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  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  belonged to Ralph J. Slutz '38, was painted with the phrase "TECH IS ... fellows came to the conclusion that the best thing was to burn it ... . Needless to say, the car is now a total wreck. ...Oh. Well then

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  observes, being "out" is not the only way to be LGTBQ+, and the costs of ... people get the chance to speak, I guess? Like, bisexual erasure is real ... make the world safer to live in. Learning to the best of your ability

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  mainly academia orientated?" Now, the short answer to this question is yes ... , although party themes often run to the creative -- at some parties, you get a ... the point of all this yammering (and I'd better get to it fast, Adam

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  ="attachment_86574" align="aligncenter" width="768"] (The cat to the right is a random ... , so naturally, the MIT.nano staff want students to get excited about it ... involves testing fifteen different designs to see which is the most efficient

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  Dog 4 will eat Cat 1's food only if Cat 1 is standing by the food ... sounds. One of the dogs, who is a visitor, keeps pushing the door open to ... interruptions than to the class. My mom is walking in with groceries and is

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  and I were only able to finish the mechatronic parts of the project by ... –it’s kind of hard to see, but the carriage is moving up and down to vary the ... .. I need to get back on the grind 🏃 5 - a ceramic fountain that melted

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  .I.T. 5. Ask two of your teachers to fill out the EVALUATION OF APPLICANT BY ... Design Services—this copy of the 1973 application to MIT is a 30-page ... attracted your attention. Our basic approach to the purposes and goals of

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  's President. After the speech by our Class President, we got to turn our "Brass ... at them. This is supposed to remind us that we'll get through MIT ... for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  slightly shift into a parallelogram. We did our best to combat this by ... primary bottleneck with build because it requires a lot of hands to get the ... fort structure. It took about a week to get the components of the second

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  the raspberry pi to the arduino, the serial communication kept getting ... exhausted by 10pm when the lab closed -- I could barely stay awake to hang ... more stressful to be drawn into the all-consuming pit of 2.009 when your

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  my best to set up good practices at the beginning of the semester, but ... 'm Doing This Semester The gist of it is that, compared to last semester, I ... balance the narratives they find is extremely interesting to me, and I wish

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is ... 'd never been to the space before, but I was impressed by how funky the space ... amazing client and his parents, who were so willing to help us along the way

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  why, so my job is to look at the mechanisms of MFG function in the ... scientist. I do also get to be a mouse surgeon, which is fun -- we put ... didn't happen), try to remember forgotten cheers, and get way too

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  film making is one of the hardest things you can do, even when you're ... he made the song Tiny Dancer, which I could belt out and get close to ... if he’ll ever be able to write the way he did before. Finally, the film

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  identification.  In reality, most of the confusion is about how to best leverage a ... . When the questions began, I will admit to being a little perplexed by ... admission. From my perspective, checking the box, or boxes to indicate one

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  begin with an M, MIT is the fourth-most popular one to get into (third if ... mediocrity school, which was incidentally where I went to high school, by the ... nonzero energy trying to get on Myspace at school. Second, the terrifying

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  are Habesha”. “Habesha” is a term that refers to the ethnic group of ... Chinese-language post not mentioned here. The content is a bit different for ... the Jiangsu province area. I remember being able to speak Shanghainese

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  Be Named came to the realization that Nisha and I are, indeed, sisters ... .   This is nothing but reassuring to me. When I was considering going ... ’ve been going to the same school for most of our lives, so I wanted to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  dedicate to my writing than I really would have liked, which is one of the ... me a while to get my thoughts down on paper (or motherboard, as the ... keep bubbling to the forefront of your mind when you least expect them

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  other, and along the way, we just might get to know each other better as ... placed on the committee, and from there it is off to the races. Planning ... 's like and to represent our dorm. By the end of February, we've submitted

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020