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  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  equipped for is the sort of conversation we hope to foster on the blogs. The ... 've always had open comments on every entry. These blogs aren't only a place ... 's also a place for y'all to carry on a conversation with us and amongst

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  fraction of the most difficult course at my school. A course on American ... I just had the busiest, craziest summer of my life. I remember a ... taste of academic rigor. We learned with assembly-line urgency; papers

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  to MIT, I wanted to be the first man on Mars--or even one of the nerdy ... aerospace. From the start, I knew that MIT had a strong culture of computer science--’Course 6’. So much so, that about a third of my class ended up

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  hours in class analyzing those poems, and written 5000 words on a few ... powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.” I’m not going to make ... destructive because of the force behind it. (If it were, by Newton’s Third Law

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  number of students who got their job through networking, on ... collect information on is some kind of networking. The only rule of ... , write down some notes on the back. Or keep a notebook of the people you

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  Jones has a post-it note on his wall of a joke note passed between two of ... is a simple image of the aftermath of 2.007 on my room. (2.007 is a ... Chair for one of the final times. (Ruth has never held any position on the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Smashing pumpkins and other halloween treats Turning back time and dropping squash off of tall buildings

  

  Today is one of my favorite days of the year: the end of daylight savings time. There's nothing like enjoying the only 25 hour day of the year by catching up on all of the work that you were supposed to have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  the shower on the eve of his or her first physics examination ... on the chalkboard: Now, I wasn't really paying that close attention ... stunningly brilliant example of a diatonic descending 5ths progression in A

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of The Bands takes over Bryan’s Blog Hostile takeover of Bryan's blog for the night.

  

  : Shouldn't we be telling these people about Battle of the Bands? Shaye: yeah! BATTLE OF THE BANDS!!!!! It's gonna be awesome! W00000T!!! It's gonna ... these people about Battle of the Bands? Shaye: Alright, alright. Battle

  • by Bryan
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  've heard!) consider themselves to be on a premedical track. Many of them are ... Necessity is the mother of invention. So I was making meatballs ... before this summer, and I always have problems with cooking them evenly on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Up With The Mail?!? Honestly, I'm not entirely sure. But I'll tell you everything I know.

  

  same time on Friday afternoon, 12/9/05. If someone received a piece of ... promise you that nothing left our office until 12/9. Based on a variety of ... . I know that many of you haven't heard yet, and that it's enormously

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  train at one of the suburban stops, you weren’t getting on at all; there ... don’t have any carry-ons, the guard who is supposed to simply check to see whether your ID matches the name on your boarding pass will feel it

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  On May 18th I wrote a blog entry called “Ring Committee” which was ... went over like a bag of rocks with the MIT administration. Long story ... audience of this site. I support Snively 100% in wanting to have that

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ‘13 The second in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Today, we continue the series Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ... seem out of reach because of where family lives, but is that always true? Count on WJBF News Channel 6’s Fraendy Clervaud. He has the story

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  they set foot on campus. One of these papers is the famous list of "101 ... aware that some of the ones on my list are also on the official list. The ... In a very institvtional gesture of welcome, each incoming MIT student

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  was floating, ruminating on a series of fairly disjoint memories. It was ... thickets of trees. Vast expanses of green, morning dew accumulating on ... somewhere about how “crying on public transport” is symptomatic of being in

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  charge of organizing all of the projects and events that have gone on this ... everywhere. Many of these are "early returns"—desperate to get on campus ... , they trade 8 hour-days of working on rush projects in exchange for free

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 Robot Competition 2016 robots dump (replica) tea bags in the (replica) Boston harbor

  

  inspired waves of more hands-on engineering programs around the country, like ... "No innovation without fabrication!" This is the motto of 2.007, a ... students design and manufacturing hands on and culminates in the annual 2

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

  So How Does It Feel? Now all you have to do is wait.

  

  chance. And now I'm wondering - To all of you who just clicked 'submit' on ... memorized, and I grew tired of seeing the same little letters in the same ... found a spelling mistake. And nearly died of panic. After receiving

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Update We plan to release Early Action decisions on Monday, 12/15.

  

  on Monday, December 15th. In the next few days, we will send EA applicants an email on how to access the decisions online; I will also post a copy of that email here. We'll have more details on the decisions in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2008