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  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  spent 5 minutes on your essay and that your MIT application itself was an ... Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01 ... on the SAT writing section debate, if there really is a debate, but

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  this is the third IAP i've spent on MIT. trust me, i really tried to ... mode on my research project. i also expected to be really fucking lonely ... calendar. [caption id="attachment_50016" align="aligncenter" width="300"] a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See your name among the stars… Forget having your name written in lights, get it written on a spacecraft!

  

  on a spacecraft! The MIT Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program is selling the ads to fund their project to launch a student-designed small unmanned spacecraft in 2010. "Choose a location on the outside of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  "Splash" on it? What is "Splash"? Me: "Splash" is a teaching program. TSA ... stuff going on nowadays. Great time. Me: Uh...yeaaaah! TSA Agent: And you ... are ever assigned to gates 40-42!!!) So, I had to go through security

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  DOMR My first crazy picture entry from Germany.

  

  10 minute walk from my house. They advertise free wireless LAN on the ... can access the internet: 1. The Turkish internet cafe on the corner ... has been shut off because you looked up Dan Quayle on Wikipedia!" Then I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  biology classes on the microscopic, the thermodynamics of drug absorption ... point. Anyway, that's how I decided on pursuing both 7A and CMS. 7A is a ... appropriate/relevant for you): 2) Click around on the new major's website

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT TechTV: Incredible videos from the MIT community YouTube has nothing on us.

  

  I have three final exams this week, so what better time to be watching videos! No, not on YouTube, but on MIT Tech TV (http ... creative juices flow, think again. On May 18th, they announced the winners

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  . [caption id="attachment_102076" align="aligncenter" width="300"] An example ... neither of us knew what it was. When Ariel the mermaid showed up on his phone, I suffered through five minutes trying not to burst out laughing in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  vehicles for traversing Hyrule to full-on attack drones that mow down hordes ... direction. [caption id="attachment_93031" align="aligncenter" width="300 ... !"]matrix multiplication does (usually) depend on the order of multiplication

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  , listening to songs about Alexander Hamilton on YouTube, and flipping through ... forty pages flipped in a minute). I prepared. I found some integrals ... went on to win the contest. I’m not jealous. Not at all. I think this is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  had to stay up all night working on that (favorite expletive) p-set." Punts take various shapes, from kittens meowing on Youtube to the entire ... -set. After staring at the problems for a couple of minutes, my mind folded into

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  . No, I will not elaborate on that. Here are some links to YouTube ... school admission process is almost done, and I'm on track to graduate and ... to condense three years worth of research into a 10-12 minute talk

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  minute intervals). I don’t want to scare someone away. But also, while I ... either way. This is also why I added section heads, so that there are ... , on-campus resources at the end of the article, as well as some notes if

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  else on MITblogs, appears to have been born with a last name). Sympathy ... perched on a desk. (This is a brilliant lecture tactic, because sitting on a ... on it. Next was 3.091: Introduction to Solid State Chemistry, whose

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  it just kept happening. On the 20 minute walk back from my nighttime ... October, and kept working on it for the next few weeks. And then months. And ... guess it’s better late than never, so here’s that blog: On Monday

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  students to explore MIT dorms and find their future home on campus. REX ... ’t too important, and I ranked it first on my housing intent form when it ... id="attachment_115631" align="alignnone" width="300"] the M3ers, or

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  clock The actual product was much cleaner. After we journeyed 40 minutes ... Mathcamp actually beats Disney as the most magical place on Earth. With a ... ="103931" /] On this day, I was wondering why clocks go the wrong way. I mean, any

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  last 40 hours because of studying for the test). Sigh. Any hints on how ... in orgo. Argh! < begins long rant on organic chemistry > (I ... " about chemistry and no longer depend on the memorization or the erroneous

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Special Edition! Speaking of Valentine's Cards . . .

  

  "Special Edition" cards, adding a little something extra to a few of the cards. I made sure to write down what I added to the cards I customized ... "random" button a bunch on the XKCD website and wrote the number down

  • by Snively '11
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  on mit’s mailing list culture update: tetazoo glounge

  

  @mit.edu would go to alyssa, ben, and any other emails on the mailing list. so ... , private blog. one of the personal lists i'm on was run by faraz m '21. faraz ... went up on one of the bulletin boards along the infinite with the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 17, 2021