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  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  , which is also the older one: there's never been a point at which ... see the full-size photo.) That photo is incredible for a lot of ... significantly more famous version of hacking is performance hacking, where objects

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  alone productive. The best thing you can do is take the weight of waiting ... talked about humanity as a perk; that is, the admissions office has high ... nicely when he said you don't have to build, say, a nuclear reactor to get

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  imposters. The plus side is that after you break through, you usually have a ... , but it’s not always simple. Sure, sometimes you can come back with a witty retort and a raised middle finger. Sometimes you can’t. I had to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  Today is my first day of school as a PhD student at MIT. Today is ... month ago at his nursing home in Missouri. There’s a lot that I could say about the lessons you can glean from his story, particularly around joyful

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  Fool, which is not a part of the major arcana, in the same way that an undergrad begins with no major, being Undeclared. This is not a coincidence ... TINACBNIEAC by fans.']nothing is ever a coincidence.[/annotation] Okay, it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  -shirts (which you can't really see because we all had multiple layers on because ... . Just to give a sense of how crazy and loud it was, here is a video of the ... Bezel is a tradition (I'm not sure for how long, but at least since the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  regional term you use for a major road that you drive relatively fast on ... decision."]meeting students[/annotation] and seeing a slice of the worlds you ... the local sights. So here is a sample of my adventures with Flat Tim

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  tingles briefly like a paper cut. Since we think our thought process is ... seem like this door is *the* door. We want to tell you that it is definitely NOT. It is rather one, among so many other valid options. It's a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  Tetazoo has historically been friends with Blacker, a dorm at Caltech ... over to stay with us, we decided to give them a warm welcome by trying to ... strips of colored LEDs lining the hallway, a bunch of the hall frosh built

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  , if you ask me “Is there a group for students who are religiously ... ?! For real. If there was a crystal ball you could look into that would ... came across a collection of things that I had written which can most

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  ;on Flux. You can read a cool article about his work on Minority Report here ... industrialist and head of Stark Industries, and Maria Stark. Tony is a boy genius ... Rhodey, implying a college friendship. Even stronger evidence is Rhodey'

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  " is like remembering a test question, but before that, "remembering ... concert. I gel my hair and put on a tie. Dress code is "happy colors." I ... -blue voice. A man in a denim jacket plays a green violin. "I can't feel my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  ="an event where you present from a nonsensical slide deck you've never seen ... placed on the committee, and from there it is off to the races. Planning ... many amazing new people is exciting. I spend a lot of time online during

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  away from you at all times is a rare and valuable thing. MIT’s “make it ... it fades. As you can tell it is already fading.  ... 2.009 presentations were December 11th. Theme: WILD! 2.009 is a Mech

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  -end development is like painting. Often, you start with a wireframe, which looks a ... different, and that's okay. My goal is to encourage you to reflect on your own ... answering questions like "what's a project you worked on recently, and what

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... ; Yes, that is a Ford Model T, hanging from the roof. The car, which ... anything about fire? The thing is just hanging off of a building. It's

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  . Broth I think I learned from this. There is no firm recipe. You save ... you’ve had; on the other hand my wish for you is that through storms and ... This one is a bastardized amalgamation of random internet recipes. This

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  . On Tetazoo, we had a small streak where someone’s room seemed to become ... sprinter down the hallway, and can probably spot a fly a building away. He ... ! This is an American Cockroach (Periplaneta americana), a species of roach

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  represent a place where there are not many others to do it for me. We’ve got ... ? There are people walking everywhere! However, there is not a night sky ... from a small state mean to you? Natalie: It means you can get ahold of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  creepy though, so make sure you can still sleep at night.") there ... such an incredible collection. whatever you find is going to add a lot of ... , and i've unfortunately since [annotation note="this is a tangent, but i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024