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  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  Hassan. By this time, a portion of us saw that something unsightly was ... reluctantly washed off the vestiges of sleep at 5 A.M., and prepared for the day. We had bathrooms on every floor of the dorm building, and they all

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  media is, in fact, drinkable. It comes in a whole range of pink colors! It ... anecdotal evidence. I haven’t tried many of these, and you should try none of ... significant ingestion hazard under anticipated conditions of normal use.” Our

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  crowd of people filing through a set of double doors. You are flanked by people ushering you inside; the person nearest you hands you a pair of ... chairs, broken only by two sets of stairs. As you go down toward the front

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows You figure out what they have in common, 'cause I sure as heck don't know.

  

  ...a nice little taste of some performing arts groups at MIT. :) PANDORA By ... more time to do some blogging! Here is a random smattering of things I ... front page of the Boston Globe was an article about two brothers at MIT

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • June 22, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  : Pimp My Sukkah. Hello everyone! FYSH (first year students of Hillel) is ... decorating the Sukkah in the most fantastic of ways (think Pimp My Ride meets the MIT Sukkah) and enjoying Pizza (in the Hut). Come by and join us, we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  complicated: Heh. This one is sold at the end of every fall and spring by ... Yesterday one lucky prefrosh got to be hosted by me through the MIT ... your chances of getting to meet me and Mitra! You could see such amazing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  't bound by the usual traffic formalities of lanes, speed limits, and red ... to identify the source of this wisdom. Ruth, you're not allowed to play ... Hop with people you know from all branches of MIT. Jose is course 6. And they

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  update. My grades are all in, and for the first time since coming off of ... requirements. (9.10 would have been one of my six Course 9 electives had I not switched it to P/D/F, but it's okay - by the time I graduate, I'll have taken

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  advantage. Unjaded by the confidence of prior knowledge, I ended up working ... past cynicism by helping prefrosh see the bright side of MIT life? Save ... Thanks to the miracles of modern transportation, I'm wringing out

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  disposed of it down the chute. By dinnertime the neighborhood was quiet. The ... once one of the nicest towns in central Pennsylvania. It was morning; the ... heavy scrape of a chair. “—your eggs, Mr. Concord.” “Thank you, Mrs

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  started the day by running (1) and (2). (2) brought us to the Museum of ... Bloggers of old have written about the "101 Things To Do Before You ... orientation, every freshman receives a list of 101 things to do before they

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  Parallel"]Walounge[/annotation] by the armful and shopvaccing layers of ... resident of [annotation note="third floor of the east parallel of the dorm East Campus"]Tetazoo[/annotation] and a resident of [annotation note

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  its first round of data collection, ALMA was over-subscribed by a factor ... our project. I got sick of writing the proposal by this evening -- so ... the pertinence of writing to science. The answer was: writing is an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  Decide to skip molecular bio (7.28) recitation. Tempted by the prospect of ... front desk of dorm. People hardly come by during this time, so get to get ... [by Kathy '09] Hi guys! I'm here to talk about "life as a biochemist

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope ... many things to-do. The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master. [caption id="attachment_58052" align="aligncenter" width="300"] 31 days of being

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT and Slavery a developing history, and a live webcast

  

  to the community: To the members of the MIT community, At MIT, we ... distinguished member of our history faculty, Professor Craig Steven Wilder is the leading authority on how the emergence and growth of American colleges and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  culture in my games and culture class, taught by one of the first ... a big window in our house and i sat on the couch in front of it and ... flight, drifting in and out of sleep --   and then i was back and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  still stand by these statements (except, of course, "I've never been ... I spent spring break in Iceland, mostly in the backseat of a white car on the asphalt roads of Route 1 but also behind a waterfall and atop

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Winter Through the camera lenses of people who don't have winter

  

  ; While heading back to my dorm, I ran into Kevin. The both of us being from ... inside a picture... The Alchemist! We saw tons of bunnies in Killian Court!   We’re talking big, fluffy, ephemeral flakes of snow, not

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  demonstrated. By flinging balls of snow at me :( And then he said those magic ... eternal nothingness, or got kicked down by a bunch of bored kids. Oh well ... Sleeping at night has become one of those mythical concepts this IAP

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015