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  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  through his bachelors in three years and is now working on his masters in ... . (Edit, for Augustus' sake below: I had already worked on the pset Monday and Wednesday nights for about three hours each!) Get sick of working on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
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  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find ... not like they'd publish that kind of arson in The Tech ... . There will not be any burning cars, sorry. (The Cambridge Fire Department

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
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  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  rice every night and do not dine out much; I’ve never had Indian food in ... ’ve never had froyo or do not like it. But my concern is: although froyo is ... . 4) Do not be afraid to go forward - in solving integrals. . This one

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
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  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  , not August or September. The rain I've experience back at home is quite ... mist, where the whole day there'd be this moisture in the air, not quite dry, but not quite rain. Tagalog does not have a word for this kind of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  , you Will Not Leave This Bed, and simply do not show up for the final. As ... start to notice your absence and wonder what’s happened to you. After not hearing from you, [annotation note="probably, I’m not a TA or a professor

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
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  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  working out for them. And they say they haven't really been able to use it ... disks for work computers. By the end of it Erich asked if I'd be

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
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  halloween down the infinite

  

  woke up today and ran into so many amazing costumes that I couldn't NOT ... corridor. it's actually not that long but everyone usually goes through it to ... ="105149" /] Not featured but some honourable mentions: A Luigi Dad and a Mario

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  upon (actually, not really. My professors for 20.363, Biomaterials

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
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  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  I'm really not that intelligent, and that there are many others who ... out of an A, but deep down I know I deserved that B. Not only that, but ... somehow managed not to get them. Recently I took the SATs as well, which I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
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  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  Happy Friday! Yes, that is an Oberlin College-produced parody of Rebecca Black. And yes, that is our former Communications Director Ben Jones costarring in it! I've been working all week rewriting some web content for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
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  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  as a project was due to be turned in that day, as well as the lab work

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
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  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  I have worked at MIT since 2009, and lived less than a mile away, in Central Square, since 2013. I love living here in a way that I never thought ... strange to me. But being able to walk to work, and pass restaurants and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
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  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  probably figured, "Hmm, definitely not mine. I’m lactose-intolerant."" Other ... negligence w/r/t basic testing, not to mention the logistical curdles posed by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
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  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  only printed and not uploaded anywhere online because the file size was ... iterations of the freshman application (where not too much has changed with the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
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  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  universities that you can go to for your education. It's not like MIT teaches ... occurence that it's not until I'm away from campus that it really sinks in how

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
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  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  most fluent in English, there are some added thoughts here that were not ... Chinese-language post not mentioned here. The content is a bit different for ... and school--I felt that I was at least not exactly American, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
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  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  mandating that children should not believe in Darwin's theory of evolution any ... : Another mission not mentioned in the job description: entertain the audience ... : 1. The Ig Nobel Prize for Biology and Astronomy (not usually dished

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
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  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  quarters. Not content with having sprinkled the visitors, the residents of ... sign was spirited away, and according to latest reports. had not been ... their aspirations. [The editors] would not be surprised to find the gilt

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
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  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  are still not quite clear to me, I raised my hand almost every time. I ... was soloing whether I wanted to or not. And boy, was it good for me. I ... your head up high when doing something you're not good at, in front of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  . She offered me items like floaters—which the class normally did not use ... trivial, and certainly not a kind of negative stamp on who I was, it got ... to stand, and I made it, by walking not swimming, shivering and utterly

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015