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  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  lesson in RLC circuits to the seniors in AP Physics. I must be getting ... .005 but it's hard to feel like you're learning, you know? You try doing a problem that requires you to use the heat equation and see if you finish

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Of Dancing and T-Shirts (Guest Entry) Who had fun at CPW? I did!

  

  sure this is condoned. Just to get everybody in trouble, clockwise from ... 't get over this. Fortunately, the videos were preserved. When I hopped ... the background. I got my plane buddy Philip '12 to pull Tim the beaver

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for ... I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  , I've already returned my MIT mug to the Coop. MOM: THAT'S NOT FUNNY. Okay, so, in retrospect it may not have been the best idea to freak my ... morning I'll be getting another phone call: "THAT IS A FAMILY SECRET!") But

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get ... year. In the interests of time, I'm going to reprint an entry (edited

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  happened while I was on my way to my advisor's office to get his signature on ... excited about it. It's physics! What's not to be excited about? What's not exciting is getting an email from the head of the physics department about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  immediately. I couldn't go to the market myself since I had something going on at that time, but I asked my friend Tiffany L. '24 to get a strawberry ... black hole of fiber arts. (It could happen to you! It could happen to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  interview form and we will be sure to get the interview report. I sent ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... ’s see if I can answer some of the most common questions we get every year

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  beginning to punt in spectacular fashion), it was really refreshing to get a ... that depressed grad students and cynical professors say to get funding ... Fame. Okay guys, you did get me on the whole immaculate conception

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  enough time to get my fill of goofing around before the hell of spring ... . And though I had no idea where to host my event, or where to get the ... I’m no cook when it comes to normal food, but if stupid ideas were

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  getting used to, four years on the job. For every publication I design that gets sent to press and mailed to thousands of prospective students, there ... , so I’ll have to look into getting these printed and shipped to campus

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  that was as close to a celebration as I had come in quite a few years. A ... highly amused by my get-up and probably hopped up on the mere anticipation ... headed back to my room to bum around for a few hours before 6pm, which was

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  for over twenty minutes...) so the doctor left and I wasn't able to get ... order to get to their favorite restaurants. After a couple days of touring ... adventure. I broke my big toe into a bunch of pieces, then flew home to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  next weekend—they wanted to get away. I had nowhere to go; this is my ... money stopes coming in from the football program, we will have to get it ... Two weeks ago, while visiting my family in State College, I got to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  now it’s February... But this one is pretty close to my heart, and I ... ate a breakfast of cheese & crackers. I walked to my first class of ... to my second class. I grabbed lunch with some friends, and then trekked

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  arrived at the level of hunger where your sides begin to tingle as if they ... entirely sure how to go about tackling the last one. The motivation to write, though, is a precious commodity, and I’d like not to squander it, now that

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  have to bike to Northeastern three times a week. so far, it's been a pretty doable bike ride, but it's about to get brutally cold... I still dance on Mocha Moves, but come to at most one practice a week. I spend

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  with the resources and ability to get there.   We have launched ... MIT students design and model unconventional outfits to raise awareness ... professional Mean Girl, and I have come to be at peace with that. I have been

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  important items that engineers should add to their personal wish list. Now it's time to blog about something I feel particularly passionate about: public ... snickers, like "why does a chemical engineer want to be an actor, too?" But

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT, Time to Step Up? just in today

  

  Youtube video supplements in college admissions As applicants, what are your thoughts?

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 23, 2010