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  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  application. In the span of a lifetime, two years is really not that long. And ... It hit me just a little while ago, that today is November 1st. It ... the experience of watching Hamilton is to compare it to finishing a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  scarves arriving in a box that literally said “CHEMICAL TEXTILE” in big bold ... a fire alarm and have everyone in my dorm freeze to death in the ... the chemical is made of and how they are bonded together

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  No scissors allowed: OrigaMIT You never know what cool stuff is going on around the Institute.

  

  club, is a sophomore majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Music, and the publicity chair (my former TA), Brian Chan, is a graduate student in ... folded a kraken attacking a Crawfordian sailing ship for the 2006 Origami

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2600 Years of the University college life since 600 BCE, as told by Prof. Shailendra Mehta

  

  Note: xTalks: Digital Discourses is a seminar series from the ... . This blog post is a summary of the event. ________________________ Imagine: you are a prospective university student in India, 600 BC

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  Perry’s dark mission. Notice also how the American ship is traveling from ... attendance has been nearly a 100%, a testament to how much students appreciate ... answer is, of course, both. Unfortunately, regular labs are infeasible in a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Fashion Free For All like the hunger games but we love each other

  

  come in and get clothes for absolutely free. From formal wear to scarves ... opportunity for free clothes is an offer that should always be taken up. That ... free things. By the time we got there, there was a large mass of people

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 26, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  put some lab-grown, diseases-free ticks in a bin and time how long it ... whether there is a person who could get hit in front of it, because it may ... picking up and handling objects. Manipulation is used a lot in the e

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  that train.   As in the bus, inside the train is a scrolling neon sign ... airport, but any other trips you take will not be free. There is a Charlie ... the door. Notice that there is a label in the glass by the entrance

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  constituted, at some point, a hell week. But dead week is on a whole new level ... in New Hampshire, which is to say we went paintballing at OSG. Among ... ships, wooden towers, a castle, a minivan, and makeshift ditches and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  a football team? Is there a football stadium? Do you have cheerleaders? The answer to all of these questions is yes. Does MIT have a football ... weekend, but I know the team is hopeful for the season. Is there a football

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  school teacher who wrote asking for a poster of MIT to hang in your classroom to inspire your students, Gisel is probably the person who put it in ... give to each other as a thanks helping them out in a pinch

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  paint with five other girls in my sorority. Further down the bridge is a ... trainer remarked how miserable it was walking across the nearly half-a ... the following mysterious text from a sophomore in my sorority, Alpha Phi

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  L@@K at the Class of 2015 profiles in greatness? a great profile? or both?

  

  One thing you may have missed in the site switchover is the fact that ... Potato Cannons, who is also an Athlete of the Year A high school inventor ... try to provide as much data as we can to make our process as transparent

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  than the usual complement in any given limb. [this is a villain, by the ... never find my way back. Life is so much easier when there’s nothing that ... trying to run after spending three and a half months in one room. Then

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  there is a line. A LONG line. Just to get to the Self Check-In counters ... on many airlines and seen how air travel functions in several countries ... day (on a free ticket though – redeemed through my miles). I had to go

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  all that much trig just yet, but was still firmly entrenched in algebra ... in the admissions cycle, so stay tuned. Mona said: Hi. Thi[s] i[s] not ... ’m honestly not sure how much it matters. I guess your teachers might be more

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  answer is just this - In college, you have an amazing opportunity to try a ... Taiwan. Early July -> Early August: Back in MIT, working on a UROP ... medical group from Taiwan. The medical group is essentially a medical

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  cross outs doesn't necessarily correlate with how busy a week actually is ... , was probably *the* hardest semester I’ve had and that is very much ... stress in the form of a sticky note! I had to put it over an already

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  what? Not everyone in the population is a drug dealer. So tell the story ... see some glamorous woman in a beautiful coat leaving the List Visual ... MA. MIT-POPlab made an appearance in a byline of part of the exhibit Uneven

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  IAP--Independent Activities Period--is soon coming to a close! Spring ... ’t that bad, but I’ve never been in a severe snowstorm in such a big city ... all the light. I took a walk in the evening yesterday, and didn’t really

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015