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  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  through your nose and out through your mouth. 3) If There is Anything you ... is making sure you don’t overdo it. A good rule of thumb is to have a ... that are winter-naive (like myself), there’s hope. And for those of you

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  IHTFP, which can mean a variety of things to a variety of people, have ... ’m going to a country I’ve never been to before to work in an industry I have ... have a diploma. I have about 100 pictures. I have a sunburn. It's a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  boomed, "So I see this is the Brass Rat table!") There's a standard pair ... nothing on a weekend for the first time in 2006 (this is when you know you ... close and I can't think of a time when there's ever been a serious

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  up when you have to consistently give a speech at every Commencement ... companies founded by MIT graduates would get together and form a country, it would be the 38th economically richest country in the world, a statistic

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  (Ojibwe) is a youth robotics inventor, activist, and advocate for youth who ... / Pueblo) is a father of two from Tohatchi, NM on the Navajo Nation. He is a ... University. He is the founder of Little Moccasins Education Services and a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  is where mail comes, oftentimes you can get movies here, and they also ... . There are fliers all over campus encouraging you to sign up to be a Tech ... As of right now you may or may not have a job. I got my first job the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2016 FAQ

  

  your application is complete by then and you did not match. We can ... . Q: How do I schedule an interview? A: You can find your interviewer ... application). Q: How can I view my MyMIT tracking page? A: Once you submit

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  of Sufjan Stevens's because Sufjan Stevens is a proper noun as well as an accomplished songwriter. However, if you were to use a common ... apostrophe. So it would be "the abacus's beads." BUT if you have a common

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  . Random Hall utilizes a grocery delivery system, where you can order your ... probably do a blogpost on FPOPs eventually.) This is also the place where I ... : But wait Cami! That's six frosh you just named? And one of them is a guy

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  are weird because linear algebra is weird. Suppose you rotated a cube 45 ... numbers you can multiply with a direction (specified by a list of 3 numbers ... .) So there you go – a mathematical proof that rotations by 45 degrees

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  turns out that, much like a gourmet pretzel, life is full of twists. On ... of dying in a bingo game. As you might have figured by now, nothing ... , the direction in which a vector points after you move it depends on the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Class Projects

  MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?

  

  and, most recently, a working metal lathe But there are certainly downsides. I think this comic does a great job summarizing: ___ ___ You may laugh, but you'll laugh for a different reason if you're a student

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  essays? The trick is that there isn't a trick to it. I can tell you what ... "Activities" section is to capture a glimpse of you outside of what you look like on paper. Each little essay is a snapshot of you as a person instead

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  . Founded in 1989 by Segway inventor Dean Kamen, FRC is an activity where a ... people cheering each other on, competition is as close as you get to a STEM ... -game (where a special end game is setup in the last few seconds for extra points

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  pay $26 for a ride--after all, you can just get upperclassmen to to tell ... out of your dorm and take the T down to South Station, you can get on a ... ." Seriously, what is wrong with you? Anyway, we were in a huge gigantic hurry to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  I feel the need, the need for speed!

  

  community went to Six Flags". You don't stop being a Child of Florey (another name for a 5th East-er, if you couldn't figure that out) because of ... place had a lot of them. There was a thin blue tube called Cannonball

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  tuning in, there is a reason that my blog consists mostly of me standing in ... you don't see above is that we are facing a couple, hidden from view ... because there was a fake statue of David like 100 feet away. There is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  First Day of Classes! Today, the MIT Class of 2014 begins.

  

  , tried out for a cappella groups, played sports, and more. The formal welcome to the class is the Freshman Convocation, where the freshman class ... Today is the first day of the Fall Semester at MIT, and thus is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  't really want to go to a "jock school," the kind of school where you had to ... Despite growing up in New York, I became a Red Sox fan when I was 8 ... myself in a Red Sox uniform taken sometime in the late 1980s: While

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  promise you: the excitement never wears off! Even after a day full of ... spending two-thirds of my summer in the unfamiliar chaos of a foreign country ... . Apparently “Gravity is a failed theory that has been disproven”. Stay woke. Worked a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017