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  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  Friday evening, after getting one of the more interesting emails of this semester, I sat down with Benjamin Schreck, MIT senior and creative mind behind the Ben Schreck Shits wall…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  On Friday, October 24, the Edgerton Center at MIT organized an on-campus premiere of the documentary Underwater Dreams. The film follows the journey of four high school students from the…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  YAY November!!! First off, a huge WELCOME to the EA applicants! You submitted your application and now comes the hardest part, forgetting about it until December. A girnomous WELCOME also…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  Do you know what “hosed” means? Urban Dictionary defines it as, “impossibly busy with less time or resources to complete everything than available (as in trying to drink from a…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  I will admit: I’ve been in a bit of a rut. Don’t get me wrong. Life as an AeroAstro is amazing in a lot of respects. 9AM classes for Unified…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  Dear Applicant to the Class of 2019, The long awaited season of college applications has arrived. Congratulations! You made it. You worked hard for eleven years, and even more so…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Am Excited a day in life of a student

  

  I am excited. I am excited because my math professor is sentences away from proving that the set of all real numbers (R) is uncountably infinite. That is, it’s on…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  MIT is not about the challenges of problem sets. It’s about a community. This means walking down the hallway to greet smiling friends, then doing homework with them and talking…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  I was walking to the Pacific Science Center with a friend one afternoon, hoping to catch the 8:00 Daft Punk-themed laser show in the planetarium, when we promptly found ourselves…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  ? Where are you from? A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  stuff!" *Ho is Element #67, has a boiling point of 2973 K, and according

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  by MIT students. Our main mission at MIT+K12 Videos is to show folks

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  Credit: Eurah K. '16 Acapella Concerts! I love acapella concerts! I was

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  So here we are. I’m sitting in the AeroAstro Gelb Lab, procrastinating on pre-summer Design/Build/Fly lab cleanup by writing this blog post. In about a week, I’ll be home in…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  On Sunday morning the Design/Build/Fly team rolled out of bed at 6:30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We had one more…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  Today was the major flight day for most of the teams at the Design/Build/Fly competition, and as hats flew and hair rippled in 30+ mph wind, it became clear that…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  No Touching one plane, two planes, red plane, Corn Dog

  

  Remember, kids, consent is sexy–so ask for permission before touching somebody else’s airplane. This is important when you have 80 teams and their airplanes stuffed into a single Cessna hangar.…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 11, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  We’re in a hotel room and we’re watching Men In Black (preceded by Aviator and Family Guy) while assembling our airplane to drown out the raucous men out in the parking…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  …don’t freak out. 1. Prepare Your Wifi I applied early to MIT last year, so decisions came out at something like 9:30 AM on a Saturday morning (Pacific time). During…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  Currently listening to Currently with: Raymond, Lucy, and Shannia Currently drinking: Odwalla Superfood Currently feeling: warm and cozy in the Shire, floor 4West, Next House, Cambridge, MA. This weekend was,…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013