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• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  ... but I've been really hosed these past 2 weeks. -Freeze- For those of you ... floundering in the amount of work you have to do The word itself comes from the fact that people say an education at MIT is like drinking from a fire

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Toy Design Update How couldn't you enjoy building toys?

  

  !), and an interview I got package in the mail. I opened it up and found a ... 'll live in the dorms, and commute to Rhode Island (about an hour) every ... Toy Design in several months but that's not to say I haven't been

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  entry to blog about my CLASS SCHEDULE for this term! In the meantime, I ... for a class. I feel so smart just being in a class with that name, to be ... maybe spot-welded together. But in the end Joe '08 and I get to write an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  semester goes on sometimes the TA for the next recitation comes in and does ... appear in your notebook but you have no memory of writing them. they are ... ="x = any integer from 1-24, not to be mistaken for the ChemE Bunker

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion I just really like data visualizations, plz don't judge

  

  /received for 2017 aren’t in yet, but if I’ve managed to send/receive 4,122 emails ... your emails. Guess I’m just a sucker for Cool Data Things. In general ... STUFF GUYS WOOOO. This time, though, I cannot take any credit for the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  in the past (clearly, he was unintentionally prepared for such a ... ! She also should get credit for pushing me to ask the question in the ... -like delivery, which pretty much falls right in line with my sense of humor. Then

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  —written about a fifteenth-century civil war—in an alternate version of ... purpose—in some cases several. The tower, for example, doubles as ... preparation for the photoshoot. The murdered princes as projected in the final

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  /Astro students playing volleyball with a net they had set up in the Building 33 ... longed for something I had once enjoyed but could no longer possess. And I ... week, Ben came back to MIT to say one final goodbye to everyone in the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  'clock last night, with some breaks for sleeping and eating, I have spent most of my time immersed in the intricacies of addition reactions to alkenes and alkynes in preparation for my upcoming midterms in 5.12 (organic

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween

  

  , reasons for their success as well as their importance in Belgium today. I ... ' days of my childhood all in ways related to MIT. Exhibit A: TOMB ... Barracudas anyone? So I got to go to Tomb last Friday for a friend

  • by Bryan
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  LAST! It's the end of the world as we know it!

  

  this morning, but we’ll ignore that for the sake of sensationalism). In ... at the thing. From for blog Whoa, yea it's big. In fact it ... , what makes this so special? why is it the end of the world? Well in a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  in space when STS-115 launches. More than one-third of the nation ... total of more than 15,000 hours in space. (Check out the MIT Astronaut ... the Lab for Manufacturing and Productivity, rowed for the Varsity Women

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? ...what the most awkward thing in the whole entire ... running and seeing one of your professors in the locker room wearing only boxer shorts. And then he recognizes you. How's that for teacher

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  The past four weeks, in maps. 3 continents, 4 weeks, 11 planes, made comprehensible.

  

  My adventures from the past month can only really be described, and my absence from the blogosphere explained, using a series of maps. I spent a substantial amount of time at each arrow tip. Where? In order

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  -café, visit an exhibit in the Saga Museum, and enjoy a gourmet (by which i mean ... for the first time in many months. My only regret about the trip is that ... I spent spring break in Iceland, mostly in the backseat of a white

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  ’d be interested in becoming a content creator for OLW. Of course, I ... she would be interested in helping to develop an OLW module. Honestly ... actually written in English, or that other people could actually understand

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Meet More People a guest post from Amy F. '20

  

  nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you ... to Alex H. ‘19, for being an all around fantastic person   ... in search of more friends, new experiences, and potentially a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  On Sunday night, I sat alone on a bench in South Station holding what ... away at problem sets, preparing for exams, and pulling all-nighters had finally moved from the present to the past. But, for some reason, this wasn

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  yourself into. As an expert in what he is and is not currently in, I'd be ... we go! Psets are an abbreviation for"Problem Sets", which is the ... , but the only ones that end in "2" and "5" This went on for a while

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  role was looking for items I wanted, which were in packets taped to the ... partner are heads you have to move forward in order to make way for them ... . 15.000 And that is the class number for Explorations in Management. It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019