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• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  that is going to have to take a back seat in order for me to document to the entire world Laura Nicholson's Funtime Adventure to the Emergency ... jumped in to the kid's defense and started roundhouse kicking those bikers

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  also for download. As a complement to my active data, here is a sweeping ... Requirement, always provided the empty space and mirrors necessary for us to ... impossible to ever find and to get into, being at the end of a winding series

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  multi-player game; however we did not have enough time to test it super ... happened: Sometime in November, we got an email sent to the Art Scholars ... , but it said it will involve AI and art! That was enough to sell us, so

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  memory has been broken, and it's up to us to piece it together from the ... disliked the game, I was still forced to come to training every week, I'd get ... You learn how to navigate MIT. It’s inevitable. After you stay here

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Rush photos

  

  wood. This year, some of our wooden structures were connected by bridges ... harnesses and had to wear helmets. I didn't manage to get a good picture of a rider in motion, but I did get a picture of this rider who was about to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Amazin’ The Mets clinched the NL East. *happy dance*

  

  . Basically 2.001 teaches you the stuff you need to know to figure out that suspension bridges should be made out of concrete and not silly putty, which ... problem to someone else suddenly makes the solution clear). Rick is in 6

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The Coop What's a coop? You'll find out!

  

  I go to college. Yay! Here's the thing about college, every single ... , or Bookstore. Which of these three am I going to talk about? Well, I ... I want to talk about the MIT bookstore. Almost every college out there

  • by Snively '11
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  meeting, and later across the Bay Bridge to Lafayette, for another meeting ... /East Bay this week. Many thanks to those who attended! The week started with ... year, the San Jose meeting is likely to be the second or third largest

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Every IP address of the form 18.x.x.x belongs to MIT ... . There are two parts to this entry. Part the First: Our Students So here ... rabbit to class. A rabbit. She brought a rabbit to a lecture about Thevenin

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  ice skating don't fall

  

  your feet closer together cj: pulls feet together wayne: not that close cj: pushes feet apart wayne: no i mean you need to keep your center of ... physics when ice skating wayne: you can also bend your knees to keep your

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 16, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  . Some of the cheerleading alums came back to watch the game and cheer on ... about cheerleading. (To be totally honest, this is pretty much because ... promise that we don't require new members to have prior cheerleading

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week In Review An end-of-year freshman advising event, and my friend's 6.115 final project.

  

  ! As his associate advisor for a group of six freshmen, I got to tag along to the end-of-year dinner at the Wine Cellar Restaurant, just across the Harvard Bridge from MIT. We had an exquisite dinner of cheese, meat

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  You’ve probably heard the oft-repeated MIT adage about having to choose two between school, a social life, and sleep. I tend to think that there’s a way to balance the three as long as you're organized and realize

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  boredom and morbid curiosity, I downloaded and read through a 400 page radio ... beach over radio and talk to each other on air while driving (probably not ... unexpected diversity,  I was shocked to find we also have our own frequency

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  losing the game to my formidable opponent, I still ate enough chocolate to ... On Friday morning, I walked into Lobby 7 to head up to the Edgerton ... embellished with a QR code. Now theoretically, if one were able to scan the code

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  computer. For instance, here are some questions you might be able to solve ... together into a panorama? On the left: original photos from the same landscape. On the right: the same photos stitched together into a single image

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  prefrosh, as so many hosts refer to theirs, arrived on Thursday morning. We talked about logistics; this is how you get to East Campus, this is the couch you'll sleep in, I'm gonna head to class now. The first class I had

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  Bridge to Simmons: 18 minutes, 29 seconds I had planned to immediately go ... Harvard Bridge. I listened to Rachmaninoff as I watched the clouds turn from ... of time” is far too vague. When do I need to leave my room if I want to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT TechFair THINK Competition A national science competition "intended to motivate high school students to think about problems related…

  

  Catherine Huang '10 just sent me this announcement and asked me to ... Competition! MIT Technology Fair - a group of undergraduates dedicated to celebrating innovative technology by bringing in companies to showcase their

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  with charcoal and colored pencils. That summer, in order to put together ... questions, including the one written above. Rather than asking applicants to ... questions intentionally designed to help us get to know the student as a real

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021