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  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  Magnetism, for which I sought out a little help. The Edgerton Center is quite ... behind the "manus" part of "mens et manus" (MIT's official motto, which ... lights. The Edgerton Center operates a machine shop for students in a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  forever as usual and was due on Thursday--and studying for the only 6 ... ’t concretely thinking of the exciting things the coming months had in store for ... because the deadline was in three days, and the last three pages looked sort

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  in the eye and saying "What do you do for fun around here?" It caught ... ^2). She asked if I'd mind showing her around the 'tvte, as it seemed ... . As I walked her around the myriad of different labs that serve host to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  of making me, the superstitious person, look ridiculous when I replied ... . Everything was a learning experience; the world had just opened up for me in a ... Finals season is well and officially upon us, but I couldn’t help but

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  't about to settle for an official camping site. We parked outside the first ... , Jennifer peed for the first time in something like 24 hours (seriously.) and ... evening, I saw "127 Hours" for the first time, and was very glad that I saw

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  ...another story for another day) learned the math as we went along. I got straight A ... physics (which, by the way, I didn't receive official intstruction on until ... this semester, for example. Or hey, the week after that, too. You know

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  you don't have time for that, you can read the summary report, which is ... . Unfortunately I don't know the sections of the dorm for the New House and Next ... The UA Committee on Orientation has come out with a report on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  November of last year when I visited Boston for the first time that I ... began to appreciate Charlie Brown for the masterpiece that it was. A ... Christmas means to different people. Wild for television at the time."]the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Whoooo!

  

  states but for example, none of the regional divisions of China ... can in the next few months. Any suggestions for weekend travel while I ... your profile a map of all the places in the world that you have been. As

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  for the 20th anniversary of the blogs, I originally hadn’t planned on ... now a professor in Course 20 who I saw every week for the past 6 years. I have lived in the 01239 zip code for almost half of my life. MY

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  later, my floor headed down to the Asgard Irish Pub and Restaurant for ... famous for holding up a microphone stand without the bottom part. 3. What ... for Burton-Conner, a scholar of the history of technology, and a regular

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  email was filed by the email staff. As for the interview, we do not assume ... 've made one of the biggest mistakes of my life. While looking over my MIT ... mail all decisions on the same day, and we prefer for all applicants to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  don’t seem to like where the heat is at already — for the past three ... expected the faucet water to be lukewarm when I asked for cold, the way it ... Probable Futures. I am from the desert. I was once enamoured by green trees

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  apprehensive about joining a lab for the first time. I thought, “Wow, so many ... deciding that I was going to take the leap, look into some of the awesome ... I can’t speak for the accessibility of research positions at other

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  concentrations. For the minor, students will take four required courses ... the best things for the LGBT community is our location in Massachusetts ... of the policy for many years). You should definitely check out lbgt

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  .  And while that's nice for the ego, it's not so helpful in terms of ... for me was the culture. I didn't realize this until I started visiting ... 'll realize that for the first time that time really is your most limited

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  for the term, I look at the open spots and fit in as many hours as I ... wanted to buy Brain Age for his Nintendo DS. He won; we bought the game ... ! Get fit. Cheerleading practice is over for the year (and, I mean

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  nothing at all happened, as it has felt for the past nine months. this is ... tested, and walk back. the other day a package for me was delivered to ... takes a while for the heat to spread. i've never had a bedroom this large

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  what does the end of high school mean, for you? the days pass so slow; the months pass so fast

  

  the next few hours. but you don’t know that yet, for you had just pushed ... shoelaces with mud. you sit down on a muddy folding chair, then look at the ... your friends and pose for jostling crowds of cameras and say the longest

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • June 10, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  a client that was looking for a way to use his iPhone to take steady ... the popular grip shutter for iPhones is just the little circuit you see ... for this mount, email me! our client deserves the best solution out

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014