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  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  during the day, and although I wore a hat and drank lots of water I got ... finding them, we did have a good time looking at the math, history, English ... optimization problem for a group of five to select which bus out of the 10

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  ). And then we played host! In the course of 24 hours, our visitor got a ... really. So the moral of the story is: COME VISIT. Discover the various ... A couple weeks ago, an excited exclamation was heard, as one of my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  St. George’s Day England's National Day

  

  another MITer at the time and neither of us knew what St. George's Day was ... entry on 23rd April but I'm in the middle of exams. Very stressful. More ... of us in the comments below. Anyway, I was pretty curious to see what

  • by Cambridge
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mastering Physics Has No Soul I love online assignments. har. har.

  

  I don't usually like to post these kind of "on-the-whim" entries (I ... important part of MIT Student Life. @@ Say that I'm irresponsible for not finish this early, but GAH! (the second time this semester, fourth time

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  ... Safety first, of course. =) The good news is, this isn't even half of the ... hands on some power tools- of the large variety. One of the principle ... was the setup for a lab where we analyzed the gas velocity profile of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  [The following is a collection of ramblings and memory unloadings ... titled each document “I miss application season,” but over the course of ... –oh the potential. So much of it. So many dreams, so many possibilities, and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  . There's a big open box at the bottom of each entry, with fields for name, email, your comment, and a captcha. It then populates the big long list of comments at the end of the blog. See, e.g.,        

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  period and couldn't bear the thought of going to class. So, unable to face ... skipped band. Terrified at the prospect of my school calling my parents to ... . The essence of her response was: it's fine, do what you need to do, but

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  moved before the memory making parts of my brain could actually store any reliable information. I have one memory of me crying in the kitchen while my ... getting me to where I am today. At the very least, it was the source of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM!

  

  review” of the semester – which means everybody presents their design ... bridges on the site model. (Still in good spirits, apparently!) [5:46 AM ... after the review, because I’ve been neglecting certain parts of real (read

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  tired by the end of the day! But I am really happy though since I am doing ... of the MIT iGEM team. What is iGEM, you may wonder: “The International ... competition, advancement of synthetic biology, and the development of open

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  good deal of time in my room. Plus, having lived on the same floor for ... able to devote the appropriate attention and time to documenting some of ... post. And so, without further ado: Goodbye and Good Riddance: A list of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  Way back in September, I had the difficult, difficult task of writing ... primary form of transportation was a scooter. Not the super-cool and high ... . No easy way of getting around at all. For the most part, this was fine

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  college application essays, this is a great time to revisit some of the rules of writing well. George Orwell's Politics and the English Language ... he lays in this piece - about the importance of language, including

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  House, and the thought of having to feed all of them, plus visitors from ... charcoal from; I had no answer. Turns out that the UA was delivering a bit of ... hopped out of the truck, hollaring directions to a bunch of other students

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack or Treat A time for tricks.

  

  To celebrate the spirit of All Hallow's Eve, MIT hackers left a special treat (or perhaps a trick) near the Great Dome. I saw the hack ... administrators) dressed up. Walking around campus, I spotted a member of the USS

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 31, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  overwhelmed by work and school and the thought of having to get good grades for ... barricades, I was hooked, and I knew I had to go to concerts for the rest of my ... screamed the shit out of those lyrics as loud as I could until my voice was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint liveblog] finding the BALANCE with 2.009 watching the 2.009 annual showcase (with Kayode D. '27)

  

  A live DJ. 1000+ sparkly pompoms. One of the biggest events of the ... !) [annotation note="photos are the bane of my existence. i fear i may have to give up on my typical habits of putting in way too many photos, but in the

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  tendency to just sort of... not follow the rules), and as a result I never actually picked it up. I didn’t even remember all of the names (much less the movements) of all the chess pieces when I decided to hit the download button

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  recall the article on the “The Coddling of the American Mind,” one of many ... . 12:00 → New observation: Harvard Yard reminds me of the East Campus ... of educational theories. 4:00 → I visit the Admissions Office with a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015