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  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  awesome time to be in, at, and around MIT. There's all kinds of art ... title of this entry. If you haven't thrown up yet, hang on. My friends ... rest of this worse. Before I get fired for writing a blog post

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  are you prefrosh? Long time no talk, although some of you got to enjoy our sweet dance party a couple of weeks ago (which included a friendly ... dwindling rapidly (for a variety of reasons) and blogging is one of the few

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  winners ice cream at J.P. Licks, which has some of the best ice cream in ... The thing about summer is the weeks kind of all run together, so all the days just sort of bleed into each other and everything starts to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  community, I did research at a local university. But in spite of all of those ... world, a little cross-section of life at MIT. I'll be taking you through ... was going to end up at MIT for college, I probably would have laughed in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  to Berlin at... well, if it wasn't 5 AM, it was sure close to it. Of ... DID YOU KNOW? Charles Darwin's theory of evolution was inspired ... year before The Origin of Species was published. Berlin is truly an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the Love of Darties and ChemE An audio journey

  

  ’t good a week ago. Come to think of it, it wasn't necessarily amazing two ... living before, but things are quite different though. Speaking of two weeks ... chemical engineering professor in hopes of resurrecting the audio

  • by kellen manning
  • March 26, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20

  

  a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series* Everyone knows the deal - MIT is a constant whirlwind of PSETs, exams, lectures, and the occasional puppy labs. For several of us, there’s so much more

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Iron Man is a 15-year-old MIT Student and lives in my freshman year dorm

  

  recreates a rough version of an Iron Man suit using parts "borrowed" from campus. Presumably, she spent a lot of time at the Stata Loading Dock ... girl from Chicago studying at MIT. She will be taking Tony Stark's place

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  know many of you have been awaiting news about our wait list. tldr ... that we are able to admit 28 students this year. Today, at 5PM Eastern ... things go with the FCC. At that point, we will consider our wait list

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  continue my adventures here at MIT by doing all the things. So when I got an e-mail from one of our alums, Mitch B. '03, about an underground Ice Skating place at a Vermont quarry, I immediately responded that I wanted to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  experience. Sure, there are a half-dozen people at each of the schools I ... , distance: all of those factors I mentioned at the beginning are real. It ... your shoes it wasn't part of my decision making process at all. It really

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Your friendly neighborhood webcaster ignore if you can time travel within your own lifetime

  

  hurry you can still catch it at the Class of 2014 site! (use the username ... the wonders of MIT I planned to register for” to “that potentially life ... inexplicably decided to watch all 5 seasons of ‘Quantum Leap’ back-to-back, which

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  really long-winded and kind of boring entry while working Burton ... : -I am not a chapstick addict, but I carry two tubes on me at all times... in case there's a chapping emergency, and one of them got lost -stain

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  my first few days of class at MIT this term. I'm not quite as thorough ... . Steph '07 accidentally suggested that the water should come out of it at ... DID YOU KNOW? i^i = e^(-pi/2) Sorry for the lack of MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Embracing the Penguin Snowboarding Trip ft. Jayden

  

  hour and a half before arriving at 9:30ish (we both got like 4 hours of ... again at the bottom and spent the rest of the day going back up the lift ... season that’s on par with the winter they were stressing about in Game of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 31, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  By the end of my freshman year, I was convinced that I had not learned anything in my classes at MIT. By the end of my sophomore year, the ... part in terms of math academics, I had fallen to believe something

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  (I was more of a math person at that point), dragged in my physics ... , my middle school science teacher started a team at my school, and I loved it. Science bowl, for those of you who haven’t heard of it, is a

  • by Phi A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  , Randall Munroe, has something of a cult following here at MIT: we’ve hacked ... happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light ... If you haven’t heard of xkcd, stop reading. Instead, go over to xkcd

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  the privilege of sharing a class with him, but we would meet at all our ... community at MIT, serving as Vice President of the African Students’ Association and the President of Sakata Afrique, an African dance team at MIT

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  remember while at MIT. For those of you who are incoming freshmen, I invite ... to start. They've got at least one whole year on you in terms of ... set at the hobby shop - as soon as we learn some of the needed acoustic

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011