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  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  -credit class that meets twice a week for an hour and spend the rest of my time ... meets for 9 hours a day 4 days of the week. That sounds like a plan!" Well anyway, I just got 11 hours of sleep last night, so I finally feel

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  of eternity and create a legend—a legend that people would whisper about across the shores of Valhalla. Then, after writing a slew of blogs ... desktop called “Graveyard of the Forsaken”, the hero realized that the

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  I jumped into the river ...black-haired Asians swam with me.

  

  line up to surf in it. Kind of like the swan boats in Boston Common, but more EXTREME! You even see a bunch of people swimming in it all the ... a spare pair of underwear packed discreetly in my back pocket, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  If I Try Really Hard, I Can Resemble Ernest Borgnine First stop on the tour: London.

  

  Sort of. Do you remember the nursery rhyme about the London Bridge ... city of London put it up for sale to make way for a new bridge. Oil and chainsaw magnate Robert McCulloch submitted the winning bid of $2

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  A couple of weeks ago, it was too warm and humid to sleep, so I wandered down to one of MIT's many perpetually air-conditioned Athena clusters for my daily dose of midnight Haskell practice. Instead, I bumped

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  welcoming our new bloggers! baby bloggers? baby bloggers!!

  

  starting, with so many cool things to be learned; and as of today, the world ... many hours of discussion and back-and-forth, we've selected seven new ... maybe even their journey of figuring out who they are :) [image

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  everyone i know goes away in the end why i've never done misti

  

  . i was given the chance, in april 2021, to spend the first half of 2022 ... , and i enjoyed my summer camps. but part of me yearns for relationships that last longer. for the selfish reason of having someone i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So @mitblogs_ebooks exists 'as you might know, i am a full time internet'

  

  Some of you may remember @horse_ebooks, a Twitter account which ... collection of source texts. Some of my favorites:   Crying is great ... not, @horse_ebooks helped inspire an entire genre of surrealist _ebooks

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thanks, man I'm feeling human again.

  

  the mountains with their shadows. I'm sitting on the porch of a coffeehouse in the railyard with a spoonful of melted ice cream, accidentally eavesdropping on the telephone conversation of the pretty lady behind me, watching

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  ". To which I thought, "You're darn right, pal!" But of course, now that I ... instantly became acutely aware of the fact that I could not gauge the weather ... time progressed and I became more aware of my surroundings (and somewhat

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  The berry of the West African Synsepalum dulcificum (miracle fruit ... .42 kilodaltons of carbohydrate, 21.2 kilodaltons of protein) binds to the sweetness receptors of the tongue and activates them in response to acid, making sour

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  running and seeing one of your professors in the locker room wearing only ... sheer force of will. I originally wrote "shear force of will," as in the component of force that my will would experience tangent to the wall during

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  Suction Tube for Reverse Axial Withdrawal, or STRAW. It's a clear send-up of Jony Ive's breathless product launches, complete with pictures of ...             ｃｏｎｆｉｒｍｅｄ     That is, of course, an MIT class ring, or so

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Answering Your Questions: EA Deadline Week How can we be helpful?

  

  submitted by 11:59pm Eastern Time on November 1. There is some amount of grace ... of the deadline. Your school/teachers may submit their materials ... processing of all submitted materials.  If something was submitted for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Independence Day Fireworks in Boston Hobbits watch beautiful fireworks from comfort of dorm lounge.

  

  dancing on roof decks of frat houses. Last summer I watched the fireworks ... floor. The rest of B entry had gone out to Memorial Drive to watch the ... crowded, possibly one of the best views on the Cambridge side of the river

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stand Back! I'm going to try . . . well, you know the rest.

  

  much just going nuts. For our final (9th) lab of the semester, we were ... chamber with some microphones and a tweeter with some tanks of various gases ... impulse with various levels of damping, etc. The lab setup my partner Pall

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer’s End To everything there is a season.

  

  -checked all my saved strains of yeast, handed my notebook to my post-doc, had a ... sense of finality, of completion - of fulfillment. Today, I head back to South Bend - home, or one of them. I'll spend some time with my family

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  More HS Summer Programs Some academic and research opportunities for students to consider.

  

  further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school juniors to consider. All of the below are national/international, selective ... Program (SSEP) Women's Technology Program (WTP) Programs open to out-of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Chocolate Tasting Nuts, olives, and 99% cocoa

  

  In honor of some holiday, MIT's Laboratory for Chocolate Science ... , but this one was much more organized. We had four "flights" of dark ... your tongue instead of chewing it. We started out with a piece of Dove

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Wangoballwime?” C'mon. You know what this entry is about. Check out the title!

  

  This is Akash: Akash is the president of the Class of 2009 (like ... all know, today was the premiere of a much-anticipated movie. What movie is that? Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, of course! One

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2005