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• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  will presumably buy MIT pens that they could have snagged for free in the ... to talk about things that they write at the bottom of lists. In ... and whatever), so in the spirit of conserving the quantity of cynicism

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  more places to buy cds. in central square, boomerangs was a beloved ... wanting to return to physical media, things i can hold in my hand and feel ... accessing my favorite pieces of art in digital space. i flirted with

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  dearly. My own history with whiteboards, how I use them in my life, and ... this recipe in the summer of 1963, the hottest summer we ever had ... fix a whiteboard that had been sitting in a hallway, filled with writing

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  the gallon. In fact, it's hard to buy it in anything smaller than a ... In my last entry, Meagan said, "Anyways, could you please do an entry ... . Seriously, a couple of weeks ago as we sat in a bar and watched Spain beat

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  computer shop party in a parking building. I took a lot of pictures, but it ... that i ended up buying. It's called "What's the Furthest Place From Here ... rock: Last week-end, I went with some friends to a boring little town in

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Somatic My spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine Issue XI

  

  was released in May, but I was hosed, and now that I am hosed but in a ... for materials, and I want to know what it is like to buy nice yarn. And ... , which you can find in better resolution at the website I linked above

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 17, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  8,726,400 SOS: The Conscious Subconscious guest post by a fellow '21

  

  on a good day) and commuted into Cambridge, resulting in the traffic survivor I am today. My UROP was in one of the biotech labs and this ... ? Shorts or pants? 1hr 1.5hrs 2hrs Cereal or parfait? Should I buy lunch

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 13, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  so strongly of this that I had to buy it for him. (Seriously, Five ... robot to compete in a contest, which is taking place tonight. If that ... was the last day to turn in your finished product, so I spent the entire

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  the north of Louisiana and then south to Houston. At two in the morning ... the exact same credentials, I'm not confident I would get in. Admissions ... things you should do before turning in any essay, so they're pretty common

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

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  towards sleep at -9.81 m/s^2. In 12 hours, I will be in class. For now, I ... that only uses about a third of the letters in the alphabet (x, u, c, o ... honor of standing in a semi-packed lecture hall and speed-integrating on a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  I am back in Boston, sitting on my comfy couch after a lovely weekend spent in Columbus (where I ordered my wedding dress, yay! Now I just have to wait six months for it to come in). Like many of the members of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  Depot to buy lumber for no fewer than 4 lofts, an picked up a futon all in ... at it. No, really! Okay, so unlike some people in the dorm who live in the same room forever, I have lived in a different room (and a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  sound interested in a game that her boyfriend plays :}} Well, the answer is, no, I've never really watched soccer before in my life, but the ... night, sometimes alone and sometimes with 40,000 English fans in K

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  Beaver, nature's engineer, was adopted as MIT's mascot in 1914 (my googling ... answered, but how do we send in our replies to get it in by May 1? Can we fax ... we prefer to get it in the mail since it is easier to read. Sylvia

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  What do you want to do in life?  For some people, the answer to that ... course they'll in, they'll hedge a little; they might say "6, or 2, or ... 'm in the latter group.  I came to MIT intending to major in something Bio

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  In case you are like me and still feeling somewhat Christmas ... Professor Patty Tang, who did her PhD in Senegal while studying sabar and has ... thought so. (The other fun part is playing different beats in sync with 30

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  giant paintings in giant frames, buying giant food, baking a giant cake ... well as space in CAVS to meet, and we arrived early in order to prepare ... painters tape to build a flat-three-dimensional table in the middle of the

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

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  I thought about this post while laying in a fetal position under an ... medication to kick in. This time was feverish; I felt as if my consciousness ... , although very little in the way of concrete thought. Here are a few of those

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  by stores designed to make you buy more than you came in to get. Make a ... problem. Mealplans are expensive, coming out to be $12-15 per meal. And in between classes and everything else, it is a challenging skill to go buy

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  Update on 6/26/2018: in the years since this post has been written ... compelling: there are more smart students in the world than there are seats in ... masses yearning to learn. In support of his subversive educational

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012