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  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  my plans for the three-day weekend. Sorry, Chris Columbus. I’m actually talking about the weekend BEFORE that, which happened to be a rare breed of ... ’t sound like a big deal? Oh, it is. Many distance runners around the nation

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  events and have a good time with the prefrosh. My fraternity, Phi Kappa ... the ones we do for Rush. FSILG's (Fraternities, Sororities, and Independent Living Groups) in general put on a lot of events to dispel the myths

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  point....and the host proceeds to laud her for a bit. Janet says she's the ... a row, you get kicked out of the school." (me: lol) 5:13 to 5 ... really impressive. For example, the first person who invented helicopters

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  's healthy for my brain and GPA to have a little bit more "free" time in the ... /week) Being a DJ/producer/OTA engineer for the third year and programming co ... units less than a /typical courseload/ but 9 units more than the minimum

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  the Amalfi coast, hitting a few towns along the Mediterranean, including ... 'd done it for an extended, multi-city trip. In the following week, I went ...   Earlier this month, here at ETH, we had our spring break a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  Architecture students Are you interested in designing abroad?

  

  Israel. The project: My project involved creating a master plan for the implementation of a urban design strategy for the &lsquo ... city planning. In the last 2 years alone, 110 A&P interns, including

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  person or group of people based on a specific topic. You can go down in the ... going to be busy from 8pm-10pm on April 18 for a blogger-centric CPW event ... . For the most part, we’ll treat your questions like they were written in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Red Balloons Gotta catch 'em all!

  

  ASSEMBLE! Prefrosh, undergrads, alums, this is a call to action! It is time for us, all of us, to band together under a common dome and ... on the lookout tomorrow. If you find a balloon and MIT ends up winning

  • by Snively '11
  • December 4, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  have enough time for a urop at the moment. misti may still be in the ... the first semester was going to go exactly to plan. i was gonna be a ... ="'didn't receive a sufficient score to qualify for credit for 18.01'"]failed

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology A trip filled with enough desserts to satisfy anyone's sweet tooth!

  

  mechanical engineering required for such a restaurant. They had this really ... -injected pastry on a little conveyor belt. The result: a perfectly chocolate covered ... decided to find out, while celebrating a 21st birthday. We had three stops

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  the Forum in Inglewood, California, where he brought out a gospel choir ... there is no sermon involved, the entire concert is run like a church ... 'all in a box. They have you in a box. You can save the world, but you are

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  now, which is probably better for me since I've taken a lot of chemistry ... the class. (I didn't take it for credit. I took it for fun. In ... memories (including burning them at the end). There was a time when someone

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  visiting my mom's class (she's a fifth-grade teacher in the district) for ... -graduation trip to the Bahamas -- he's been raised in a hard-core ski family, and has trouble understanding what one does on a vacation to the beach.) No

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  : some cool examples are headphone-assisted navigation for the blind, blood ... a bit. This year, the 1985 movie Back to the Future has taken over ... puzzle, you’ll encounter Marty McFly and the dashboard of a certain time

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  sponsored by the MIT Literary Society. I literally jhumped for joy (ouch, yea ... and I have a class in the Longwood Medical Area (a 15-minute drive from ... my neck to see the TV. After a brief introduction, Lahiri began by

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  the Lab for Manufacturing and Productivity, rowed for the Varsity Women ... 'd probably do a career in something math and science. Back in the late '70s or ... a Navy scholarship to help pay for college. From there, I got a degree

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

  Quick updates A post about not having any news (yet).

  

  Elliot!). As for the waitlist, we'll be making decisions about if we will ... week. When I get a chance, I'll post telling you what's in there. In the ... The Class of 2010 is beginning to take shape. We know some replies

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Spy vs. Spy The former directors of the US and Saudi intelligence agencies speak at MIT.

  

  Center for International Studies. What makes the talk particularly ... "Saudi Arabia and the Global Community" Thursday, February 16, 4pm ... interesting lecture/discussion. The featured speaker will be Prince Turki Al

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

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  . MIT is a very exciting place. For most of the things you'll be ... generically have something to show for it and you'll grow a lot? And then the ... . What I didn’t realize was that, in the process, I forgot to do things for

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  year.) Once the national teams are selected, they gather at a site for ... Trivia: Which MIT Professor was the top scorer for the first US ... ) next to a friend of mine from Singapore. At the time, he was the only

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008