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  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  -quantum alternatives did not fit at all. Finally, at the end of IAP (a week ago), I ... somehow still ended up winning one of the categories. At this point, I knew ... disproven it. And that my smartphone – its tens of billions of transistors

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  pliers to Boston. In my room, there’s a shelf of books taller than a man, stuffed full of fantasy. My eyes flick to the books I loved, gloss over the ... fiction. All my other work, less holy, could be done in libraries or at my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  looked at it. rip. this technically was my first piece of [annotation ... yesterday was a really shitty day.  a lot of annoying and stressful ... water on my laptop. it died instantly; the technicians at the [annotation

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  . g) Then we drove to Provincetown, which is at the very far tip of Cape ... increased, while "real" adults donning excessive amounts of MIT apparel ... level of Cambridge, MA increased with the arrival of my 10-year-old little

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  At the end of my last entry, I was sitting in the Tampa airport ... meeting. I had dinner with two of the Philly EC's, Mark and Steve, at a nice ... dirty old man. 2) At the end when I talk about the advancement of women

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  lobby of our hotel, to the tune of $10/day. Ouch. At 5:30 PM, we got the ... presentation. Finished at 3AM - I forget how productive I am in the wee hours of ... booths (as they would at a normal college fair) and then GC's come around

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  audience some great stories from his time at Burton Connor, one of the MIT ... project. I don't think I've ever felt as much of an engineer as I did at ... My first hackathon ever was last year at TechCrunch Disrupt in New

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  talking to people outside of the MIT bubble. Basia and I once had lunch at ... One of my favorite things about MIT might also be the most obvious ... “Greater Boston Area”) While at MIT, I’ve been able to hang out with a lot

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  Sleeping at night has become one of those mythical concepts this IAP ... up a thick clump of snow and flung them at Kevin, but they scattered ... demonstrated. By flinging balls of snow at me :( And then he said those magic

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  twelve drummers drumming - fourteen, to be exact - at the end of the piece ... -on-a-drum-with-a-stick thing.) Not only that, but our three hours of practice a week count as a class (21M.460), open to just about anyone with some sense of rhythm and a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  Borderline is a club at MIT that started in Spring of 2017 (our freshman spring), when a group of upperclassmen got funding from the Council of the Arts at MIT to paint a 200-foot long section of the MIT Tunnels

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  grades where life is at its best. Where one stays up until 4am, not out of necessity but out of enjoyment, and wakes up when it can no longer be ... ) own Dr. Patti Christie, PhD in Chemistry at MIT, Chemistry was one of my

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  at CPW, I came to understand the meaning and context of those words. My ... of activities: Applied Math Lab Tours, Tie Dye at McCormick, the MIT ... I was fascinated to see not just people at (and climbing out of

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products ... work in large teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and build

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  An Olympic Hack Floating rings above Brigg's Field?

  

  Upon entering MIT, every freshman gets a list of "101 Things To Do ... : 2011 and 2008.) On the Class of 2016's list, number 82 tells you to Hack Something, following the proper etiquette (Hacker's Code of Ethics) which is

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  What now suckas!? That's right. I have a brass rat. What.

  

  , at the very beginning of the semester. Since then, all the sophomores ... get started with this entry, let me dust the cobwebs out of your head ... night on May 8th. I think I speak for a lot of us when I say that was a

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

  A little something while you wait. Don't plan on doing work until we finish this.

  

  I have some pretty fond memories of second semester senior year, largely consisting of doing nothing, making random trips to Steak 'N Shake ... officially less than 4 days (OHMYGODDECISIONZ), over a 1000 of you will be

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  entire sheet of looseleaf paper) But there is light at the end of the ... I am taking 5 minutes out of my life just to let you all know why I ... . It's an entire sheet of loose-leaf paper. With 2 exceptions, every item

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  ZBT Soiree A part with many desserts and friends... fortunately, I left before the karaoke part. (9…

  

  ) The chef at ZBT is wonderful, and I enjoy many of her creations -- flan ... (See Bryan's entry for more pictures of and information about the ... 's Habitat for Humanity group Like Elyse, Christi is busy busy; one of her

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2

  

  surprise goodie bag left at 3am on the the doors of East Campus residents ... . Along top: part of a lyrics mural of Sting’s “The Last Ship,” at one time ... , not a series of discrete units. We don’t just study at MIT! 8. This

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 26, 2018