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  We’re Ready for CPW Are you?

  

  to drop off lights, glowsticks, and popcorn machines, the grass is growing, and the sun is shining. MIT is getting ready for CPW as fast as it possibly can and we're just about ready. Right now, we're all getting our

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  of 2017-- to experience the thrill of working in the Super Sport Car ... new collaborations will lead to new technologies in the fields of the ... . Sometimes, we are very rigid in our ways. Consider how we pronounce class

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  since I was interested in learning more about how to administer AFS, I ... design I'm going to write up). Or either of the psets in my other two ... ). The Watchmakers worked in the Watchmaker Zone, and to help them test

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back Why is it that breaks go by so quickly?

  

  where the last two weeks went - and getting excited about IAP :) As Jenny mentioned in her entry, IAP 2010 is about to begin! People are doing all sorts of cool things: one of my floormates is studying abroad in Madrid

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 3, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Dark Side of the Moon And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the…

  

  , however, get a fairly decent photo of those people who decided to watch the ... So in case you didn't know, there's a eclipse going on. A total eclipse of the moon, in fact. The last one until 2010. You should go watch

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Simmons Cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat

  

  I love being back in Simmons after a long break. I get to hang out with friends in the 4AB lounge, eat dining hall food in Simdin, and ... House’s dog) roaming the hallways. But we have plenty of cool stuff to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  in response to Trump's immigration freeze on seven nations. MIT has 38 ... helpful and comforting to see so much of MIT come together in firm ... welcome new talent? In a nation of laws, how can we reject students and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  behind my home in Texas to make a new one here. In these past fourteen days ... , your portable devices should be fully charged to avoid getting lost on ... collaboration. We highly recommend that you get to know the other passengers on

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair? hint: I'm not wearing a suit

  

  with that beanie. I kind of want the weather to get colder just so I can ... If you're looking for an in-depth view of Career Fair and all the vast opportunities that it offers MIT students, then you're in the wrong

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  good fit for them. But, if they would like to take classes in Major ... contributions to the field of linguistics in my Intro to Linguistics class (24 ... referred to this article which is in the current issue of the journal Foreign

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  . I.B.M. plans to announce Monday that it is in the final stages of ... (History and Computer Science).  For this major, I have to take 7 classes in ... be invited to an in-person audition.  At the audition, you take a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Today is a Super Important Day This is kind of a big deal.

  

  big, in fact, that the following email was sent out to the MIT community from Chancellor Clay last week: Dear MIT Community, In response to ... allowing employees to use their lunch breaks to watch the inaugural swearing-in

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  up Massachusetts Avenue to see just how far it goes into Boston. Turns ... . One ostrich egg is equivalent in mass to about two dozen chicken eggs ... was a little bored (for the very first time since I got to MIT two years

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  snow:no snow ratio is. I bid someone to go forth and Google! And then get ... snow to go anymore in Boston. The snowbanks beside the roads are 3-4 feet ... conundrum. Except one of his ideas to get rid of the snow was flamethrowers

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2013! this is how i do this

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) I remember that I need to hire new bloggers 2) I frantically Google for the old application posts to remember how to hire bloggers 3) oh right

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) to the 2020 MIT Protofrosh

  

  're probably nervous, which is normal. No one is certain they'll get in. That's a ... to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day and many many more here ... !) Just do it later by The Oatmeal How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  that I could go from here to 3rd overall, but I did much better in the ... .  Doing well in this game was very luck dependent. To make my decision, I ... Field. In the next section, I talk about how this actually worked out for

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Help Wanted Calling all artists! Design Mitra's new banner and get profiled in the blog

  

  As part of my desire to make this blog more interactive, and since you readers are so ingenious, I'm asking for your help in designing my ... doing this? (It's scary how much I feel like Jonathan as I write, "The

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  that I was an MIT student definitely helped me get hired. I arrived in ... Switzerland, so I'll be doing that gradually (I have lots of pictures), mixed in ... in Lausanne, Switzerland, supported by a research fellowship from the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  won't like in the future. As a challenge to myself, I'm putting my ... in the winter, I didn't care about funding. I was so excited to take ... Back in September, I wrote my first blog. I called it Things I Know

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022