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  What Are YOU Up To This Summer?! (2010 Edition) Happy summer!

  

  out there! Don't let go of your chance to fame and glory on the MIT Admissions page! :) Contest closes this weekend, and the winners will be ... AUGUST 10 Update! I'm bumping this to the top of the page (shameless

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Almost Only Counts in Horseshoes I almost did it. Rather I almost didn't do it. And all for a class…

  

  activities and stuff that I'd want to do, I decided to get all my homework done early and take my free Monday off to get ahead. And so I did. Cue the fun ... and bad haircuts. Wednesday night, I braved the long lines to wait for

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics professors have a charming sense of humour Excerpts from relativity problem sets

  

  I'M DONE WITH FALL CLASSES! and am now back home in London, doing British things like drinking tea, spelling humor 'humour,' and hiding ... .033, Relativity. Relativity is a great class to teach, if you enjoy designing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Live from Florida Hello from Tampa, Florida!

  

  just this question, but I gave a short answer and deferred to my ... Zambia here and here) Anyway, here's the new ZigZag. I've got lots more to ... 've missed you! After CPW, I was sick for nearly two weeks, and I got better

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  of you who want to talk with us, shake it off, and get back up again ... Because if me ate it, then it wouldn't shineMe come to the window and look up ... There were many incredible applicants to the MIT Class of 2029, which

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  time approaching music as a creative outlet, and to be honest, I’m not ... “girly-girl” and a “tomboy”, and how boys got to be multifaceted but girls ... story ended up winning a national award, and I flew to New York City for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  album that I started really listening to and liking last summer. It is ... AGAAAAINNN. I have heard a lot of hate on The Man, You Need To Calm Down and ... difficult to say very simply and clearly. On the other hand, I really don

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Flip Side I'm a host instead of a prefrosh this year - but CPW has still been…

  

  place so far, which is okay because I'm a host and not obligated to be ... :) Still, I've made it to some events - and they've been great. First off ... with an "Imma let you finish!" and a transition to Kanye West

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 10, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Vespertilio No spoilers here.

  

  going to be a good night. At ten, Javi '08, Jordan '11, Dan '11, and ... . We headed to theater 12, showed our ticket stubs, and walked in. Not ... quick text message to Eric Schmiedl, a quick "I'll be right there!" and

  • by Snively '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caps Lock Pancakes DINNERISH.

  

  tea, and a few times a semester we bring two thirds of that activity to ... For the past four and a half years I’ve lived on an all-women’s floor called BMF (badass mother—s) in Random Hall. Most of our social and home

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie Part II My schedule

  

  schedules and then we can feel accomplished. I present to you, my weekly ... and learn about control systems, feedback loops, and attempt to drown ... design basics and some machining, and has one semester to build a

  • by Snively '11
  • February 12, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Helicopter Flight Training [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] 500 feet above Boston with two MIT Deans.

  

  Deans and drove them to Briggs field where the flight demonstrations were ... hard to get caught up in this experience and miss the whole takeoff. I ... chance to ride in a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter. My first experience was

  • by ROTC
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Entrepreneurship invasion I love it when students start useful companies.

  

  friend, and another guy have started a company. He wants to take a year to devote himself fully to the start-up. And he's trying to get a freshman I ... 't; MacOS and Linux coming soon, I'm told), you may want to sign up and try

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun with Legos A photo journal of THE coolest room I've ever seen.

  

  now the fun begins... If you walk through the door and look to your ... serious.) If you walk through the door and look to your left, you see ... wouldn't want to work here? There's a disco ball made out of CDs and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spring Break post

  

  , and possibly others, have questions. Feel free to post your questions as comments on this entry, and I'll answer them. It saves me having to be ... Hi, readers. Congrats to those of you who got in. I remember when I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline & Taking Questions Advice for RA applicants; I'll answer questions Thursday.

  

  and for it to appear on your Application Tracking. Our records office is ... quick vacation to celebrate the new year (and then starting the regular ... students applying for regular action admission to MIT. This means that you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Return of QBert Whack-a-mole, a piano player, and a whole lot of fun. All in 24 hours or…

  

  listening to The Wrens and eating a confetti cookie from Au Bon Pain. About 2 ... I decided to stay the night, and it turned out to be the right ... was able to spend a night away from the noises of the city and spend

  • by Bryan
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  In one of the 28 (and counting!) responses to my last post, Kelly ... I have responded to all of your comments and emails (this time, I ... been several things holding me back from that. The stacks and stacks

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Infinite Corridor, set alight or, why dozens of people were crammed into a tiny stairwell at 4:19:53 PM EST

  

  MIThenge, after Stonehenge in England, and not to be confused with "Mitt ... science has progressed to the point where we can predict solar eclipses and ... Center for Theoretical Physics, eager to witness MIThenge.  And though

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  to be shot by Boston police). At around 11:15 Dan and I prepared for ... left the dorm at 11:30 so we could go to the mall and pick up a super ... transportation). We got to the mall and went into KB Toys. "One Super Soaker

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008