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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  Fahrenheit. I learned how to spell cumulonimbus, in preparation for my brother’s spelling test, and I learned how to cook things that are not cereal, in ... in the trunk and the boy would ride with our luggage. But no! Out came

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  that the legend would have both the word and it's raw frequency (how many ... Three weeks ago in 6.009 (Fundamentals of Programming), we had to ... to implement takes in any text file and spits out a list of tuples of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  I, and I am him....." Yesterday, there was terrible traffic in the ... there were elephants in Cambridge, I ran to get some elephant bait to try ... Once upon a time, in a land far far away (called New Jersey), a young

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  start it with this line: “I was born in a place that doesn’t exist anymore ... my birth has become an accident of human history. See, I was born in ... crossing. My parents lived in the Canal Zone for 28 years and I was born

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  conversations. I can't tell you how often I find myself having in-depth and ... , but we couldn't see exactly how. I was skeptical that it would be that ... would slide off instead of pool in the middle. We finally decided that it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Adventures Part One the first of several "a day in the life of Cyd" posts

  

  companies, is what a day as an intern is like. What would I be doing, who would I see, where would i go, etc. I figured that people would want to know what the daily life of an MIT student (i.e. me) is like. So i

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  say in this post, but I think it can all be best summed up with “I love ... tours of Harvard, MIT and Yale, fully confident I would not get accepted ... embarking in search of The Great Pumpkin, to discovering  [annotation note="I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  (mechanical engineering) with a focus on learning machines. I live in Next House ... spectroscopy. This summer, I had the chance to live in an apartment in Cambridge while I was doing research in a robotics lab on campus. Specifically, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  for everything we'd done in the past three days. I'm pretty sure I got ... of the prettiest I've ever seen. we spent a while being idiots in the ... my ears could handle it, I saw a bunch of people buy earplugs so they

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  touch. MIT Hopeful wrote, "I believe in an earlier post Mr. McGann had ... , "is there any sense in applying next year (again as freshman) If I am ... Admissions website. I don't know exact statistics but usually we see hundreds

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing… Maker Portfolios! Making the world better, one portfolio at a time

  

  everything that I saw. But often I found myself asking questions. "Cool! How ... -mount components like that?" "How did you make that cake levitate?" I'm an engineer by training (MIT-educated in Course 2) so I wanted to know all the

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  , and D&D sword and throne room in another building. I got to stay in ... store so I could buy some good cheese. And everyone was so nice and ... a real hip club in downtown Boston. It was louder than I expected. The

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  poor. I am sure that i would recieve a very good score in this sat ... material? And how does that assist you all in making a decision? I mean, if ... wondering if I sent in my transcript, would you guys look at it just to see my

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  to see how much I've grown In brainpower and stamina for sleepless ... shopping there And when I was about to buy soap, I Reached for the three ... introduction to the city that I lived in for 15 years - Kaohsiung, Taiwan

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  paintings Edward Hopper made in his lifetime. So, when I learned that the ... ; listen to it on the Whitney website (scroll down)) “...located in the ... /social sense and in a literal climate change sense. I particularly liked the work

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  -poms, and testing how far I could reasonably chuck various mini beaver ... more and more people filed in. At some point, I poked my head out to ... your class all gathered in one place, and I knew this, but it was still

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  in which these quotes were said (and I am the genesis of at least a few ... shoes." "I'm going to be really annoyed if I have to buy a dominatrix ... ” "I was listening, until you shit on capitalism" I...don't know how to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  Methods In Aerospace Engineering" but I think a more appropriate name would ... in the universe, death, taxes, and MIT students complaining about how much work they have to do. I guarantee you that one day will not go by in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  't about being boy-crazy. First of all, this was me in high school. I think ... that I always get carded when I buy beer. I went to the Massachusetts RMV ... pretty well-known for the performing arts, and I was heavily involved in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  they didn't let me in at the border? How would I carry my suitcases all ... ' tv show record scratch* OK, so you're probably wondering how I got here ... semester, my parents and I both agreed it would be better if I could avoid

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020