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• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m A Famous Rockstar The title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous…

  

  to fill with people. It was AWESOME. A great way to start my mini-vacation (which is where I've been hiding). So I've got CD's now; stop by 3-107 if you want to grab one. You guys had me laughing out loud with your

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  experience from your friends, and you just want to see what all the excitement ... to refract certain types of light to get not one rainbow - or even ... foil. Rutherford, of course, did it to get a clearer picture of atomic

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  . People usually take the minute before the fire department gets there to put ... body to Mars" is "periareion." My dorm, Burton-Conner, is the best. Even ... modest reduction in room size, every 6 people in the dorm get a full

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  our energy is going to flow in, so when you're doing magic, you want to keep your mind as single-pointedly focused on whatever you're trying to ... lives complaining about things they don't like. So, you're adding power to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  getting rather long. My research experience will have to be represented in ... Where to begin? Well, in order to understand me, what drives me, what might be my short term and long term goals, it's important to go a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products. From the website: In ... teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and build working alpha ... must work effectively to realize this task, so students also learn about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 10, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  because I enjoy them. I'm getting better advice, or at least I'm learning to ... hang dry some things. Stop Leaving Lectures Confused. Edit: Go to Your ... to hold your hand through multiple examples. If you don't know that

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  talking to your professor when it's you, them, and a few other students who ... . All your classes, however, are more similar to the recitation format ... talk to your TAs and ask them questions because participation is inherent

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  could get woken up by my babies. They were glad to see me. :-) * Today ... Paris or Nicky). Headed to Loomis Chaffee for a school visit. Didn't get ... . Arthur gets to travel a lot for work, including a recent trip to Nigeria

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  , urging the graduating class to get out there and "do interesting and ... miles to get clean water for her family. Instead, she could spend that ... blind spots, we need to confront the problems and get to know them before

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? We're still processing many, many documents. Don't worry, be thankful.

  

  of hard work by the records office staff to get it that way. Admissions ... 15). Mail Services sorts the mail and brings it by the bucketload to ... -standard size/material envelopes (DHL, FedEx, etc.) get opened by hand. Documents

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2024 Episode 7: The Apple Music Awakens

  

   Lithonia by Childish Gambino. Angie said she fell asleep to No. 1 Party Anthem ... % 🤡) Gloria: Save Your Tears by The Weeknd (top 0.001% fan) Kai ... Dancers I: XVI. Fraction: "Things Get Broken" by Leonard Bernstein, Alan

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Notes A quick update.

  

  meaning to get to, and found out that Ben had just answered her question ... Thanks to reader Timur, who sent the bloggers some "holiday ... holidays. Over the last few days, we've been trying to catch up on all the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  prepare my kid to get into MIT" was (mostly) "don't try." Many of Raising ... autonomy at MIT in order to be able to choose your own educational adventure ... initiative, it's your resilience, it's your ability to take feedback, it's your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  want to camp Saturday night, a van may be able to return to MIT by 7 PM ... cars rudely decide to drive by and mess with my sound quality. I tried to ... other homework and trying to get this up before midnight, which prevented

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  emissions significantly by 2020 or at least 2026 to keep the global ... protein? I get that, but hear me out. In order to avoid devastating climate ... red meat. It's healthier and cheaper to increase your fruit and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  ICIC A journey to deliciousness

  

  going half a mile an hour to get up it. I've never biked up a hill like ... decided it was time to bring my casual bike ride form of training to the next level by joining the MIT Cycling Club for one of the Best Ideas Ever

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Sam Guess what? Ben's mom. Ha!

  

  my friends have gone back to school because I have to wait to get the ... horror....) Well, that's all from me. Back to your regularly scheduled ... CONTESSA blog entry to me. I know how much that entry must mean to him

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  (in which I get to play with the internet!), that zealous nature started ... somehow started to come easily. I feel invigorated by the work I do and what I'm learning, by my friends, and by all the sleep I'm getting :) I

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  too early too. But now that I'm a sophomore, I get to start taking ... Office get a sense of what your passions are and how you have explored them ... . What strains would you cross it by to distinguish whether its genotype is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008