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  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  Second semester is just two weeks old, and I've already decided that ... slightly embellished story that is nonetheless true in its essentials. Before ... times two is four!” I chanted with a rhythm fit to rival a metronome. “Two

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  as by volunteers in the audience. The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a ... I didn't worry about it. That is, until... ... in an otherwise formal job, like taking a selfie before giving his

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dewey Love Libraries? Yes we dew!

  

  oftentimes embark on library crawls, during which I visit up to 3 libraries in 2 hours. You really should try one. (That is me.) Dewey is the ... for the Dewey furniture survey. (Clearly, I don't have enough work to do

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  broke my leg. (don’t worry, I’ll walk again in a few months and be fully ... built Waterscope, a microscope that uses water instead of glass for ... , which is impossible with glass. At Open Sauce, the maker expo in San

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  "Tool" are seen floating in the waters. To "tool" a pset is to work on it and get it done while to "punt" a pset is to not do it or not hand it in ... the same 24 hours in a day. It's how we choose to spend it that

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  tracker (because I am crazy and put a really old tile on it) and saw it was ... will be missed. I feel like a mosaic, comprised of fragments of ... . I've made it a point to never buy a sticker for my bottles. I just use

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  [annotation note="Not a joke. I earned a B in 5.12 with difficulty. The following semester in 5.13, I had a C on drop day so I disenrolled. Next ... getting into the weeds, this decision is a longstanding dilemma in devising

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Study Abroad

  From One Cambridge To The Other A year away from the Institute

  

  got a list of what colleges we'll be living in and I'm going to be ... uhh I digress). What this all means is that this summer has six weeks ... did this mean getting to spend some time in Europe but it also meant a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  case on that summary card. Then, in a month, we'll bring all of the cases ... year. It is not hyperbole when I say that all of you are just so, so ... many amazing students are out there. As I said to one of my colleagues in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Three cheers for the MIT Marching Band Is the band ready? You bet they are.

  

  band is pretty cool in itself. 7. The entire band shouting at a ... . Here are 10 things I remember: 1. Taking a good two minutse to cram four ... get the first half down. We practiced in a courtyard with two giant

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  have never felt more important in my life. Alevator is a golden retriever in mechanical box form and if she was a real person I think our ... during midterms season. In fact, he is so reliably unreliable that the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tweet, tweet plus: swarming, oil spill cleanup robots and virus-made, clothing-embedded batteries

  

  anymore! But now that I finally got a smartphone last month (I <3 my Droid X), I've been finding myself using Twitter a lot more. So if you ... coming across all these really cool stories of MIT in the news that I

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  2,822 applications

  

  So, after two entries that seemed to relax people a bit, I do need to come back with a reality check: It was reported today that we received 2 ... 's Thanksgiving Day Parade. After that, I'll have the traditional Thanksgiving Day

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 23, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything

  

  and apparently scratch and sniff is trendy. A few evenings ago I drew a ... everything. I had a wonderful day copy/pasting in the physical world ... can and cannot leave behind. I’ve realized over the past year that some

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day!!! 3.14159!

  

  sponsored a Pi Day Celebration of sorts. This was the email I received ... UMA is celebrating our favorite constant in style with the following ... : What do you get if you divide the circumference of a jack-o-lantern by

  • by Bryan
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  that this is probably the most disturbing analogy I have ever penned ... the exact same event that I will now describe only in the faintest ... . I ordered “ramen” with grilled shrimp, sprouts, and lime in a spicy

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  Name the song I stole the lyrics from and win a cookie. So this week ... chemoattractants in a microfluidic device - 2 problem sets 2.005 - Thermal ... " Needless to say with all those tests and psets, I'm having a math overload

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  had. In lieu of a proper picture, I have made a diagram to try and ... ethnic minority in Vietnam. It is beautiful, and there is clean air, a ... small children kicking a soccer ball or sitting in a circle. While in

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  . Enough about me, though. The point is that I’d grown to be quite ... babies. Their tiny bodies left me in disbelief that they could even bare a ... her jewelry sale, I can’t help but think that her heart is among

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update The title says it all.

  

  week. The thrill of solving a puzzle is just awesome. Obviously, I can ... Well, Mystery Hunt is in full swing, and let me tell you, it is quite the adventure. I just took a quick trip back to my room so I could grab

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 13, 2006