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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  making sure the ambulance is fully stocked, so I did the super long one to ... riders are there to learn and observe and basically be bossed around by the ... no good. So the new plan is this: I'm going to go in and observe

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  even. You start to think the dome is a mocking symbol of the work you ... think what drives students to succeed here is the goal to contribute ... what you've done to get to where you are. Answer the question, and it

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  to a few times. It’s right on the water, the way *my* park was back in ... reasonable, I can order on my phone, all the food is vegetarian, and it’s one of the only nearby places open until 11:00 PM. This place is freakin

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  assignments twice, and the only regular Athena commands that I know how to do is ... "MIT student." You can laugh at me now. (the irony is I used to be quite ... Today is Day 5, after my laptop refused to boot after turning on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Love that dirty water

  

  stories to tell on the road. Perhaps the best stories were provided by Prof ... I've returned from France to the States just in time for lots of ... that I've returned from a long time away, I'm getting ready to head out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  the way back to my office, I spied another movie event poster that might appeal to some of you... The (27th annual!) LSC Sci-Fi Marathon is a ... Your Mystery Hunt puzzle of the day: Dead and Gone I finished up

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Will the pie be bitter or sweet? Hint: it's a trick question.

  

  While I may lack Ben's ability to speak to the heart, Matt's wisdom ... outcome to the decision you receive from MIT, and the odds are heavily ... . Regardless of whether you go to MIT or elsewhere, your intrinsic drive and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  choose MIT, you get to take a gap year. You’ve been selling your soul to ... fight with my advisor to get this to go through. I was ready. This is ... you ask to get a cookie she is more likely to say yes. My [annotation

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  weeks. Python is easier to commit to since I'll be practicing it by ... track of time. I flew back home to Pennsylvania for the first time on ... 2023 to sneak up so quickly, and I opened my planner last Wednesday to

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT hacks Caltech

  

  cannon, the Fleming Cannon (belonging to Fleming House, naturally). They fire it at important events. Guess where the cannon is as I type this ... Building. There was a pretty plaque to go with the cannon. As you can see

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  -find, or determine where the tip of the tool is relative to the edges of your ... means I'll have to swing by the shop to make something awesome so I can ... wonderful and free as the Edgerton Shop, the only catch is that you have to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  get more green-blue clothes but i somehow never find the time to go ... . and thanks for talking with me, by the way. of course. i'm you. i ... walked to campus today and let the mid-fall breeze bite at my face. i could

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  pretty awake. The issue is, last year I always set my alarm to about thirty ... of time to shower (hair soaking wet in the Boston winter), get dressed ... 'm going to change it to 6-9, which was the plan all along. Get Rid of Stuff

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Responses to comments! I answered your questions. Like, fast this time.

  

  or did you contact the coach and (this is going to sound stupid) how ... visit a friend on Burton 5 would have to go all the way downstairs, across ... what to say). Have a lovely day. I really am sorry about the delay with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  of. Unfortunately, by far the most common scientific test for silk is ... wiggling absorbs) is dictated by how heavy the ball is and how many springs ... . I guess the moral of this story is to trust everything on the internet

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  groups, it's a lot more interesting to cook for myself. By the way, I hate ... . Okay, so let's get right to the... MORAL OF THE ENTRY: Cook with your ... . While you're punching the cattle, Sam's Mom is punching the dough. You

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  walking by. To take up more of my day, I decided to ride the shuttle around ... between all the things I wanted to share about the last couple weeks. I ... island to get their opinions on what it means to them to buy locally. As

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  , which is also a totally cool job – head of the biggest (and best but don ... not easy to give up a great job, but for me the chance to be Chancellor was impossible to decline. Some of my colleagues are puzzled by this

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  into the pi day verse 3/14/22 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  and doing what you love (even if that takes getting hit by a truck to ... available online Monday, March 14 at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The home of cool toys the best way to spend a Monday

  

  is by far the coolest toy in the inventory. So when I heard we were getting a fly-in for Marine Week Boston, I had to go see. The weather was ... without the coating of dirt (note to future Coure 16ers: that downwash is no

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 4, 2010