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  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  telling me to look up. The moon, jupiter, and venus in a right triangle. Over Kresge. I hope you got to see this, it's a pretty incredible sight ... from being relieved of having to work on a 10+ year old sun machine

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  a series of classes that a student can choose to take that helps build ... activity, no one on my team knew how to build a bottle rocket. We relied ... would our hopes and dreams be dashed by a failure to launch? Before we

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF 2015 Recap researchers talking, and talking to researchers

  

  were at ISEF to a little reception. While some people had to stay with ... a 'lay explanation', i.e. to describe it to us as you would to an ... Two weeks ago I flew to Pittsburgh, PA, to attend the Intel

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  under a rock in a barren desert devoid of Internet connection). I went to ... So, compared to my IAPs of years past which I spent studying abroad ... low-key. ...I basically just went home for six weeks. But I had a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  -control aircraft to fulfill a number of mission requirements, and do it better and ... water to a 100-meter altitude and then dump it out of the airplane like an ... the weather to be over 50 degrees. It's a simmering 70 degrees here

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Blogger Pets some serotonin for your noggin

  

  's attached herself to my mom. she's a bit of a picky eater and likes wet food ... is a bunch of photos because it’s so hard to choose between all of this ... though that is not what Dom is short for. i like to call him a dirty little

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 13, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  can probably use to buy a comfortable chair for my room from the online ... bad when a friend wants to say "hello" or if a heavy object is about to ... Smoots as a measure of distance? See? It's actually really easy to go

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  wanted to just sample a new song or album before you paid anything for it ... me thinking that it might be nice to create a collaborative playlist ... a high schooler to have on hand in the September period of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  a weird sense of nostalgia every time I walk past Flour on my way to ... feel like I used to be happy -- and then Covid neatly excised a year and ... . I once said that to a [annotation note="my urop lab is aggressively

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  places and to travel broadly in your time away from school. Just a month ... EPIC, but was also a sweet finish to a hectic junior year where I took ... at night, because one of my secret dreams is to work as a multilingual

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  : spelled with a “z” at the end to feel more casual. There’s a whole other set of ... to NYC for a second-round job interview. The company put us up in the ... to bankrupt last winter after it hosted a $35,000 per plate fundraiser

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  3. learned about cornhole 4. went to Nightmarket It was a very good ... Horror was, to the chagrin of many, actually a fairly watered-down version ... beanbags into the hole. It was a surprisingly idyllic way to spend a Friday

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  the airport, drove to my grandma's house a few miles away, and spent ... . After dinner we finally made it to our actual house. After a rather ... " places, I've decided to take a hit to my resume and spend what is likely to

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye, for now

  

  this is basically a temporary goodbye (and a permanent goodbye to the ... Jony Ive video?). Anyway, I'm very happy to say that yesterday I joined ... next 6 months! ^ from the Infinite Corridor to 1 Infinite Loop  

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my spork.

  

  . Today I used it to pry a Simmons window shut when the handle failed. My ... everywhere in between.   It’s been used to eat freeze ... small things. For me, a love of wild and beautiful places demands

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 20, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Rachel was at SF Pride with Facebook

  

  was actually a cupcake. Practically all of the interns managed to roll ... signs last Sunday, coming out to downtown San Francisco to support the ... -- on the bus there, I ran into a flock of Google interns wearing this

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 1, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Science is Delicious! Zen and the art of hot chocolate

  

  Just a few hours to go, and I know you're feeling the stress. We're feeling it too, believe it or not. I have to tell you that the selection ... , wonder and sleep deprivation that MIT students come to embrace. I don

  • by Dave McOwen
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Latest Updates Updates about MyMIT and the EA interview deadline.

  

  your application in advance of the deadline. Now is also a good time to ... So, MyMIT is back up, and things are back to normal around here. (Or ... Counselors (ECs). The deadline to contact your EC is now this Monday, October

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu To you, and you, and you and you and you.

  

  figured today would be a good day for me to hang up my blogging hat. I ... you'll get a chance to be part of the community here. Please let me ... opportunity to help people discover the MIT that I know. Those of you who are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Your CPW Host The host assignment meeting was tonight.

  

  back from his trip to Italy) If your assigned host is back from Spring Break, expect to get a call/email from them tonight or tomorrow (you may ... don't, I assure you that you have a host]. We also have some backup

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2006