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  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  is home to four couches, two giant bean bags, and an enormous projector ... confident that we’ve averaged about two per day since October 27, so maybe I ... , two whole days before the official premier. A group of my friends even

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
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  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two ... Talbot, the large common room of East Campus, the only two females ... ... oh shoot... this was a really bad idea.... no I mean REALLY BAD … two

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
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  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  doing here? That was two years ago. In retrospect, that was just how I ... 'm with my friend from Norway who I met two years ago in Israel! As several ... summer, I'm sharing a flat with two Canadians, two Frenchmen (is that

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
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  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  college), and yet I've held down two to three jobs at a time pretty much ... deal at most colleges. At MIT, I've had two different UROPs over the past ... , informal letters of interest to three different professors. Two of them

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
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  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  he learned back then. We took three lengths of string, two of which ... end to form a triangle, we knew the two side lengths had to form a right ... two more reels to form the triangle with them instead. Because our

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
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  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

    Friday, August 28. Two MIT students sit at the top of the partly ... ”). Five are on the drop, drilling: two on the slide itself, two behind it ... warm windows. Two poi spinners practice and a giant Tesla coil quacks to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  about the bathroom closest to my room. The 2E Bemis bathroom has two windows, three showers, two toilets, two sinks, 1507.75 wall tiles, and 3907 ... stations, two moons, one galaxy, one bowl of petunias, and one existential

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  Sooo I wrote about pouring my heart out into a research conference submission in this blog. [annotation note="well it's actually been two weeks at ... conference and make minor changes to resubmit to another conference due in two

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  Even though we’re only two weeks into the start of the Spring ... curveball, so to speak. In any case, it may seem like there are only two ... , option two, realize that whether it’s your body telling you or your brain

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
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  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  made our bay in lab two semesters ago (at right). The smell of Cambridge ... drive stick shift four summers ago, in my pick-up truck on a two

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
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  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  the other two, and found out that the man lives in Italy (I think it was ... minute, I cued the other two, who responded by making their noises ... (ten prizes were awarded, but one post-humously, and two to groups who

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
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  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  the previous fall. It was a five-story, 100-foot-wide dorm with two ... about half a decade more, in which time two identical extensions would be ... , we consider two flavors. The more common form is exploratory hacking

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  Webster's dictionary has two entries for the word smashing when used ... on I think it's important to identify roughly two types of people here ... feeling of schadenfreude. Two years here have all but ripped my weak

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
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  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  building 4. There, I work for two and a half hours with my two awesome ... of the demonstration pieces was a two-tined fork, and I decided to try

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  's day, john invited me and two other members of my team, joseph and claire ... along the length of the boat, and two for the sails. he took the pen he ... you can't." two. in my continued adventures with the american

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
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  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  these two statements. I will never be a junior again. I will never be a ... of my junior year, I am twenty, and I am alone again. Two years ago ... Amherst Alley, moving just two buildings over to MacGregor House. The only

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  I spent the last three weeks in Italy through GTL, and the two before ... lapping the edge of the ice, and two of the nutria nibble at grass and one ... /nutria back into the water. One, two paddling, noses and whiskers in the air

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
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  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  of algorithms (TAs are capped at two classes). TAing is hard ... two hours on the first problem of the now three accumulated p-sets I ... weighed my options, called my mom, and dropped the class. For the past two

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  myself, and turned to leave – two seconds later, my feet got tangled up ... 's inbox. So there. Anyway, after about two weeks, I accepted that my e ... two post docs were looking for a UROP. I have never responded to an e

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  't plan anything to do, so after playing Crystalis for two hours, I decided ... !) than I probably watched when Captain Planet was in its first run. Two ... Thursday night I actually had two problem sets to do, but they only grade 5

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007