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• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  Oz. -The hottest part of our trip was, surprisingly, in upstate New York, on our first day of driving. The day that our air conditioner also broke down the most was, not surprisingly, in upstate New York, on our

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Maseeh! A look into MIT's newest dorm

  

  corkboards on every floor so clubs can advertise about events and new ... As you may or may not know, I'm a Maseehdonian (aka I live in the new castle, Maseeh). Since it's the newest dorm on campus, I don't really

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  Great front page article in today's New York Times on the proposed ... determine the DNA sequence of thousands of tumor samples, looking for ... of all such mutations, which would be freely available to researchers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  choose your own classes? that was entirely new to me. the whole concept of ... technical screen, but with an interviewer instead of with a website. the ... on-paper details feel like [annotation note="for me, of course. it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  all about two things: demonstrating the fundamental properties of ... “classical” (non-quantum) limits. Most of the experiments in 6.2410 use quantum optics – think lasers, mirrors, and whatnot. Except instead of the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I hurt myself again And again and again and again.

  

  whatever), and repeatedly getting caught on the laces of my badass new shoes ... on one (1) set of steps in front of Senior Haus and nearly hitting myself in the face on the railing, skidding across six (6) feet of ice

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  . And just to put their own stamp of approval on the class, some hackers ... .01, and 6.02 in the new curriculum. There are a lot of students that don ... Hi, everyone! Sorry that I vanished off the face of the earth. That

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  kind of defense is man-to-man defense, where each player on the defending ... gaining control of the ball) if there are more players on offense than ... differences in how various games treat defensive responsibility on one end of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Funnies An Appetizer

  

  , quite late, I was working on a PSET with Michelle '11 and Jon '11 (both of ... at least four entries that are in various stages of being writ. I don't have a whole ton of time for an awesome entry right now, but I do have

  • by Snively '11
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  level of education on a footing equal to my new classmates by simple ... naturally at 8 a.m. on a daily basis and I've found a semblance of work ethic ... immediate peers at home had gone on to university, and a spread of gap years

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  My first Fourth of July in Boston was spent on an inflatable 61-inch ... on the busiest river in Boston during the busiest hours of the busiest ... . Breathlessly, I looked down: it floats! Like, on top of water and everything! And

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Events

  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  on the submission website. "Affirmations" has been a running joke ... been before, as a frequenter of [annotation note="the other libraries on ... time working with css (outside of, like, designing post templates on old

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  student on the #9 bus (again, meeting new people = the best), who ends up ... blog entry like that. I should work on it. Anyway, I would like to ... years ago my Pi Day was filled with lots of screaming of excited

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  3 / A team effort Roll Tech: Your newest Intercollegiate High Team silver medalists!

  

  System, clear my inboxes, and check off things urgent on my todo list. Of course, I also spent a good chunk of time in lab working on my final ... for an away competition!"]a record 7 of us[/annotation] on the MIT

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  class on thursday, but there isn't that same sort of confused despair that ... from experiments, and i could just focus on doing things. this past week ... on them. but they're small, and it's very easy to mess things up

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  .  This class is known to be a massive time commitment. On top of building ... Baal'? No thanks, I’ll be soaring on the wings of eagles, chief ... :45a AM on Tuesday. I woke up freaking out, I changed fast, woke up my

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I play football at MIT?

  ever! In front of an enthusiastic home crowd on Senior Night, the MIT ... New England Football Conference crown and were selected for the 2014 ... garnered a lot of press from coast to coast, with announcers pointing out
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things That Are 20 DID YOU KNOW? 1988 was a leap year.

  

  suspended. * Mike Tyson crashing his $183,000 Bently on Varick Street in New ... * Sonny Bono (of Sonny and Cher) being elected mayor of Palm Springs ... . * Super Mario Brothers 3. * The death of Richard Feynman (abdominal cancer

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Preparations First my birthday, then halloween!

  

  a glorious 2 extra hours on the tracks, right outside of New Haven. I ... name of the dorm superimposed on a brick wall (every room in Baker has ... now the ripe age of 20 years old, after a weekend of birthday

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  International Selection Day 1

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... a selection committee meeting: it was the first day of international ... conclude selection of the international class. Relatedly, I had a great

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2005