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  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  looking for more music, uninspired by the options presented to you before ... just curious to see what it's like. And lucky for you, I've got the scoop ... living [annotation note="for the record, whenever i refer to off

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  . This morning, the official MIT Gangnam Style music video was released to ... Influential People in the World" in 2012 for his liquid metal battery research ... In case you haven't been on the Internet recently, a music video

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  weeks old for me, but the least fresh interns have been here for over two ... , Thursday nights will often devolve in the following manner for the less ... Facebook is somewhat infamous on the college software developer scene

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  stepping stone for another one disrupt your dreams and the progress you ... Oatmeal cooked on the stove is so good. I wouldn’t know this, but a few days ago a fuse broke and all the outlets in our kitchen stopped

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  far away, because looks at all these new experiences you've had. The new ... for what's ahead and I think the blogs are no different. There are 10 ... First of all, can you believe the blogs are 10 years old? That

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  incentive for me to just enjoy looking at the fire truck on top of the dome ... to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably ... around campus. MIT is blessed with buildings that kind of look like the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  : The weather was fine. CJ: Look, when we planned this, the forecast for ... motivation for what we did? Alan: …not really. But there is, at the very least ... of this done for the London Underground, so I latched onto the idea

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  week before I update you on the last 5 months of my life. Right now, this ... I was back in the day, or my younger brother is right now, or like anyone I know was the week before their college applications were due, you

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  into a lump of a person, sitting at the kitchen table for hours at a time ... tissues, waited for the sniffles to subside, and said kindly, reassuring me ... went home for winter break and thought the depression would go away. It

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  written one on 2015, I did look back on those from the past few years: 2011 ... Happy 2016! (By the way: 2016 = 2^5*3^2*7, in case you need the ... .) After finals, my brother and I flew home and stayed there for about two

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  ’s common in Nigeria for novels to be officially shown to the public in a ... with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... wanting to create words and stories. So I imagine that for the both of us

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  , fairly rugged mountain - together. …We are emphatically not looking for a batch of identical perfect climbers; we are looking for a richly varied ... : "Describe the world you come from; for example, your family, clubs, school

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  . And, of course, more South Park. I looked into importing the ... official DMC Cross Stitching Mentor. DMC is the organization/company that ... an AMAZING light for cross stitching. Comes right out of the ceiling

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  This post has spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT Mystery ... 't belabor the explanation here. A puzzlehunt isn't just about puzzles. For me ... heart for that. The community There's a notion, becoming stronger in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  like for you. You might have gotten recently added to the Discord or ... means easy. The hard part is over (for now). A lot of adMITs will throw ... video format watch the video down below. this video does have subtitles

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  his final paper for STS.050 (The History of MIT), about the founding of ... administrators saw that the introduction of dormitories would allow for the ... effectively than before. The move to Cambridge allowed for the construction of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  , but look into classes that aren't on this list too. The best way to ... want to have a plan for when you'll finish each part of the GIRs ... Biological Engineering. (Good references for checking are CourseRoad and the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  week. Just look for our table on the first floor of the student center ... MIT. Dorm Rush (n.) - See REX. Engineers (n.) - The proper nickname for ... Sail - official name of the steel sculpture by Alexander Calder south of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  the Research Obviously, this *should* be the first step. For me, my research is the UROP project that I've been working on for almost two years ... the angle I was working on for quite a while. I still have an entire

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  $6500 for the three months of 2.009. Most teams will use all of this ... -wearing rabbit. For the Technical Review, however, we're in decidedly worse ... , and the laser cut enclosure looks great, the sensors are glitching

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015