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  Smashing pumpkins and other halloween treats Turning back time and dropping squash off of tall buildings

  

  skating rink. Students got to ice skate for free in their creative Halloween ... from The Matrix. For the record, I was a Matrix fanatic in 8th grade. I ... “disruption in sleep patterns associated with setting clocks either forward or

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  Overall, a good first day on the road. Woke up early, packed for the ... Paris or Nicky though) and grabbed the MIT boxes that were waiting for me ... perfect match, but it's close enough for me. After that meeting (which

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sun off a beach The one where it rains. I mean, another one where it rains.

  

  this happened. Well, it was a little cold, for the first time in a few ... for a while. Thanks, Yunjie '08! We were down in the water for about 3 ... . Sorry. That's an apology for a lot of things. Please don't go stalking

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 31, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  especially useful for anyone planning on doing MISTI Israel. In one of the ... deadline I didn't even go home, and was in lab for 29 hours straight! Now ... for it! You don't have to put in as much time as I did, and you can even

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  and the servers in this photo? They're there for cooling: cold air comes ... story of how my father became one of the few people in the world who has ... , so I'll save it for later :D First, let's talk about computing. MIT

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  Wolfgang Ketterle, who works in the Center for Ultracold Atoms and won the ... , however, whatever system MIT has for this purpose kicked in, and my Facebook ... . Another status just popped up, a bit more applicable to me in my haven't-slept-for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  's battery had completely drained. I wait 20 minutes for the shower, and then trudge through the rain to Sunny's, the greatest breakfast joint in Cambridge, to meet some friends for breakfast...only to run into them walking

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  , academic or not, and you leave for college in the fall, on a plane, train ... the rest of my life is meeting an anxious end. I'm still in the same ... destiny forward one step at a time. But in a way, the past eight months have

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  with friends in Washington, D.C. and wanting to save money for future ... 's and H-Mart, for some supplies. I had some ingredients in mind, mainly ... ="54442" image2="54444" /] So far, I've been doing pretty well in cooking for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  languages for which you can check if something is in the language in ... equal. in multiple problem sets for 18.404, we messed up in just the right ... ran the most unsuccessful write-in campaign of all time for President of

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  of work, and I’ve still only been back in the country for a week. I ... since I got back from China. Today, in order to facilitate Better Blogging Habits for AY 2017 (Academic Year 2017) I’m trying something a little

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  switching to Linux in fear for becoming a "tech person", but to be honest, I ... got it as a gift from the lovely people in ESP, for co-directing Summer ... might've seen this in 24.900,” or “For those of you who took 24.900 with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)

  

  you all. When I left MIT in 2018, I "graduated" with the first class I helped admit. It felt poetic, in a way. I embarked on a new career as a ... acclimated to my new community, the louder the whispers in my head became

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Stu Schmill ‘86 named Dean of Admissions Exciting news!

  

  President Emeritus Paul Gray, for its work in picking Schmill. Schmill said ... been named MIT's next dean of admissions, Dean for Undergraduate ... done a "remarkable job" in that capacity. "Under his committed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Spirit of Competition [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] Every year, the Army, Navy, and Air Force duke it…

  

  [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] The night still hung in the air at 0630 as the sun struggled to illuminate the lifeless region. In the center of the only hub of activity for miles, I waited. I was crouched, poised

  • by ROTC
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  that in mind, I looked up the word for "umbrella" in Google translator ... DID YOU KNOW? The song "Hips Don't Lie" went to #1 in nearly every ... to #2, and it only went to #94 in Japan. And I am SO SICK OF HEARING IT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  For five weeks this summer, I competed in dormspam-the-game, a series ... later in the post, when I discuss the rules for each game. I somehow ... select 5 integers in the range 1 to 50, inclusive. For each integer k you

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  . Skills I developed in 17.803 alone qualify me for data science or analytics ... Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... ," Day 2 - "Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017," Day 3 - "College Life Changes

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  questions for Khan Academy and do Hepatitis B epidemiology research in ... ramen burger to boot. You want recommendations for Japanese food/ramen in ... 't believe that Kathy never woke me up and stood in the hallway for quite

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  Virginia, the most important city in the world that night for all I cared ... hyperenergetic refueling station for the 2009 Mystery Hunt team members as we ... , granola bars and a box of organic alfalfa sprouts that appeared in no

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009