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  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  presentations, President Svsan brought out the new charter for MIT, to be signed ... Answer to the subtext: Meta-phor! Also, a clue to the answer to the ... from high school are starting to come back to Boston for the summer, and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The sun is out but why is it so cold outside?

  

  My cat is a little ball of static lately. It can't be too much fun to be a cat in the winter time. Today I wrested the last fateful drop out ... expensive, it's just that time of the semester. Any MIT student will tell you

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  have the equipment they need to record. Because the play will be pre ... executive will mix them together to be released. The Chorallaries are also ... cover of a song or audition to be part of one. Each cover lead will work

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  transmitted and the full resolution photos arrive, scientists will be able to ... . And the Kuiper belt could be home to many strange things we have no idea ... , things may be different too. America is now the first and only country to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  following day. The only upside to that was being able to breathe out and see ... home. The first round of admissions decisions will be out soon, and the ... -set I turned in one Ed Sheeran song before the deadline. Needless to say

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  MIT, and whether or not I made the right decision in coming to this ... 'm reminded of why I'm at this school in the first place. Being an MIT student ... satisfying. I've always wanted to be the kind of MIT person that 3D

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  things i have done since leaving school but only in the ten hundred most used words

  

  to be a doctor in games computers and learning didn't get into the big ... ~~~ cut off all my hair moved to city where the sun is out every day ... flew on many air cars to places near and far enjoyed life by the day

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 19, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  applicant. It's not to be wowed, or feel like we need to read the most unique ... tackling the world’s biggest challenges to being a good friend. Describe one ... you are (you do not need to be more, or different, than what you are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  's grandmother called and we had to head out, but not before the cashier could ... ("Do you want to play with anything?" "Y-Knot! (homonym for "Why not ... other upside the head with their toys, there should be less damage to your

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  , like there's a quote from The Unbearable Lightness of Being to describe ... and that the place won't be too crowded for me to pick up an application ... 've got six days to choose a grad school. I've got it narrowed down to the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  together. There was going to be a fifty-fifty chance we'd be in the same ... , but better to be sure. I didn't see the message until hours later, as ... would be the third time I've moved in the past year, and to be honest, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  Outfinite. Then it will become windier, and you'll push the cart faster to ... get the cart up into the office, and I reckoned it'd be best to avoid ... had a lot of fun with this exercise and decided to write not just twice

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Classes Yo-Yo's and Cell Biology...Rock on

  

  friends of mine and I decided to see how long we were willing to wear the ... of chocolate. I bite in. Me: Oh crap. I'm not supposed to be eating ... eats it. This is going to be a rough 40 days. So the reason I only

  • by Bryan
  • February 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  the morning. If you haven't been to college yet, that might seem like a ... -doc and my primary mentor for the summer. After introducing me to a number ... the organelles; rather, it refers to separating different genotypes of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  being the fastest person to write a blog post, not a good blog post. I ... ’re not used to not seeing the sun every day (yes looking at you tropical ... .  however, this does not stop us from trying to make the claim into a fact

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  , the authority's research and development staff will be hosting us in Paris. The trip will allow us to validate what we've found and also do ... new uses and features for the Paris metro (subway) system -- ways to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  I may not have alluded to this before, but my roommate, April, is really domestic. The other day, our GRT, Chris, took her to Target. When ... putting some Chef Boyardee in a pot for lunch. That's not to say that I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  increasingly turning over and over the knowledge that I would have to leave. But ... things always feel more mundane than you think they will. In the time ... was a little room for sadness to creep in around the edges: as my room

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  and started to explain to the girl behind me what the picture would be ... decided to paint it. There will be pictures. That is all. ... considered trying to move to East Campus for awhile, but in the end I decided

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  #WeAreMIT SMASH helped jumpstart an intense conversation between students and administration

  

  can be. MedLinks are not just band-aid dispensers. We are trained to ... people go through rough times and directing students to the proper resources at MIT Medical and on campus to get the help students may need

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 30, 2014