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  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  descend on the MIT campus to learn about everything from “Understand ... happen if you were to gather a mole (unit of measurement) of moles (the ... happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  pretty well. Keri? "L: I went to magnet schools from fourth grade on. The ... The other day I was walking back to Next House when a leaf literally ... early, you can check out Matt's earlier post on the subject, or ask him

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Update State of the mail, application numbers, and more

  

  be completed by you, the applicant. The Report serves two purposes: to ... time, please do not call or email to inquire about missing documents. The ... or emailing about this at this time, we are better able to serve the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  , because you get to see where all the creative energy of the student body ... , visited startups in the Boston/Cambridge area to see what a real nascent company looks like, and were introduced to many of the monetary and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  on how good the food is.  “Oh yeah, that’s Phillip Isola!” Ali said to ... too tired to cook and just went anyway. The allure of free food is ... papers I read every now and then.  I went back to the food tables to get

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  decided to blog about all of them. *** Part the First: Riddles As you may ... for me to join the official Simmons Hall team, which has played the Hunt ... noon on Friday with a big "kickoff" event, which serves the dual purpose

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  narrative. On the visual arts side, I spent a lot of time doing Blender (a 3D ... way for me to take the world that I know, and modify it in a way that ... made MIT almost a natural place for me to want to go, but the longer that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  , Geneva. It seems everyone on campus was trying to get away from the ... is to me.   (P.S. I wrote this on the plane initially, but we ... exciting~ This is my second time blagging from abroad, the first being

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  the way, I ran into a friend in distress, who was also on his way to ... extracurriculars, the negatives and the tragedies all add up to be, in a way ... them all away. I went to a new counselor in the morning who taught me

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  the staff whose only job seems to be giving us guidance on things we can ... running two hours behind, although if the Amtrak schedule is to be believed ... is well, out in the American West; we will just have to see whether I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  a great time! [You can click on the pics below to enlarge them ... 're getting to your next destination on the MBTA bus. Kellen has EXQUISITE taste ... . I really want to make a second part for this post if I get the chance.

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Events

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

  

  town for the ceremonies, turned to me with their eyebrows raised six ... . So I understand if you feel like the time from now to when you graduate ... salad), the Next Big Mailing represents a lot of decisions you'll have to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  accomplishments, whenever I thought about applying to MIT, I kept coming back to the ... know the answer to that question. All I know is that I'm here now, and ... seems I have no choice other than to make the best of the situation. My

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  gaming experience on gaming performance, as our research has to do with the ... 'll flake on it. But some of the things I really, really want to blog about ... wanted to update with some thoughts and things since the spring semester

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  food on the table, on account of there being simply too much to place ... tickets to the BSO through the college card program. They were doing an a ... . MIT pays for college cards, so basically anybody willing to brave the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tour de Frat house tours of pbe, dke, and sig chi!

  

  Phi Beta Epsilon! Right next to the tennis courts and other athletic fields, it’s on the same street as a bunch of other dorms on campus. Here to give us a tour is Ethan R. ‘25, a member of the lacrosse team, and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  . The second one's long enough to be a novel, so be prepared. ... order, which often happens on surveys we're asked to fill out. It completely throws us off to not have the majors listed in the following logical

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  of weeks ago I had to decide what I would do over the summer. On one ... Orbital, and on the other side, I had the option to join a team of students from ... doubt. My heart felt like I needed to go on the bike trip. It was a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  Interesting Things) talking about all the cool ideas they have worked on for the ... 's not just all work and no play, so for the past six hours, we got to ride down the white stuff that fell from the sky. It was my second time ever

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  (HA!). The Temporary Housing Assignments. Hard to believe that it was ... success. Thankfully the MIT Housing system is designed to give everyone the ... to put bodies while all the freshmen go out and experience REX

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011