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• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  heard the faint whisper of piano music drifting out of Killian Hall, a ... the inky blackness of words on a page because honestly, when we have 198 pages of lecture notes to get through, the last thing we want to concern

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  excessively amusing. The creator of the group asked the group members to post better photos of Pluto, and I started to look through them. One of the ... to be doing a 2.003 pset, and it really isn't a lot of fun. Adelaide

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And term starts again…

  

  catalogue. 18.310 (Principles of Applied Mathematics) Study of illustrative topics in discrete applied mathematics including sorting algorithms ... couple of weeks. In the meantime, I'll entertain you with a list of my

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  aspect of things before trying to apply those principles to biological ... before my senior year of college, I wanted to be a doctor. Are these two ... jumped around and had a tour of careers: judge, astronaut, movie star

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  , even non-humans aspire to grace the halls of the 'tvte. No word on where ...   Most of my entries center around things I've learned or ... through the 4 years of masochistic glory that is MIT. This is not one of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5n, n=1

  

  . Symphony Hall will be full of just MIT folks; we'll have Keith Lockhart all ... couldn't help but think of Fenway Park and the Red Sox. Fenway, I think, is ... . A Red Sox game will be one of the highlights of my MIT 5 Year Reunion

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  ’s sparkle with a curtain of grey. The life of the Frosh shifts. Dulled is the thrill of the first impossible PSet. On sleepy breakfast runs, the Dome is ... MIT, unsure whether the prospect of returning home for the holidays

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  tall and narrow, and she curled the ends of her letters so that each word ... my lecture notes, there is a mixture of 1) abbreviated content (normal ... fact that the kid in front of me is taking notes rapidly in LaTeX and it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  break with my parents and my favorite sister (she’s kind of my only sister, but that’s beside the point) I found myself sitting in front of my desk, the room empty, and my roommates still gone. The glare of my laptop

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Some answers for those offered a place on MIT's waitlist.

  

  colleges? You should accept the offer of admission from another college ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... for a class of about 1,075 students this year. Based on our estimates of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  waitlist? We offered 499 applicants -- approximately 4% of applicants -- a ... reply date for other colleges? You should accept the offer of admission ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  past semester in the Destiny Lounge of Random Hall, an abode for ... joke well in advance, and is currently staging a protest in form of a soreness that has persisted over the last two hours. My room is a mess of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo is not a Hivemind Haha... just kidding... unless?

  

  Campus that I spend a lot of time on. As a honorary frosh there, I ... up for the freshmen and other hall newcomers. We have tasks to complete ... ), but also personalized lists for each participant. Some of my items

  • by Powers '23
  • November 24, 2019
• Blog / Events

  I went outside! *inhales, belts 'for the first time in forever' at the top of lungs*

  

  cabins that students can use for a small fee. One of the halls in East ... bunch of really nice pictures and want people to see them, tbh) MIT seems ... something called the MIT Outing Club. Most of what they do is organize trips

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.

  

  Hall Team;" also, a likely description of our progress this weekend ... One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In ... and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology A trip filled with enough desserts to satisfy anyone's sweet tooth!

  

  . Next stop, Beard Papa's at Faneuil Hall, home of the “world’s best cream ... consumption of an immeasurable amount of calories. (OK, Dad, I know you hate when I fixate on food, but it’s all in the name of science.) We began at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  culture in which the leaders of one of America’s largest universities ... Paterno did a lot of good for the university and this community. He was more ... carry the weight of this university's mistakes on our shoulders. When we

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Gettin’ Fancy Two formal events in two days?

  

  ) and the end-of-season fencing banquet. Here are some thoughts if you’re into that kind of thing. The Photography of Ring Delivery: Ridiculous Poses and Pictures of Hands A data summary-esque analysis by Ceri

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  front of Nanjing University of Technology (now renamed Southeast ... There’s a lot of things that happen to us that we simply don’t think about, that we easily forget, that comprise the in-between points of time

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

                                                Oudenaarden The pre-8.03 reaction: my level of awe and wonder is inversely ... back and forth, which in turn pushed air out in the form of sound waves ... glass to fall apart from each other are the same vibrations of a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011