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• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  anchored to the sky. In West Africa, it shoots volcanoes down on us. I get ... , and for the first time in 3 years, I don’t need a bottle of hot sauce to ... of them before I get to the apartment. I wash my hands in the bathroom

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  not to get skin cancer. I got to prance around in my new polka ... you're going to get to keep your blog next year? I think it would be ... 't know jack, so it's pretty pointless to try to get them working in labs

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  on in a short amount of time. This week, I met with my mentor to give a ... company had a project ready for me to start work on the second I stepped in ... opportunities for me to get my work in one of these. I argued that even something

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t Dump I got stopped by the police.

  

  Awesome title, right? In short, my Friday involved graffiti, press conferences, and getting stopped by the police. Just one photo to whet your pallet. A series of updates on Orientation and the start of Rush are long

  • by Bryan
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done

  

  story Take the time to learn how to solve a Rubik's Cube Take part in ... Get my class ring Take a nap in the New House courtyard Take a nap ... pretend it’s December 31st and start making a list of things I want to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Exponential Decay This entry probably isn't about what you think it is.

  

  most individual entries have a relatively short half-life - that is, the ... ...you get a student's perspective as well. Nonetheless, there are currently ... translates to a lot of verbiage. And while there's nothing wrong with new posts

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  decrypts, it slices, it dices, and it'll take your dog for a walk. I wrote about it a while back on my personal blog so if you're interested in more ... want to a ridiculous degree of accuracy and depth. I can't get into too

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  getting industry experience in a field that you know you want to pursue, but maybe have not gotten the chance to get your foot in the door through the ... went to Little Tokyo and The Last Bookstore with a friend who was also in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  words to say something that could have probably been conveyed in just a ... applying to be a blogger ! in my application i talked about how i honestly ... letters in a row that force me to use my ring fingers, which are probably my

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  prior. I hear Kayla '12 get up in the room next to mine, and she soon ... seasons can be in New England. This is nothing short of a Monet, and it ... in Boston (equivalent to the Taiwanese consulate in Boston) for a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  Short, who got softlocked into hitting 2345 foul balls in a single season ... , there’s a whole wiki page dedicated to it: https://www.blaseball.wiki/w/Main_Page ... eventually go to a more entertaining game in the future.  The food, on the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  program, you get to spend a month in Madrid, taking a real MIT class, with ... great. You get to travel and experience living in another country, and it’s possible to do so on a college student budget. But what if you’re pursuing a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  ropes in a crayon-colored flood of sugary milk. Two hours later, you're ... fresh corpse lying in a puddle of caramel gore. (Despite my attempt to ... This semester, I'm taking a graduate class in General Relativity that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  in a sustainable fashion anytime soon. So, until we get a big ... change that to write like 10 pages of our final report before I write a ... KNOW IF I GOT IN TO MIT!! MAYBE THEY SPONTANEOUSLY DECIDED TO POST THEIR

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  , because the point of the interview is to get a sense of your side that doesn ... AP classes, this resulted in a lot of people struggling to get by. B ... listen to your essay being read aloud, either by a computer or a friend, to

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  confident I could pull off. But thanks to the wonders of google and my credit ... walked around campus for a few hours feeling like the coolest person in the world. It was awesome. Then I headed over to SpookySkate, which is a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW on the Web CPW comes to you...ON THE INTERNET

  

  MIT community is incredibly devoted to CPW, hosts a ton of excellent ... awesomeness is how to keep track of it all! In the past, we've given our CPW ... , with each listing mashed up with a Google Map so you know exactly where

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  that catches your attention. A brilliantly parodied logo appears on the ... to compete in these three hackathons: HackMIT, Hacking Arts, and MIT ... MIT, companies ranging from the likes of Facebook and Google to smaller companies

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  amount of work you're capable of. “What SAT score do I need to get in ... school student and want to go to MIT. Tell me how to get in.” I just write it off and never think about it again. Sorry, “How do I get in” is a

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  events in your undergraduate career where you get to see so many people in ... managed to feature a beaver on every face of the ring!) If you’re curious ... as close to perfect as we could get it. Below are just a few out of the

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024