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  Anticipation a little something to keep you company

  

  Sometimes, its hard to pull yourself out of bed. The uncertainty of ... 're probably feeling a lot of butterflies right now. Butterflies that might want ... little bit of today. Because quite frankly, there's nothing that makes you

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  *written by Grace C. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series*   It’s the end of finals. I’m sitting at a plastic table amongst hundreds of other students in the Johnson Track Center

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT and Slavery a developing history, and a live webcast

  

  to the community: To the members of the MIT community, At MIT, we ... distinguished member of our history faculty, Professor Craig Steven Wilder is the leading authority on how the emergence and growth of American colleges and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Gingerbread Gone Horribly Right "run, run, as fast as you can..."

  

  was one of a series of events organized by The Committee, an elected group of 1e residents with a small social budget. What started as a ... ... When the creative process of destruction was complete, we took pictures

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... " and Day 2 - "Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017."  Note: Part 1 of this

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  a big window in our house and i sat on the couch in front of it and ... flight, drifting in and out of sleep --   and then i was back and i met a lot of new people, including our amazing new bloggers, and i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  One of my favorite things about MIT might also be the most obvious ... of awesome Boston-area college students. Considering that a lot of ... lot of intercollegiate events throughout the year that MIT students and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

    Let's review a concept taught in the lowest levels of classical physics. You have an object and you move it. The length of the path ... between the intitial position of the object and its final position is called

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  Francisco. Aside from one of those double-decker tour buses, I’d never spent ... feature. When I first started in June, there were big patches of functionality that still hadn’t been implemented. Over the course of my internship

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Events

  MIT’s Once-a-Century Party

  

  rehearsing the lights for MIT's 100-year-anniversary of its move to Cambridge ... on the seal playfully arguing about the merits of theory vs. practice:   ...or giant bobblehead figures of esteemed MIT alumni brawling in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  I spent spring break in Iceland, mostly in the backseat of a white car on the asphalt roads of Route 1 but also behind a waterfall and atop a glacier and in a cabin on the black sand beaches of Vík.  Here's a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Winter Through the camera lenses of people who don't have winter

  

  ; While heading back to my dorm, I ran into Kevin. The both of us being from ... inside a picture... The Alchemist! We saw tons of bunnies in Killian Court!   We’re talking big, fluffy, ephemeral flakes of snow, not

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Mac4Change MIT students raising money to feed the homeless on Veteran's day

  

  , Veteran's Day and the last day of our campaign, we set up at one of our MIT ... difference. Over 60 people donated and we raised a total of $275 in just two hours! That brought our total up $3,886. Special guests of the night

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  Sleeping at night has become one of those mythical concepts this IAP ... over 24 hours working on one of the problem sets, 15 (hours) of which ... ’s nighttime when my eyes open, and the middle of the day when I go to bed. In

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Events

  A Castle, a Jack, and a Beanstalk hacking culture @ MIT

  

  community (and sometimes even the rest of the world!).” On the sunny Saturday of Family Weekend 2014, a castle appeared on the skybridge connecting ... parents of a little girl. She will now have a grand castle of her own. How

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  A non-negligible number of people reading this were probably pretty panicked at the submission of their Early Action applications during the last ... story of how my father became one of the few people in the world who has

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  This semester I’m taking Intro to Photography. For the first half of ... , shaking, and sifting, not thinking much at all except keeping track of how ... there was a preview button. For all the inconveniences of the analog

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Art & Science in Paris

  

   inspired by the possibilities for the future of accessible drinking water and ... , a cloud-like form made entirely of crochet and developed by the ... "the future of water:" how can we conserve it? How can we ensure

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Lobby 7 Gotta love it

  

  coffee cup in hand, along with a horde of students and tourists, and I ... kind of things that happen in this lobby every week. I’ve walked through ... taking pictures in front of the seal. I’ve stopped to watch the practice

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  Angry Birds Fly at MIT Students construct trubuchets, catapults, and air cannons to take out the dastardly pigs on Killian…

  

  On Friday afternoon, the students and staff of the senior capstone ... each develop a prototype of a product that can (and in many cases does ... : Finally, the day of the competition arrived.  I'm told that MIT President

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2011