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  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  make at least one good group of friends. This is not easy. Peoples ... 't feel like I have any idea of what's going on at MIT, but the fact is that I do ... happen is set at a bare minimum of two months. That being said, there are

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  conceive of. Even now, it astounds me. At SSP, I learned over and over that ... synthetic chemistry. At each campus, 24 to 36 rising high school seniors ... skills they need through a series of challenging lectures and problem sets

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  before July 4th, at the end of the annual Boston Harborfest. It’s earlier ... Institute campus combines the chillness of living Cambridge and the proximity ... bubble—the city features an array of events and performances. Below are the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  Rutherford's discovery of the atom by hurling ping pong balls at strings of ... up. Wondered why anyone would ever be awake at this time. Wondered why ... -Center without collapsing from exhaustion, length of walk and/or back pain. Mental

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  out as Business Lead and eventually was elected captain at the turn of ... Hi all! You may have encountered Arcturus, the robo-boat team, at the ... the forefront of it! This year, we will be building an autonomous boat

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  they’re nailing it. At the center of the room is a large table, with most ... Friday nights are great. Assuming you’re not in one of those classes that has assignments [annotation note="truly the worst"]due Friday at

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  later, in an ironic (and quite sad) twist of fate, I broke the November Rule. in a pretty egregious way, at that⁠—it was a [annotation note="exactly 2 years ago to this day. i am the master of eerie timing"]month into

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  information about the rewarding experience of being a cadet here at MIT.  So ... .   Here at MIT we host ROTC programs for three branches of the military ... Training, which is 2 weeks of boot-camp style training. You get yelled at a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  aware of my own mortality, at the very real prospect of being gone in an ... stresses of MIT. There are no more PSETs I must frantically worry about ... winter-me. I’m on the train heading into the depths of New York City, about

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  first met while judging Battle of the Bands at CPW 2010. Today, at 3:54 PM ET, the kickstarter for Ministry of Supply, the business apparel ... receive far beyond our initial goal of $30k - raising at this writing over

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  'm still one of the "young guys" at the office. But yet the undergraduates ... hamburgers. Don't be afraid of coaching. You may be very good at what you do ... the British, you may have heard fireworks and smelled the smoke of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  , and majors. I think everyone at MIT has a group of friends like this, so ... In the first installment of "Making the Switch," Melissa '11 asked ... for me was something that I looked forward to and feared at the same

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Events

  [liveblog] gingerbread stata we are building stata out of gingerbread

  

  Stata, at least from the front (don't look at the back of the structure ... 're building the Stata center out of gingerbread today and Teresa is also here. Much of yesterday was spent baking 15 sheets of gingerbread, each 12"x18

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 23, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  : "Don't look at any pictures of X or the actual, real-life X. Then, draw X ... I am not a fan of icebreakers. It already takes a not-insignificant amount of energy for me to psych myself up enough to interact with a large

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  't have gained without taking the class. At the core of probability is ... really like topics that are based in math, or at least involve a good amount of logic and reasoning. It's satisfying to see things line up with a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  . We walked all the way to Central Square, surprised at the number of ... some of my friends who were international students wouldn’t go home because it’s too far, or because there’s only a break of two weeks before

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  fresh quinoa. There were at least five tables full of food and drinks. The ... have their own class. Suzy Nelson is just at the start of her journey ... ' through the Stata Center, when out the corner of my eye, I saw this pretty

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  in the mainstream, so for a department at one of the world’s most ... to people should be gendered at all, instead advocating the use of a ... opinion of it. I’ve been thinking about it throughout the day, and felt it

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  stomach hurt, I was out of breath, and my butt was NOT happy at bumping over ... I'm currently in Missoula, Montana: hometown of ze boyfriend. When I ... control of the bike and threw myself off before it fell into a rock pit) and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  If I were to show you the following series of pictures, how would you relate them? Some of my favorite guesses? "MIT is obviously ... installed solar panels." "Ninjas at MIT used solar panels to attack the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009