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  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  bloggers (this one needs to be explained later), and learned quite a bit ... his room and attended 6.006–Intro to Algorithms, a course located in the ... ; Then, it was off to a Chinese food truck for some lunch, back to another

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  “I pulled a sophomore stupid” said my friend as we tried to finish up ... beginning of this semester. There was a CI-H, which I needed to take, but it was the same night as a Writing Science Fiction class that I wanted to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  're competing against 10,000 other people for spots in a class of 1000 tends to ... How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker, who used to be a professor here in ... wrote awesome, popular books, it sounded like a good place to be. But

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  a little since I tend to talk about glass-blowing and truffle ... office to catch up on non-reading work and meetings and I spied a bunch of ... find coding events on campus, whether self-learning or learning to make a

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Stress Management @ The MITstitvte What's a student to do when school gets rough?

  

  Facebook asking how to deal with stress, and got a massive influx of ... 're too tired to work, but have to work, take a 15-30 minute, 90-120 minute ... /or insomnia: take a walk outside on a sunny morning to help reset your circadian

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  'm working with in my banner photo, because that actually happens to be a ... summer room at EC, and he also needed to run to Target, Costco, and a few ... becomes cheaper to get it for the whole day, so we threw in a trip to IKEA

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  and then arrange them to create a nanodevice. Exciting, eh? In order to ... conductor, or even as a waveguide to conduct light. We have many different ... Technology (NIST). I never thought that I would find a place that loves

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How Do You Mic A Stripper? [by Harrison Bralower '11] It's a great question when you really think about it.

  

  think about it-—how does one attach a microphone to a stripper ... joking around with the case. It takes more than two months to put a show ... individuals—-to give life to words on a page. This is my experience from

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  .   I’m 18 and a freshman. I don’t have time to waste on video games ... , listening to killer vaporwave beats from a murder mystery, and completing a ... work. It’s just a sign of neglect. I’ve learned to value maintaining my

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stand Back! I'm going to try . . . well, you know the rest.

  

  setup, another has a beam that is wired up to record its response to an ... , each team of two people was given a setup and allowed to come up with ... this. We decided to measure the impulse of a head when it was snapped up

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  responded to a Craigslist personal ad which bore only a single coy statement ... , culminating in skydiving. Needless to say, he had a good time. This story has ... ultimate altruistic troll, but I bring it to you for a half-reasonable reason

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  project, he had the opportunity to spend a couple of weeks in a Japanese ... at MIT's Center for Materials Science have completed constructing a ... an ultrahigh vacuum. The microscope will now be used to image the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  would be better for other people to just write a blog for me (although ... with the team That new gorillaz album Taking a 2 hour nap Going to ... Getting a bad grade, but still realizing how much I’ve learned to get to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  to be fun time at MIT. I wrote a large chunk of this entry back at the ... Race. Did you use to have a Big Wheel? You know, the plastic tricycle ... lucky enough to get onto a team. We teamed up with the RP lab (Rapid

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  can’t wait to arrive! Remember to be careful around the muggles when disappearing into Terminal 3.14 at Logan Airport. Meanwhile, I have compiled a grand master list of links for any and all of you going to any college at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  To everyone who's waiting for a pi(e) day decision: It's all going ... a video game, or goofing off with friends to listen. If you want some ... think of to do for this post is one of those drawings where you smush a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The career fair and emerging pop stars Thinking about life after MIT at the Career Fair...and then watching a fellow blogger transform…

  

  a very intimate setting and an extraordinary opportunity to really get to know about a company. I was seated at a table with three other ... set-up booths in our athletic facility to try to recruit MIT students

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  on the chalkboard as a reference. In his words, the quiz was to "test ... to incompetent peer reviewers. And that is how science works. To take a ... have to: a) take private lessons b) be in Chamber Chorus, Chamber Music

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Whirlwind Weekend highlights of the weekend (UPDATED!)

  

  auction to benefit a scholarship fund in Louisiana. One of my friends, Mike ... would be. Fortunately, we were allowed to give a little paragraph about ... is a man beyond description. He has been known to compete in dance

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Flip Flops The original title of this entry was "YakTrax."

  

  called No Flip Flops which was full of pointers on how to survive a winter ... learned a bit about winter fashion, and how to dress appropriately. I was ... , and a tshirt. There's actually a lot to take into consideration when you

  • by Bryan
  • November 30, 2005