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  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  .com, read all 1400+ comics, laugh, cry, fall in love, and then come back ... his lectures, celebrated his anniversaries, and replicated this comic in ...  called “What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions,” in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  neighbor, take walks in the shaded walkways behind my house, or build oddly shaped sculptures in the sandbox with my friends. The magic of television lay in its ability to transport me to another world, another story, and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  in fellowship deadlines and requirements, graduate school applications ... . What do you do afterwards? If you want to continue in academia, you try ... astronomy, and get a job in industry, business, finance, teaching, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  science and technology that shines in your everyday life.  Or you could be ... could even be your birthday today, in which case HAPPY BIRTHDAY!  Truth is ... .  Welcome to the party. I fell out of my parents' nest in New Jersey and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  With Apologies to Dr. Seuss why MIT is amazing, a la buzzfeed

  

  're off and away! (flickr: thenerdsangle) You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes You can steer yourself any direction you choose ... you may not find any you'll want to go down. In that case, of course

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  , not simply difficult." - QUESTION 1 In my opinion, there are four ... what you paid for, you'll have to eat a certain number of meals in the ... , in some form or another. I live in French House, which has its own

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  (anything but natural in feel) loom over the drama, while OperaBots attend to the Powers like robots in a Japanese hospital. And then there is the chandelier, in all of its hypar glory, which I had for many years passed by in

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  reconsider all of the waitlisted students again in May, when we know how many ... great choice to fall in love with, so that no matter what happens with the MIT waitlist, everything will still turn out well for you in the end

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  qualified for nationals after placing fourth in New England, while the men ... change later, we found ourselves in Minneapolis: There was snow! We're definitely not in Boston anymore... After a three hour drive, we made it to

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  most definitely didn't have a gratuitously-added picture - in which I ... , not-so-involved career. I got my start in the second half of senior year ... 's say you're a student who's interested in MIT, and you want to continue

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  had my first 9-5 job this summer in a California cancer research lab, I definitely saved time for fun. Case in point: daycations. I consider myself an ... . I started this summer with some easy trips. A day on Folsom lake in

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  (pending nothing apocalyptic happens in the meantime...knock on wood). That means that the books should be in towards the end of April, with ... what looked good on our monitor came out much too bright in the proofs

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  while they were in school, and so they tend to continue doing really cool ... 's usefulness in action. But what's REALLY cool about the company is that it was ... stuck out like....well like MIT students in a class full of sports

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  One year ago, in the mush of schoolless boredom known as Spring Break ... in the superficial sense, bearing no deeper significance than that I could take a plane to 77 Massachusetts Avenue in August and call myself a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  this post): 1. I have not blogged in quite a while. 2. I finally have a ... premiere weeks in September, but traveling got the best of me. 5. Now that ... get spoiled for me in the comments. [Important sidenote: I watch almost

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  ! It's hard but totally doable! I could actually be ok in this place!" I ... . That class is the most information intensive class I've ever seen in my ... ) most failed class in Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering). After my first

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  school. In my humble opinion, xkcd used to be a lot funnier than it ... of the facilities, but rather the character of the people who live in ... a UROP in their lab, or anything else. This is how Melis and I got an

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  , a sweatshirt, a hat—heck, even my non-existent MIT shoes—inspires in ... the local U that I take classes at in the morning). These clothes are ... disappointed—but as the hackers in lobby 7 eloquently expressed, “IWHTFP” in each

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  tube in December, a huge envelope in March, and a bigger envelope in May ... . We’re all jealous. In addition to getting into dorms, your ID card is ... could have a contest, how much cultural enrichment can you get for free in

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  pistol team is on its way to West Point in New York for a shooting ... . In fact, last year the MIT pistol team won the National Championships ... straight from the bus into the range, which is, unlike ours, housed in a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008