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  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  was way too much to handle, especially because my course load was so ... understand more about myself and where I'd like to go in the coming years. MIT ... , and I figured some of you might be wondering what I'm up to the summer

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  AM last night, and spent the extra hour catching up on some much ... Goldberg-type inventions that MIT students make to complete mundane tasks and ... emulated NES games, and hooked it up to speakers in the bathroom. He then put

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  bad tendency to stick out, making it look prickly and gross. a few days ... of November, and you justify it to yourself any way you can. "It ... A thug A lumberjack.But it just wasn't meant to be, and as you shear

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  in June, July, and September). 3. BUT you'd have to figure that it ... Our beloved Mollie shares a birthday with another friend of mine, and I recently discovered that they also happen to be getting married on

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  — there’s always too much to do and not enough time. I’m trying to be ... peace, an outlet to make myself feel whole and sane. I’m excited to ... above suggests, I’m starting my second year here at MIT. And that feels

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dating At MIT: Episode 1 So two of my favorite '09s have just started dating each other...

  

  (a) they're pretty much the same person so their banter is fun to watch ... "Q.E.D." and then went back to kissing me. So... Q.E.D. (Cue laughter ... here, post 'em and I'll, er, ask my sources. More episodes to follow

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  . Unless you consider all of those 500 forms I needed to fill out and send in ... stands for "Interactive Introduction to the Institute," and it showcases ... here] homepage" and dig around the individual sites to find the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  've learned about how to recruit minority students. Much to my surprise it was a tough sell. I thought that all I had to do was to show up and tell ... . When she came to visit and saw cows on campus, you can imagine her

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  finals in three days, I packed my bags and headed back home to South Bend ... far as I can tell, not much has changed. And yet, at the same time ... blogs, in spite of talking to upperclassmen and alumni, in spite of going

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  stuff you see in sci-fi movies and expect to learn at MIT (but never do ... way possible for me to take a quantum engineering class and get over my ... quantum sensors out of lasers and stuff, and it is exactly what I need to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  , the pledge class of ‘92 getting hauled to jail by Boston police, and ... , desperately trying to Courseroad and reorganize my junior year, when I received ... industry and developed a super sick formula to trade derivatives in foreign

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  the lab to ask us questions and get to know us. 2.004- Dynamics and ... requirements. We learn how to model, analyze, and control systems. Control ... , proceeded to forget her name, and then called her “Lauren” for the next hour

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  hustle and bustle of the street had a certain magic to it. The cars were ... year suddenly have a new freshness to them. And with that freshness, I ... scratch. You get 20 minutes to escape the room and secure a UROP! As a part

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  related to the myth at hand, and in which line did Agamemnon’s ... campus map in the dark.) places. When Lyla and I went to bed, the MIT ... interesting in the schedule book, try to find it, and get distracted by

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  , and also completed several assignments equivalent to a normal problem ... but no input :)) Once, a TA, god bless his soul, said to me, I don ... Juniors in physics tend to complain a lot. The more of them there are

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  allowed me to live at home. For this summer, it was more economical and practical to work at the NIH since I'm also studying for the MCATs and I have ... /sororities/independent living groups tend to have much lower housing prices, averaging about $1500

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  first impressions of LA the struggles of moving cross-country for an internship

  

  a crosswalk to go over to where it was waiting, and had to backtrack ... vast majority of my life, and i'm used to seeing real trees blocking out ... so close to the beach!! i never go to the beach and barely ever put on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 31, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  , all my friends started posting, and it was honestly so nice to see all ... California. For the first few months, I was flying back and forth to the East ... salary and going to trivia and/or drinks after work. I spent some weekends

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  .390 (Introduction to Computational Biology), and 20.330 (Fields, Forces, and Flows in ... fraternity/sorority and don’t have big productions to put on for your ... . No matter how much of a challenge your target audience may be to reach

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  and dignity. *To be perfectly clear, I don't want to discuss the merits ... me personally, saying pretty much that the decision had been made and ... link to a design that my friend had entered to the contest, and a fair

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008