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  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  creatures. They’ve nearly perfectly adapted to an urban environment, with a sturdy carapace, unparalleled scavenging prowess, and ability to fly. In ... ’s ability to thrive in all its squirming, leg-wiggling glory is terrifying

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to ... to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably ... more about hacking itself than individual hacks. I'd like to write one of

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  built just to the west. In February of 1931, the buildings would be ... hoses, whereupon the serenaders deemed it more advisable to move to drier ... the '93 dormitories began to play the fire hoses up and down the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you about the bathroom closest to my room. The 2E Bemis bathroom has two ... broken out to reveal the night sky. The ceiling has three ceiling lights

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  were good, in contrast to some people I know who had bad first ... when it took weeks to understand the first programming language, but ... , I've written things in JavaScript and TypeScript, to the point that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  when I first moved here, the density of people and place was new and strange to me. But being able to walk to work, and pass restaurants and ... , however, and one of those can be access to nutritious, affordable food. For

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  pancakes to feed you. 03:17 - 06:17 First, Breakfast. And then World ... home on 2 am trips to Wal-Mart through empty dark streets in my pick ... waking up to the smell of food from surrounding restaurants that always

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  I think I've accidentally begun a quest to be involved with ALL THE (VIDEO) THINGS on campus, from MITx to TAing the ESG educational video course to becoming a Educational Media/Multimedia Fellow for the MIT+K12

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  ’re friends with for the first few days of school before you meet an actually decent person the last time i went to urgent care i checked off “excessive

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  Camille was very nervous when she applied for EA to MIT in 2018 ... tried to be a supportive parent, so I answered her concerns with "It ... thoughts in these cute little hover sections because I want my mom to have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the ... hadn't heard from him since Pi Day 2011; he revived the old thread to ... written to you long ago on Pi Day 2011, when I had received an admission

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  first meeting soliciting what people wanted the goals for the hunt to be ... first listed goal, and I think for good reason. Catering to teams of all ... first solve time was Friday 2:30 PM. These simulations were used to adjust

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe ... safety, clean air, and good public schools. It felt unusual to have so little to do, and I ended up desperately catching up on fiction, doing

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  control Russia with. He announces to the world that he is the first immortal ... Tuesday, May 5, 2015, in expansion of MIT Gothic. It is up to you to decipher these, and to distinguish the truth from the fiction. Maybe you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  waiting on me to come home.   I have mostly avoided going into detail ... She worked so hard and got into all the state schools she applied to ... still pretty sure that she was going to Georgia Tech, and then Johns

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  first to experience the livestream. Who knows - if everything goes well ... "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross ... needle and different colors of thread. I took an instant fancy to it. Why

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... mostly gone you have oats. The cooked oats stick to the pot, but they come ... , $3,000 form in 1947. The first food cooked in a microwave oven, on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grown Up Well, not quite.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  in the comic strip, Alex, had to decide which college to go to. She was accepted to several tech schools and the comic strip writer decided that he'd leave it up to a vote to decide where she went. He put up an online poll

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  when something like this happens (kind of equivalent to when famous ... to watch. It doesn't go into scramble mode very often, the only other times I've seen it are immediately prior to CPW and before the Dalai Lama

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009