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  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  or may not be carrying. I want 15 HOURS of work to amount to something —ANYTHING— because that would make sense. I want to not sleep and give all of ... spent on a little blue couch, waking up early, leaving my physical form to

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  I didn't include a lot of biographical detail in my biography ... member of the Theta Xi fraternity. Last Friday, with Rush winding down, we finally gave out bids to some awesome freshmen (and a sophomore!). They'

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Reischauer Scholars Program For those interested in Japan or international relations.

  

  entry including the secrets of how to live your life, get into MIT and ... from throughout the United States to engage in an intensive study of ... , students will be able to structure most of their work around their individual

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  " game where you have to "work together" to rid Hyrule of evil. 16 ... isle at Shaw's, trying to pick the optimal set of juices to buy. He can ... Pancakes. Why are we up this late? To feed you pancakes of course! Pancakes

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / Events

  beautiful moments i think too much

  

  talking to dozens of high schoolers about ridiculous survival scenarios ... 's been harder to notice the nice and pretty things in life: sailing on the ... tension of not-quite-capsizing, square dancing, the joy i get when working

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t Miss the Battle of the Bands Watch Ben Jones's band, Tremulant, perform with Marilee Jones at Battle of the Bands this…

  

  What: Battle of the Bands When: Saturday of CPW (April 8th). Doors ... Floor of the Student Center Who: YOU! Battle of the Bands will be a ... really amazing... guaranteed to blow your mind or your money back (ok, the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  Jeremy R. '16 with a link to a new McDonald's commercial for their new Suction Tube for Reverse Axial Withdrawal, or STRAW. It's a clear send-up of Jony Ive's breathless product launches, complete with pictures of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  really motivated to get a lot of stuff done. But then Christmas came. And ... differently over there. Namely, instead of 2 or 3 tests a term and then a final ... to students in, say China, it’s a big change from MIT where our

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving in England Celebrating a North American holiday in Britain.

  

  to be honest, instead of thinking, "Wow I've been in England for 2.5 months already!" I've been more along the lines of "I can't believe it ... 've got to say I would've rather served myself instead of being served. We

  • by Cambridge
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas the night before the 8.01 final and all through the Haus, everyone was studying like nothing else. Including me. Just not…

  

  ! Woo hoo! With that said, here are a few of the things I've seen while running around campus, finding places to sit and study physics. Yesterday, on my way to the Student Lounge off the Infinite, I saw that this hack

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  This doesn’t suck It's not particularly great, either. But you could go to Germany!

  

  wanted to say, really, but I had to think of something MIT-related because ... DID YOU KNOW? Upon hearing one of Bach's motets late in his life ... KIum said she would buy every piece in Uli's collection, and some of them

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  possible. Kind of a tangent, but I want to shout out the fact that ... 's the strongest way to join two pieces of metal), there's a bit of an art ... my own. It turned out that a TON of people wanted to learn how to weld

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  publication a must? Ex. is there an X number of times you should be published to ... This is entry #2 in my series "entries that need to be written because some of the new categories don't have enough stuff in them". Today

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2014 FAQ

  

  ’re excited to have you applying to MIT through QuestBridge. Here are some ... completed your testing by October, do not worry; you do not have to remove MIT ... December 1st, we will simply email you instructions with how to roll over

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  blogpost to thank my situationship instead of my college boyfriend. I still ... like? Writing this makes me wish I had written one of those "Letter to ... grateful to live in. MIT did a great job of setting me up for success and I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Beacon St. and Marlborough St. Rooftops and flowers on two streets in Boston.

  

  before I graduate I want to show you more of these places I love, starting ... Over the past few years, toward the end of my full-time undergrad and ... sun on my skin; I still see blue skies, light clouds, and networks of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  , and we know many of you have been awaiting news about our wait list. Today, May 15th - which happens to be the International Day of Families ... decision, including the 52 to whom we have offered admission. At that point

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 14, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  . We teach classes on topics of our choice to middle and high school ... instead of your TAs and professors (whose job it is to help you, and whose ... -be 2016s and to-be 2017s (AHHHH 2017? I'M SO OLD), and when one of them is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…

  

  This is partially a plug for a friend of mine, but it's also a really cool system that I think some of you might like. Ksplice is system for ... developed this as his master's thesis, and today released the system to the

  • by Evan B. '10
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  , And if we’ve no place to go, Let it snow, let is snow, let is snow! The first big snowfall of the year has coincided with the first of four final ... throughout the afternoon. (It reminded me of something a family friend told me

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 13, 2007