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  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  officer in the month of April, naturally, I was at still at work. I was helping coordinate the opening show for our Campus Preview Weekend - a super ... get together for the first time. The Logarhythms were preparing for

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  the Nobel Prize like a week ago, then there's gotta be someone here who ... I’m now in my third year at Next House, so the long walk to campus is nothing new. Usually I enjoy the walk, but when the weather sucks or I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  It's Sunday, and the beginning of the second full week of June ... sleep. (I nearly slept again after that, but hey, it was also 1 in the ... 'm practically living the Bruno Mars life right now, only I'm working toward a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  point is sometimes lost along the way and only after many trials can be ... I just had the busiest, craziest summer of my life. I remember a ... fraction of the most difficult course at my school. A course on American

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  -speed telecommunications. I signed up for the class because I really enjoyed its ... lecturer. 6.2050 was one of the most demanding classes I’ve taken at MIT, but it has also been one of the most rewarding. In just a few short

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  restaurant that day. I wasn’t opposed to the restaurant, although it was ... ’t interested in getting involved in anything romantic with anybody at the moment ... ’ll invite our mutual friend Bob too” or showing up while leaning hard into the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  "what did you do?". I suppose a correlation could be drawn about the ... I'll be honest with you––actually, brief aside here, have you ever heard someone tell you that they won't be honest with you? It makes me

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  On Friday, October 24, the Edgerton Center at MIT organized an on-campus premiere of the documentary Underwater Dreams. The film follows the journey of four high school students from the Arizona desert, who in 2004 won

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  Over one weekend in the fall (Splash!) and one weekend in the spring ... here's the course description: "You choose the title, we improvise a 5 ... embarrass ourselves as we teach you about them on the spur of the moment

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Remember, Remember the Fifth of November Celebrating Guy Fawkes Day as only MIT can.

  

  illustrate. I'll be taking more photos throughout the day, and naturally I ... the Houses of Parliament on November 5, 1605. Though their plot was foiled at the twelfth hour, the conspirators nonetheless secured a place in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  'd ruin it. If I mixed the playdough together, I wouldn't be able to unmix ... I'm a very Type A person, I'd say. I tend to need to be in control of ... things are out of place, which is funny because to the average viewer, my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  , with 13 entries citing some bathroom in the stud being their least ... drop it 3/4ths of the way through the semester). One of the assignments ... tool, or a visualization of some dataset.  We had the choice to make

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  self-improvement - that you could be doing right then and there? The ... This summer, I'm working part-time at the Division of Student Life ... frosh-to-be, my spot's still taken, but we're looking for more bloggers

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  -out and needing to be at the airport. I could push my 4 bags around the ... can actually be too early to check your bags (boo) Sit at the entrance ... earlier flight, only to be told no because you bought the cheapest ticket

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  out to be the Taste of Louisiana festival at the Jones Plaza. There was ... the set of objects that can be considered sandwiches (Calzones? Pizzas ... My breakfast last Thursday: a Red Bull and an antibiotic. That's the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  duct tape the drive in place. I figured this would be no problem since ... pretty neat demonstration of the phase diagram of a mixture, but to be ... box to be filled with chocolates, brownies, and cookies. Yum. The moment

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  nuts. Now, I'll admit I was kind of shocked by the number of posts that were along the lines of "Chances at MIT." I guess I was just a little ... baseball cards in my kindergarten days. I guess the whole point is MIT looks

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  happen is they say no, which is the same result as if you never ask" to be ... . So I try to be realistic about the costs of rejection. Dismissing my ... ask them out. The reasoning was simple: it was embarrassing and high

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  You're flipping through the TV channels, bored out of your mind between all the reality TV and cooking show. Then you come across a channel that catches your attention. A brilliantly parodied logo appears on the

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

  BoA & Restricting

  

  will come up with the mad cash after you're admitted. Check them both out ... ; Planning, Jeff is now a city planner for the city of Cambridge, MA) watching "Korean Music Countdown" on the International Channel, as we do most Monday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2004