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  $100 Laptop Unveiled Inspiring!

  

  , 1 Megapixel." The plan is to initially roll out the computers in a ... skeptics. People peppered Negroponte with questions in both English and ... Kay, known as the inventor (!) of laptops (back in the late 1960s) and a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Free-For-All Week! Movies, Music, and Baby Names.

  

  to my neck in applications (I just want to save my wrist watch!) For ... your responses I'm sure that if I put a piece of coal in a chair, and asked some of you to sit on it, in 2 days flat we'd have a flawless 30

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Study Break!

  

  some people who hate doing the work in groups, which is fine for them ... in the suite lounge, laughing uncontrollably at my pset. The concept ... problem was just absolutely hilarious to me at that point in time. Luckily

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  chemoattractants in a microfluidic device - 2 problem sets 2.005 - Thermal ... friends were present in this dream. Except they weren't normal. They were ... , in the world of math, while I was deriving the equations for the heat

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am dumb

  

  blowing so hard that my new umbrella broke in 30 seconds, and then I was ... , and I got soaked from the knees down in the torrential rain. And then I ... , and so I'm sitting here in the cluster trying to figure out the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey look, I’m famous…or something

  

  Hey, cool, my column's in the Tech! See? My column was a response ... where I find it sort of exciting to be in the Tech, assuming that I'm not ... and Interpretation of Computer Programs) test in 20 minutes and was not

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  putting some Chef Boyardee in a pot for lunch. That's not to say that I ... directly. Her boyfriend, Chris, just flew in to visit, so she cooked a real ... 's food was real. Mine came out of a box: This neat little all-in-one box

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A way a lone a last a loved a long the An opportunity for heated debate and a cry for revolution.

  

  This weekend I went on a rafting trip down the Kennebec river in mid ... much for the rainbow smelt population in the river, but it did make for ... about 36 people go, we slept in cabins, we swam, we played Mafia, and we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  has been firmly planted in the back of my mind. But sometimes, when you ... kitchen table on a daily basis is really starting to sink in. It's not that ... years to prepare for that. But I suppose you could say that in all of the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  hundred MIT students in the room was simultaneously struck with that exact ... , or characteristic. Some undergrads spent their years in high school ... television shows in the world. Still, I think it's safe to say that the typical

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Multi-Day Weekend at MIT

  

  from admitted students (do you have any? Leave them in the comments ... ) in Phoenix next month (more on that to come). This weekend is a four ... Fenway Park exit the stadium just in time to watch the lead runners come

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The waiting is the hardest part

  

  things a little... It was one year ago. Decision letters were in the mail ... MIT in a designated space marked off w/electrical tape. Then I rigged up ... from school, I can see the SIZE of the envelope! It's still dark here in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  passionless had a crisis, got a tattoo

  

  believe in what Lorde has said about how people don't change day-to-day or ... year" but in reality it's just where I'm at right now, which may or may not be what I was feeling earlier in the year, or even last year. This

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/16/25, at 6:28 PM ET it's that time of year again...

  

  may be, before you press that button. In order to help logistically prepare yourself, I recommend you practice logging in now so you don’t run into any ...  apply.mitadmissions.org/apply, click the link to Log In, then click “Forgot Your Password?” and follow

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 9, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  in reading about puzzles, feel free to skip any sections that talk ... -puzzle content in this post too. Worthwhile puzzlehunt information What is a ... overview in my last post. It’s an event that happens the weekend before

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summiting Mount Monadnock camping trip!

  

  with my living community :D. Saturday We left in the afternoon, driving ... a camera store in Malden to buy film, then Texas Roadhouse, and lastly ... ="119562" image3="119579" /] Finally, we arrived at the site in New Hampshire. Putz

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 18, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  yourself in different worlds and try to predict the outcome based on the ... thinking.    In the past few months, I’ve found myself thinking about this loop of thinking in almost every interaction, conversation

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  , face possible criticism, to realize your full potential. In my case, I ... war (or worse!!). This was all in order to reach my highest goal, my ... 's literally no way to tell. About an hour in, the ogs had to leave, but a

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  exchange later, I realized we actually would be back in time. I’ll fill out ... , October 14th at our Heads of House’s cabin in Concord, MA. As we drove, I ... ="105944" image6="105945" image7="105946" /] In the evening, a few of us practiced

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  particularly special class because it is required for everyone majoring in ... scientific documents explaining my work.  This class always culminates in a ... event is held in Pappalardo Lab, where the sun shines brightly through the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024