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  Square Root Day Your daily dose of nerd humor.

  

  kind of joke. (In related news, Pi Day is only eleven days away. Get ... Did any of you notice today was a square root day? I didn't, until I got a friendly email reminding me of this rare mathematical oddity

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  *to set the mood* [playlist ids="44803"] The floor of my room is a bit of a scattered mess at this point. Some of the boxes are full, but ... one day - maybe out in the street, at a conference, or perhaps on campus

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ripping shirts and other clothing mods

  

  est. time: 2 hrs I found these black cargo pants at a thrift store in ... wrap! Here's to more hastily chopped-up shirts in the weeks to come. ... Clothes are so fun! I love tailoring my outfits to whatever is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MTB Party Pic & TechTV CPW Coverage Some fun ways to remember the weekend...

  

  update before I depart for a few days of vacation... First, a big thanks to ... fun reliving the memories, and I'll talk to you all when I get back next ... Hi folks, It was truly AWESOME to spend lots of time with all of you

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 14, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Infinite] Quarter Mile quarters + packing tape + sore knees == help cure MS

  

  as "MIThenge", a reference to Stonehenge's alignment with the sun ... is also the site of other activities, which, in that MIT way, manage to ... ,000 quarters. Good start! Still going strong! Still a LOOOOOONG way to go!I gave

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask Me Anything or discuss anything. or whatever really. what i'm trying to say is: open thread.

  

  This summer I wrote a bloggerGuilt script to help me keep track of ... various excuses and instead try to make it up to you. I'm sitting at home in ... decorations. Tomorrow I'm moving, and then we're starting to meet in Early

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my hottest STEM takes actively starting internet wars

  

  to no explanation. Feel free to argue in the comments...I'm ready to ... "let's show this to other people--it makes a lot of sense"? I'm not ... a formality on the way to making something common knowledge. I choose

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.270 What's a 6.270?

  

  given all of our supplies and an objective. We then had a month to build ... root for Team 9 (also known as Team Awesome). We're in it to win it! Our ... Who knows what course 6.270 is without having to look it up? Anybody

  • by Snively '11
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  (LCS) is a student club dedicated to spreading the appreciation of ... , appreciation of, and indulgence in our favorite substance to the community.   ... the surface or "bloom," causing it to take on a whitish sheen or oily

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  come to a section about a student coming in for a mock college interview ... have given me a good opportunity to catch up on some work-related reading ... School of Dreams (a case study of Whitney High School in Los Angeles

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  and Emilia-Romagna regions. Interestingly enough, a deep foundation in ... . During my overnight stay in Milan, I travelled the roads of time to meet ... provide a residential congregation place for poor singers and musicians in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  matter in the entire month…until Friday," to which I say, "weak sauce"']a ... are almost always tied to the[annotation note="MIT has a reputation for ... . [annotation note="in sOuTh dAkOtA"]At home,[/annotation]the snow starts in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  Skating place at a Vermont quarry, I immediately responded that I wanted to ... Grotto has to the Freedlyville Quarry. The quarry entrance was about a mile ... extremely interesting, and I really want to go on more trips with them in the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Trick or Treat! Smashing pumpkins, and no I don't mean the band.

  

  chunks go in the radial direction when it crashes to the ground? Answer ... . Now I must admit by the end of the evening, I did have a slight crick in ... I begin this entry with a photo of the aftermath of one Saturday

  • by Bryan
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 7

  

  finally got around to reading a bunch of articles from the MIT News Office ... , more than a billion miles across. Emily Levesque, a junior in physics ... caught the attention of many reporters and resulted in stories in a variety

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  place in 2005), a parent asked me if/how MIT humanities classes were ... , but it would be a mistake to imagine these "classics" have retained ... "Shake-shifting," a collaboration in which both artists and the Bard give

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Leadership & Double Dare 11 pictures of the leadership conference, and 16 pictures of the Double Dare sex challenge

  

  (SLP) speaks to conference attendees Attendees and special guests have lunch in a banquet hall in the Hotel@MIT (Note, this is a link to the ... organizers Neera '06 and Janet '06 with volunteer Kriti '07 Women meet in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  , and I still haven't found a novel way to detail my first three and half ... the powers of Course 16 in the form of Raul '10 to back me up. Arun ... to do with peanut butter. Thirty minutes later we were still arguing. A

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Announcing new blogger avatars! all-new, all quality

  

  The bloggers' old avatars were drawn by a talented professional in a recognizable and well-liked style. But some of us thought, what if we could do a ... a silly billy who came here to make some bloggies"[/caption] [caption

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The Admissions Staff It's my pleasure to introduce you to our current team.

  

  I've been trying to think of a good way to kick off the new admissions cycle (class of 2010 - woot!) and it's finally come to me. We had ... you know why?), and a flower-pot-decorating competition. To kick off

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2005