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  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  was looking at it from up above, instead of face-on. I noticed that some ... looking at a presidential election quiz; a long discussion about the ... history of U.S. involvement in Israel, on the Patriot act, the conflict in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  exceptions to rules here at good old M.I.T. Anyway, I wasn't really around for much of Bad Ideas, unfortunately. But I did make it a point to go to one ... /Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences/Course 12, and 54-100, one of the most

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Double legacy ...what my kids will be, since I'm marrying somebody from MIT!

  

  October of next year. (We're hoping to have our reception at the Museum of ... sophomore year at a party at Baker, but I wasn't really aware of his existence ... in admissions -- legacy kids aren't at an advantage compared to the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2006 announced

  

  Mystery Hunt 2006. What is Mystery Hunt? Mystery Hunt is one of IAP's most exciting activities. In short, the Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT where students and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sun off a beach The one where it rains. I mean, another one where it rains.

  

  actually planned to their home stadium and just randomly spectate at one of ... . Sorry. That's an apology for a lot of things. Please don't go stalking ... , torrential rain to otherwise lovely places, the weather today at the beach was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 31, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  , we each took turns running home to clean ourselves of the street. At ... getting ready for casual Friday at work where I get to wear flip-flops and a t-shirt, and my Harry Potter desktop wallpaper's fact of the day read

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Athletics When I picked the topic for this entry, I was cheerleading at an MIT basketball…

  

  of sports at MIT, and a lot of ways to get involved with physical ... 're used pretty heavily, at least judging by the percentage of machines which ... whatnot. Grad school update: As of this evening, I have interviews at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  make a living out of making rhymes.   Laughed at bad ... Joseph Ducreux ones, because at one point of my life, I sort of wrote like ... , uh, relaxing. And now, to punctuate the beginning of this week, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  leading a village of Vikings. It's good to be back at school--see you all ... ," taught by the inimitable Prof. Julie Shah. In aerospace (and lots of other places) lots of people place their trust in software--software that flies

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  , and I envision swarms of anxious seniors staying up at night over one ... MIT is not about the challenges of problem sets. It’s about a ... clubs, jobs, and, most importantly, around people. The fog of existence

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  , that's pretty much the concept behind much of the learning at MIT: Mens ... ' pastime here at MIT.So if you were never a big fan of science before, you ... crowd of people filing through a set of double doors. You are flanked by

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  that were at MIT, and the slightly more pressing issue of getting around ... years of inactivity. (Two out of two residents at Next House agree: it ... are at MIT. Even if you don't have a general feeling of IHTFP at a given

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ..and Here We Go Again! [by Ken Haggerty '11] ARTalk is back!

  

  tiring place. There are lots of P-sets and lots of work to do. Which is why ... -related that goes on at MIT, from building large-format cameras to LARPing (for ... ARTalk lets us share these more fun-filled moments with the rest of you

  • by ARTalk
  • February 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  my boyfriend's door is pretty good at attracting the ladies. Here ... fogey of an iPhone that still runs on Edge is faster than Chris's 3G iPhone at opening his door every single time. Other things it beats Chris

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  with the Dean of Engineering at UNZA, and we have planned on meeting our ... during the day, and although I wore a hat and drank lots of water I got ... , and along the way stopped at three different bookstores looking for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time and change

  

  , Kentucky, at my mom's house. I'll be staying here through the end of the APO ... until all of my grades were in, and I'm still waiting for two of them (out of five). But I'm less nervous about my grades this term than I have

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i made a dress out of target bags i also edited a video about it

  

  it didn't happen either of those times. I feel like I have no time at ... ://youtu.be/M-zuz_nZhGY Details: I filmed this with my phone, balanced precariously on the edges of ... with my tuition. Most of the voiceover was recorded in one take, somehow

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  an “A” at the end of the semester, a grade that was necessary if I ... questions at me that tried to navigate the frenzied tangle of details my ... and stared at the physics problem set. My mind felt far out of a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  Coming off of a state-of-mind-altering weekend in Maine with people from the dorm, I knew a full Pre-Thanksgiving week of MIT won’t be pretty ... You know what’s the best part about going to 3.091 [Chem.] at 11 in the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  bouts out of the blah. On one of my days of the blah, I sent an email out ... nice way to still connect with those close to me outside the world of ... being able to tell longer-form stories and play around with the media of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024