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  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  Like many of you, I have been playing Wordle, a game where you try to ... ’re decently close, and a score above 45 means you are almost there. As an ... Mark or French Toast". There’s a board game that is based on the same

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  , "Oh, but the weather is so cold there." Never let anybody tell you that ... not too much. You should see MIT students try to split the bill at a ... , Erica, and Simon were smart enough to buy a family pack of season passes

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  ) Back on campus, IAP was in full swing. On campus, IAP is a time when ... next project is a hat. Round needles for the win). Our very long list ... best time for me to go on a Birthright trip, because you need to have

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  because I thought the elevator was cool. You can wave instead of pressing a ... for a small driver to squeeze in. It's the kind of thing you can tell ... 'd be my first I could be your only one Oh this universe is a curse Where

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  process, and I thought I would address those topics here. I think there is a ... it is a very strong report that will help prospective students and ... expect. I believe there has been a growing mismatch between what students

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  you’re involved in outside of lacrosse. Sydney: Hi! My name is Sydney ... — the mitlwax community is truly unlike any other I have been a part of ... the year. What is something you’re looking forward to for the rest of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  't decreased at all. If you post your question there, you have a few advantages ... , but each has a special set of office hours when you can drop by and get ... . So much so that acceptance is really down to luck, and whether you can

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fashion Design at MIT calling all fashionistos and fashionistas [pictures inside!]

  

  Fashion is, evidently, alive and thriving at MIT (we're not just a ... . Now, fashion shows are amazing things if you're a photographer looking to become a better photographer, so I have a bunch of pictures for you

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  .007 has come to a close. If you're saying, "2.007, huh?" click here and read ... possible, especially because at MIT it is a required class for all mechanical engineers, and there are a lot of us! Since February, about 150 mechanical

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  a shuttle with a lot of other students each day to JPL.  There is also ... summer in a row.  His major is Course 16, or Aerospace and Astrological ... absolutely incredible! JPL is a research and development center as well as a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  night to buy me A Night at the Opera (ah, the dark ages before iTunes). I ... such luck there. At 9 AM, after a pleasant conversation with a cyclist ... Structures problem where you had actually had to figure out what the fastest

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  Suzanne Collins, there is a moment where the narrator, Katniss, says: “It ... virtue, however, is a contradiction: you're selfishly claiming to be ... him. This friend is single and would like to have a girlfriend, and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  distance it can buy you. She sees money as a way to unlock the ability to ... college. Not even for a bit! (I'm starting to think I'm always more homesick than I realized...) It's a preposterous idea considering how many

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  possible. You can imagine how disconcerting this can be for a social ... thrive at MIT. So if you have straight A's in challenging coursework, is ... me, you need to know that my definition of LΔ is the following: (L

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  ’m in Cambridge, reeling with a move cross-country and the start of the semester. In some ways, MIT is close. In other ways it feels distant, like a thought you once had that you can no longer grasp. I will never have REX

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  -college). I can deconstruct any bowl of ramen for you, and make a pretty nice ... countries in seven days. As such, there was a lot of coordination that had to ... mentors out there. MIT can seem like a huge and overwhelming school

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  never been engaged with on Facebook. There is a slight but evident uptick ... countries that we've blogged about, you can see we've mentioned almost all of ... asking a bunch of former bloggers to come back and blog for us. In case you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  this is very cool in and of itself -- there are not too many schools in this country, especially Really Good Ones, where the president of the ... Well, apparently I touched a nerve with my last entry -- sounds like

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Afternoon Props Props to ten people/committees/inanimate objects that deserve props.

  

  option, and it's useful when there's a particularly long message that you ... aquajogging this afternoon. Joe is on the cross-country team, but had his little ... revealing to me that you can get as much organic brown rice as you can fit on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  -filled apartments is quite steep. For $3000-4000 per month, you too can live in a one-bedroom Solaire apartment. For a *mere* $8000, you can have a 1600 sq. ft. three ... National Real Estate Investor reports that "a green building can pay for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006