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  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  Center, where I work most mornings. As usual, I looked up in Lobby 7, more ... actually was a hack there! Floating in the center of Lobby 7's dome was a ... Says, running up the Green Building stairs for 4 hours, a Python Bee, a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  . Starbucks works during various hours of the day. For instance: 1. The busiest ... with someone in Chinese. Directly across from me, there are two men and two women conversing in Spanish. And I generally throw in a bit of Tamil

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Exponential Decay This entry probably isn't about what you think it is.

  

  Amazingly, I've been an admissions blogger for a bit over twelve months now. One thing I've noticed about this site in the past year is that ... lasts for a week. What happens after that? Well, once an entry leaves the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  should I do in order to know MIT better?" A great starting point for how ... since 2004, and that there are, in fact, about 1800 blog entries in the ... , which makes me incredibly sad -- why did I go back and fix the code for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pre-Orientation Begins Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest!

  

  begins on Sunday, but for half of the class, they are already getting to ... will camp out in the parks, have informal lectures with the Earth Science ... "Soccer Bots," culminating in an ultimate Soccer Bot battle/tournament at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spectacle I was going to title this entry "Spectacle of Light," because I mention MIThenge. Then…

  

  a month that I get my act together and cook real food for myself, even ... for a whole day. Breakfast: I love Frosted Flakes. Really I do ... routine for the past 7 years, and I'm not about to stop now. (Although

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  birthday wishes, and, in the case of my youngest brother, request for a ... changed in several unexpected ways, but that's a topic for another blog post ... enzymes is called Ihtfpase, why are you still reading this? – Running in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  ) bush has been popular in the United States since the 70s for its ... receptors of the tongue and activates them in response to acid, making sour ... approved by the FDA as a sweetener or food additive, but is mass-produced in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Labs throughout the world open their doors to MIT Biology students

  

  In the summer of 2011, MISTI sent 22 Biology students across the ... . What next? I may return to France in IAP or next year as part of ... can use the technical portions of my internship in my UROP. In the long

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  just about 1.8 Mb and is totally worth it if you have dial-up, go for it! I'm scared to sit in this house just because I know what's been in ... would have been the kind of math that causes a ringing in your ears and

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  MIT Calling Yo Snively - I lied. There are actually 2 admits in Oregon BESIDES you -…

  

  time to prepare a list of questions either. So just in case you'd like to ... this evening, but just in case you didn't get a call from me specifically ... over IAP a couple times, so just in case you missed it, here's an update

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  - Graded Undergraduate Research in Course 9 Total: 72 units I'm way more ... semester. I loved biology in high school - mainly because I had a great teacher who complemented lectures in class with several hilarious stories

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  professors argue for their favorite Jewish delicacy – either Latke or ... their position. The three professors in favor of the hamentashen were ... - Terrascope lecturer (sitting in the middle) - Erik Demaine- Professor

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  24 Pumpkins a journey through the streets of Boston

  

  leaves (for some reason, the trees on campus are sad and brown, while the ... . The true spirit of college fall can only be captured in something far ... Client: The International Student Association, for its Inter

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  king cake and a run-on sentence busy week

  

  cake because I told him to Brandon F. '19 put on a shirt just for this ... the other hand, said "no photos" but lingered for quite a while--what is ... chocolate-covered strawberries tomorrow for Valentine's Day and I got back at

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  full-time job for next year. Ahhhhh the stress!!!!!! To end this post in ... Place I have a job! At Formlabs! I play with liquid photopolymers for ... Hamster Her name is Princess Leia!! She's a princess. She lives in a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So done Midterm week = loss of Mollie's mind

  

  . I am never savvy about picking classes. Adam is disdainful, for ... dualism in Western thought (7 pages), 21A.100 paper on cultural relativism ... genetics (15 pages) 39 pages of writing in one week, plus a test worth 20

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 3, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  decisions for me and suddenly I miss the innocence my parents had wrapped me in. At the same time, this new independence has been exhilarating. I ... asked ourselves at some point in our MIT adventure so far.  And I assure

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  in an otherwise formal job, like taking a selfie before giving his ... Fraternity Pi Lambda Phi. Reif was nominated twice for the ALS Ice Bucket ... 's Edgerton Center. He was joined for his first drench by Chancellor Cynthia

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Update State of the mail, application numbers, and more

  

  would instead include these updates in your Midyear Report. The MIT ... will let you know, and you will not be penalized in any way. At this ... opportunity to send in the missing pieces. These applicants will be at no

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2012