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• Blog / MIT Life

  Nightswimming

  

  East and assorted people who are connected socially with 5th East denizens, is that we get up to such interesting things! For example, a few ... know when they might come in handy. It was a gorgeous, warm night with

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  In cross country, you hear a lot about running through the pain, but ... in physics, but suddenly a simple equation takes twice as many motions ... started to get shin splints, which, scientifically speaking, is when your

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab?

  ’s efforts are aimed at a future in which the world’s water and food needs are met in both the developed and the developing world, in an
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  're interested in neuroscience..." It turned out that he had a niece doing ... , Sandia is in Albuquerque, New Mexico - five thousand miles away from home. Um. The street? A sleeping bag in the lab? I would be happy sleeping on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  is that they create a comfortable space to ask questions, which has ... deep satisfaction like no other [annotation note=" yes bread is a meal ... . Most of our dinners are [annotation note=" Injera is a sour flatbread

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Exponential Decay This entry probably isn't about what you think it is.

  

  months now. One thing I've noticed about this site in the past year is that most individual entries have a relatively short half-life - that is, the ... : Making Tracks Lulu '09: Desired things Laura '09: A Picture is Worth a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  journey. It is as cold, as they say, as though we were in hell, and a sports ... turns out using NTFS partitions messes with file permissions in a way that ... and brew her a flowery, hot pink tea. 5:55 PM Work is briefly

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Mailing Tomorrow; Yo-Yo Tonight Verify your MyMIT username and password.

  

  After a week of checking, double checking, and checking ... . Our office phone number is 617-253-4791. With that said, I'm now leaving ... Hall, a quick walk or bus trip from MIT. Did you know: MIT students get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  proceeded to crash, because seriously, who wakes up before 10? In any case ... them in!) ALL MY EMAILS YESTERDAY (interspersed throughout random times ... true; you only know us. ME: Oh, right. Every year in October, the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  yourself into a panicked, hyper-focused cramming mindset (okay, maybe this is ... few weeks of every semester is chaotic, nerve-wracking, and stressful. As I took my last midterms, handed in my last rounds of psets, and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  , sliding into a seat in 35-225 at 10:05, right on MIT time, ready to take the ... lived in Madison and camped with me at Devil's Lake when I was a baby, so ... , and I would do the whole thing again in a heartbeat — the missed Friday

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  Product Design Lab Wakka wakka wakka

  

  is a drill press, belt sander, and band saw at each table We also have a little alcove that is home to a laser cutter and a 3D printer (I ... sets of Forstner bits. Sets. As in multiple. For those who may not be

  • by Snively '11
  • March 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Build awesome What to do if you like to build stuff.

  

  as we do about the big awards. It's true. Students who send in ... Instructables: A project of the MIT-alumni company Squid Labs (who "make a lot of ... stuff, if you're a budding engineer or inventor, what can you do? It's a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  students who've never touched a nerf gun before the opportunity to shoot one ... ? they'd ask. i have a friend who used to live on floorpi, and he always ... doing things when it won't make a difference to me in a year? some part

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  ! The mix-every-drink-in-the-dining-hall drink is a classic, but here are ... -10 different vegetables (which is admittedly already a lot), but you can double ... the dining hall only to see raw tofu blocks floating in a large bowl of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO #tbt #behindonblogging #seniorspring

  

  in my rush out the door, making a nice dent in my computer and almost ... Commons has a cute little pond in the middle which you can ice skate on ... Boston area. Turns out there's a MIT alum who works as a bartender at

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  Blendie looks like an ordinary blender, it is in fact a voice activated blender -- with a catch. Blenders don't speak English, so in order to ... paragraphs in your entry (personal peeve, I hate writing that is just a

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program: Now Taking Requests Plus... a fun mitadmissions.org milestone!

  

  , finals week, etc.) Please try not to request a visit less than 2 weeks in ... students, and starting in March, the program is only open to admitted students Please note: host-matching is done by people, not by a computer (it

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory AXO Fondue was last night!

  

  years ago. While there are 120 girls in AXO, there is only room for 25 to ... , my sorority, Alpha Chi Omega (AXO), had a chocolate fondue party, where ... , it went off without a hitch, with about fifty staff members and 400

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The LiveJournal Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part three.

  

  - Exercise - Taking Timur's money in Texas Hold 'Em THREE THINGS YOU NEED IN A ... : - Have one of my songs used in a major motion picture, or at least on The ... care about people - I'm a good dad THREE THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE ABOUT

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 9, 2006