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  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  . What a monster, right? I submitted everything in early September to the ... , including the endorsement, was shipped off to one of 16 Districts in early ... Finalists attend the cocktail party on Friday night in order to meet each

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  sandwich "barbecue", but I called it Sloppy Joe in front of the Europeans to ... in Kendall Square (a little more expensive and not much better than the ... DID YOU KNOW? The Natural History Museum in London has a giant squid

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  in the areas that are most interesting to them. We want students to ... a student engages in as much as the general outlook and commitment to ... world is more globally connected, and we are living in the most

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  thanks to our sponsors and to the wellspring of resources that is MIT AeroAstro)--most ... we arrived to the competition site, a brisk wind decided to settle in and loiter in the airfield for a day or two. Let's be clear--wind is bad

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  ="Alan: I had a lot of fun with this, managing to get most of the songs in one ... , this is the year I was born. We like to remind each other of this, often ... puzzles in the first round, and then I headed to Kendall/MIT to catch a Red

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  . The most basic building element is a point-like particle, which has ... pressure is just the momentum imparted to an object from light. Basically ... Devices and I worked in the Manufacturing Engineering Lab. So, see that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  'm sitting in the emergency exit row directly behind a bathroom - but rather to ... me, who have not gone to the restroom once yet in the first three hours ... broke down the most was, not surprisingly, in upstate New York, on our

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  the spring really proved to me how much I had grown as a student in ... wrote that. This is why for the most part my past blogs aren’t deeply ... translating to the breadboard. And the information I learned in this class

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  hour (or half hour). That's because 17 is the most random number ... somewhere in the sky, and when I got home I invested in a big, dark green, double-canopy umbrella. It was, according to Amazon, the BMW of umbrellas

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  to take a pirate-themed boating/camping trip to Bumpkin Island in the ... ?! Jeremy '09 and Mark '09, who arrived at the island earlier in the day to ... course, to keep in the theme of the trip, instead of playing with mafia

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  lot of torque due to its size. The Nerf Gun In order for this to work ... were pretty hard to come by in Boston so Raymond ended up buying one off ... the 4 mounting hole for the lazy susan in addition to 3 holes arranged

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  say that I'm "tenacious", but what I really mean is that I am set in my ... and lab, which is really kind of stupid if you live on the far west end ... 've bought a shower curtain for every suite I've lived in. The A21 suite has a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  to invest time in making the trek over there, I want it to be worth it ... greater area, it is easier to navigate around them Harvard classes in ... transportation twice (or more) a week? As a senior mostly done with the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Psetting on Campus ft. an updated mapping system

  

  'll add it to the map! Coming soon: possibly the most comprehensive guide I ... things on campus. I'd like to bring that back this year, along with a much ... 'm doing this semester is here - it's a guide to nice places to work on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  you to someone a bit more qualified to explain the nuance much mo ... , because the point of the interview is to get a sense of your side that doesn ... 'm going to answer in a hodgpodge some of the straightforward requests I got

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  much a school costs. You are in the process of determining where to apply ... minutes... even in the driving rain. Ask if it is possible to have lunch ... If I'm not mistaken this is the time of year when you begin in

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  particular that stuck out to most people: "Spinning Yarn." So the idea here is ... to look right back at you in the eye. That's one longwinded way of ... someone else in the room relates to something they've said, the barn of yarn

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  went to the Air and Space Museum in DC when I lived in Virginia with ... since everyone in the house was super excited to go and really had such a ... really miss going to the gym and lifting heavy objects and I think this is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  have been at most points in the past. It is easy to lose perspective ... is perhaps the most egregious. I know crying is a healthy outlet for ... . The need to look young and beautiful is a shackle, the kind that you

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  people moved into the house and I've gotten to know a lot of people in it ... me incredibly giddy knowing that I get to live in the house with ... live in the house since I wasn't as close to DPhiE as I had hoped

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021