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  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  first week back. #nofilter.[/caption] Returning back to the 'Tute “After a ... .[/annotation] To that end, I put together a Senior Year Manifesto, edicts that I hope ... Manifesto: all the things to which I'm saying yes, an obliged yes, or a firm

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  , a measuring tape that someone is going to come back to. Every color of ... business was to go down to the basement and check out these balls. We had a ... week…) The idea was to build a platform 3.5 inches off the ground

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  how the process went.   I went to a hippie middle school with 75 students in a basement beneath an aerial dance studio. We got to ... seam was coming apart. I'd have to bring out the sewing machine. I am a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do ... coming to MIT for a day and wanted to see how our research on the thermal ... , Professor Modell, and Morgan, a postdoc in my lab, had all headed over to the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  , but I do have a couple of things to say about starting college ... is how to design a robot, or how to calculate the thermodynamic properties of a chemical reaction, or how to succinctly prove that If an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I started a joke… ...that started the whole world crying.

  

  math teacher, Mr. Bob Cohen, who had a strange fondness for referring to ... find the roots." "So, similarilarily, we have to complete the square of this puppy by adding 25 to both sides." "Let's do a rigorous proof of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 30, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  ! But it was just a dream. So I guess I’ll check Caucasian” [Q: To you ... : Why do you or don’t you feel a personal obligation to 'buy local ... garbage disposal due to the iron-coated nature of my stomach.) A couple

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  love!-- there's obviously a lot of strife here, and I just wanted to ... makes up ~7% of the class each year. Is that a lot? That's hard to say ... this is too many 8-classes. Hi Lulu.I have a small question to ask

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  A Mystery Hunt Puzzle A Taste of Things to Come...

  

  molecular orbital diagrams. You still have a 14.01 pset to do, before the sun ... , you decide to return to your 14.01, for it is due in 11 hours. Luckily, the solutions to this puzzle will be posted before Sunday. :) ps. psst

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  years that this room has lived i've only been here to bear witness a ... right now i felt the need to do this because i will miss you, in a way ... anything else, is kind of a big deal to me this is just to say, i'm gonna

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  , giving me exactly half an hour to look somewhat decent, chomp down a ... . We had a microquiz in 6.0001 (Introduction to Python) that I didn ... green boxing dinner and treating myself to a spoon of food after every

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  Arts Hacking Arts is a festival and hackathon that aims to create new ... between all the reality TV and cooking show. Then you come across a channel that catches your attention. A brilliantly parodied logo appears on the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 24, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  it got to the point that, by reading the first sentence of a practice ... Boston. There’s a list of “101 things to do before you graduate” that ... get a cannoli And if you get a cannoli, you must find a nearby park to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Picture is Worth a Thousand Balloons Literally. One thousand. Like, a one with 3 zeros. One times ten to the third.…

  

  , decided to welcome her return with a nice poster:   And a few ballons ... bought at Target operated on a 12 volt car battery, so he had to get ... ???   Everyone ran into her room after her and proceeded to have a crazy

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  Well, the last week and a half has been busy, to say the least. I ... applications this weekend, so I am struggling to write a charming, yet ... /GRE word!) I guess, strictly speaking, I don't have as much of a right to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  Kansas City, I had a 6.006 (Intro to Algorithms) midterm later that day ... throwback to last year's Eastern Sectionals, as I was vying for a spot on the ... and trek over to the Skating Club of Boston, a 20-minute Uber-ride away

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July A video experiment just for the heck of it

  

  creates an annual video series called "Letters to July," sort of like a ... current feelings to a personified July. Because of my summer class (to be ... in my 30 day trial period to tinker around and make a couple videos for

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 30, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  A Fool’s Holiday How MIT celebrates April Fool's Day

  

  the campus will move to Orlando, according to hackers who altered the MIT homepage. Hey, anything's better than trying to work in an Athena ... broke into the MIT web server and changed the MIT home page to indicate

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A suite surprise My suitemates find out I'm a blogger

  

  saw my blogger photo taped to my pillow.   IT'S A FULL 8.5”x11 ... walked back to my suite lounge after another round of classes and a meal at ... Yesterday afternoon, I walked back to my suite in Burton-Conner after

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A UROP or Two In which I ramble about how lucky I am to have such awesome UROPs

  

  Quite a few people have blogged about their UROPs (aka MIT's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program), so I decided to add my voice to the ... a lot of juggling schedules and hard work, but I'm really loving both

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 24, 2014