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  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  own. As admissions officers, we talk about one way the residents of ... . The details of the project change each year, but it's always ambitious ... first got to the office, our information sessions even showcased a picture

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
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  New Game a comic summary of the semester

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 4, 2023
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  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
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  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

    Friday, August 28. Two MIT students sit at the top of the partly-built rollercoaster, one tapping hand on knee to the beat of Galantis (“visualize it”). Five are on the drop, drilling: two on the slide itself, two behind it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
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  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  motivation for what we did? Alan: …not really. But there is, at the very least ... of the MBTA stations, including the Silver Line. He made a post about it on Facebook detailing his route, the times he arrived at each

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

         “Oh yes, well I managed to transmit a new entry off to the ... slightly embarrassed cough. —The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas ... technique used to reproduce the layout of colonies on one petri plate on a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
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  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  At the end of the semester I emailed Random Hall’s social mailing list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the ... this year! It's Cthulhu, rising from Rl'yeh to crush the unsuspecting

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
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  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in Talbot, the large common room of East Campus, the only two females foolhardy enough to enter the Bad Ideas Wings Eating Contest... and was it

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
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  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  Approximately two weeks ago in Building 14 (the one between Building ... up celebrating the brilliant and diverse faculty, professors, and staff ... and the end result is beautiful. I will let it speak for itself, with a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
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  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  things) slowly. Feel the heat rising from them. I move differently in the ... when you make the end of a bar thin and pointy. rivets are like double ... student in the class showed, into wavy table legs). we also learned how to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
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  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  ; the closest thing is this paragraph on Wikipedia. This was originally ... ’s your orientation, in the literal sense. This is what the campus looks like. It’s mostly a long strip: There’s west campus on the west, which

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  I spent the last three weeks in Italy through GTL, and the two before ... wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the ... for the early waking. There was a snowstorm. There was the walk up

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
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  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  At the start of each semester, I typically join Facebook Messenger ... pset problems! Spreading the word about announcements made in lecture ... . Students can use it to share the classes they're taking and see the classes

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
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  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... , on this date in 1936, a similar thought likely went through the minds of one or more of the people in this photo: Why those people

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  NAVIGATION The Class Lab 1 Lab 2 Design Exercises Weather Smart Lamp The Clapper Final Project Week 0 Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 The Final Product final

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  the whites show, thinking, “A class is hard? An MIT class is hard? Who ... start a novel with the lines, ‘It was a dark and stormy night’.” And you ... and we should be friends. The point is, MIT classes being hard, you don

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
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  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  , hence why the next big change didn‘t occur until more than a decade later ... .  Throughout the 1880s, +100 women enrolled as students at MIT. In the 1950s, women made up 1-3% of the MIT student body. In 1964, Katherine

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  congregation gathered in the East Campus courtyard huddles together slightly closer. A man stands on the stage, a banner fluttering behind him. The ... , simultaneously, this-broadcast-is-live. I live at EC, on the second floor of the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
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  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  As promised, an awesome guest entry - written by the wonderful ... next year via the Rhodes Scholarship, and Hamsika asked me to write some juicy new details about the application experience. Here goes: Prologue

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  This summer while Random Hall is closed I am living on Beast, 2E, the second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you about the bathroom closest to my room. The 2E Bemis bathroom has two

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014