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  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  : we have a weekly meeting on Sundays to help plan our competitions! With our regional happening in a couple of weeks, there’s a lot of work to get done… ESP Retreat: Every semester, ESP has a retreat to talk

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  would be hard-pressed to find a piece of technology as varied in usability ... standardized American can to shame. It's a totally different cultural experience ... accustomed to all sorts of odd situations in lab, but it took a while to get

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  mural on my whiteboard. I have a confession to make: I’ve never ... to town and parks their train right behind Simmons. This is one of those well-known campus-wide facts that everyone looks forward to but isn

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  's around! He's a busy guy, after all), whether it's to chat, to get advice or an ego-boost, or even to crash on his couch. And so a few of my friends and I decided to repay Ben for all his awesomeness by throwing a mini

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  to make the plushie will be provided. Curious what exactly a plush ... on dumplings. Come learn to make them, or just perform a metabolic ... to deserve it.  Bonfire Lounge 17:17-18:17 DFTBA Come watch a few

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  to tell but if a picture's worth a thousand words, then 18 pictures are ... does not have a license for Matlab! I have to use Octave! That's why my ... ) to do some of my modeling -- overall a pretty freaking sweet program

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  I'm working desk for 4 hours tonight to get a head start on my 10.302: Transport Processes homework. I have a busload to do this weekend and I ... to get a move on early, even if it means tooling the night before a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  of bacon of comparable value to your kidneys in the living room with a ... things I want to and need to get done than one in a day -- when there are ... time to buy groceries so you haven't had a meal in a week and you've been

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  , I responded to one such inquiry with the following: While there are a ... to read this blog entry that I wrote a number of years ago sharing some ... themself, including whether MIT is likely to be a good cultural fit.  The

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  B1ner Cribs come see 10+ rooms on Burton 1

  

  , these are all pictures just from my life :) I’m so happy to have a room ... , which was a group room purchase to create more soft light. Also: the lamp ... [/annotation] by Jess. K '10. A few things have changed -- postcard-sized posters

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  Longfellow bridge was evacuated. A patrol boat crisscrossed from one bank to ... ." The fireworks started, finally, to cheers from the crowd and a rumbling ... actually as exciting and mysterious as I tried to make the rest of this blog

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Transfer Decisions Will Be Sent Today see title, more or less

  

  to admit fewer than 20 students. It is a difficult process: as usual ... applicants, receive decisions via email from our office to the address listed ... chagrined about those we could not. As a former transfer student myself, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You’re Still Our No.1 :) less than 2 days left!

  

  one class, or make that three. I just took a test and I'm not sure ... QUOTE(S): "If I have kids, I'm going to name the first one "Control ... !) --- While we are on the subject of speeches - for all to-be valedictorians

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 12, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students: MyMIT Updated Important and cool new information on MyMIT: check it out now.

  

  . Online Communities. There's a list with links to various online communities ... Students admitted regular action have a whole bunch of new stuff on ... students admitted to the Class of 2010, as soon as this Saturday! Check out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  pronoun, as if it’s been said so many times that we found a need to shorten ... valuable, to someone valuable. A similar pattern is with English “dear”, which also apparently used to mean expensive. In a completely unrelated

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  2 types of games. Finite games where the goal is to win on a ... work to get grants, artists get stuck in bubbles that make it hard for ... , and the realistic impulse to be a part of and be recognized by the

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , and New Mexico. When we return from such travels, we have to write up a ... at a high school in NJ for five years, went to HGSE and now is an ... have to drive a long way to get to anything. This was the first time

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  Modern Healthcare Magazine.  During the 2008 he was a consultant to the ... come to MIT? A. I chose to come to MIT twice - in 1983 as a student, and ... and you end up with a wonderful place to study economics as an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  little arguing I could do to change her mind. Clearly, I needed a ... a fire alarm and have everyone in my dorm freeze to death in the ... would require me to cut out a small patch) and would tell me its chemical

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  from the other day in class and add a little something to them. Just. For ... afternoon spent in lab. Lab 1 is to build a fluorescent microscope. Our team ... -attempt-to-make-this-semester-and-cause-you-to-commence-self-loathing"). Ate

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012