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

  

  thought for a while about if I wanted to attend. Pro: get to meet Randall ... makes people laugh for a living. This was going to be epic. “Mr. Munroe ... . xkcd is “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” Its creator

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

  An Olympic Hack Floating rings above Brigg's Field?

  

  Upon entering MIT, every freshman gets a list of "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate", which varies a slightly by academic year (for example ... things off (a building) without a ground crew. Do not hack alone. Above

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  From Markets to Math Class

  

  treadmill. And the world is a better place for it. ... "treadmill" that MIT can be: Sometimes it's hard to take a step back. This is ... today, a colleague sent me a news article called From Wilton to Wall

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 12, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Lobby 7 Gotta love it

  

  ;   It’s a magnificent lobby all on its own, but even better for the ... Here’s a little tribute to lobby 7. Since my start at MIT in January ... office just a few feet down the infinite corridor. I enter with my morning

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  called poly(glycerol-co-sebacate acrylate), created a mold for the polymer ... Technology Review's Top 35 Innovators Under 35 for 2008. The metallic blue ... wonders have inspired scientists to innovate. When a group of MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Over Again Applying to college all over again.

  

  bioengineering has been a good idea for me because I can take what I've learned and then apply it to biological systems. It will be a love/hate relationship ... 'm at it again. :-o When I was a young one in kindergarten, I thought the

  • by Bryan
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end

  

  enough to keep Steve Jobs busy for a weekend -- today, Apple and Nike announced a Nike+iPod Sport Kit partnership. This part doesn't make a ton of sense to me. Why does Apple need to partner with a particular shoe

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Fondue: fun and done A break from admissions at the Fondue party.

  

  . This year, for the first time, the party was preceded by a special ... [see also: Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory] Last night, after a ... usually said "A-Kai-Oh") sorority's annual Fondue party. AXO Fondue is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Tier Listing My Classes i may have got this idea from tiktok

  

  looking back, I'm grateful for a lot of the classes that I took, or was ... ="note that there are a few missing - i got credit for 18.01 and 18.02 but im ... no longer be a student blogger, and will have graduated to the nebulous

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 23, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  's healthy for my brain and GPA to have a little bit more "free" time in the ... /week) Being a DJ/producer/OTA engineer for the third year and programming co ... have been Doing nonstop. I think it might be a personality thing. I tend

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  Labs is a new startup incubator/accelerator program for MIT startups ... of people trying on VR for the first time. It's always a magical moment ... January, eight months ago: MIT Launches Play Labs VR Accelerator For

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  tinkerer/builder type who had a passion for creation. I wore around my MIT ... was a setup for heartbreak. What bothered me the most was that I wasn ... This is a guest post by someone--Michael T. (UMD '19)--whose college

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  cancelled and rescheduled for a full 2 days later. Arriving late to my job ... .           3. However little time there is, use it. For example, in learning a ... planning for the next day at night, every night. I needed to recuperate for a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  that I would be going to India over IAP, working with AIM for Seva (a non ... for those who cannot afford education or healthcare) and Embrace (a ... project last year (a training class for nurses regarding first aid

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  LET’S PLAY Dodgeball!

  

  not an athletic giant – for one, Briggs Field conspicuously lacks a ... a hockey-related event almost every day; for hours at a time. And it's always refreshing to see people get up and leave during classes for

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  finalists in a national contest sponsored by GE and MTVU? Go vote for ... /4" tall and weight 150 lbs. I have taken a cue from fellow blogger Lulu and ... seriously looks like she's having a heart attack right now, so I'm too

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.

  

  Professor Virk. He would wear a North Face jacket to class every day for 10 ... ." 21F.402: German II -- I was hoping for a little review of German I, but ... the song for this medley, since that's pretty much the one song in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  at Tangerine. Not cheap, but I'd been eating junk for a week so I ... had a nice dinner with Joe DiLiberto, the regional EC chair for central ... the shots, not the traveler. :-) I got to see a lot of the city that

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our friends

  

  held a retirement party for Howard. Howard was there on time. There were ... and Senior House. Big Jimmy was a legendary figure, someone I only met briefly but who many of my friends counted as a confidant and friend. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year in Review blogs, bhangra, and a baby monkey

  

  ’s application for fun and it became a theme song for the winter (at least in my ... I love the holiday season, but not for its parties and food, its ... for its signal of the year coming to an end and the promise of the new

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 22, 2011