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• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  . On Saturday I got some basic instruction on how to use a lathe, which ... to get in for another few months. I guess I just got lucky. (*How did I ... to 5 on her level of eye contact), and then left. I was invited to stay

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  MIT – Problem Sets = IAP! Today marks the beginning of IAP 2007.

  

  stands for Independent Activities Period. From January 8th to February 2nd, MIT students get the chance to enjoy everything that MIT has to offer ... : Baseball (Art of Hitting)- “Learn the fundamentals of how to hit a baseball

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  're intending to look at . Basically, it's extraneous, hard to get rid of, and the ... drive up close, you have to use a car that runs on diesel. There are some ... . One day, to us on Earth, is defined as the time it takes for the Sun to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  things, I'm on top of things, because everything I need to do gets done and ... , which was weird in the sense that I had to actually get up from bed to ... anything, trying to get things done but never really starting. In the process

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2021!

  

  wisdom, but we can’t write about what it’s like to live on Conner 2, or plan REX, or UROP, or decide how to pick your classes, or a really cool ... to be bloggers to share your garbage with the world https

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  on that in a minute) you're bound to find a group of people with whom ... people can end up where they want to be. It all starts with your temporary ... there so that the freshman can get the best idea of where they want to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ..and Here We Go Again! [by Ken Haggerty '11] ARTalk is back!

  

  it's even more satisfying and exciting to see ARTalk get back up and ... -related that goes on at MIT, from building large-format cameras to LARPing (for ... , Peaceful Purgatory, on the radio. I'm excited to share my interesting artsy

  • by ARTalk
  • February 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  students to explore MIT dorms and find their future home on campus. REX ... came out in May. However, after getting to campus and dancing, having my ... system that allows you to request to swap from your temp dorm into another

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  on our wait list via email that we will not be able to offer them ... letting us know how much you love MIT. We thank you for your patience during ... students to submit their final decisions so we could figure out whether or

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  want, but not how to get there." For them, I weep frozen tears of ... Rails's unwillingness to install properly on his computer. 4:00 PM It ... How and what would I write in the utter absence of the ever

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  to get really busy. But we went on the annual New York trip a few weeks ... petition your classes for Hass-A credit! We have yet to do so, but should get ... playlist), and let people work on whatever projects they want to work on! We

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  that I always get carded when I buy beer. I went to the Massachusetts RMV to get a driver's permit a few weeks ago, and the lady said, "You have to have a co-signer if you're under 18." I was like, "I AM TWENTY

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  Tube until eventually moving on to another project. Months went by until one ... was tasked with writing an introductory blog. He spent months trying to come up with the perfect thing to write. Something that would garner

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  or Senior year. The topic must be relevant to your major, but can be ... doing homework. What do you have to show for it? What monumental task will prove that all of your tooling has made you a better thinker? For most MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  get to overshare my life on the internet :D.  This year feels like a ... on average), thanks to in person 9am classes/meetings. I eat a decent ... major until the spring, so I had to switch rather to than just tack on

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  checks in and out. The front desk is also where you can get your mail, find ... -distraction walls. It's a good place to study without being tempted by your computer ... floor, but there's no way to get from one to the other without going down

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  to how the human eye works, how images are stored on your computer, how ... decided that I didn't want to play the HOW MANY TIMES CAN YOU USE THE WORD ... questions it raised sent us deep into the Internet, doing research on the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Brief Taste of Orgo Basically, Sam Maurer is a prophet.

  

  them when we play. How about you guys? Who are your favorite characters? Finally, have I mentioned lately how much I love xkcd? If you're still looking for something to take your mind off of decisions and don't happen to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  found each other online and chatted a little before getting to MIT. By the ... other real conversation we had- our first day on campus, trying to figure ... diagram: On to the editing

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / Events

  MIT Nightlife, Part II ABC, easy as duct tape, zip ties, Athena headers and packing tape.

  

  , it prints out a header page with your username on it so you can quickly ... outfit to Ruth's room, where she went all Project Runway on me and helped ... , doing the Vanna White move to point out my hometown on the map. Because

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 5, 2006