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  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  decided to clean up the toilet, which was also a photoshoot on its own, with ... , a reading room where people study, and a sailboat on the Charles River ... we're donating 50% of the profits to Doctors Without Borders. Is this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  it’s real silk, Andi, why would anyone on the internet lie to you ... . I guess the moral of this story is to trust everything on the internet, because why would anyone on the internet lie to you.

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  Boston to New York, which means we had to get on the earliest possible bus ... only is FAP one week of pure awesome (I mean, come on, you get to hang out with The Angela Monster), but you also just might get the chance to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  career would be to forget all the stuff they tell you in the textbooks about the answers. My advice to a high school sophomore or junior considering a career in science would be to close the science textbook for a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  First off, congratulations to the Class of 2012! From what I hear you ... meet on MIT's campus, but hopefully I'll see you around in the real world. And now, with the congratulations out of the way, it's time to get to

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  small group, and the third on Friday going to large group. From time to ... definitely would arise the most on Saturdays. Fridays, I either went to a party ... exam I would have to hop on getting the psets that I had fallen behind on

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  directions on how to remove the cables. The memo, addressed to "Imperial Drones ... Artist on the other two Star Wars prequels, and Revenge of the Sith was his ... Technical Director on the forthcoming film Cars. Both my ILM friend and my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A way a lone a last a loved a long the An opportunity for heated debate and a cry for revolution.

  

  This weekend I went on a rafting trip down the Kennebec river in mid-to ... on the bus, and then I called Mitra to settle things from an economic ... some pretty nice "class 4" rapids on the upper part of the river. We had

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  support to borrow eBooks, convenient to pull out on the subway, in class ... There are many things in life that require you to have the ever elusive skill of patience – waiting for the bus, waiting on a friend at a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  YOU GOT IN! It's time to You might be wondering, “What’s next?” Well, [annotation note="or now depending on when you see this"]later today,[/annotation] you’ll receive an email with details on what’s next, so be on the look

  • by Decisions
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  . Some of the cheerleading alums came back to watch the game and cheer on ... makeup on and showed up at the gym an hour and a half early. After running through our cheers a few times and warming up stunts, we went to the Z

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  group on campus called the MIT Outoors Club that caters to the ... some rocks to bang on the bigger logs like a chimp in a lab until I made ... passion I'm glad I've been afforded the opportunity to develop at MIT, it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  growth. The LΔ allows us to focus on the process, not just the outcome ... A on the exam. Fast forward to the end of the semester and we see that ... me, you need to know that my definition of LΔ is the following: (L

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  First read

  

  each have read this weekend, getting on the same page as far as what ... I must say I'm very excited to be starting the application reading ... Welcome those of you who have just joined us! I encourage you to read

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Public Art Projects ...for your amusement.

  

  to view a closeup, and for the uninitiated, here's some history on ... campus or on the road, you've heard me talk about MIT's 2+ miles of underground tunnels. On mornings like these (3 degrees when I left the house), I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Something to chalk about “These murals are f*cking rad” – Petey

  

  , spongey dorm. We have cats! A ball pit! And we can even draw on the walls ... we have a whole new batch of murals, thanks to the talented artists ... from around the dorm. Big thanks to everyone who sent me pictures for

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  as a noun and a verb (CNC: to cut out a part on the CNC mill ... -up. The machine whirred to life. It began to spray foul-smelling coolant on ... molds for the plastic pieces of our yo-yo. I’ll make a blog on the yo

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  studied Engineering at the University of Havana before coming to the US in ... Institute (RPI). After graduation he returned to Cuba to found the Mechanical ... , he returned to the US in 1960 because of the Cuban Revolution. Before

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  liveblog I intended it to be, but I'll throw up the first location on my ... shortly thereafter, taking the opportunity to look back on campus, darker ... mirror on it. Can you guess why? Up to the third floor and into building

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  do or not to do something; *New Year’s Resolution: On Jan 1, it means: I'll go the gym starting tomorrow!! And from this week on, I'll gym 3 times a week. I'll be strong, fit, the works. On Jan 2, it means: ahhhhhh

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014