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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Avoiding moonlight on an empty stomach Late-night snack cravings lead me underground on meandering routes to Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  forgot dinner and are in fact pining for a cold drink, hot sandwich, or ... Massachusetts Avenue to reach Building W20, the Stratton Student Center, home to a ... kinds of beverages than you can shake a stick at. Eureka! I have reached

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  will swear that recitations are the worst possible waste of your time ... here are a few things that I've learned. 1. Shop around for the TA that ... covered is fair game for tests. Also, keep in mind that your TAs will grade

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  do pick a lab at the beginning of the summer, my choices will basically be between 1) a C. elegans neurobiology lab that does screens for ... for a year or twor, then go back to grad school -- the company he

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  , and this is that! I loved reading it, and I know you will too <3 ... some foodies see themselves as critics or connoisseurs, I prefer the term “food enjoyer”—an avid chomper, if you will.  [caption id

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  make sure that everyone understands what we are looking for.   Q1) There is a Maker Portfolio option? Really? A1) YES! Check out the ... knitted fractal, or a computer program/app.   Q3) How do I submit my

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  The arrival of September 1st signifies exactly 4 weeks until I board ... Cambridge? Me: Uhh, October 1st, so around 4-5 weeks! Friend: Woah, that's a ... related to my major so these four weeks will be filled with trips to the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences

  

  rowing. I decided to come down to DC for the conference back in October or ... Course 1. There are a lot of Course 1 grad students who come to TRB every ... what this week will entail and what type of issues are at the forefront

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  , installing software and things. 100 MBs?? 4.1 GBs?? GET. OUT. Yeah, it ... -who’ve-applied/applying-soon::: stop stressing out about SAT scores....!!! 1) They’re done and over with and the scores won’t change. 2) They will most likely not be the factor

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Just Because It’s 2/29 I apologize that this blog has nothing to do with MIT.

  

  . So, every 4 years (or, in the case of years that satisfy yr# mod 100 ... pretty excited because I can now write the date as "2-0-0-0" rather than "1 ... !" "Actually...I haven't gone to bed yet. =/" 1:10 PM - wakes up, and thus

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is going to pump you up! A bit about a cool new fitness program called getfit@mit

  

  (or two) blizzards away, so my friends and I decided that we should stop ... Ate the Whole Thing.” Week 1’s competition was for the Best Team name ... member reported exercising 1,270 minutes last week, that’s three hours a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  Whew! I ran back from my field hockey game today (we won, 3-1! ya ... for 6.081. But I'm tired and confused (why is d+=1 legal normally but ... "radium is more reactive than that!" or "Hey you forgot manganese!" It

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a most beautiful camping trip it's always good to get back to nature <3

  

  day. On the way back on Sunday, we hit up a farm selling produce, a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Events

  About Some Activities (ASA) More tangents than a trig test (~11 pictures)

  

  freshman advisee, Sha-har '09, selling baked goods to support the MIT Mock

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  weeks ago, four or five buses wound their way down 30 miles of tree ... , or a skintight jumpsuit. The main attraction, of course, was apple ... tickle test: Step 1: Tickle the apple. - If the apple has fallen

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  will probably aggressively try to make you dinner; we’re somewhat queer ... Pecker, but if you're willing to lump a bioengineering, bioengineering ... ?!"]multimeters, [/annotation]1 flush cutter, a pair of pliers, 2 protoboards, [annotation note

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  and loiter in the airfield for a day or two. Let's be clear--wind is bad ... designed to fly at 20 mph and the wind is 30 mph, your plane will take off ... morning (and praying that the wind will take the morning off). Corn Dog on

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  doing, and this is that post! Here's some of what I've been up to :D 1 ... fishing food out of the fire...) [carousel image1="82505" image2 ... ! [carousel image1="82503" image2="82502" /]   4. Glassblowing Last

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  of thought. Throughout the semester you'll take 1-3 tests + final and ... the corresponding paper of the EXAMS. 1B Computer Scientists have 4 ... a pass/fail system. (Similar to 6.005 but labs are all or nothing

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  what ROTC is unless you’re in it or you’re familiar with the military. I ... the program. The PFA consists of 1 minute of push ups, 1 minute of sit ups, and a 1.5 mile run. We just took this semester’s PFA in mid

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  though: 1) more is definitely not always better 2) non ... Believe it or not, back before the iCan't-think-of-an-original-name craze ... USB memory stick will run you $20 now. Isn't that incredible? Nowadays

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008