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  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  . xkcd is “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” Its creator ... the website, some original answers to brand-new scenarios, and a list ... thought for a while about if I wanted to attend. Pro: get to meet Randall

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  Mr. Antunez, a new teacher who had grown up in Spain and Argentina and was known primarily for two things: 1) being an absolute hardass of a ... it was a portmanteau of my first and last names and could therefore

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we ... has a reputation for being stagnant or tense or squandered time, but it ... it time and have a little patience. https

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Videos and photos and more Lots of cool coverage of MIT stuff from sites, blogs, and vlogs across the web.

  

  folks across campus this past Thursday (I, of course, missed it for the 11 ... At the Media Lab, there's a project called Topobo that's interesting ... on YouTube, there's a popular video featuring Professor Randall Davis

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  textbook, so he didn't even have to pay for a book!   Warren ... MIT -- it takes up about as much time per week as a full-time job, and ... there yet, Chris swears he hearts math and wants to be a math major. As he

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  we do some memeing around these parts memes i've made so far on campus

  

  I love memes. I can't help it—I'm a Gen Z'er, so I grew up on the Internet with meme classics like Nyan Cat and Gangnam Style. Memes play a ... with free drawing software"]"Photoshop"[/annotation] a lot in my free

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  things even if you never do them again, and for the same reason there’s a ... writing is like a probability distribution, and writing more gives better ... mind don’t matter. It’s a cliche because it’s true, and we tend to ignore

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  A Very McGann Christmas Happy holidays.

  

  The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. On Christmas Eve, Santa visits our annual family gathering, with 40+ McGanns in attendance. Just a few miles from my house is the famous Big Duck, which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Above MIT The sky's the limit.

  

  a little shout-out on how just cool they are.   And with that ... blogging act, I would like to show you a completely new way to look at MIT ... long line of pilots, you see. My father was a pilot, and... yeah, that

  • by Piper '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  Author's note: I wrote this for a challenge that I participated in with Janet '27, Allison '27, Ellie '28, and Sara '28! I won by hitting ... for a littl ebit which was pleasant i guess. But you know whatisn

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  immersed in the MIT culture. I am certainly a full-blooded MIT student, and ... through 56 and 14 or that sub-2 always smells funny. And only a true MIT ... else that I know of. They’re the kind of thing that serve as a dead

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  (7.26) and computation structures (6.1910/6.004) at a high level, the ... labs where you make spectrometers, quantum dots, leds, and sensors. for ... the energy diagrams for the components of solar cells and LEDs and saw

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  root for the Colts over the Patriots; and I love playing a little ... Let me start with a confession. Last year, if you had told me that I ... 'm proud to say I was born and raised in South Bend, Indiana, a smallish city

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  It's been a while since I've had time to sit down for a long period of time and blog. I promise I have a good reason though! Most people at ... have problem set after problem set, then a week of tests and projects

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  My Funny Valentine No kissing on Valentine's Day.

  

  We will first begin with a cartoon from one of my favorite webpages: And it wouldn't be Valentine's Day without: r = a(1 - cos(theta)) Plot ... infection rendering my voiceless and without a desire to eat. So I think my

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  --down-to-earth and yet on the cutting-edge with a hint of a retro sensibility. Favorite ... antiques, books, and CDs. Cambridge is a hip, progressive city with the feel ... University for two years and then my degree from Harvard Extension in Art

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  with your students. I learned a lot about thermodynamics, too. (And not ... Last Thursday, Bob Silbey, a professor in Course 5 (Chemistry) and ... 's day, and as a member of the Logs ran into our lecture hall in the middle

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  little bus sick and a cleaning is in order. Then there’s “deadheading ... you learn to put up with when you're a country mouse coming to the city. Professors starting with, “You probably remember this from high school” and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Rush photos

  

  from right after Dorm Rush ended. We had a picnic in the courtyard, and ... harnesses and had to wear helmets. I didn't manage to get a good picture of a ... this...thing. I guess it's a mountain of wood and furniture. Top: Rachel

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Unlike any other. [by Nathan Kipniss '14] "Welcome to the Gardner"

  

  . The rooms are decorated for experiencing and living, not simply for ... and adornments, along with juxtaposing sketches and painting, also give ... One of the things I love about the Boston area is that being a

  • by ARTalk
  • April 28, 2011