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  MIT vs. Chuck Norris Ever wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?

  

  Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee. This got me thinking, "I wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?" I armed myself ... . I hate the number 23 so I threw in 2 of my favorites to get us to 25

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  I saw. 60. Want to know how to say "Yes, We Can" in Japanese? It has ... Sooo, I'm back in Boston. And, to be really honest, I miss Japan a ... and the sushi rice in a bed at the bottom. I personally feel this is a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  yeah, I haven't written a blog in too long anyways, so I owe all of you ... being in lab. You see, I am taking Project Lab, this 30-unit class (normal ... only 1 mm in length as an adult - so NO, these are not earthworms! i can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  department: "I might be interested in doing Biology at MIT... so I have to ask... how are the professors? I know you always have your good ones and your ... would like to give me to make it much easier on me? Okay, I'm out of dorky

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  teach them how to use Illustrator so I've decided to write a blog about it ... toolbars might be in different places- I don't remember where everything is ... around with it. A good exercise would be to paste in an image (ctrl+v to

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  In true "everybody else is doing it, so why can't we?"* fashion, I ... would be fun to read. Be warned - I may (read: will) overdramatize a good ... came, so she drove to school to give her the tube. Kris '10 and I were in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  for clarity. I promise that the frequent snide remarks are all in good ... to find a souvenir store in the faraway lands of Putz, but I will send ... in comparison to Tetazoo. I quickly abandoned this thought when I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  2021. I'm a student at MIT studying aerospace engineering. I live in ... married. I got a dog. I moved, once, and now I've lived in the same apartment for 3.5 years, after moving 5 times in a single year. I won a big

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  I love to play with big weird words, so writing in Up-Goer Five makes ... number-like things. Of course, it would be harder to talk about exactly how ... why the story did a good job. But I will not tell you all of it here in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  would be cool. In that case, I guess the liquid metal part of his system ... explains exactly how the climax of Fantastic 4 works. So, to rectify this, I ... undergrad in chemical engineering and I have a question that none of my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  tap to the head. "No!! Dio mio, at this point, I don't know how many ... epic Journey. I spent two hours in front of that painting, jotting ... University there that I hope to stay for a bit in LA and visit her before

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  of group B, I thought I had convinced my parents that grad school would ... biology is a real science (I am the only course 20 in a group of 60ish so I ... protein does, how does this process work, if I induce this what will happen

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  them in!) ALL MY EMAILS YESTERDAY (interspersed throughout random times of the day)EVERYONE I KNOW: There are elephants being marched down Mass ... else I know just emailed me to tell me that. EVERYONE I KNOW: That's not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  'm not as eloquent on these topics in Spanish as I would be in English, but ... place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it wasn't really something I expected to continue in earnest in college

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  internship; the world would be my oyster. And I was right about those things ... Short Stories just for me. I want to write more in the future, and it ... that I was only close with one person in the house I was living in. This

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  [/caption] when i saw hadestown in january 2020, it hit me like a train with ... saw before covid. as was briefly mentioned by fatima, i was in a ... to do it (when would i get the chance to do this again?), and then

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  afraid to do in my freshman year. One of the bigger things I wanted to do in my freshman year that I did not do was join clubs, specifically ... the clubs I was interested in, I ultimately decided not to join any

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  my window and breathe in the fresh air; and sometimes when i'm walking ... date it feels like i've missed months of my own life, stuck in a haze of ... so much that i will never get the chance to do, and that hurts in an

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  test in high school, I would have received a 120% and possibly a card on ... all around. In fact, I couldn't even tell you the frictional coefficient ... diagrams at 2 AM in the morning*. I went to the office hours of multiple TA

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “So, what HAVE you been doing?” less sad shit lets get a lil more hype in here

  

  21 in February! I don't talk a lot about party culture on the blogs ... , but I figured in an effort of maintaining my brand of transparency I ... break, I went to visit my family on Big Island in Hawai'i. I took this as

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2023