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  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  judged by the tightness of our group (the greatest distance between any two ... slightly embarrassed cough. —The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas ... technique used to reproduce the layout of colonies on one petri plate on a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading ... application, I just glance at the test scores to get a sense of them before moving on to the more important parts of the application -- that is, who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  this: This hat has been worn by many generations of French House ... Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1 bajillion: It's my birthday. Reason 2 of 1 bajillion: Nerdiness and creativity

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  deal out of pi day to lessen the inevitable pain by making me watch a ... Note: all stories below are unedited accounts of current and former students' MIT acceptance moments, prompted by a pre-Pi Day email thread

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  days of my junior year studying for and taking exams. By the time I had ... In that moment, I felt that my conception of [Next House] finally ... filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  Athletic Center which marked the end of a very long first semester at MIT. So like before, I'm gonna continue to give y'all a glimpse of whatever just ... student center study sessions, a few office hours, and a lot of late

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  served by continuing its current course of self-directed educowtion ... 21 years ago today a very special carton of milk was brought home ... of the Milk that he posted on these blogs two years ago: Nineteen years

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  of the pictures there and here were taken by our totally awesome ... (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in ... 's government, and was the captain of the cheerleading squad. When I was a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into ... , no less!) I remember back when CS was getting started - one of their founders posted on some forums I frequented - and being amazed by people who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  week before I update you on the last 5 months of my life. Right now, this is about you, because as of RIGHT NOW, you only have this much time ... UChicago the night it was due, I figure a few of you might need this reminder

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  would by no means put myself on the same standards of my brilliant ... questions, and this by no means that the Nobel laureate/pioneer of programmed ... Requirement (GIR) class, and one hour of recitation, taught by grad students or

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  and people, puzzled by the existence of an outside world—a state that is ... one end of the pool to the other, by now for the others without fins ... propagated by those endless seconds. It was the nearly self-fulfilling myth of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  come by and cheer me up by making fun of how I dance to Fergie*. I ... 'm mentally and physically spent by my first semester at MIT; this time, part of ... chair kicked by the screaming kid beside me (a stereotype for bad flights

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

   have all made appearances during my time at MIT because of some sort of collaboration with people here. It's neat-o business, folks. And as of last Monday, we got to add Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and current CEO of Facebook

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23 ... the seven of eight floors that have colorful ceilings, separated by ... of person who might love it. Life moves fast here: there are many more

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  propelled by a sort of fanaticism much in the way that marathon runners are ... by an inbred desire to "succeed," in the vaguest possible sense of the ... protector, nerdy engineer -- born under the second law of thermodynamics

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  superhero fan, and I hadn't even heard of Iron Man until only recently. Most movies like this go by without my notice. But last month, I heard ... ; Anthony Stark was born on Long Island, the son of Howard Stark, a wealthy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  baking of 10^4 cookies. In fact, they overshot: by the time the cookie ... I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two ... Talbot, the large common room of East Campus, the only two females

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  least his classmates thought so. The yearbook published by the Class of ... were so different, he shone among them all by virtue of his manliness ... employability of Electrical Engineers. And it is best summed up by his former MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  for you. Actually this entry did end up being kind of long, but it's not quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is ... DID YOU KNOW? The state of Arizona does not celebrate daylight

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007