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  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  , what it means to be an MIT student, and how to find support and push ... waterballoons and spirited pre-frosh as West campus rides to victory in the Water ... at any time and solve a few puzzles, or stay as long as it takes to get

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  explore the field is to get a UROP in one of the many labs that do nanotech ... nature, you can be in practically any science/engineering major and get ... department, researchers in the Lang Lab use a laser “tractor-beam” to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Concert / The View

  

  how long I waited to get that spot. It'll be the artist, the date, the ... ride on Space Mountain, I wait for 8-12 hours to get front row at a ... you will get. I'm writing a separate blogpost on my tips and tricks to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  pretty much devoured our time, not to mention we were also trying to get to ... , meaning it goes from very small to 15.5' in a snap of the fingers. *snap ... , and since then have managed to actually organize and get this event to

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  ="1000"] my eyes needed to pee and there was someone in the bathroom ... I didn’t know how to do half of them. There were days I got three S^3 ... how my grades said I did in the class, I was just happy that I learned

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

  trying to understand how to holographic emissive materials in several ... didn’t know that I was going to be in charge of this year’s Pi Day video ... someone to do it this year because Audrey was going to be in Wales

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 12, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  cleaning was going, but we weren't sure how to get inside MacGregor to check ... . In this blog you'll find two things: (1) my introduction to Washlava ... living in MacGregor House, I used to live relatively far from the laundry

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions elsewhere, and who write me, years later, to tell me how things worked out for them ... got me to fall in love with the idea of being an MIT student. 4 years

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  live in Cambridge, MA, how do I come to terms with the fact that I will ... week, he gently reminded me, "You chose to live here in Massachusetts ... suppose. First way to enjoy a spring in Cambridge: Find the appropriate

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  the poster with the llama gets to be in the top half. +1 for the Pac ... , grumbling about having to make one of these posters in the first place and ... in Building 68 in the past two weeks, from least favorite to most

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  autonomous vehicle company) I’m learning how to skateboard. 98% for the a e ... min bus rides to class sound incredibly unappealing. As does getting ... as little masks that hide how clueless you really are in the kitchen

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  see how well that works. I used to hear that cooking is just applied ... . Okay, so let's get right to the... MORAL OF THE ENTRY: Cook with your ... I made this at 2:00 AM and left it to chill in the fridge overnight

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  It's pretty hard to live in Boston and not get swept away by Red Sox ... under trees and getting hit in the face by leaves, or maybe you like ... in their underwear. Who isn't a fan of that? Seeing as I fall into

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  the only place where it's socially acceptable for me to get food in my ... from MIT's campus (we had to take two separate MBTA lines to get there ... drizzling in the afternoon, so I went to Jahunger – a Uyghur restaurant that

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  talking to my dad about my job - this job - and how much I loved it. I told him how lucky I felt to had the opportunity to do it. My dad, in his ... has to say (seriously, go read it). But I wanted to hone in on the point

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and ... wanted them to like me! In 2014, with my MIT degrees and my own blogging ... tried to impress! Damn. +++++ In hindsight, I couldn’t have guessed in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  was able to see these phenomena with my own two eyes, in the flesh ... a video of a monkey reacting to a magic trick, that's exactly how I ... -order coherence). We expect to get [latex]g^{(2)}(0) = 0[/latex] because that

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

  Pre-med, Everybody’s Best Friend If you are considering a career in medicine -- and not as a pharmacist.

  

  "pre-med" track, so you can major in anything at all and have access to ... mine is majoring in architecture in and is planning on going to med ... career in medicine. Also, there are some minors that may be of interest to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  To those of you who sent in your early apps - congrats! You're done ... 't worry - you're not missing out): 0% of people who do not apply to MIT get ... like science? You do well in school? SO DOES EVERYONE ELSE WHO APPLIES TO

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  mornings, any inch of skin exposed to the air goes numb in minutes. But this ... get pushed to the back of my mind during the school year. All my ... material fine but I do feel like I need to figure out how to synthesize my

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025