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  A week in the life

  

  doing something similar (in the "spending a lot of time on it" sense) with ... EHS training Yeah, I'm excited to finally have a UROP. This was my ... -ed service fraternity. It's a lot of fun. I have to go to the meetings, even if

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember, Remember, the 17th of December… things that happened

  

  perhaps it is an appeal to something which happened on a historically significant December 17th. I am going to continue to keep our reasons a deep ... fabricate such reports to perpetrate a hoax or seek publicity

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  come to CPW, in case a weekend of free food, free shirts, and hanging out ... anything to do, FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS IS GOING TO BE IN BOSTON ON APRIL 17 ... 'm Englishly allowed to say that, but whatever), in case you haven't been on

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  door button was right next to a lot of other important buttons on my i ... Almost a year ago, I met a kid who tried to convince me to come back ... submitted the video to Hack A Day. (In response to whoever commented, "that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  decoding of the serial numbers on the packaging produced a phone number with ... Maxwell's Equations in a Vacuum. Certain events, however, tend to stick out ... -cramming. Par example: one of MIT's best A capella groups decided to have a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  butter to any meal qualifies it as a meal of substance. Sure, it might not ... peanut butter on them? That's a well-rounded, nutritious breakfast. See ... a lot. My truths are bound to change. But in the end, understanding

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  Latinx studies, to a literature class on dystopian novels. However, looking ... cross-registered for two classes: one on Irish folklore, the other a writing seminar with a focus on re-telling fairy tales. Want to cross

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Are Beginning To Arrive Some thoughts for everyone.

  

  A few of you are starting to receive your decisions. To those of you ... this world that you are meant to do. For those of you on the waitlist ... very, very proud of your accomplishment. To those of you who didn't get

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  . From a homemade floating vehicle on the Charles River. Enterprising MIT ... Couchamaran. The Couchamaran is just what it sounds like -- a sofa on pontoons ... on an even more ambitious project: converting a 1967 Chevy Bel Air into

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  . 1600) to Mozart (ca. 1800). In the spring, a class called 21M.250 ... music spanning from Beethoven (a Mozart contemporary) to Mahler (ca. 1910). I loved having a class that taught me to listen, and was all set to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2013! this is how i do this

  

  remember that I need to hire new bloggers 2) I frantically Google for the old application posts to remember how to hire bloggers 3) oh right ... long form essays to a heterogenous blooming of writing, cartoons, GIFs

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  don’t have any carry-ons, the guard who is supposed to simply check to ... again, you might be lucky enough to be put into business class on the ... home on a random weekend like this. I go home for Thanksgiving, Christmas

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  ’s a lesson the Frosh will carry on from this: “It’s way better to work ... not feel bad about it. Success for her is temporarily measured on a Pass ... shifting +/- signs until a convoluted formula yields a green checkmark on the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  no bagels. I woke up on the floor of a dorm room the next morning to a ... the hotel failed to serve bagels in the morning. I did a campus tour ... the entire infinity of a drizzly afternoon, feeling like an intruder on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My schedule .

  

  lol, it's good to be a senior. 3:30am MANDATORY EDIT: In all ... thing you learn at MIT is how to manage a heavy courseload. The last thing you learn at MIT is how to manage without. I believe this. If you're a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  in three or three-and-a-half years, four years feels just right to me ... together to finish my degree. In fact I can proceed at a comfortable pace. I ... a second semester senior in high school. What on earth do you guys

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Entrepreneurship invasion I love it when students start useful companies.

  

  So yesterday, I'm in my office trying to catch up on email when a ... friend, and another guy have started a company. He wants to take a year to devote himself fully to the start-up. And he's trying to get a freshman I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We, the people

  

  '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 ... to get a turbine to generate electricity for the village -- can it get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer, Summer, Summertime "...and this is how i spent my summer vacation."

  

  November 2004, so I've got a handle on what I'm supposed to be doing in lab ... So another school year came to a close, and so begins the season of ... supposed to be a lot of fun. I'll be testing that hypothesis. Aside from

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  These are the droids you’re looking for (on Pi Day) beep boop boop BEEEEEP

  

  use our automated system to reset it. Visit MyMIT and click on the ... be available online on Monday, March 14, 2016, beginning at 6:28 PM ET ... same username and password that you use to sign into your MyMIT account

  • by Decisions Droid
  • March 7, 2016