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  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  )"]part of the building with no elevator.[/annotation] It wasn't a huge deal ... of them. I ended up having to pay for a storage facility in the area."]provide summer storage.[/annotation] I'm still pretty salty about the lack of free

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  brought a lot of joy and happiness into my life. If you've read the title ... oh boy this is by far the best piece of technology I interact with on a ... occasional bout of boredom at work. And hence, I discovered the magic of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  sometime around 3 am, sharing food on the sofa of our freshman year suite and ... ."    And thus, The Double was born. The inception of this idea sent us ... events for all of the newcomers to our building. And while that promise

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  at CPW, I came to understand the meaning and context of those words. My name is Li, and I am an enthusiastic member of the incoming class. I ... from?", and approximately ¼ of the time it was followed up by: "You mean

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  Something very important happened on Friday. The final report of the ... of the recommendations will probably start being implemented a few ... summary of the report (only 11 pages) can be read here. I anticipate that

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  classes, totaling 96 units. In the spirit of procrastinating finals studying ... , Amira, Ari, and I made this unfolding zine that summarized some of the core themes of the class: [carousel image1="115118" image2

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / Events

  [liveblog] gingerbread stata we are building stata out of gingerbread

  

  're building the Stata center out of gingerbread today and Teresa is also here ... unexpected problems: the variable thickness of the gingerbread means that the ... 't always fit on certain parts of our cut pieces. But so far the frosting is

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • January 23, 2026
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  control of the bike and threw myself off before it fell into a rock pit) and ... control of the bike and slammed head-first into a bush), With a lot of ... a few days later I found myself in the passenger seat of Raphael's '88

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  If I were to show you the following series of pictures, how would you ... maddened drivers of the T and prevailed in the name of energy! Then they ... from the dome." BUT it is not any of these things. No, MIT hasn

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome to the Woodshop Don't forget close-toed shoes and please WEAR GOGGLES.

  

  Laura did a pretty great job covering the variety of machine shops ... the MIT Museum way up on the tippy-top of campus (where top = North), I ... , because it is specifically targeted at students within the Department of

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 5, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Busy times

  

  busy for students, too, as today was the third day of classes at MIT. Two ... of the cool stuff that's available... ... For those of you hoping for an Admissions status update, here goes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  exciting activities. In the spirit of "better late than never," here is a ... a lot about the design and fabrication of complex machinery, then you ... % of its solar array, and yet still the MIT team was able to finish in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  , or or Wednesday, or a Friday, or possibly another day of the week, so ... application by thinking a bit about the applicant's context. I can see much of ... community? a university town? Sometimes I'll use the power of the web to help

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  the past. A bunch of people in our hall told me to get the shot. It ... shot clinic was one of the coolest things I’ve seen since I got here, and ... . One of my friends on the floor I live in stuck his sticker on his door

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  the beginning of the summer, because he was helping me move into my ... of a problem (problem as in problem set, not personal problem). And the ... preview of the finished project, or at least the project as it is now. We

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  . All three elevators have a board full of posters, and the floor ... series of dings whenever they open, but, like the distinct colors of their ... as can be, and as the farthest elevator from the entrance of Simmons

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Parafilm Effect The center cannot hold... unless you stick it together with Parafilm.

  

  reagents. With the use of the special Parafilm M dispenser, which are sized ... conveniently cut off uniform sized strips or squares of 2" (50.8 mm) length. The ... asked about the availability of some other thickness, there is, at this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Things to Do in Cambridge and Somerville places and events, illustrated

  

  big city lights and into the "suburbs" of Cambridge (which is where MIT ... my friends. As a bonus, the keynote speaker was Ryan North, writer of ... River, is an "exuberant celebration of the arts." It happens yearly at the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  able to devote the appropriate attention and time to documenting some of ... be considered the added convenience of having a dining hall on the ... and parents alike that in fact the quality of food at the dining halls

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  variety of topics. Usually, the release of each issue has been marked by a ... . The Gala was the first Infinite event of this scale, featuring an art ... arts at MIT. Put together over the course of the year by a team of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023