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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  -black polymeric complexes that stick in your reactor and prevent you from operating ... our defective sand bath back to New Jersey. You can read all about it ... -smelling jobs we'd ever had. Have you ever been to a mushroom barn, like in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  people can be unicorns too. not in the business sense of the word, since ... worked on biotech and crypto and psych. you can literally do anything you ... unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  what I can only imagine is how living in a bachelor pad feels like. I had ... some juggling in my other classes. Day 13: Adventure time in Florence ... Pre-trip background: IAP (Independent Activities Period) in Pavia

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  stationed at the front desk in room 3-108 for the last 20 years. If you called ... admissions officer on duty. If you emailed, [annotation note="In fact, she sent ... an envelope and dropped it in the mail. If you were an admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  music, so when they came to perform in Charlottesville last Sunday, I was ... quirky little hole-in-the-wall bookstore (in my friend's words, "it has ... up in the entrance. Curious, I stopped a guy from walking in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

   English, and you can read it on the web here. Or, if you come to MIT, you can ... Here in America, our vaunted exceptionalism takes many forms ... -DD-YY[/annotation] means that in America today is 9/10/19, which reversed reads the same, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  sessions too often when it got closer to "bedtime," and you can see just how dead you can get. But wait! What's that? IT'S IN ALL CAPS SO THEREFORE ... stretches of time, allot some study break time, or you will go insane. In

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  this time. In theory, pretty simple. In theory.[/caption] As you can ... anywhere else! If you’ve ever been to the Great Glass Pumpkin Patch before, you’ve probably wondered: How does MIT make so many pumpkins every year

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  How and what would I write in the utter absence of the ever ... carnivorous appetite. 1:00 PM I've gained entrance to the club, and can ... journey. It is as cold, as they say, as though we were in hell, and a sports

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

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  better. In the two years I was gone, I[annotation note="unless you count ... it. You can’t go back, because you’re already in your gym clothes standing in front of the rack, and people will notice. You can’t go back

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  'm counting this as my third job since I do get paid (in the form of subsidized ... summer can be bottled in a glass jar. The other Kensho interns started ... tell me, "Well, you can work at a day job to pay the bills and do what

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  gap year, though, I can assure you that ignoring those hesitations was ... events of their past year. This letter is due in February, and it can be an ... dessert. Note the baby bath that we tried to use as a sled. As you can

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  to some...[annotation note="I count in my inbox at least eight or nine ... entirely in Chinese. i have a mediocre translation if you want one ... ="or less if you know where to look at MIT"]$30[/annotation] you can attend

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  arrive at a conclusion is one of the best skills you can have. In what ... Sunday night (the 13th), in an apparent reaction to the suicide of internet ... other, you might find that one class teaches you how to think in such a

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  added. If you get into it, expect to leave it running in the background ... likes playing games that I can play over and over. When I made the Slay the Spire post two years ago, I had 67 hours in the game. Now I have 300

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So @mitblogs_ebooks exists 'as you might know, i am a full time internet'

  

  added bonus. If you want to try your own exercise in computationally generated weirdness, you can download my code here. Happy making! ... Some of you may remember @horse_ebooks, a Twitter account which

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Greetings from MIT Labs! Introducing MIT: The Game

  

  Game, you will be able to participate in all the most important aspects of an MIT education, including: Building all the burritos you can ... it weighs in at a solid ~7 megabytes. If you're not on MIT's lightspeed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  Learning Communities were created to allow you to branch out in these classes ... multidisciplinary solutions." Terrascope is also different in that they allow you to ... -12 people classes for all of the GIRs. ESG can be as much or as little as you

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  accomplish this task: you can pop the balloons, catch them in a net, knock them ... , and, to be honest, I wasn’t even interested. You can therefore ... things. In most of my product development classes, you are presented with

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  out, though, that you need a reservation in order to go skydiving, and ... tell you? best birthday ever, right?), we headed off for breakfast in our ... , but averted his probing questions ("Can I help you ladies?" "We're just

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007