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  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  in my first round of exams (don’t panic, I got above average on the ... the FRESHEST of fresh, like the Fresh Prince of Bel-air eating crisp lettuce leaves in chill weather.” Blogosphere: “Right… work on those similes

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  've already compressed your life into four lines on a piece of paper and sent it ... . Learn how to watercolor. Test the levels of bacteria on dropped food to ... Around the world, college students are going on hunger strike in his

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meta

  

  insecurities on my part. On the opposite side of the coin, when I write too many ... high school students about putting their own creations on top of the ... on what it would be like to be a hacker at MIT, the actual accounts of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  on you when you travel. You will need them. And of course, your ... specific deadlines throughout the summer so stay on top of your emails and ... . Everything Medical  Stay on top of your medical information card. There can be

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  assembled and ready to take on one of the most notoriously demanding classes ... research projects we would be working on for the rest of the semester. It ... based off of my conclusions, then wrote a final research paper on the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  instead of people. In any case, pursuing hands-on experiences in college ... , there was a lot of melted plastic on my motor by the time I'd finished ... a week. Fortunately with hands-on skills it really is a matter of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  ). On a quick side note, I've noticed that a lot of people on tours love ... Library is even one of the stops on the official MIT Napping Tour of Campus ... in here. Not a day goes by when I am not absorbed by a mass of tourists

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  to us later on, "Sure is a lot of brass in here isn't there?" When I finally saw a shoulder with a pair of shiny stars on it, I giddily tapped ... was a small statue of a man on horseback. The NCO explained that the

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  years of work they put in. On the other hand, people on the internet can ... using a non-standard font. This one only ranks low on my list because of ... of the week. Often the elevators are where I find out about cool talks

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  eating a ton of office snacks all the time. however, god did not put me on ... music as much, which is sad. i'll try to get back on that. God of War ... of IAP learning these songs on guitar for my boyfriend, who abandoned

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  uncomfortable as you reevaluate your perspectives on a plethora of social issues ... boredom and copious amounts of free time; binge-watching TV shows alone ... to message and video call different groups of people. Part of it might

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  gazillion followers on Twitter, so I'm hoping to pick up some of his secrets ... advisor)'s office on Tuesday in search for the answers to life, the universe ... untangled the unruly tangle of shoelaces that is my life schedule and turned

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  : the beautiful sounds of South Station (nothing) I am sitting on a ... to embark on a bit of an adventure, perhaps the biggest journey I ... me to San Francisco, arriving at 5 PM PST on January 6th, by way of a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  we managed to collect sixteen of them on our first pass. This was a ... ’t."]café[/annotation] with the entrance on the other side of a main staircase, some doors up a half-flight of stairs that connected to the second floor of Stata, so on

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  sets of users and servers. The normal realm here on campus is the ATHENA ... administrator of the Zone AFS Cell (which is different from having root access on ... virtual machines, and all of the virtual machines on one server froze

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  -minute talk on the life and times of Optimus Prime. Because just like ... asks for input from the students on questions so we get in the habit of ... student hands us a worksheet with a bunch of problems on it. There

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  .901, Professor Scott Hughes kept us on a sprint through a wild variety of topics on ... accordingly. It's hands-on, and has me rethinking a lot of my own older ... MIT classes are assigned a number of units to roughly scale their

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  Reflecting on the lessons of last semester, I knew I was going to have to kick it into high gear for my 6.042 exam on Wednesday. I spent ... through all of my other commitments, I studied from 10pm to 2:30am. Then on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  So yesterday I saw the first real snow of the season!! (come on, the ... :30 PM on Sunday. One of the biggest drawbacks to this system is that ... * Physics Instructor (in an email): Due to a confusion of dates on the course

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  Appearing shortly on the bench outside of the first floor nautical museum is a ... "I got it on Reuse," people say, with the emphasis in the word falling on the re-. When I see the word elsewhere and say reuse in my head

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015