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• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  free energy drinks. They also had a dunk tank, which was only in ... (a holiday celebrated almost exclusively in Massachusetts and Maine). The third day in a four-day weekend, it also marks what has been a

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  2.671 is an AMAZING class (that many people dislike, for reasons that are totally beyond me) and I've been having a great time in it. I ... setup, another has a beam that is wired up to record its response to an

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  a video of a monkey reacting to a magic trick, that's exactly how I ... experiments in 6.2410 (Quantum Systems Engineering Lab) – a class I’m taking ... particles are correlated in a way that measuring one immediately gives you

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  Well, there’s certainly truth to that. I arrived in China almost two ... reason I’m in China is to intern at an architecture atelier at Beijing’s Tsinghua University. So when I arrived in Beijing, everything got just a tad

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  miles in 8 months. How do you do that? RUN A F***ING LOT. No joke, I was ... since I've written a blog entry here, which seems ridiculous but that's how it goes. Y'all don't care about what's going on in the life of a 30

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/15, at 12:15 PM EST

  

  Hi Everyone, Early action committee is almost over! I never knew I could read so many pages. I never knew I could drink so much coffee. I ... https://decisions.mit.edu/verify.php now to verify that you've got

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  , clutching a handbag that contained an article for my Science Essay class. I ... doing a few dishes we went to sleep in the staff room: a room just wide ... class, while sitting on a chair in the kitchen; I cried for a few minutes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  is the village in Kaffa, Ethiopia where I've been doing the water ... that cars could drive on. 5 miles, therefore, is a lot more in Kaffa than it is in Boston or Addis Ababa.   How do people “get” water

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Events

  DEALicious in which i counsel an FPOP and come out with free candy. also how to…

  

  First things first -- I took a weekend trip back to New York and ... icebreakers... That may or may not have ended in some violent pool ... , or how another DEALer is the youngest licensed stockbroker... anywhere

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  We’re Bringing What Back? I don't think so.

  

  [ETA] (I have actually seen snow before. MIT students are not actually so dumb that they don't know what snow is. Except for Keri. Who lives in Florida, anyway??)(No, don't answer that.) Dear Bryan, I woke

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  that area for surveillance. I met them at a VR@MIT event back in February ... Boston entrepreneurs. Each one is held in a different place, with this one ... donates, they earn a badge that they can display in their email signature

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  people probably think army tanks look like. All that aside, I woke up ... . The takeaway message here is that I finished the mango, checked my email, and discovered at 9:18 AM that I had a press ticket to a Polaroid press

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  Japanese McDonald's. I just discovered that the Quarter Pounder is actually a ... I think this is a really fun alternative way to spend IAP! (and Reason ... can see that I think the subway is the best place to observe the people

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  !) in physics,maths and chemistry, but i've heard that i should do ... ?" No, that's the first time I've heard that. A few I have heard before ... EVERYTHING then make a decision?" The first thing I glance at is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  . He is one of the few people to win a Nobel prize in the sciences ... on Friday. What's a girl to do? So, here it is: It doesn't really look like a crown, but I blame my cheap molecular model kit that doesn

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  to be taught how to make a snowman, which I feel is some essential life ... a drowning snowman in the moat?” And we laugh, agree that it would ... yourself one of the most impressive things I’ve done in a while

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  the best purchase I've made in the last year is a wind-proof jacket from ... room, or in the study in the hall. After a while, I realized that I was ... chunks of problem sets in one sitting. I'm not saying that this is the way

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  , my mom asked me to make a list of things I wanted to do in California ... , which is honestly an okay ratio in my opinion. Especially at a school ... about how I was doing fun things to keep my mind off of finals and having

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  ’t find it. (That was a long lonely month when I thought I lost it for good ... ="500"] My Brass Rat[/caption] As a Course 1 (Civil Engineering) alum, I ... (while I blush at them saying how impressive my academic background is

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  first. Now I can say that I’ve actually been Tim the Beaver…how cool is ... Try to find me in this picture! Just kidding, that’s a trick ... out of the freezer and arranging them in a vest that the performer wears

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015