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  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  "]soils[/annotation] and how they’re a bit unique in engineering. Much like 1.035, this ... in order to simplify all your required math. Solid Mechanics is a bit of a simplification for how engineering works, because much of its

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  looks like a castle!). Peeking behind Maseeh is the Prudential Center in ... and relative warmth is here to stay. In this final quarter of my time ... to the West side of campus twice, even though it is only a 10-minute

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  , is of course, difficult to find at a place at MIT. There's just so much ... metaphor is going. Finding balance in slacklining is, in this sense, a lot ... line is a one-inch-wide nylon or polyester webbing that wobbles like

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  , how to develop a Pinterest presence, etc. Fun fact: back in the day, the ... pitching articles? Like some fancy writer in a Paris café, except in a roasted apartment in Boston. Fantasies aside, it’s a fact that many MIT

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  — this dystopian novel is set in the aftermath of a strain of swine flu ... have a lot of time that we don't know what to do with. in fact, in the ... surviving this lull in academics, but i've developed a few coping mechanisms

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  I checked my Timehop today and saw a tweet about how I was stressed about college essays. It's interesting how life changes. A year ago ... : - There is a physics pset due tomorrow. - I am hungry. I need food. - I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  I visited MIT is another story in and of itself - but basically, a few ... second summer in Cambridge. Two years ago, when I was a rising high ... visiting MIT (more on that in a sec), you'd probably find me poring over some

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT salutes Harry Potter ...the best way we know how, with hacks!

  

  celebrated the series a number of times in the way we celebrate: with hacks ... broomsticks, appeared in the Stata Center. It is unknown whose brooms were ... in Boston, the two biggest movie theaters, the Boston Common 19 and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  know almost the entire script of The Lion King, which is by far my ... Reformed Church (though I was technically born in Detroit, the not ... were a Crayola crayon, I would totally be Dandelion- it’s clearly the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2024!

  

  Petey had a mighty nine-year run of writing this post, but a king [of ... Center, most of my summer is spent in Framingham, where: I go on my ... UROP, or become a mentor for Project Manus, or learn a cool new thing in

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2024
• Blog / Events

  MIT PUMPKIN DROP 2012! chucking pumpkins off the highest building in cambridge. that's an exclamation mark, not a factorial.

  

  enough chocolate in general to sink a small ship, midnight did indeed roll ... guilt, over to the east side of campus, and stood in a semicircle under ... What do MIT students do on a Saturday night? Well, if it's the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  sent me a few pictures of the quilt in progress. I gotta say, I still ... from when I got to rep Sony from the top of a moving bus in the LA Pride ... ...didn't really do much. We basically just grabbed a ton of swag, vaguely tried to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  The year is 2021. It’s a Sunday night in early January. My mother ... covered in cardstock and stacks of cards. I am furiously scribbling on a 2 ... this is the perfect opportunity to make a massive, campus-wide game. I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  body from the kneecaps down was jellified in a wet, cold numbness. Ships ... succumbed to a four-hour soak in liquid described by writer Bernard DeVoto as ... inflatable rafts with a hot dog grill in the center raft?' and [name I don

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT Mini Maker Faire Celebrating STEAM and creativity

  

  with one of my friends who is Course 2 (Lauren W. ’16, who is featured in ... according to MIT News) it was a huge success! My photography skills are less of a success, but I gave it a shot. There have been tons of articles

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  what I did in my free time there was a ton of things to do. I was on TV ... ). So just in case you don't want to watch the entire video here are a few ... what my first year here was like. In the video I skipped explaining a few

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  , everyone’s focus is shifting. EC is here and I’m living in it, but it’s a ... it now. I’m living in it. That glow is strongest around EC. It’s in the way people gather in the courtyard to build a giant fort, three

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  is a biological engineer or a chemist or a physicist, I think about how ... Minor (which to my ear has no direction whatsoever) is a bit much. I do ... short-long word couplings (ex. "in peace," "so much"). And it is very

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  traveling to different planets, perhaps living in a ship for years until ... magnet high school in NYC. This is a planet of it's own. It's called TLM ... 't know if that means anything. There is a lot in the way of support at MIT

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT vs. Chuck Norris Ever wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?

  

  , a number I like much better. Feel free to add any Chuck Norris facts ... reaction, there is no force equal in Chuck Norris can divide by zero. - When ... of a deadly asteroid. - It is believed dinosaurs are extinct due to a

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008