhelming than I thought it was going to be - a confusing whirlwind of psets ... . At the beginning of January, I flew back to Boston for a month ...  externship program is a pretty cool opportunity for MIT students to take advantage of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Professorial Help Thanks to the faculty.

  

  at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, works to make metal ... help the world transition from a fossil-fuel-powered world to an ... ," he said. His latest attempt to help people through science lies on a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We, the people

  

  making a difference. Oh, and by the way, the movie was great. Gowariker ... 't get a chance to talk with him, but as he was leaving I heard his one ... a project manager for NASA. He goes back to rural India to a village

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  for the last four years. I came in as a premed, somewhat intimidated by ... lab that I didn't need to graduate, who TAed a robotics class ... track that I was on when I came in, by default, and it wasn't a lifestyle

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bloggers Wrapped 2019 aka i harvest everybodys data, my favorite pastime

  

  for Spotify to give me a glimpse once a year, so I use last.fm to track ... Like A Hole" by Nine Inch Nails Top 100 songs playlist: it's alright ... taste a bit, my top 100 songs playlist showed me that i listen to the same

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  will make a post compiling them all some day"]there was so much more to ... . Maybe your experiences were similar to mine; probably a lot of them were ... ! Summer before freshman year = time to relax."]desperately needed a break

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  much less, but I didn't think I made a great impression by being late to ... , my PI of three years made a suggestion. He wanted to nominate me for a ... to condense three years worth of research into a 10-12 minute talk

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  A collaborative post by guest blogger Jessica Quaye '20 and Caroline ... managed to make MIT feel like home.   [caption id="attachment_45255 ... but he spent a great deal of time talking about how important it was to

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  want to actually do that math. Then, I found a maths comedy special by ... or Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension (to name a few ... -variable calculus at my local community college. I began to feel like a real college

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  'd always said I wanted to paint a mural on Tetazoo, and I'd had my eye on ... catalyzed by a sense of urgency: I was leaving MIT so soon, and I felt like I had yet to make my mark. It's been (almost exactly) 2 months since I

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Doonesbury Conclusion Official Doonesbury news.

  

  Hall) which enabled would-be-ballot-stuffers to spew out over a million ... overcome ("It would be entirely unethical of me to stuff a ballot box, or ... , several hundred thousand votes bounced off our servers. By the time a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  .00). We had to make a game of Hangman using Python. Thankfully, my roommate ... had to take place, one that resulted in a poem that waxed philosophical ... was also a chance to see brothers of the house at their best. Lots of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014