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  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  conceived. Its purpose is “to promote mental health and community engagement ... . Mostly, I default to icky canned food and sometimes vegetables. I have ... realized that mathematics had little application to my life plan. I love it

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  Cambridge trying to shake off its 700 year layer of dust and pick up some MIT ... have led me to a different perspective. It's not all cranky tradition on this side of the pond, and Cambridge has a few tricks of its own to share

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  can just drop a class without "replacing" it. But who listens to their ... else, I want to make it clear that in my opinion, the class itself was a ... so cool. I sat in a lecture and it was! But dude. You can just drop a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  we using something around here?" "Is it a can of paint?" "Is it a can ... 't ready for this to be a new year already, but it is. I rang in this new ... try at suggesting a party game ("Allison can go from Harrisburg to, um

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  to go home and get my instrument, so I had to take it to class with me ... mouthpiece stuck in it perpetually, it doesn't fit in its case. So I had to ... from my presentation, though... hard as it is to believe. Anyway, I went

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  the right. you can try to adjust the cart so that it’s pointing forwards ... to stand behind the cart and push it in the direction you want to go: the second is to stand in front of the cart and pull it such that it

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  freshman, immediately came to mind. I think it's a gorgeous shot. And people ... actually thought I was a good enough photographer to take that? It was taken ... untamed, moving too quickly. Gods struggle to survive in such conditions

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  undergrad, I found it difficult to context-switch between so many obligations ... ’s program. As many other twentysomethings can probably attest to, adult ... common critique of the MEng program is that it allows students to “hide out

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  peeking my head back to see who it was. At one point I thought it was Liz ... , but I think everyone is guilty of this and it peeves me to no end. Why ... This [annotation note="Independent Activities Period, aka the month

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  witty and brilliant. The students were quick. And it's almost redundant to ... (can I use this expression?), it was borderline miserable. Once in a ... when seen from afar).   10:00: off to the MIT tour. It was pretty much

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

  Summer Programs For MIT Students Planning early -- MIT-sponsored ways to make an impact next summer

  

  interest to the PSC and its donors, so students who apply for these ... you may be able to use your summer experience/work/research for a UROP ... participated in it last summer. If I have forgotten any, please let me know

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  things that can happen to an artist. It’s not that much different for ... implement: I don't use pencil for my notes when I can help it. I like the ... where to start, feel free to use this as inspiration. [caption id

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  body and aware of its amazing capabilities! Rugby Introduction to the ... . It is designed to empower you to concentrate, remember, generate energy ... Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend. MIT

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  freeze-drying the slurry and letting it solidify. Depending on how quickly we freeze the suspension and to what temperature we freeze it, we can ... because it's best to try to seed the cells into something closer to nature

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  're getting closer! 10:45am: A quick walk through Lobby 7, soon to be the site ... 2007 Mystery Hunt will begin! I'm going to try today's entry as a ... Hunt is a weekend-long competition at MIT where people team up to solve

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  't have a dining plan, so it's up to the residents to feed ourselves ... through being the chef. It's the chef's job to 1. Come up with a menu, which ... whole house, places the online order, and has it all delivered to the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  things to hand-wire a computer. I used doorbell wire, nails, light bulbs ... school in that area. It was a dream I had to go there. When I was just ... use the information when it came so cheap. If you said, '$40,000,' they

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  at about 500 rpm, but we hope that we can use this class to make some ... use each machine, we get to learn by making a spiffy Stirling engine ... . In the other two sections we learn how to draw and use CAD, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  little I can add to Khan's awesome address, so I will instead link you to ... life here, but it has proven to continue to define my life in countless ... potential to be, MIT's rationale for it was even more powerful. MIT was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  decide to trash it and delete it permanently, and move on with my life ... discovered that I actually liked programming a lot and wanted to do more of it ... field, which I would use to combine 18 and 21W. This was the plan for two

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022