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• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  Gaga defacing my MIT ID with a permanent marker. Be warned: the newspapers will spin you a cybertastically-juiceless tale of a bleach ... notice as a truckload of detonated TNT, of a Polaroid press conference

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  see, for the first time since 2006, there is FINALLY a hack on the Great ... actually being "on" the Great Dome, there's a hack mounted to the trench wall ... for, you silly goose. Affixed near the Great Dome is a near

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Rainbow Lounge Where the LGBT kids hang out.

  

  Back in the day (TM) when I was a prefrosh participating in the ... strive to: - provide a safe space for the MIT LBGTQ community, including allies - achieve a better sense of community with its cross

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 23, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  My sister graduated college a few weeks ago, which meant two things ... sounds like a house elf from Harry Potter and 2) my parents, who were in ... after you graduate?" Two years seems like a lifetime to me, although I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  erosion of diversity that appears to be accelerating on a global scale. This ... collapsed — that is, their catch has declined by 90 percent. It is a very ... can be done, but it must be done soon. We need a shift from single

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  As promised, I offered the chance to write a guest blog to prefrosh ... must admit that while I was very, very, very excited, I had a weird breakdown for five minutes when I realized I was going to college with a

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  Hello, I'm a PC. Hello, I'm a Mac. If you haven't seen one of ... buying a computer for college, I can share my thoughts. This blog entry ... to make a shortlist of the changes that I made or had to make when

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  memory. Sorry it's been a while since I've had anything substantial to say; finals hit a few weeks ago, after which I flew home immediately and ... two weeks hooked up to a machine with my tongue hanging out of my mouth

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Daniel Guillen Our football coach gets a surprise in Daniel Guillen '10.

  

  best a student-athlete could ever hope to receive. Guillen, a four ... well. "I feel this is a great opportunity and not just because of the ... a senior with 133 while also handling the punting duties. His longest

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  Questions 1. Sevi asked, here is a question for you about Mac ... inconvinient, how do you think? A MacGregor room is eight feet by fifteen feet. I ... for many dorms was just put in last summer. There is a website with

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  my postdoc that I should do a handful of further experiments, then ... . It was kind of a given that there would be a paper, and that I'd get to write it (this is my project, anyway, and I've been working on it for a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Finally! Pictures from the Conner 2 holiday party! Yes that was a month ago. Leave me…

  

  "... no worries, I suppose this is a mouthfull (or a keyboard full??). Hmm ... might be and when I didn't see a "did you mean..." message, I assumed it ... spelling of the word. That's a rather dubious and embarassing distinction! So

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  I know it's been a very eventful week for you guys, waiting for ... of 8:00 to get ready for the train. A shuttle + subway ride later, I ... metropolis of Saco in a couple of hours. I really wish I'd taken a picture

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  CERN, the world's largest particle accelerator. A triple-GEM consists of ... sheets of copper, making a grand total of three layers (the "triple" comes ... ,000 tiny holes (about 70 um in diameter) using a chemical etching process The

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  which I cheered and Sam trumpeted -- and, due to a malicious ball of burning gas 93 million miles away, I am now burned to a bright red crisp. On ... it's physically impossible for anyone but me to get a sunburn. And yet

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  some luck based on your circumstances. It's going to be a bit harder if you live in a more suburban or rural area and local bus routes don't pass by your house. However, if you live in a big city or within walking

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  You may have noticed that I've been playing a lot of video games ... 've been playing a lot of in the last two weeks is Slay the Spire, a ... , that's a lot of hours for a game I've only owned for eighteen days

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  A few days ago, I scrolled through my camera roll to find an old picture. Instead, I found a nearly one year old video that I accidentally ... . Hopefully some of these help take your mind off of college, even if just for a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  ubiquitous as a professional chat room, it was a project management term referring to free space in a schedule, like a buffer period. but there's a ... wanted to do a big task XYZ. they split it into three tasks, X, Y, and Z

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  [annotation note="called as such because it's no longer a weekend ... ! These couple of days have been a testament to how amazing the MIT ... impressive to me. I'm so thankful to be a member of this community :) As I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020