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  Nerd Love Beauty and the Science!

  

  to get kids interested science by working on fun projects.   Can ... voicecracks and so forth. However, I am happy to say this is quite false. True ... my forehead allow my friends to play connect-the-dots on the go, and my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2010
• Blog / Class Projects

  MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?

  

  There are definitely perks to attending MIT. For example, at MIT I ... an MIT student, you are held to a standard that other people just aren't. Ok, maybe not "held to a standard," but people do look at you in a

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  cw: gore ?  # The void is calling to you. You speak to the machines. You rose closer with the sun today, shivered on the way to lab, the morning pale and grey. There are jobs that need doing in the basement by the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  deferred because your application was already strong enough to make you a ... scores that make you look best, and we do abide by Score Choice. Is it ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  . My setup is so much better now. When I need to make a PowerPoint for my ... . I bought my computer off eBay in 2015, right before going off to ... indestructible, and according to the Internet a solid development machine. It had

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  have a lifelong goal of trying to make it onto Jeopardy, and so I view ... by Cole Porter as a response to Oklahoma! The Gulf of Bothnia ... -SHEF-skee”. The phrase “return to normalcy” used by Biden was first used by Harding

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  started to get shin splints, which, scientifically speaking, is when your ... then I moved to Boston, where it wasn't 100 degrees from 8 am til dusk, and I began to run long distances again. I kept ignoring the pain, not

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  about it, it makes sense. Students come to MIT for the greatest possible ... task—no, my duty—to finally say what needs to be said: MIT is a jock ... prove it to you. Dominating our Conference MIT is the most successful

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  , I almost forgot to take advantage of my (last :'/) biannual free post ... students struggling to graduate on time for the dumbest possible reasons ... told me that he convinced the EECS department to let him take his GIRs

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  College is generally held to be the last enchanted shore of youth. My ... tinged with a deceptive dearth of day to day drudgery (how do you get a ... strangely true. Going even further back, posts by bloggers of yore recall

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  were being rickrolled every time he tried to make conversation. One of ... afternoon unpacking and finished it off by heading out to a barbecue with my ... . Just don't look down if you make it to the top bunk.

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  , which is wacky, so I'm trying to make sure I have a fun ending 😀. This ... January, students are free to do whatever they want, whether that be staying ... allows undergraduates to work with professors and in research labs to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  (Spring 2012): Introduction to Cosmology Splash (Fall 2012): Introduction to Radio Astronomy, Introduction to Pulsars Spark (Spring 2013): Introduction to Radio Astronomy, Introduction to Pulsars HSSP (Spring 2013

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  approximately $40 because those body pillows had to be purchased. Unfortunately ... of making money. Besides, I don’t know of any such program that gives ... , about a mile from MIT. It was a convenient 8-10 minute walk to get

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  , I need to make time to do things I actually like, like music. Maybe I ... 9 to 5 gig down to a skill. Wake up, go to work, code, go for lunch ... days, table tennis on others, code some more, come back to my hotel room

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  , Raphael was struck by the idea that we didn't have to wait until morning to ... was wearing a nice dress and make-up and practicing my talk in the ... research mentor to see if he was smiling or frowning. He was usually smiling

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  places and making it easy for neighbors to block construction projects ... misleading. the comparison i prefer to make instead comes from the great gatsby ... at the time, so i learned a lot - every time i wanted to visit a new

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  BACK over to Harvard for Chem 27 section. By Tuesday night I can usually ... waiting for the professor to announce, "By the way, you remember that ... have a propensity to spit upon all popped collars and finals clubs, but I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  -based rather than real-time, meaning you can take as long as you want to make ... makes sense to drop classes even if you're enjoying them. Mostly saying ... while making it through the act, even if you want to avoid them later. In

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  how to breathe underwater. When W.W.W. returned home, exhausted by the ... month-long intensive Introduction to Architecture and Environmental Design class, taking a break to walk along the Charles with a new-ish friend

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014