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  MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day decathlon brought to you by a paperback, a sledgehammer, and a scooter

  

  I like being around people who can creatively keep themselves entertained. This can be an unproductive quality while alone; I have a terrible ... a positive feedback loop that generates entertainment. While I don

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  0 Days Since Last Fire Alarm Oh noes! Simmons Hall on fire!

  

  , waiting to be let back in. You can actually hear the Simmons fire alarm from ... that can be read across the river in Boston, or from my kitchen window ... MIT thinks that it catches on fire. On more than one occasion I've found

  • by Snively '11
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  in the near future. Plus, I can tell you that based on the 7 prefrosh I ... handle it. During CPW, I sat in on an 8.02 (Physics II: Electricity and ... ton of in-class demonstrations, in honor of CPW. I came away from those

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  there has been in a while. I was outside writing this blog in Killian Court, but the sun was causing too much glare so i’m in the library right ... ’t think i ever read…) for weeks about an event in lobby 10. Thursday I saw

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  'm forgetting, but these should get you started. Anyone know where I can get a ... I don't have many pet peeves when it comes to MIT, but one of the ... Corridor. The Infinite is essentially a 4-lane road with 2 lanes going in

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Greek Way What I did for a Klondike Bar, caesar salad, chicken florentine, mushroom ravioli, chocolate torte,…

  

  -serving social events I can conceive for the chapter in the coming year. After ... in Chemical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, and Nuclear Engineering. Today I decided to do start doing things the Greek way as I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my hottest STEM takes actively starting internet wars

  

  'm five. 90% of things I'm learning very much can be explained in simple ... to no explanation. Feel free to argue in the comments...I'm ready to ... should not be the ways in which I'm learning something. It should be merely

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2025
• Blog / Events

  DME SoccerBot Championships 2006 (Or, How Does Justin Timberlake Live With Himself?) All we are saying is give Pluto a chance.

  

  MIT. When I'm not telling people that I'm going to be an astronaut (in ... spew out this verbal garbage: "Um, I'm interested in premed. But that's not a major. I haven't actually done biology in three years, but I liked

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 30, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  good taste in music and also a beautiful singing voice, which I know ... , you just can't find people who will do that anywhere else. I also ... freshman in Mystery Hunt, and her team happened to finish first. So I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  This is a list I made at the end of my freshman year in the reading ... comfortable enough to actually fall asleep. A fifteen-minute nap in Hayden can ... don't know how to cross streets in the city, but I do know how to get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  puzzle in private dining. In all of the reviews that I saw while doing ... progress. After a while, I couldn’t have a conversation with anyone in the ... process of putting in the final pieces earlier tonight, I took the time to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  something this summer (since I have an internship with Bayer in Germany ... Marathon or checking out the MFA. In fact, the only reason I even planned ... event planner in the world, or even in the suite in which I live, but we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  three classes in some "coherent unit": I've taken a whole bunch of lit ... filled-out completion form. I turned in both to the HASS office, and felt a ... got to MIT, I was pre-med, and planning to double-major in Course 8 and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  some recommended examples in this entry; some programs I have frequently ... available. I hope this is somewhat helpful to those of you in the homeschool ... I've been promising an entry specifically for homeschooled applicants

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Fall 2020 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live may the 4th be with you

  

  application. You will log in using the same email and password used to create your application account, and you can log in now to check your decision ... we could not. As a former transfer student myself, I know that this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  . While many of them have surely let their pilots' licenses lapse, I can ... My first reaction to the ridiculously ridiculous airline adventure I ... need to behave around you? Might I make a small suggestion? DO. Then go

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Maker) Women Rock We are what we celebrate

  

  an issue I've written about before in other venues on the subject of ... engineers. I agree with him. And I agree especially in the case of women. I ... rack and you can see what popular culture celebrates in women: Wait

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 23, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc guest post by Sharon L. '21

  

  managers can create to distribute to workers on the shop floor. I’m an intern ... codebase somewhere in the office if I want to ask a question about a method ... I’m working in software development, I feel as though I’ve been able

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  they wanted to be featured and I got some poems in response! I absolutely ... , again & again & again   I awaken, enclosed in a ... and blossom in such a short period of time. Now, I see that my skin is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  , grayest, rainiest first two days of school I can remember. Fortunately, I ... hours in lab, and C hours doing out of class work. I'll go ahead and put ... in Course VI, and many people (Jessie included, I believe) count it as

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008