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  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  honor of standing in a semi-packed lecture hall and speed-integrating on a ... solver in each round get to have another load of integrals dumped on him ... . Fun fact: 5/12th of the finalists live on a single floor in my dorm, an

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  to me and delicious! On the last Monday of the externship, we had an ... not on a meal-plan, did a lot of cooking! [caption id="attachment_50494 ... alumni work at! There is a huge list of companies to choose from, and since

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  many colleges, actual exciting things happen. The concept of a flash mob wasn't new to me, I'd seen it in an episode of CSI: Miami, but there was ... city-wide pillow fights, XKCD meetups, riding the T without pants on

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  little idea on how to tackle a certain problem; you will walk out of ... , the onus is on you to stay ahead of the game. Don't take any day for ... blog, right? Okay. Now we've got that out of the way, allow me to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  , combined with the stress from the rest of the week, was taking a toll on my ... think, and I was dancing on the roof of Baker House when I suddenly ... compelled to compliment the stranger on his excellent choice of attire. Me: I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  continued to hone his development skills since then, working on a plethora of ... email. On top of that, he's spent much of his spare time reading about ... side of things. I’m planning on attacking these essays vociferously over

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  . *happily shows us his set up for the virtual semester on the second day of ... he was commenting on the strange nature of virtual classes, where in a ... One of my most favorite classes I've ever taken this semester is 8

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  on the burden of cleaning communal spaces more than others, so we had ... Guys, in spite of everything that's happened, I'm having a college ... , well, "soft" sounds like "soph." IT'S SO GREAT. Living with six of my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  spread additional awareness of what MIT offers to help people on this day ... on Her Arms  - National Institute of Mental Health - National Suicide ... Garment District and got $10 rainboots, and dug through piles of discarded

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  mini-lesson on binary! We ended up finding plenty of candles, so the cake ... weekend in November called Splash, when thousands of students descend on MIT ... after this blog post I will not be updating you on the birthdays of

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  diamond on his very first day of skiing! Talk about drinking from the ... parameters, like the number of people working on different parts of the project. I swear this wasn’t on purpose, but the timing of this blog is pretty

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  sense of vigor when I saw the camp full of camels, all with saddles on ... on the other side of the water. “That’s Saudi Arabia,” he said, to my ... one to my liking to join me on the next leg of my adventure. [caption

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  ="aligncenter" width="1000"] notes on converting Fahrenheit 451 and Do Androids Dream of ... strengths of the works we read, as well as the limitations imposed on authors ... I signed up for a healthy and sane schedule of 48 units and a UROP

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  team (who taught my summer class a year ago) on Part 2 of 7.28x, MIT ... Thoughts on September: Me, now that it's October: It feels ... to hire me." A whole month of school has already passed, people suited

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  Graduate." It's full of cool ideas about things to do at MIT and the Boston ... off of it and realize that there's more stuff that I can check off. (For those of you interested in keeping a running tally, we're up to 15

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  we are. Someone on Reddit made an interesting observation that a lot of ... Some lessons, we learn by virtue of way of life. They’re the kind of ... simplicity of daily routine, implicit enough to be anything but noteworthy

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  that it has been a week since I first arrived at MIT. I won't dwell on the sucky-ness of being home, but rather, I'll reminisce on the good ... the metabolism of a madman. I was impressed. Next on our list of things

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  on school nights, or having a constant stream of group chat messages ... Dear prefrosh, Today, Friday, April 17th, is the first day of ... "]CPW[/annotation] 2020, except it isn’t. It’s the first day of CP*, a virtual answer to

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  lunch by yourself on top of the school bleachers and wonder about life ... people on the “fringes” of your friend group. Plan an extravagant senior ... being as frequent as I normally am. I think last year, I set a goal of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  until that fated time, but it will be. I tried to think of what high ... tens of other posts written by tens of other bloggers instead of being so ... think of to do for this post is one of those drawings where you smush a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015